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October 13, 2025, 12:05 PM

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Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI and Broadcom agree to co-develop and deploy 10GW of custom AI chips to run OpenAI's models over four years; sources: the deal is worth multiple billions  —  The companies plan to deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips over the next four years  —  OpenAI and Broadcom are working together …
Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 1043, which requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google, Meta, and OpenAI supported the bill  —  “We can continue to lead in AI and technology, but we must do it responsibly — protecting our children every step of the way," …
Financial Times:
The Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker Nexperia using its Goods Availability Act, a first, to safeguard chip supply for Europe  —  Move by The Hague escalates frictions between western countries and Beijing over access to high-end technology
Bloomberg:
Bloomberg:
CoinGecko: crypto's combined market cap rises 6%+ to hit $4T, recovering from a brutal weekend selloff as President Trump tries to calm US-China trade war fears  —  Most major cryptocurrencies rebounded from steep losses suffered over a brutal weekend selloff, as President Donald Trump sought …
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveils Agentforce 360, a unified agentic AI stack to connect humans, AI agents, and more, and positions Slack as an “agentic OS”  —  Salesforce announced a series of product updates, a process intelligence acquisition and an Agentforce 360 architecture designed …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with “a vibrant new identity”  —  Buried in its announcement about “F1: The Movie” making its streaming debut on December 12, Apple has also announced that Apple TV+ is being rebranded as simply Apple TV.
Paul Sandle / Reuters:
Ofcom fines 4chan £20K under the OSA for failing to provide info on the risk of illegal content; the UK's tech minister says the government “fully backed” Ofcom  —  Britain said on Monday it had issued U.S. internet forum site 4chan with a 20,000 pound ($26,644) …
Eshe Nelson / New York Times:
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on how tech progress and sustained economic growth are related  —  Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate …
Brandi Vincent / DefenseScoop:
Anduril plans to deliver ~100 units of its AI-powered EagleEye helmet and eyewear to the US Army by Q2 2026, replacing Microsoft's IVAS; Meta provided some tech  —  “This is an extremely powerful capability.  It's going to get cheaper and cheaper over time," Anduril founder Palmer Luckey told reporters.
Alex Traub / New York Times:
John Searle, known for “the Chinese Room” AI consciousness thought experiment, died on September 16 at 93; his UCB tenure ended over alleged sexual harassment  —  His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar.

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