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October 23, 2025, 1:40 PM
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Wall Street Journal:
President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial  —  Pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company  —  President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao …
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
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils Mico, a character that responds with real-time expressions when talked to, now on by default in Copilot's voice mode in the US, UK, and Canada  —  Copilot now has its own virtual character for its voice mode. … It's been nearly 30 years since Microsoft's Office assistant …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft updates Copilot to add Copilot Groups, enabling up to 32 people to collaborate in a session, and a “real talk” mode to add more personality to Copilot  —  Microsoft is also adding better memory, improvements to health queries, and a new Mico voice character.
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
Bloomberg:
Sources and docs: the US DOJ charges Peter Williams, ex-director of zero-day vendor L3Harris' Trenchant, with stealing trade secrets to sell to a Russian buyer  —  A director at a company that sells computer vulnerabilities has been charged with stealing secrets to sell to an unspecified buyer in Russia …
Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget:
Amazon relaunches its game streaming service Luna, available at no additional cost for Prime subscribers, and adds new beginner-friendly multiplayer games  —  The big addition is a collection of multiplayer games that can be controlled with a smartphone.  —  After detailing its plans …
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
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 …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Eight Sleep adds an outage mode to its smart beds after complaints they were stuck at sweltering temperatures and in inclined positions during the AWS outage  —  Thousands of Eight Sleep owners were unable to adjust temperatures or bed positions while while Amazon's servers were down.
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 …
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 …
Juro Osawa / The Information:
Internal memo: TikTok plans leadership changes, moving two teams under ByteDance veteran Fiona Zhi and undoing earlier efforts to empower Western executives  —  TikTok is implementing drastic leadership changes that pull the video app closer to the orbit of its parent ByteDance …
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 …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Lawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents “intentional harassment”  —  Family of teen who took his own life after ChatGPT use alleges chatbot maker intentionally weakened protections
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
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: Suno hit ~$150M in ARR from subscriptions to its app, up nearly 4x YoY; it has $10 and $30 per month subscription tiers, implying 5M+ subscribers  —  You can count the number of breakout consumer AI applications on the fingers of one hand.  There's OpenAI's ChatGPT and...that's about it, at least so far.
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:
Chainguard, which helps companies secure software supply chains, raised $280M, six months after a $356M Series D, bringing its total funding to $892M  —  GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene.  Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory.
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New York Times:
Sources: the White House directed FBI Director Kash Patel to personally oversee the probe into NYT reporting about Air Force One, before subpoenas were issued

Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC reports license fee payers fell 539K YoY to 23.3M in 2025-26, the biggest fall since 2020-21; license fee income rose £36M to £3.9B after the fee uplift

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Elon Musk says Tesla's AI5 chip will be made by Samsung in Texas and TSMC in Arizona, with the “oversupply” of chips not used by Tesla going to his data centers
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
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
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