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Fortune:
Sources: Coinbase and Mastercard have each held talks to acquire stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.5B-$2.5B; a deal would be the largest stablecoin acquisition yet  —  Almost one year after the fintech giant Stripe struck a $1.1 billion deal to acquire the stablecoin startup Bridge …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Google says Cl0p hackers who exploited vulnerabilities in Oracle's E-Business Suite have stolen data from “dozens” of organizations since at least July 10  —  Security researchers at Google say hackers targeting corporate executives with extortion emails have stolen data from …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to move health and fitness teams under Eddy Cue's Services division; watchOS moves to Craig Federighi and Watch hardware under John Ternus  —  Apple Inc. is preparing to expand the roles of some top executives in response to the pending departure of longtime Chief Operating …
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
YouTube launches a pilot program to give terminated creators a “second chance” by letting them apply to create a new channel  —  YouTube is offering creators who were banned from the platform a second chance.  —  On Thursday, the Google-owned platform announced it is rolling …
Financial Times:
Microsoft and Anthropic appoint former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak as a senior adviser and pledge his role will not include lobbying with the UK government  —  Former UK prime minister adds Silicon Valley posts to his role advising Goldman Sachs  —  Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak …
Anthropic:
A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a “backdoor” vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume  —  Read the paper … Large language models like Claude are pretrained on enormous amounts of public text from across the internet …
New York Times:
Sources: crypto investor Roger Ver, aka “Bitcoin Jesus”, has reached a tentative agreement with the US DOJ to pay ~$48M to end a 2024 criminal tax fraud case  —  In the Trump administration's latest example of dialing back cryptocurrency enforcement, Roger Ver agreed to pay about $48 million to end a tax fraud case.
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Inside Intel's 700-acre Fab 52 in the Arizona desert, which cost $32B and is starting large-scale 18A chip production, as the company seeks to impress customers  —  Claims of a breakthrough at the chips company's new Arizona facility will be tested by sceptical Big Tech customers
Bloomberg:
Adam Mosseri says Instagram is exploring building a TV app as part of a deeper push into video but isn't interested in licensing live sports or other content  —  Instagram is exploring building a dedicated TV app as part of a deeper push into video, a move that could get Instagram videos …
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more  —  What's going wrong in the AI enterprise rollout, and what fundamentals are needed to make it work, according to the Google Cloud chief.
Bloomberg:
Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise, designed to help employees automate tasks and generate content across departments, priced at $30 per user per month
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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Intel announces Clearwater Forest, or Xeon 6+, an 18A-based 2nm data center server processor with up to 288 E-cores, expected to launch in H1 2026

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
White House denied CNN, MS NOW, Politico staffers access on Saturday; CNN calls it an “illegal assault”; Politico says it will “vigorously defend” its 1A rights

Josh Sisco / Bloomberg:
Sources: California's settlement talks with Paramount include a $30M penalty for each film short of Paramount's pledge to release 30 movies per year in theaters

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a postproduction tax incentive into law, rewarding productions that locate scoring, editing, or other post work in California

More News

Jay Peters / The Verge:
EA's Battlefield 6, coming October 10, is a pivotal moment for the series and for EA, set to go private in a $55B deal, as EA competes with Activision and COD
Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more efficiently via Chrome, raised $22M in seed and Series A led by Accel
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
AWS launches Quick Suite, a chatbot and set of AI agents that can analyze sales data, produce reports, and summarize web content, set to replace Q Business

Earlier Picks

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch on September 30, which is even faster than ChatGPT did
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Data from 300K+ pull requests shows OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic in AI coding: Codex has a 74.3% success rate vs. Claude Code's 73.7% in code approvals
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Meta Ray-Ban Display review: good for uses like navigation and AI queries, the neural band is great, but the display has low resolution and the camera is 1080p
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
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
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
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