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| New York Times: |
US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huang is a Chinese asset who maintained a close relationship with Jensen Huang to pass intelligence to Beijing — Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, is influential at the White House on technology policy and has developed a close relationship …
More: Tom's Hardware, The Guardian, Telegraph, Yahoo Finance, ZeroHedge News, Daily Mail, The Decoder, NewsMax.com, India Today, Newser, and Capital Brief
X: @shashj, @jenvanlaar, @kimmonismus, @senwarren, @edzitron, @tommythornton, @kylegriffin1, @geoffrey_cain, @kareemrifai, @matthewstoller, @linahuaa, @realjimchanos, @negligible_cap, @jonlemire, @davidbarboza2, @garymarcus, @byron_wan, @ddimolfetta, @rue_du_four, @rakishromantic, @culperresearch, @suzuki_takaya, @gregory_c_allen, @glenweyl, @rmac18, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @kakashiii111, @davidyelland, @baldingsworld, @annmarie, @paulmozur, @mattyglesias, and @julianku
Bluesky: @jonathansocials.com, @carlquintanilla, and @adelpreore
Forums: r/politics, r/neoliberal, and r/technology
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to expand “high-quality ads within AI Overviews in AI Mode” into international markets, as growth in its core search ad business slows — Google is bringing ads in its AI-powered Search experiences to international markets, betting that generative AI can open …
More: Google, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Business Today, Quartz, Marketing Dive, Search Engine Roundtable, The Crypto Basic, Moneycontrol, PPC Land, Seoul Economic Daily, Storyboard18, Fast Company, Media Play News, and Search Engine Roundtable
LinkedIn: Matthew Rivard and Sofia D.
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Google reports Search revenue up 12% YoY to $63.25B in Q3 2026, down from 14.5% in Q3 2025, and attributes the slowdown to “lower monetization” in AI Mode — Shares in Google's parent company Alphabet dived by almost ten percent on Wednesday, after the web giant admitted AI-powered searches earn …
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Bluesky: @edzitron.com and @edzitron.com
Forums: r/degoogle and Slashdot
| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $127.58B, below $128.22B est., and Google Cloud revenue up 103% to $30.7B, above $28.7B est.; GOOG drops 11%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 28, 2026 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026.
More: Financial Times, The Information, CNBC, NBC News, NewsMax.com, Music Ally, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, PPC Land, AIM, Neowin, finbold.com, Fortune India, and Search Engine Roundtable
X: @sundarpichai, @andrewcurran_, @kimmonismus, @baris, @hshaban, @jordannovet, @firstadopter, @munster_gene, @john_paul99, and @kobeissiletter. Forums: Hacker News
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
More: DatacenterDynamics, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Fast Company, and MDM
| Wired: |
Hackers leak the personal data of 41,000+ DHS employees and contractors, including CBP and ICE agents; DDoSecrets says the data came from DHS' Okta login system — The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers' cell phone numbers, and the members of groups tied …
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X: @delitzer, @robfardon, @darkwebinformer, and @intcyberdigest
Bluesky: @dell and @middlerage
Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, @ddosecrets@kolektiva.social, @UnicornRiot@mastodon.social, and @DarkWebInformer@infosec …
Forums: Hacker News, r/TheDollop, r/politics, r/behindthebastards, r/WeThePeopleAtWhipple, r/WeThePeopleAtWhipple, r/IThinkYouShouldLeave, r/chaoticgood, r/thebulwark, r/whowatchesthewatchmen, r/circled, r/DefundICE, r/EyesOnIce, r/ThePeoplesPress, r/news, r/TickerChasers, r/LegalNews, r/anticapitalism, r/WashingtonIceWatch, r/Futurism, r/Destiny, r/InterstellarKinetics, r/ImmigrationPathways, r/fednews, r/This_is_fascism, r/ThePeoplesPress, r/technology, r/politics, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/technology, r/pwnhub, r/inthenews, and Slashdot
| Wired: |
Bluesky blocks links to a leaked archive containing personal data of 41,000+ DHS employees and contractors, saying it was “shared without their authorization” — Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers …
More: TechCrunch. Bluesky: @dell, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @couts, and @micahflee.com. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: r/pwnhub and r/BlueskySocial
| Reuters: |
DoorDash agrees to acquire Instacart in a ~$17B deal, paying $65 per share, a 26% premium to its October 22 close, as the platform delivery market consolidates — DoorDash (DASH.O) said on Thursday it would buy Instacart (CART.O) in a deal valued at about $17 billion, stepping up its push …
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X: @adamkovac, @thedashboard, @mynameisdesmond, @litcapital, @joelpollak, @thedashboard, @nycmayor, @t_xu, @killedbygoogle, @james406, @apoorva_mehta, @sarthakgh, @madhavchanchani, @alexlmiller, @thedashboard, @gerberkawasaki, @chaotictransfem, @thedashboard, and @econliberties. LinkedIn: Natalie Lung. Forums: Hacker News
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
How surging demand from AI hyperscalers has quintupled flash memory prices and shifted market and negotiating power from Apple to suppliers like Kioxia — The iPhone maker for years bullied flash-storage makers into steep discounts—until AI hyperscalers bid up prices and gobbled up supply
More: Wccftech, Wall Street Journal, and 24/7 Wall St.
