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A teen's parents allege OpenAI loosened ChatGPT's suicide-talk rules to boost engagement before their son died by suicide using a method discussed with ChatGPT — An amended complaint from the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide, alleges the changes were part of a push to increase engagement
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon is testing AR glasses for delivery drivers, using AI and computer vision to help them scan packages, follow walking directions, and get proof of delivery — MILPITAS, Calif. — Amazon is bringing delivery details directly to drivers' eyeballs. — The e-commerce giant on Wednesday confirmed …
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: IonQ, Rigetti, D-Wavequantum, and other computing companies are in talks to give the US Commerce Department equity in exchange for $10M+ funding each — Discussions signal Washington's wider involvement in key parts of the economy — WASHINGTON—Several quantum-computing companies …
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Email: Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to resume operations on October 24, following a court-approved restructuring, after hackers stole $230M in July 2024 — That was the final step in a process that began after a massive security breach last year froze assets, shuttered withdrawals …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI, autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, and more — We've got a special episode of Decoder today. I'm talking to General Motors CEO Mary Barra and new GM Chief Product Officer …
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| Michael Wayland / CNBC: |
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LinkedIn: Josh Tavel, Baris Cetinok, and Michael Wayland
Forums: r/Android, r/cars, and r/technology
| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with investors to raise funds at a $12B to $15B valuation, up from ~$8B pre-investment in a raise earlier in October — The prediction market Polymarket is holding early conversations with investors and looking to raise money at a valuation between $12 billion …
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| Dane Stuckey / @cryps1s: |
OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey outlines prompt injection mitigations in ChatGPT Atlas, including a “logged out mode” that blocks agent access to user credentials — Yesterday we launched ChatGPT Atlas, our new web browser. In Atlas, ChatGPT agent can get things done for you. We're excited to see how this feature makes work and day-to-day life more efficient and effective for people. ChatGPT agent is powerful and helpful, and designed to be
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple removes controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store for failing to meet requirements around content moderation and user privacy — Controversial dating safety apps, Tea and Tea on Her, have been pulled from the Apple App Store.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results — In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google's search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: the Trump administration is considering barring exports of products made with US software to China in response to the country's rare earth restrictions — - Trump administration considers potential escalation in China trade war — Measure could restrict shipments to China of goods containing or made with U.S. software
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Google says its Willow quantum chip using a new Quantum Echoes algorithm ran computations 13,000x faster than supercomputers, aiding drug and materials research — Michel H. Devoret was one of three physicists who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for a series of experiments they conducted more than four decades ago.
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LinkedIn: Stephane Requena, Amir Karamlou, and Julian Kelly
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @jamesaltonsanders.com
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft asks its Xbox unit to hit 30% “accountability margins”, or profit margins, and Xbox canceled products, cut jobs, and raised prices to meet it — Management's goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
More: TheGamer, 80 Level, Financial Times, and GamesRadar
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1B est., and Hybrid Cloud revenue, including its Red Hat unit, up 14%, below 16% est.; IBM drops 6%+ — International Business Machines Corp. reported disappointing revenue in its closely watched Red Hat unit, sparking concerns among investors … | James Reddick / The Record: |
Starlink VP Lauren Dreyer says the company “proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspected ‘scam centers’” in Myanmar — SpaceX says it has disabled more than 2,000 Starlink devices connected to scam compounds in Myanmar …
More: The Register, Ars Technica, NBC News, and PCMag
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage Data Centers plan to build a data center in Wisconsin called Lighthouse, costing $15B+ and set to open in 2028, as part of Stargate — OpenAI, along with Oracle (ORCL.N) and Vantage Data Centers, will develop a data center campus in Wisconsin, as part of the Stargate project …
More: DatacenterDynamics, Business Wire, WinBuzzer, WPR, Verdict, Wall Street Journal, Capacity, and The Economic Times
| Wall Street Journal: |
Top AI researchers and executives in Silicon Valley are working 80 to 100 hours per week, driven by competition, as AI's progress compresses product timelines — With expertise in the field scarce, workers in Silicon Valley are pushing themselves to extremes day after day
X: @jordansvic, @barbariancap, @pierre_vannier, @shanumathew93, @brianryhuang, and @piussprenger. LinkedIn: Meghan Bobrowsky. Forums: r/artificial
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Ofcom: UK traffic to porn sites has fallen by almost a third since introducing new age verification rules in July; Aylo says Pornhub's traffic has fallen by 77% — British government applied tougher checks on adult sites in July to stop children accessing content| Canadian Press: |
Canada's financial crime watchdog fines crypto exchange Cryptomus a record ~$126M for infractions including failing to flag suspicious transactions — Firm failed to flag over 1,000 transactions with suspected links to criminal activity — A cryptocurrency exchange has been slapped … | Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
SAP reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to €9.08B, cloud revenue up 22% to €5.29B, below €5.33B est., and current cloud backlog up 23% to €18.84B — SAP SE, Europe's most valuable software company, said revenue from its key cloud business is trending toward the lower end …
More: CNBC, Reuters, Reuters, diginomica, SiliconANGLE, Investor's Business Daily, SAP SE, and Constellation Research
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024 — UnifyApps, which lets enterprises connect disparate systems of record to help their AI initiatives, raised a $50 million Series B led …
More: Reuters, UnifyApps, SiliconANGLE, VCCircle, and Unite.AI
| Reuters: |
Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in its Quark app, powered by Qwen 3, and plans to open pre-sales for its $660 Quark AI Glasses on October 24 — Alibaba (9988.HK) launched a new AI chatbot assistant service on Thursday, refreshing its push into a consumer-facing space that is dominated by ByteDance and Tencent .
More: South China Morning Post, CNBC, and Tech in Asia
| Financial Times: |
Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales agree to a deal to combine their space businesses, promising “significant synergies” in a bid to build a European SpaceX competitor — European defence groups promise ‘significant synergies’ to respond to rapid expansion of Starlink network| Bloomberg: |
Chinese state media: China's new five-year development plan aims to achieve tech self-reliance and expand the domestic market, after a four-day CCP conclave — China vowed to seek technological self-reliance and grow the domestic market in the next five years, as it looks to both insulate …
More: The Economic Times, Financial Times, Implicator.ai, and Associated Press
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