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October 2, 2025, 12:25 PM
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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Source: OpenAI completed a secondary share sale that let staff sell ~$6.6B at a $500B valuation, making it the world's most valuable startup, ahead of SpaceX  —  OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, propelling …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
OpenAI's Sora 2 generates copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips featuring SpongeBob, Pokémon, Mario, Rick and Morty, and Star Wars  —  Within moments of opening OpenAI's new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS.
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Sora, which is fun and simple to use, shows that OpenAI remains good at creating viral products, unlike Meta, whose Vibes video feed feels half-baked and obtuse  —  Another viral product hit for OpenAI, this time in video...  It's been a long time since I've been this sucked into an app.
Financial Times:
Asahi says most of its 30 factories in Japan have not operated since September 29 following a cyberattack, leaving Japan with just days of Asahi Super Dry stock  —  Vast majority of factories of nation's most popular beer have stopped work this week  —  Japan is just a few days away …
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Extortion group Crimson Collective claims it breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, stealing nearly 570GB from 28K projects; Red Hat confirms a breach  —  An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple paused development of a lighter, cheaper Vision Pro to focus on smart glasses, including a no-display model for 2027 and one with a display later  —  Apple Inc. has hit pause on a planned overhaul to its Vision Pro headset to redirect resources toward a more urgent effort …
Bloomberg:
A Google executive and sources: a ransomware group that says it has Cl0p ties is sending extortion emails, claiming it stole data from Oracle's E-Business Suite  —  Executives and technology departments at large organizations are being extorted by a notorious ransomware group that claims …
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: Universal Music and Warner Music are nearing landmark AI licensing deals with companies like Google, Spotify, ElevenLabs, Stability AI, Suno, and Udio  —  Universal and Warner seek payment structure similar to streaming as more disruption looms  —  Universal Music and Warner Music …
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
Salesforce launches Agentforce Vibes, an enterprise vibe-coding tool and IDE built on a fork of open-source AI coding agent Cline's Visual Studio Code extension  —  Enterprise giant Salesforce is looking to ride the vibe-coding wave — where developers describe what they want in natural language …
Gregory Meyer / Financial Times:
Walmart plans to attach sensors to the 90M grocery pallets it ships each year to its 4,600-store US chain by the end of 2026; tracked items include perishables  —  Retailer expands use of devices to monitor 90mn pallet deliveries a year from warehouses to its 4,600 US outlets
Matt Durot / Forbes:
Elon Musk became the first person to surpass a $500B net worth, after Tesla's shares climbed 3.5% on October 1; Musk is $150B ahead of runner-up Larry Ellison  —  Musk is now half-way to becoming the first ever trillionaire.  —  Elon Musk achieved yet another major milestone Wednesday …
Financial Times:
Volkswagen revives its struggling software unit Cariad after a “complete reset” of its strategy, including partnerships with Xpeng in China and Rivian in the US  —  Carmaker hails ‘massive transformation’ in software unit as it seeks to take on Tesla and Chinese EV rivals
Maya Dharampal-Hornby / Sifted:
Dash0, which offers AI agents to monitor and troubleshoot cloud, app, and infrastructure issues, raised a $35M Series A, taking its total funding to $44.5M  —  The platform has over 300 paying customers including Starling and Porsche  —  Dash0, an AI-native observability platform …
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Oneleet, an integrated compliance service combining penetration testing, code scanning, and more, raised a $33M Series A led by Dawn Capital and hits $3M ARR  —  Bryan Onel's father was a locksmith.  As for Onel, he described himself as the digital equivalent.  —  Ethical hacking was Onel's hobby growing up.
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TechCrunch:
Source: HR software company Gusto paid ~$600M to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to SMBs; Guideline raised $340M and had a $1.15B valuation in 2021  —  Last month, Gusto, a payroll and HR software company, announced that it agreed to acquire Guideline, a startup offering retirement plans to small and medium businesses.

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Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
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Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride raised ~$100M, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, up from a ~$469M valuation in a 2021 funding round
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launches its first product, Tinker, an API for fine-tuning language models, in private beta, with support for Qwen and Llama
Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to add AMD as a foundry customer, but it lacks the technology to produce AMD's most advanced chips; INTC closed up 7.12%
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft raises its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription price from $19.99/month to $29.99/month, rebrands Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard plans, and more
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Amazon revamps Luna “from the ground up” with a new UI and AAA games like Hogwarts Legacy and new GameNight original party games, available to Prime subscribers
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google unveils Gemini for Home, replacing Google Assistant on smart speakers, with new voices and improved conversational skills, and a redesigned Home app
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