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October 17, 2025, 5:45 PM
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Ari Levy / CNBC:
Marc Benioff apologizes for saying Trump should send the National Guard to SF, says the comments were made out of “an abundance of caution” around Dreamforce  —  Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized on Friday for making comments in support of President Donald Trump sending federal troops …
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.
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 …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
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:
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 ~$85M/year  —  Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.
Robert Hart / The Verge:
Meta plans to add new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026 that let parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and get “insights” from teens' chats  —  From next year Instagram will let parents stop teens from chatting with AI characters entirely.
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ 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 …
Fortune:
Sources: Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm, raised a $500M Series A led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital at a $5B valuation  —  As fervor around stablecoins grows from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, one of the most high-profile new crypto projects has drummed …
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Sources: Samsung plans to unveil its trifold phone at APEC later in October; 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 …
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more  —  Transcript 00:00:00 - AGI is still a decade away Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00 Today I'm speaking with Andrej Karpathy.
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 …
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 …
Foreign Affairs:
A look at the challenges facing Europe's chip industry, as the EU will likely fail to increase its 10% global chip manufacturing share to a targeted 20% by 2030  —  The Continent Needs More Cooperation With America—Not Less  —  European leaders have grand ambitions to reduce …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft says it will bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete some tasks on 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.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale  —  Revolut Ltd. and its backers are nearing the end of a $3 billion fundraising spree that values the London-based fintech behemoth at $75 billion.
CoinDesk:
Astra Nova, which develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences, raised $48.3M  —  The company develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences.  —  What to know:

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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
About 60% of the Reuters newsroom uses AI tools, including one that suggests what to cover based on press releases and another that creates first drafts

Jem Bartholomew / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Mohsin Hamid, co-founder of Equator magazine, which aims to be a “post-American” magazine of politics and culture, avoiding a “Western-centric gaze”

Matt Slater / The Athletic:
In a global first, DAZN will broadcast a live match between two teams in the National League, the fifth tier of English soccer, for free on its TikTok account

More News

Claudia Cohen / Bloomberg:
Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine which should get EU MiCA licenses
William Wan / Washington Post:
How the FBI's hunt for the person who coerced a 13-year-old into livestreaming his suicide led to the arrest of a German member of the online predator group 764
More: IJR.  X: @washingtonpost, @chrisd9r, and @kyoshino.  LinkedIn: Ashley Wilson
Bluesky: @damonberes.com and @abbeyarletto.  Threads: @karaswisher.  Forums: r/redscarepod
David Ingram / NBC News:
Three labor unions file a lawsuit in NY federal court to block the Trump administration from searching visa holders' social media for posts it deems hostile

Earlier Picks

Reuters:
Sources: Micron plans to stop selling server chips to data centers in China, after a 2023 ban, but will continue to sell chips to auto and smartphone sectors
Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal:
AI data centers are building on-site power plants to bypass the overloaded grid and meet growing electricity demand, amid permitting and supply chain challenges
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
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”
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