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| Associated Press: |
Trump signs an EO declaring that a proposed deal allowing TikTok to continue operating in the US will be a qualified sale that meets national security concerns — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that he says will allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States …
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X: @rapidresponse47, @rapidresponse47, @stanleychao6, @whitehouse, @whitehouse, @nicksortor, @rapidresponse47, @selinawangtv, @pitdesi, @senmullin, @whitehouse, @rapidresponse47, and @armanddoma
Bluesky: @boom-whatsgoingon, @revealinglight, @jenni4iowa, @lcla, and @kitchen5203. Mastodon: @b9AcE@todon.eu
Forums: r/politics, r/technology, r/Economics, and r/China
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Trump says Xi Jinping approved the TikTok deal, and JD Vance says the transaction values TikTok US at $14B; ByteDance hasn't acknowledged the deal — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order approving a proposed deal that would keep TikTok alive in the U.S.
More: The White House, New York Times, TheStreet, Bloomberg, Spyglass, Bloomberg, The Verge, Digit, and DigiTimes
Forums: r/politics, r/centrist, r/TheBusinessMix, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Sources: Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be the main TikTok USA investors, with a ~45% stake; ByteDance will own 19.9% and ByteDance investors 35% — Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be main investors in TikTok's U.S. business, sources told CNBC's David Faber on Thursday.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Asus open preorders for the first Xbox handhelds, the ROG Xbox Ally for $599 and the ROG Xbox Ally X for $999 in the US, shipping October 16 — Xbox Ally X and Xbox Ally go on sale with PC-like prices, with preorders starting today. … Today, Microsoft and Asus …
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Forums: r/SteamDeck, r/gamesEcultura, r/consoles, r/gaming, r/pcgaming, r/ROGAlly, r/xbox, and r/Games
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser will retire on December 31 after more than a decade with the company; Nintendo exec Devon Pritchard will succeed him — Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser will retire Dec. 31 after more than a decade at the company.
More: Nintendo, GamesIndustry.biz, PocketGamer.biz, Game World Observer, The Independent, IGN, The Verge, Eurogamer.net, Bloomberg, Seattle Business Journal, 80 Level, TheGamer, and GameSpot
X: @thetruebowser, @stealth40k, @nintendocoltd, @geoffkeighley, and @reggie. Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com
Forums: r/nintendo, r/Mario, r/NintendoSwitch, r/gaming, r/nintendo, r/kindafunny, and r/Games
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a mobile feature for Pro users that delivers daily personalized updates based on their chats, feedback, and connected apps — ChatGPT's new Pulse feature does personalized research on your behalf overnight and serves you up a digest each morning.
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Forums: r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/OpenAI, r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, and r/accelerate
| Financial Times: |
Amazon reaches a $2.5B settlement with the FTC over deceptive Prime practices, with a $1B civil penalty and $1.5B in consumer redress, three days into the trial — Agreement includes largest penalty issued for violating consumer protection agency's rules — Amazon has reached a $2.5bn settlement …
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| The Guardian: |
Microsoft terminated Israel military's Unit 8200 access to Azure, after an investigation found the tech was used for mass surveillance in Gaza and West Bank — Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit's access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
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LinkedIn: Rasha Abdul Rahim, Mike Adams, Tarek Dawoud, and Gayatri Khandhadai
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA issues an emergency directive ordering US federal agencies to secure their Cisco firewall devices against two flaws exploited in zero-day attacks — CISA has issued a new emergency directive ordering U.S. federal agencies to secure their Cisco firewall devices against two flaws that have been exploited in zero-day attacks.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US federal judge preliminarily approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors — A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic …
More: Silicon Republic, CNBC, NDTV Profit, Tech Xplore, Reuters, AAP, CNET, and ai fray
Bluesky: @alcs.co.uk and @societyofauthors
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Meta rolls out Vibes, a platform where users can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos, in the Meta AI app and on the meta.ai website — Meta Platforms (META.O) launched a new feed of AI videos, called Vibes, as the social media giant looks to fast-track work on artificial intelligence technology.
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LinkedIn: Sabrina Kartzman and Prashant Ratanchandani
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| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Microsoft launches Microsoft Marketplace, combining Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource in a single destination for cloud tools and AI apps and agents — Microsoft has long offered a variety of marketplaces for businesses in its ecosystem. For cloud solutions, there is the Azure Marketplace …
More: Microsoft, ITPro, MSDynamicsWorld.com, InfoWorld, Windows Report, GuruFocus, WinBuzzer, channelfutures, and Reuters. LinkedIn: Vipul Nagpal
| Arjun Neil Alim / Financial Times: |
HSBC says it has tested an IBM quantum computing tool on European bond market data and saw a 34% improvement over traditional methods in predicting order fills — Europe's largest lender tested a tool developed by IBM on bond market data — HSBC claimed quantum computing tools …
More: Axios, The Daily Upside, HSBC, and Forbes
LinkedIn: Aditya Kumar Sinha, Octavian Florescu, Julien Chaisse, and Ian Glasner
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has spoken to TSMC CEO C.C. Wei about a partnership or a joint venture; he also met with Tim Cook this year; INTC closes up 8.9% — Semiconductor maker has been winning support from other tech companies following the deal that gave the U.S. government 10% stake
More: ANI News, TechRadar, Focus Taiwan, The Register, and Spyglass
| The Works in Progress Newsletter: |
Why AI isn't replacing radiologists: models underperform in hospital settings, AI use faces legal hurdles, and the job is much more than image recognition — Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.
