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| Spotify: |
Spotify says Daniel Ek will step down as CEO and become executive chairman in January 2026, and names CPTO Gustav Söderström and CBO Alex Norström as co-CEOs — Today, Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) announced that Founder and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek will transition to the role …
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| The Verge: |
A live blog of Amazon's fall 2025 hardware event in New York City — We're at Amazon's fall 2025 hardware event in New York City, where the company is set to announce a bunch of new gadgets ahead of the holidays. Amazon's teaser image for today suggested new Kindles, Echos, and maybe a TV.
More: Engadget, ZDNET, T3, Futurism, TechRadar, and Tom's Guide
X: @greengart, @oablanchard, and @oablanchard
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Ring unveils the $200 Outdoor Cam Pro, $250 Spotlight Cam Pro, $280 Floodlight Cam Pro with Retinal Vision, a Search Party tool to find pets, and more — Ring cameras are getting a new Search Party feature to help triangulate lost pets. — Amazon.com Inc. rolled out a slew … | Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after January 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits — Google subsidiary is the last of three Big Tech companies to resolve personal litigation Trump filed against social-media platforms
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Bluesky: @noupside, @drewharwell.com, @davelee.me, @esqueer.net, @carlquintanilla, @mantzarlis.com, @bradheath, @bradheath, @clarajeffery, @maddowblog.msnbc.com, and @35mmpapi.com. Threads: @renee.diresta
Forums: r/worldevents, r/law, and r/politics
| Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first-in-the-nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes — “California has proven that we can establish regulations to protect our communities while also ensuring that the growing AI industry continues to thrive.
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Forums: r/California, r/sanfrancisco, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
How Jared Kushner and Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban brokered the EA takeover using Kushner's deep Saudi Arabia ties; sources: Kushner's firm will own ~5% of EA — Trump's son-in-law used deep ties in Saudi Arabia to help pull off the largest buyout — Antoine Gara, James Fontanella-Khan … | Bloomberg: |
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| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Open-source Android app store F-Droid says Google's new requirement for all Android developers to verify their identity threatens to kill alternative app stores — Google plans to begin testing its recently announced verification scheme for Android developers in the coming weeks …
More: F-Droid, Android Authority, The Register, HotHardware, heise online News, Android Police, Notebookcheck, Phandroid, and Ghacks
X: @nileshtrivedi. Bluesky: @cyberciti.biz and @campuscodi.risky.biz. Mastodon: @flowinho@chaos.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/BuyFromEU, r/GrapheneOS, r/Android, r/Android, r/fossdroid, r/degoogle, r/androiddev, Lobsters, and Ars OpenForum
| Wired: |
Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with entirely AI-generated videos — The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model. — OpenAI is preparing to launch …
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X: @benjamindekr, @theahmadosman, @jakehandy, @ns123abc, and @bdsams
Bluesky: @seosavvyagent.com, @sarronco, @markriedl, @brbarrett, @davelee.me, and @zoeschiffer. Threads: @chris. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/accelerate, r/artificial, r/technology, and r/technews
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: Music Ally, Reuters, TVNewsCheck, and Times Now
X: @rahll, @ednewtonrex, @andrewcurran_, and @benfritz
Bluesky: @jeffhorwitz, @carnage4life, @wxandpi, @bwnash, @prietschka, @gordonmoat, @lauridonahue, @mcoley, and @chancethelawyer. Forums: r/singularity
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google updates AI Mode to make searching through images using vague descriptions easier and says the tool will “provide a relevant set of shoppable options” — Users in the US can now shop for products using natural language descriptions and reference images.
More: The Keyword, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, CNET, The Verge, ZDNET, 9to5Google, ZDNET, Engadget, WWD, MediaPost, Phandroid, and Search Engine Journal
| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: US wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did in 2020 in areas located near significant data center activity — Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That's being passed on to customers.
