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October 11, 2025, 1:05 AM

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
President Trump says that the US will impose an extra 100% tariff on imports from China and “Export Controls on any and all critical software” from November 1  —  - CNBC Councils  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Supply Chain Values  — Ad Choices
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Apple announces a “major evolution” of the Apple Security Bounty program, doubling its top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware  —  With the mercenary spyware industry booming, Apple VP Ivan Krstić tells WIRED that the company is also offering bonuses …
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Kalshi raised a $300M+ Series D at a $5B valuation, expands to 140+ countries, and is on track for $50B in annualized trading volume, up from ~$300M in 2024  —  The fund-raising round comes as online prediction marketplaces gain mainstream prominence.  —  Online prediction markets have jumped …
Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
Nathan Calvin, general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode, says OpenAI used intimidation tactics to undermine California's SB 53 while it was being debated  —  Nathan Calvin, the 29-year-old general counsel of Encode—a small AI policy nonprofit with just three full-time employees …
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Sources: Morgan Stanley told its financial advisors it will broaden access to crypto investments to all clients and allow such investments in any account type  —  Morgan Stanley on Friday told its financial advisors that the firm was broadening access to crypto investments to all clients …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
NPCI, which runs India's UPI, partners with OpenAI and digital payment company Razorpay on a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through ChatGPT  —  India has kicked off a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through AI chatbots, with OpenAI's ChatGPT leading the rollout …
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SemiAnalysis launches InferenceMAX, an open-source benchmark that automatically tracks LLM inference performance across AI models and frameworks every night  —  NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, AMD MI355X, Throughput Token per GPU, Latency Tok/s/user, Perf per Dollar, Cost per Million Tokens …
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Heather Knight / New York Times:
Marc Benioff says President Trump is “doing a great job” and believes National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco to help reduce crime in the city  —  Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services.
Jacob Krol / TechRadar:
The LA Lakers will livestream select 2025-26 season games in the Apple Immersive format in the NBA app and the upcoming Spectrum SportsNet app on the Vision Pro  —  Select games will be streamed live in Apple Immersive  —  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Financial Times:
The UK CMA designates Google with “strategic market status” in search and ads, but excludes Gemini; Google has warned such oversight could slow product launches  —  Big Tech company becomes the first to be designated with special status under strict new digital laws
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Prezent, which offers enterprises an AI-powered presentation builder, raised $30M at a $400M valuation to make acquisitions, taking its total funding to $74M+  —  Prezent, a startup that offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, said today that it has raised $30 million …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Govini, a Palantir competitor whose AI software Ark helps militaries manage product lifecycles, raised $150M from Bain Capital and says it hit $100M in ARR  —  Govini, a defense tech software startup taking on the likes of Palantir, has blown past $100 million in annual recurring revenue, the company announced Friday.

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