More: WinBuzzer. X: @levie, @sriramk, @tunguz, @afinetheorem, @sundeep, @positivfuturist, @omooretweets, @pmarca, @yacinemtb, and @karpathy. LinkedIn: Adrian Brown
Forums: r/BetterOffline and Slashdot
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Gemini 2.5 Flash with better response formatting and image understanding, and releases new 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite previews for developers — Google today updated the 2.5 Flash model available in the Gemini app across three areas. — All responses now benefit …
More: Google Developers Blog. LinkedIn: Jungwoon Lee and Eric Dong
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases GDPval, a benchmark to test AI performance on “economically valuable, real-world tasks”, and says Claude Opus 4.1 was the best performing model — OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs.
More: Tom's Guide, Digit, Axios, and ZDNET
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LinkedIn: Phoebe Thacker and Kevin Weil
Bluesky: @pileofgarbage.net and @misctakes.com
Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the Trump admin plans to require chipmakers to match local output with imports and impose tariffs on companies that fail to maintain a 1:1 ratio — Administration wants domestic manufacturing to match imports and would impose tariffs on those companies that don't step up production
More: The Information, Benzinga, and Reuters
| TechCrunch: |
Call-recording app Neon, which became the #2 social app on the US App Store, goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts — A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies …
More: Moneycontrol. X: @sandeepssrin, @wesrothmoney, and @caominhweb3. Bluesky: @katienotopoulos. Forums: Slashdot
| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Checkout.com announces an employee share buyback at a $12B valuation, up 30% from $9.35B two years ago yet below $40B in 2022, and says an IPO isn't a priority — Checkout.com is allowing employees to sell some of their shares back to the firm at a $12 billion valuation … | Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-ER 1.5 models, enabling multi-step tasks for robots like sorting laundry, including by using web search — New technology advances reasoning capabilities in general-purpose machines in push to make them more useful
More: Google DeepMind, Digit, Robotics & Automation News, SiliconANGLE, and The Verge
X: @sundarpichai and @googledeepmind
| Blockworks: |
Cloudflare announces plans to launch NET Dollar, a US dollar-backed stablecoin designed to support payments for the “agentic web” — The company introduced a dollar-backed stablecoin to power instant payments and microtransactions for AI-driven web platforms
More: Cloudflare, WinBuzzer, and The Block
X: @eastdakota, @campbelljaustin, @eastdakota, @cloudflare, @vimtor_, @rnr_0, @furqanr, @antoniogm, @_weidai, @0xmert_, @rogue_says, @solanalegend, @0xfoobar, @pierre_crypt0, @serpinxbt, and @luxalgo. LinkedIn: Arielle. Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social. Forums: Hacker News
| Nivedita Balu / Reuters: |
Canada's anti-money laundering agency fines crypto exchange KuCoin ~$14M for failing to report large and suspicious transactions; KuCoin appeals the decision — Canada's anti-money laundering agency has imposed its largest ever penalty of C$19.6 million ($14.09 million) on Peken Global Limited …
More: Decrypt, The Block, Cryptonews, and Blockchain.News
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Meta considers using Google's Gemini and Gemma AI models to improve its ad targeting; Meta says it regularly evaluates 3rd-party tools for benchmarking — Meta Platforms staffers have had discussions with Google Cloud about the possibility of using Google's artificial intelligence models …
More: TipRanks Financial, BMI, Benzinga, Reuters, TechWire Asia, and PYMNTS.com
X: @andymstone and @buccocapital
Forums: r/GOOG_Stock and r/StockMarket
| Jacob Judah / MIT Technology Review: |
How inaccurate AI translations of Wikipedia pages, which AI models use for training, may cause a doom spiral that further marginalizes vulnerable languages — When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything.
LinkedIn: Soeren Eberhardt and Rachel Courtland
| Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android — Meta Platforms Inc. will soon offer paid versions of Facebook and Instagram in the UK that will remove advertising from both platforms.
More: The Guardian, BBC, Reuters, Daily Mail, The Standard, The Verge, The Sun, Meta Newsroom, BetaNews, Euractiv, Telegraph, The Times, Mirror, MLex, and The Independent
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Bluesky: @oo-de-lally and @andyger
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