More: Tom's Hardware, Cointelegraph, and Inside Climate News
LinkedIn: Naureen S. Malik. Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @kostyack, and @cleanpowerdave. Forums: r/technology
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants — Arrows pointing outwards — OpenAI on Monday announced Instant Checkout, a new feature that allows users to buy products through …
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LinkedIn: Lily Ray, Jason Goldberg, and Ashley Capoot
Bluesky: @cactrot, @mmatute, @redteamwrangler, @lorenzofb, and @michae.lv. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/OpenAI, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| The Information: |
OpenAI's financial disclosures to investors suggest it generated ~$4.3B in H1 2025 revenue, 16% more than all of 2024, and burned $2.5B, largely due to R&D — OpenAI generated around $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, about 16% more than it generated all of last year, according to financial disclosures to shareholders.
More: Financial Times, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, DatacenterDynamics, Proactive, and BMI. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 4.5, saying it is the world's best coding model, the strongest for building complex agents, and its “most aligned” frontier model — Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world. It's the strongest model for building complex agents.
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Bluesky: @essaywells, @cameron.pfiffer.org, @edzitron.com, and @viticci.macstories.net
Threads: @notionhq, @boris_cherny, @vishvanands, and @vishvanands. Mastodon: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/OpenAI, r/programming, r/programare, r/LocalLLaMA, r/ClaudeAI, r/Anthropic, r/singularity, r/accelerate, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: |
Unit 42: suspected Chinese hackers, known as Phantom Taurus, have breached foreign ministers' email servers as part of a years-long effort targeting diplomats — Chinese hackers breached email servers of foreign ministers as part of a years-long effort targeting the communications … | Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator says the company signed a deal to supply Meta with up to $14.2B worth of computing power, including access to Nvidia GB300 chips — CoreWeave Inc. has signed a deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with as much as $14.2 billion worth of computing power … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Periodic Labs, co-founded by ChatGPT co-creator Liam Fedus, poaches 20+ researchers from Meta, OpenAI, DeepMind, and others to use AI for scientific discoveries — Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intelligence that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields.| Financial Times: |
Jaguar Land Rover secures £2B from banks as “a liquidity backstop”, on top of a £1.5B UK government loan, and aims to resume manufacturing after its huge hack — UK carmaker plans to resume manufacturing this week following month-long shutdown
More: Times Now, BBC, and The Guardian
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash unveils delivery robot Dot, standing 4-foot, 6-inches tall and able to carry up to 30lb of cargo at up to 20mph, and a smart scale for restaurants — DoorDash Inc., the largest food-delivery app in the US, unveiled a delivery robot and a smart scale for restaurants …
More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, Forbes, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Wired, and CNBC
| Mahfouz Zubaide / BBC: |
NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a “total internet blackout” as the Taliban imposes a telecom shutdown; an official says it will last until further notice — Afghanistan's main airport is at a standstill as the country grapples with the fallout of a nationwide internet shutdown imposed by the Taliban government.
More: The Record, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Cloudflare, Washington Examiner, UPI, Le Monde, CNN, The Indian Express, The National, Reuters, and CBS News
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Adobe launches its Premiere video editing software on iPhone for the first time; general editing is free, but Adobe charges for credits to generate AI content — Adobe Inc. said Tuesday that it's bringing its Premiere video-editing software to the iPhone for the first time …
More: ZDNET, MacRumors, Adobe Newsroom, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, CNET, AppleInsider, Fast Company, TechRadar, Forbes, iClarified, The Shortcut, The Wrap, The AI Economy, Livemint, Cult of Mac, Creative Bloq, and BGR
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Nothing unveils its Essential branding for AI products, a new app store with user-designed, AI-generated apps based on Android called Playground, and more — Nothing is launching an app store for AI-built smartphone software. … Nothing says it has just taken “the first step towards an AI-native operating system.”
More: 9to5Google, Business Today, Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, CNET, Android Authority, Phandroid, and Digital Trends
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk's Tesla and xAI have had a wave of senior departures over the past year, driven by burnout, disillusionment with Musk's politics, and more — Churn at Tesla and xAI comes amid disillusionment with billionaire's activism, strategic pivots and mass lay-offs| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Anthropic now requires users to accept new privacy terms by October 8, including choosing whether new chats and coding sessions can be used to train AI models — Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you're using the bot and don't want your chats used as training data, here's how to opt out.Sponsor Posts
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