| Bloomberg: |
Samsung's shares fall up to 6.6%, as a lack of a new shareholder return plan, higher capex, and its chip unit's Q3 profit miss weigh on investor sentiment — Samsung Electronics Co. shares reversed earlier gains to slide as much as 6.6% as the lack of a new shareholder return plan in its earnings disappointed investors.
More: Samsung Newsroom, RTÉ, Barron's Online, SammyGuru, Korea JoongAng Daily, and Channel NewsAsia
| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
Mistral releases the weights for Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, and says it rivals top open models such as GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index — Mistral has released the weights for Large 4, along with some impressive Artificial Analysis scores. — ZDNET's key takeaways
More: Mistral Blog, Fortune, Wired, SiliconANGLE, The New Stack, The Decoder, Euronews, Unite.AI, and The Deep View
X: @arthurmensch, @teortaxestex, @artificialanlys, @artificialanlys, @artificialanlys, @miaai_lab, @scaling01, @nvidiaai, @andrewcurran_, @jun_song, @sophiamyang, @analogalok, @qtnx_, and @mistralai. Bluesky: @raincoaster. Forums: r/MistralAI
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro is designed for the iPad generation, with an optimized macOS, and the company is right to move on from Steve Jobs' skepticism — Ever since I got my hands on the very first iPad Pro all the way back in November 2015, I've gotten used to a certain type …
More: MacRumors, Bloomberg, WinBuzzer, Livemint, Apple Developer, CGTN, Silicon UK, Financial Express, Pixel Envy, Apple, and Six Colors
X: @chriswelch, @theappledesign, @neilcybart, @chancehmiller, @neilcybart, @joshuatopolsky, @viticci, @its_shevi, @cartidise, @jonathan_wilke, @michaelzsguo, @ericonca, @neilcybart, @cartidise, @0xluffy, @autismcapital, @johnvoorhees, @thekitze, @sadlyitsbradley, @threepointone, @viticci, @usgraphics, @thekitze, @hesamation, @johnvoorhees, @austintbyrd, @cartidise, and @autismcapital. Forums: r/apple
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
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X: @stevemoser, @samifathi, @neilcybart, @loudmouthjulia, @autismcapital, @anxiousholly, @supersaf, @markgurman, @ilyamiskov, @snazzylabs, @stevenlevy, @aaronp613, @avstorm, @twostraws, @9to5mac, @aaronp613, and @stevenlevy
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
Sources: the Pentagon is treating the late August freezer malfunctions across 6+ military bases as a suspected cyberattack and is working with French police — The Pentagon is treating the spate of mysterious freezer malfunctions that spoiled food at military bases across the United States … | Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google: |
Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, its “strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity” capabilities, ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis' new Intelligence Index — Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.
