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Anthropic's Claude Skills, which are conceptually extremely simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation — Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models:
More: Anthropic, The Verge, Analytics India Magazine, WinBuzzer, The Register, Digital Trends, Neowin, and ZDNET
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ClaudeAI
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
More: Anthropic, Anthropic, Windows Central, BGR, KnowTechie, MediaNama, SiliconANGLE, Tom's Guide, and Implicator.ai
X: @notionhq, @omooretweets, @simonw, @omooretweets, @alexalbert__, @apollonator3000, @iannuttall, and @claudeai. LinkedIn: Brad Abrams
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline …
More: Diff, Engadget, WinBuzzer, and Implicator.ai
Bluesky: @josephcox, @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk, @jmelville.science, @tilmanbayer, and @emanuelmaiberg. Mastodon: @JensB@openbiblio.social
Forums: r/wikipedia and r/technology
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying $140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year — Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.
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Forums: r/NASCAR, r/apple, r/formula1, r/appletv, r/technology, and r/tvPlus
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions” — OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist …
More: CNN, The Verge, CNBC, BBC, Business Insider, CNET, The Guardian, Engadget, Deadline, Neowin, TMZ.com, The Wrap, New York Times, TheGrio, Music Ally, Variety, MediaNama, Telegraph, The Hollywood Reporter, The Information, Wired, The Economic Times, WinBuzzer, Livemint, Forbes, Moneycontrol, Bloomberg Law, Futurism, and Fast Company
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts the alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram — A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years …
More: Metacurity and New Republic
Forums: r/goodnews, r/democrats, r/technology, r/chaoticgood, r/uspolitics, r/behindthebastards, r/politics, and r/50501
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo has asked its manufacturing partners to produce up to 25M Switch 2 units by the end of March 2026, surpassing analysts' estimates of 17.6M — Nintendo Co. has asked suppliers to produce as many as 25 million units of the Switch 2 by the end of March 2026 …
More: Engadget, Nintendo Life, Kotaku, GameSpot, iPhone in Canada, TheGamer, and Eurogamer.net
Forums: r/gaming, r/Handhelds, r/Games, r/NintendoSwitch, r/nintendo, and r/Switch
| Kosta Andreadis / TweakTown: |
Steam hit a record 41.6M+ concurrent users on October 12, up from 37M+ users in August 2024, after the releases of Battlefield 6 and Hollow Knight: Silksong — 41,666,455 million PC gamers were online and on Steam on October 12, 2025, setting a new CCU (concurrent user) record for the platform.
More: Electronic Arts Inc. and TechSpot
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| Heather Knight / New York Times: |
Docs: Salesforce pitched ICE on using its AI tech to help the agency nearly triple its workforce by hiring 10K new officers, to improve investigations, and more — The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff.
More: KTVU-TV, Implicator.ai, San Francisco Chronicle, The Bulwark, The Economic Times, and Implicator.ai
Bluesky: @mclean, @bcmerchant, and @dearsarah
Forums: r/sanfrancisco and r/politics
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users for “evidence collection and investigative work” — Amazon's surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras …
More: 404 Media, Portland startups …, CNBC, and Neowin
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/loveland, r/Ring, and r/Eugene
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with over 157M MAUs, thanks in part to its deep integration with Douyin — ByteDance's Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek, proving that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, letting parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and sending them “insights” from teens' chats — From next year Instagram will let parents stop teens from chatting with AI characters entirely.
More: New York Times, The Hill, Meta Newsroom, CNBC, Associated Press, Engadget, Forbes Middle East, TechCrunch, RTÉ, Reuters, and iPhone in Canada. Threads: @alexanddeer
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung to showcase its trifold phone at this month's APEC summit; attendees won't be allowed to touch it, as it's expected to be displayed under glass — Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil its highly-anticipated trifold smartphone when world leaders and global dignitaries gather …
More: TechRadar, iPhone in Canada, Tom's Guide, Digit, Seeking Alpha, Tech in Asia, and Digital Trends
| Foreign Affairs: |
A look at the challenges facing Europe's chip industry, as the EU will likely fall short of its targeted 20% share of global chip manufacturing by 2030 — The Continent Needs More Cooperation With America—Not Less — European leaders have grand ambitions to reduce the continent's reliance on sensitive technologies from abroad.
X: @foreignaffairs, @foreignaffairs, @foreignaffairs, and @your_mercury
Forums: r/europe, r/geopolitics, and r/neoliberal
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft to bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete certain tasks on local files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs — On Tuesday, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10, the operating system it introduced 10 years earlier.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: Windows Blog, Ars Technica, KnowTechie, Windows on YouTube, SamMobile, PCWorld, The Register, ZDNET, Computerworld, NDTV Profit, Implicator.ai, Digit, Guru3D, Windows Latest, VentureBeat, Windows on YouTube, Digital Trends, Reuters, Windows Central, Fast Company, and GeekWire
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LinkedIn: Dang Ibana, Eric Wise, Frank Brassart, Yash Misra, and Jeff Strasser
Bluesky: @nptwrites, @sadknob, @willoremus.com, @joshuafoust.com, @darthbluesky, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @pemryjanes.com, @greybrewer, @stevekovach, @reckless, @peterwartman.com, @brokenwing, @grumble.social, @geekelite.geekerific.com, @fredericl, @pabastien, @turfster, @partnardy, @andrewt.net, @aura.dog, @weirdnoirmaster, @ntpnate, @niceandinnocent, @benharris1, @smpritchard, @projectazar.com, @shredgnarly, @edzitron.com, @mustafasuleymanai, and @tomwarren.co.uk
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, and @harrymccracken@mastodon …
Forums: r/privacy, r/enshittification, r/technology, r/microsoft, r/windows, and Slashdot
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on AI chips co-developed with Broadcom than on chips from Nvidia, which is notoriously backlogged on GPU orders — OpenAI's latest multibillion-dollar chips deal marks a new direction for the company. But first... Three things to know:
More: Wall Street Journal and The Decoder
| Reuters: |
Sources: Micron plans to stop selling server chips to data centers in China after a 2023 ban, but will continue selling chips to auto and smartphone sectors — - China in 2023 banned use of Micron products in critical infrastructure — Micron to continue to sell chips to auto, mobile phone sectors, source says| Jeremy Stern / Colossus: |
A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's investments in GitHub and Stripe and its role in reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI's CEO in November 2023 — Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream — The road to Rick Rubin's house was long and winding for Joshua Kushner …
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| Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: |
AI data centers are building on-site power plants to bypass the overloaded grid and meet soaring electricity demand amid permitting and supply challenges — Bypassing the grid, at least temporarily, tech companies are creating an energy Wild West; ‘grab yourself a couple of turbines’
More: Financial Times, The Guardian, and Reuters
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