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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic's Skills for Claude, which are conceptually very 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, MediaNama, Analytics India Magazine, WinBuzzer, The Register, Digital Trends, Neowin, and ZDNET
LinkedIn: Ethan Mollick. Bluesky: @markposts, @jtlg, and @harsimony. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ClaudeAI
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
More: Anthropic, Anthropic, The Rundown AI, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, Tom's Guide, and Implicator.ai
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| 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, BBC, Engadget, CNET, The Guardian, Business Insider, Telegraph, WinBuzzer, Wired, Bloomberg Law, Forbes, The Economic Times, The Information, Livemint, Moneycontrol, Futurism, The Decoder, and Fast Company
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials in a mass doxxing event — A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years …
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| Kosta Andreadis / TweakTown: |
Steam hit a new record with over 41.6M concurrent users on October 12, a surge largely sparked by the release of Battlefield 6 — 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. — VIEW GALLERY - 2
More: Electronic Arts Inc. and TechSpot
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo has asked manufacturers to produce as many as 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, setting the company …
More: Engadget, Eurogamer.net, TheGamer, and GoNintendo
Forums: r/gaming, r/Handhelds, r/Games, r/NintendoSwitch, r/nintendo, and r/Switch
| Heather Knight / New York Times: |
Internal documents: Salesforce pitched ICE on using its AI tech to nearly triple the agency's staff by hiring 10K new officers, 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: Implicator.ai, San Francisco Chronicle, The Economic Times, and Implicator.ai
Bluesky: @mclean, @dearsarah, and @bcmerchant
Forums: r/politics and r/sanfrancisco
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies that work with Flock request footage from Ring doorbell users — Amazon's surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement.
More: 404 Media, Neowin, and The Record
Bluesky: @poison-sumac, @rayminehane, @vegandroid, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @josephcox, and @josephcox
Forums: Hacker News, 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.| 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 … | 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, Meta Newsroom, Associated Press, Engadget, TechCrunch, RTÉ, Reuters, and iPhone in Canada. Threads: @alexanddeer
| 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 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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| 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, Windows on YouTube, PCWorld, The Register, ZDNET, Computerworld, Guru3D, NDTV Profit, Windows Latest, Implicator.ai, Digit, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Windows on YouTube, VideoCardz.com, CNET, Reuters, Windows Central, Fast Company, and GeekWire
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LinkedIn: Eric Wise, Dang Ibana, 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
| Heather Knight / New York Times: |
Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff for 25+ years, stepped down from the Salesforce Foundation board, citing Benioff's comments supporting Trump — Ron Conway stepped down from the board of Salesforce's philanthropic arm after the company's chief executive, Marc Benioff …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple readies a slimmer M6 MacBook Pro featuring an OLED touch display with a hole-punch design replacing the notch, for late 2026 or early 2027 — Apple Inc. is preparing to finally launch a touch-screen version of its Mac computer, reversing course on a stance that dates back to co-founder Steve Jobs.
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Livemint, Business Standard, Tom's Guide, BGR, Digit, Creative Bloq, DigiTimes, Cult of Mac, Ukrainian National News, The Verge, Wccftech, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, Mashable, iClarified, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada, New York Post, Engadget, Macworld, AppleInsider, and Stuff
X: @vadimyuryev, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @parkerortolani
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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, Digit, Seeking Alpha, Tom's Guide, Tech in Asia, and Digital Trends
| 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:| 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: The Guardian, Financial Times, and Reuters
| 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| Claudia Cohen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine eligibility for EU MiCA licenses — France is widening its anti-money laundering checks on crypto exchanges, as regulators seek to determine which of more than 100 entities registered … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israel-based Second Nature, whose conversational AI helps train sales teams, raised a $22M Series B led by Sienna VC, taking its total raised to $80M — The Israeli startup uses conversational AI to transform how companies coach sales teams. — Second Nature, an Israeli startup using … | David Ingram / NBC News: |
Three labor unions filed a lawsuit in NY federal court to block the Trump administration from searching visa holders' social media for posts it deems hostile — The lawsuit filed Thursday is the latest of several challenges to the Trump administration's screening of visa holders' social media activity.| CNBC: |
EssilorLuxottica stock jumps 10%+ after reporting Q3 revenue up 11.7% YoY to €6.9B, with wearables like Ray-Ban Meta contributing 4 percentage points to growth — EssilorLuxottica said a healthy amount of its revenue growth in the third quarter was due to its partnership with Meta … | Peter Adams / Marketing Dive: |
Amazon's Twitch begins testing livestream shopping ads allowing users to buy products “in real time”, starting with e.l.f. Cosmetics — A new integration powered by Amazon Ads' retail media data is meant to drive “more measurable business outcomes” for E.l.f. on the platform.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Reddit says it is expanding Reddit Answers, its Google Gemini-powered search experience, to five new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese — Reddit announced Thursday that it is expanding its AI-powered search experience to five new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
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