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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns  —  Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft.
CNBC:
Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets  —  Apple on Friday sued OpenAI in federal court in Northern California, alleging trade secret theft, saying that the artificial intelligence lab took …
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook's and Instagram's “addictive design” violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk hefty fines  —  European Union authorities said the company's use of “addictive design” violated a digital safety law.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
SK Hynix closed up 12.76% at $168.01 in its first day of trading on Nasdaq, after raising $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company  —  SK Hynix rose 13% in its first day of trading on Nasdaq, closing at $168.01, as U.S. investors jumped at the opportunity to get a stake …
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license  —  The U.S. Department of Commerce loosened export controls on the United Arab Emirates on Friday, making it easier to export military items …
Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg:
Circle says it received US regulator approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank, allowing it to offer institutional custody services  —  Circle Internet Group Inc. received approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank to support its stablecoin business …
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
OpenAI and Google sold AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, reigniting calls for tighter US regulation of AI models  —  US groups have been supplying AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.
Ina Fried / Axios:
Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts  —  Meta's move to allow user to create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts is drawing criticism …
Bloomberg:
Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five years  —  The largest builders of artificial intelligence data centers have doubled their debt load in the last five years …
CNBC:
Source: Greg Brockman will continue to oversee OpenAI's products as the company doesn't plan to hire anyone to replace Fidji Simo after she stepped down  —  There's a new second-in-command at OpenAI.  —  Greg Brockman, the company's president, is officially responsible for OpenAI's …
Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight  —  Britain has designated cloud service providers Microsoft (MSFT.O), Google (GOOGL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Oracle (ORCL.N) …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Like the Claude app it imitates, the new ChatGPT “Super App”, which merges Codex with ChatGPT, is a tangle of toggles and strange UI decisions  —  Even if it's ultimately the right call, the new Mac app is a mess...  I am so confused right now.  I mean that literally.
SemiAnalysis:
A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI  —  A top tier RL environment startup spawns out of thin air, the most aggressive compute ramp we've ever seen, 2000km+ scale-across, and some advice for Google DeepMind
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022  —  A years-long lawsuit between the college-focused social app Fizz and rival Sidechat over unfair competition practices has taken an interesting turn.
More: RuntimeWire
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation  —  A federal labor law judge determined last week that the software maker Atlassian had illegally fired an employee who questioned company policy changes.
Forums: Hacker News
Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:
A US court sentences a former ransomware negotiator to 70 months in prison for colluding with BlackCat to extort $75.3M from five of his employer's clients  —  Angelo Martino exploited his insider position and fed confidential information to ransomware co-conspirators to extort a combined $75.3 million from five U.S.-based victims.
Bloomberg:
Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions  —  Phia, an advertising startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates, daughter of billionaire Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates …
Bloomberg:
MiniMax is looking to raise as much as $2B by selling 35.6M shares at ~$34 each and offering ~$830M in zero-coupon convertible bonds due in 2027  —  MiniMax Group Inc. is joining a rush by Chinese technology companies to tap markets for funding aimed at the artificial intelligence buildout …
Juro Osawa / The Information:
Memo: MiniMax CEO Junjie Yan tells employees he will forgo his salary until MiniMax achieves AGI and promises to allocate personal shares to employee incentives

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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
David Ellison and other Skydance executives rang the NYSE opening bell Thursday, celebrating the WBD acquisition; SKYD shares rose 4.5% after a two-day slump

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Former WBD CEO David Zaslav will receive $606.1M for his WBD shares held as of October 6, including RSUs; he sold ~$200M in WBD stock since February

CNN:
A federal judge briefly extends access for CNN, MS Now, and Politico to the White House while he considers a longer-term ruling on President Trump's press ban

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Boone Ashworth / Wired:
1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give them 25 degrees of freedom of movement; human hands usually have 27
Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic:
How television, the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a decline in people reading longer works like books
Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post:
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI
Axios:
OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on macOS and Windows
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview
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