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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Discord estimates that 70,000 users globally may have had government ID photos exposed in a September 20 data breach of third-party customer service Zendesk  —  Discord claims that the attackers are circulating inaccurate information about the breach of a customer service provider as part of an extortion attempt.
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Apple removes Eyes Up, which archives video evidence of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, Eyes Up doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations  —  Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
A Samsung researcher introduces the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7M-parameter model that was able to outperform LLMs 10,000x larger like o3-mini on specific problems  —  The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger …
Vince Quill / Cointelegraph:
The Ethereum Foundation announces the “Privacy cluster”, a team of 47 blockchain industry experts developing protocol-level privacy features for the network  —  The team of 47 professionals from the blockchain industry will help research and develop privacy features for the Ethereum layer-1 network.
Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that will require web browsers to add settings that allow residents to opt out of third-party data collection  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill which requires web browsers to make it easier for Californians to opt-out of allowing third parties to sell their data.
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Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt:
YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, announces a $1B Builder Fund to support long-term builders developing on BNB Chain in areas like trading, AI, and DeFi  —  YZi Labs, the venture office of Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao and formerly known as Binance Labs, is creating a $1 billion fund …
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Verizon signs a commercial agreement with AST SpaceMobile to offer satellite-to-phone connectivity in cellular dead zones starting in 2026; ASTS closed up 8.6%  —  As SpaceX races to dominate satellite-to-phone services, Verizon is doubling down on rival AST SpaceMobile instead.
Masha Abarinova / Fierce Network:
Verizon agrees to buy Starry, which provides home internet via millimeter wave tech to ~100K customers and filed for bankruptcy in 2023, for an undisclosed sum
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Google Pixel Watch 4 review: a significant leap in Google's smartwatch lineup with a nice domed display, but Gemini is unreliable and GPS maps are still wonky  —  Five years ago, I used to groan when it came time to review an Android smartwatch.  Back then, anything that wasn't a Samsung watch was disappointing at best.
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold review: nice display and most AI features run on device, but its cameras are worse than other Pro Pixels and Tensor G5 has small gains
Billy Steele / Engadget:
Google Pixel Buds 2a review: ANC is a welcome addition and sound is detailed and punchy, but there's still no wireless charging and voice performance suffers
Los Angeles Times:
US prosecutors say the evidence against a man accused of starting what became the Pacific Palisades fire includes a ChatGPT-generated image of a burning city  —  - Authorities have arrested a suspect in the Palisades fire after a nine-month investigation into the blaze that killed 12 people.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Filing: Elon Musk and X settle a lawsuit by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, and others over $128M+ in unpaid 2024 severance  —  The settlement agreement over withheld severance is dependent on Musk meeting ‘certain conditions.’
Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Anthropic's weeklong anti-AI slop pop-up in NYC's West Village, part of its “Keep Thinking” Claude push, drew 5,000+ people and 10M+ social media impressions  —  Anthropic says it isn't trying to compete in the attention economy.  But a new brand campaign and NYC pop-up is drawing a lot of eyes.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
David AI, which sells audio data sets for AI training, raised a $50M Series B, sources say at a $500M valuation, up from ~$100M from its $25M Series A in May  —  David AI Labs Inc. a startup selling audio data sets to help train artificial intelligence models, has raised $50 million …
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Relace, which makes tools and specialized language models to help AI agents code faster for customers like Lovable and Figma, raised a $23M Series A led by a16z  —  Countless startups sell tools to software engineers, such as version control systems to track who's making changes to a codebase …
CryptPad Blog:
Open letter: 40+ European companies oppose the EU's “Chat Control” proposal, which would force services to scan messages for CSAM, fearing a backdoor mandate  —  Today we are adding our signature (and that of our parent company XWiki SAS) to a new open letter against the so-called “Chat Control” EU regulation.
Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
German officials say they will vote against the EU's “Chat Control” proposal, signaling the bloc will not have enough support to pass the measure on October 14

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New York Times:
A look at the advantages and pitfalls of AI use in major newsrooms: from sifting through big datasets to suggesting headlines to causing embarrassing errors

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
In an interview with Screen International, Eddy Cue says Apple currently has no plans for an ad tier on Apple TV and no plans for a bid for WBD, A24, or Disney

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
AMC Networks says it is reducing its 1,800 person workforce by “less than 5%” through voluntary buyouts

More News

Danny Park / The Block:
MetaMask launches in-app perpetual futures trading powered by Hyperliquid, and plans to integrate Polymarket's prediction markets later this year
Reuters:
Crypto exchange Gemini launches an Australian arm, Gemini Intergalactic Australia, to offer its services in the country after registering with regulator AUSTRAC
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
New York-based Crosby, a law firm that uses AI to help speed up the contracts process, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures, BCV, and Elad Gil

Earlier Picks

Pew Research Center:
A survey of US parents: 90% say their kids aged 12 or younger watch TV, 68% use a tablet, 61% use a smartphone, 50% use a gaming device, and 8% use a chatbot
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Jensen Huang says AMD offering a 10% stake to OpenAI is “imaginative” and “surprising” considering that AMD was “so excited about” its next-generation chip
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's unifying vision, infrastructure deals, the investor mindset, ChatGPT apps, Instant Checkout, Sora, copyright, feedback, and more
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the startup raised two undisclosed rounds: $55M at a $350M valuation in 2024 and $150M at a $1.2B valuation earlier in 2025
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