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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Intel unveils Panther Lake, or Intel Core Ultra Series 3, the first chip built on its 18A process, coming to laptops and handhelds in late 2025 and early 2026  —  What we know about the next Intel Core Ultra. … Panther Lake is the most important chip Intel has made in years.
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Inside Intel's new 700-acre factories in the Arizona desert, which cost $32B and are starting large-scale 18A chip production, as it seeks to impress customers  —  Claims of a breakthrough at the chips company's new Arizona facility will be tested by sceptical Big Tech customers
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Discord estimates that 70K users' government ID photos may have been exposed in a 1.5TB data breach of third-party customer service Zendesk on September 20  —  Discord claims that the attackers are circulating inaccurate information about the breach of a customer service provider as part of an extortion attempt.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Samsung introduces the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7M-parameter model that can outperform LLMs 10,000x larger, like Gemini 2.5 Pro and o3-mini, on specific problems  —  The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger …
Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times:
China unveils sweeping export controls on rare-earth minerals, creating rules akin to US measures that block chip-related exports to China from third countries  —  Beijing is leveraging its dominant position in the critical minerals supply chain  —  China has unveiled sweeping new export controls …
Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill requiring web browsers to add a mechanism that lets residents opt-out of allowing third parties to sell their data  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill which requires web browsers to make it easier for Californians to opt …
Bloomberg:
Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise, designed to help employees automate tasks and generate content across departments, priced at $30 per user per month  —  Google's cloud unit is launching an artificial intelligence platform called Gemini Enterprise that it hopes will reach everyday workers …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Apple plans to update its Declared Age Range API and launch new APIs “later this year” to verify the ages of Apple Account users in Texas from January 1, 2026  —  Starting next year in Texas, new rules will go into effect. … Starting next year, Texas will require companies …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix is making multiplayer video games available on smart TVs and streaming devices such as from Roku for the first time, with phones serving as controllers  —  Netflix Inc. wants you to play Boggle in between binges of Stranger Things.  —  The streaming service is making its video games available …
Lee V. Gaines / NPR:
A survey of 1,000 ninth through 12th grade US students finds that nearly one in five say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI  —  New survey data finds that nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with artificial intelligence.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Meta Ray-Ban Display review: good for uses like navigation and AI queries, the neural band is great, but the display is low resolution and the camera is 1080p  —  The social networking giant has found a new category that consumers will need to take seriously.  —  Meta Platforms Inc.'s new Ray-Ban Display glasses don't do enough.
More: Tech in Asia
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.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
NYC-based Reflection AI, which is developing open-source models to rival top closed-source models, like DeepSeek, raised $2B led by Nvidia at an $8B valuation  —  The big fund-raising round was the latest sign of investor fervor for artificial intelligence companies despite concerns that the boom is overheated.
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
An analysis of nearly 50 Amazon purchases over six months in 2025: during the October 7-8 Prime Day sales, average savings were only 0.6% and some items went up  —  Next time Amazon hypes its Prime Days savings, remember this: The prices during the sale aren't always better.  I've got the receipts to prove it.
More: Engadget.  Bluesky: @marypcbuk
David Shepardson / Reuters:
The US NHTSA opens a probe into 2.88M FSD-enabled Tesla vehicles over 50+ reports of traffic-safety violations like running red lights and a series of crashes  —  - NHTSA says it has 58 reports, including 14 crashes and 23 inuries  — Probe reviewing FSD proceeding through red traffic signals …
Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg:
SoftBank-owned PayPay takes a 40% stake in Binance Japan for an undisclosed sum, to capitalize on Japan's crypto boom; PayPay filed for a US IPO in August  —  SoftBank Group Corp.'s digital payment provider PayPay Corp. has taken a 40% stake in Binance's Japan unit, seeking to capitalize on the country's booming crypto market.
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
SoundCloud evolves into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features, including playlists based on friends' likes  —  Music streaming app SoundCloud is evolving into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features.

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New York Times:
Trump says Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator who briefly worked at DHS, will be the next White House press secretary, succeeding Karoline Leavitt

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
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