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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: @jenni4iowa, @revealinglight, @boom-whatsgoingon, @lcla, and @kitchen5203. Mastodon: @b9AcE@todon.eu
Forums: r/technology, r/China, and r/Economics
| 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, TheStreet, Digit, The Verge, Bloomberg, DigiTimes, iClarified, PetaPixel, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Benzinga, MacRumors, and MSNBC
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| 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.| 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.
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X: @thetruebowser, @stealth40k, @nintendocoltd, @geoffkeighley, and @reggie. Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com
Forums: r/gaming, r/nintendo, r/NintendoSwitch, r/Mario, r/nintendo, r/kindafunny, and r/Games
| 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
More: Microsoft, The Verge, Globes, New York Times, The Overspill, Al Jazeera, Windows Report, Associated Press, and BBC
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LinkedIn: Rasha Abdul Rahim, Mike Adams, Tarek Dawoud, and Gayatri Khandhadai
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| 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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| 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
| 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: OpenAI, Axios, ZDNET, and Constellation Research
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LinkedIn: Phoebe Thacker and Kevin Weil
Bluesky: @pileofgarbage.net and @misctakes.com
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| 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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| 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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X: @cybercentre_ca, @ericgeller, @cisacyber, @asdgovau, @malwarejake, and @cisagov. Bluesky: @ddimolfetta
| 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: CNBC, Reuters, Benzinga, The Economic Times, AAP, dailyjournal.com, CNET, and ai fray
X: @florian4gamers and @aifray
| 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: HSBC, Forbes, and Bloomberg
LinkedIn: Aditya Kumar Sinha, Octavian Florescu, Julien Chaisse, and Ian Glasner
| 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 … | 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| 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| 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, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, The Information, and The Block
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| 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 and 9to5Mac
X: @sandeepssrin, @wesrothmoney, and @caominhweb3
Bluesky: @katienotopoulos and @joetidy
| 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.
X: @levie, @sriramk, @tunguz, @karpathy, @afinetheorem, @sundeep, @positivfuturist, @omooretweets, @pmarca, and @yacinemtb
Bluesky: @nanlinear and @alwayscorrect
Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, and Slashdot
| 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: The Block, Decrypt, Cryptonews, and Blockchain.News
| 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 — Starting today, the company is combining both Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource under the aptly named “Microsoft Marketplace” banner.
More: Microsoft, WinBuzzer, InfoWorld, MSDynamicsWorld.com, GuruFocus, channelfutures, and Reuters
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Xiaomi unveils 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, available September 27 in China; Pro phones feature a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and a back screen — The company could lay off the Apple comparisons a bit though. … A critic might accuse Xiaomi of copying Apple a little too closely …
More: Business Standard, Livemint, Bloomberg, Wired, Android Authority, CNET, and PetaPixel
| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
As the lyricist behind AI artist Xania Monet signs a $3M record deal, experts say current copyright law may only protect the human-made expressive elements — Two weeks ago, record company Hallwood Media signed a deal with Telisha “Nikki” Jones after negotiations that purportedly included an offer of $3 million, Billboard reported.
More: EBONY, Billboard, ZDNET, Consequence, San Francisco Chronicle, TechRadar, and Straight Arrow News
Bluesky: @lauridonahue and @beatgrrrl
| Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Intel's $28B Ohio chip factory, the largest economic development project in Ohio's history, initially set for a 2025 opening but now delayed till 2030 — New Albany was supposed to be the site of the chip maker's most advanced semiconductor factory, but progress on the facility is slow
Bluesky: @computing and @scottlincicome
| Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: |
OLX Group, an online marketplace owned by Prosus, agrees to acquire La Centrale, a French auto classifieds platform, for $1.3B in cash, expected to close in Q4 — Prosus NV-owned OLX Group BV is buying French online auto trader La Centrale for €1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) to expand its business into Western Europe.
More: Reuters, Silicon Canals, and Wall Street Journal
| Joice Alves / Reuters: |
The robo-advisory market, which includes companies that use AI tools to help investors pick stocks, is expected to grow from $61.75B in 2024 to $470.91B by 2029 — - Robo-advisory market projected to grow 600% by 2029 — Half of retail investors open to using AI tools, survey finds| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
A China Labor Watch six-month investigation at Foxconn's Zhengzhou iPhone factory finds tough working conditions for seasonal staff building the latest iPhones — Undercover investigation at Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant shows tough conditions for seasonal staff building new Apple device
More: The Economic Times, China Labor Watch, China Labor Watch, and China Labor Watch. LinkedIn: Qiang Li
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