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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.
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| 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
More: Arizona Republic, The Register, and Wired
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| Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel says 18A-based Panther Lake chips can deliver 50% more performance at similar power to its Lunar Lake chips, details RibbonFET efficiency gains, and more — Panther Lake brings the power efficiency and graphics performance of Lunar Lake and the platform flexibility of Arrow Lake all together on one SoC
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
More: Engadget, Governor of California, MediaPost, and Tech Times
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| 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 …
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| 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.
More: Center for Democracy …, Implicator.ai, Center for Democracy …, Center for Democracy …, and Center for Democracy and Technology
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Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and r/NPR
| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Reflection AI, which is developing an open-source AI model to compete with DeepSeek, raised $2B led by Nvidia, valuing it at $8B, up from $545M in March — The big fund-raising round was the latest sign of investor fervor for artificial intelligence companies despite concerns that the boom is overheated.
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at ASML's planned 100-hectare expansion project in Eindhoven, set to create 20,000 jobs and that is focused on expanding production of its EUV machines — ASML wants to build a giant new facility in Eindhoven, but the project first needs to overcome some basic hurdles.
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| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Berlin-based n8n, which lets businesses automate repetitive computing tasks through AI agents, raised a $180M Series C led by Accel at a $2.5B valuation — N8n, a German startup that helps businesses deploy artificial intelligence agents, has raised $180 million to compete in a crowded market that includes OpenAI.
More: n8n Blog, PitchBook, Sifted, Analytics India Magazine, GamesBeat, Accel, Tech.eu, and Tech Funding News
| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft is planning a major healthcare push for Copilot in partnership with Harvard Medical School, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on OpenAI — Company is seeking to move away from dependence on its partner OpenAI and build a consumer base for its Copilot chatbot
More: Benzinga, Reuters, Implicator.ai, Windows Report, The Indian Express, and WinBuzzer
| 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.| Mrinmay Dey / Reuters: |
Sources: Disney has opted out of having its IP appear in OpenAI's Sora app; CAA says OpenAI is exposing artists to “significant risk” with Sora — Hollywood's premier talent agency, Creative Artists Agency, said on Thursday OpenAI is exposing artists to “significant risk” through its new AI video-generating tool Sora.| 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 …
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| 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.| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
The Browser Company says AI browser Dia is “now open to everyone on macOS” without an invite, Dia's first time being widely available since its June launch — The waitlist is over for Mac users, though there's still no word on when the AI browser will come to Windows.| 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 … | 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.| Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
Sources: Cursor-maker Anysphere is considering investment offers at a ~$30B valuation; Cursor generates $500M in ARR as of June, third highest for an AI app — Anysphere, the maker of coding assistant Cursor, is considering offers to invest in the startup at around a $30 billion valuation …
X: @nmasc_
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DHS has reassigned hundreds of CISA staffers to jobs that support deportations, including at ICE, and said it would dismiss anyone who refused — The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel … | 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 …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Austin-based Routefusion, whose API for financial institutions lets them embed accounts, payments, currency conversion, and compliance, raised a $26.7M Series A — Routefusion, an Austin, Texas-based financial infrastructure provider, has raised $26.7 million in a Series A round led by PeakSpan Capital …
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| 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.
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Forums: r/applesucks, r/politics, r/apple, r/technology, r/ThePeoplesPress, r/ICE_Raids, and r/EyesOnIce
| 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 …
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| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Logitech tells users that it will end support for its Pop smart home switches, launched in August 2016, on October 15, as it moves on from its smart home plans — In another loss for early smart home adopters, Logitech has announced that it will brick all Pop switches on October 15.
More: PCWorld. Mastodon: @trevorflowers@machines.social and @mhoye@mastodon.social
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