More: The Verge, Mashable, PCMag, Help Net Security, Business Today, FUNDA, The Information, Artificial Analysis, SecurityWeek, The Hacker News, The Indian Express, Engadget, Moneycontrol, The Neuron, Latent Space, AIM, The Register, Türkiye Today, NPowerUser, Hindustan Times, Digit, Livemint, 9to5Google, and The Deep View
X: @googleai, @arena, @officiallogank, @yuchenj_uw, @sundarpichai, @googledeepmind, @andonlabs, @scaling01, @jeremiahdillon, @derekmross, @kimmonismus, @minchoi, @elonmusk, @matthewberman, @mgechev, @infwinston, @joshwoodward, @dalanmendonca, @rseroter, @linusekenstam, @haider1, @hughlangley, @kylebrussell, @lmthang, @aaronrubin, @fofrai, @itspaulai, @ammaar, @chetaslua, @petergostev, @ivanleomk, @vikaskansalhq, @tulseedoshi, @mtslive, @wadefoster, @ai_for_success, @melvinjohnsonp, @haider1, @lyalindotcom, @scaling01, @patloeber, @ananth7e, @osanseviero, @evanotero, @koraykv, @synthwavedd, @demishassabis, @google, and @artificialanlys
Forums: Hacker News, r/Bard, r/accelerate, r/GeminiAI, and r/GOOG_Stock
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft reports Q1 Xbox hardware revenue down 14% YoY, Xbox content and services revenue down 2%, and Windows OEM and Devices revenue down 22% — Windows and Xbox revenues have declined during Microsoft's first quarter of the 2027 financial year. … Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results.
More: GamesIndustry.biz, Vertical Slice, Gulf News, PPC Land, The Daily Upside, and GamesBeat
| Reuters: |
Sources: the US DOJ has inquired about the impact of Nvidia's Hugging Face deal on AI competition, as antitrust enforcers continue to probe Nvidia's conduct — The US Department of Justice has made inquiries about how Nvidia's (NVDA.O) $12.93 billion deal to buy open-source platform Hugging Face …
More: Bloomberg, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, The Decoder, Cautious Optimism, Techstrong.ai, The Next Web, Barron's Online, Seoul Economic Daily, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Forums: r/technology
| Lauren McCarthy / New York Times: |
Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and Wellington Management at a $40B valuation, up from a $22B valuation after raising $1B in May, its last raise before an IPO — The prediction market raised $1 billion in a new funding round and landed a market value almost double that of rival Polymarket.
More: Reuters, FinTech Global, Finimize, Bitcoin News, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal
| Kali Hays / BBC: |
Vladimir Putin praises Elon Musk as a “real genius” and says Russia is in “close contact” with Musk and the US to coordinate Rassvet and Starlink satellites — Elon Musk is a “real genius”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday after revealing the two are in …
More: Quartz and CNBC
X: @kadmitriev, @cb_doge, @mfa_russia, @maria_drutska, @davetroy, @youranoncentral, @gerashchenko_en, @maks_nafo_fella, @lrozen, @peterjukes, @chriscoons, and @joeroganhq. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek and Moonshot AI heavily relied on GPT-6 Astra distillation to train models like Kimi K3.1 Pro and V4.1-Flash 1017, after Anthropic's crackdown — OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, the most powerful model the company has released, has met with strong demand since its release in early September.| Jamie Hore / This Week in Videogames: |
Epic Games says it is using AI tools to “develop code and features” for Unreal Engine, including core engine components like the D3D12 rendering layer — In Brief: Following CEO Tim Sweeney's announcement of a “huge pivot” towards AI tools, Epic Games has confirmed that AI tools …
More: Game Developer. LinkedIn: Bill Clifford. Bluesky: @thisweekinvideogames.com. Forums: r/DreamStationcc
| Reuters: |
Sources: Bloomberg, Susquehanna, and Jump Trading signed up for Truth Social's fast API feed of President Trump's posts, paying $60K to $100K per month — Truth Social, the social media platform founded by President Donald Trump, has signed up news and data provider Bloomberg and two Wall Street firms …
More: New York Times. X: @edmundlee. Bluesky: @carlquintanilla and @joshsternberg.com
Forums: r/politics and r/quant
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is seeking to raise $25B+ in its first US investment-grade bond sale since 2017, when it raised $17B, to fund AI-related capital expenditures — Microsoft Corp. is looking to raise at least $25 billion from its first US investment-grade bond sale in more than nine years … | Financial Times: |
The UK FCA, which sued Justin Sun-linked crypto exchange HTX in 2025 for “unlawfully promoting crypto asset services”, says HTX will exit the UK in a settlement — Venture linked to billionaire Trump backer Justin Sun sued by FCA for ‘unlawfully promoting crypto asset services’
More: Decrypt, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, Protos, Bitcoin Magazine, Yahoo Finance, and Channel NewsAsia
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Ottawa-based Solink, which uses AI to pull data from already-installed security cameras, raised $100M+ led by Vertu Capital, bringing its total raised to $198M+ — Video intelligence company Solink Corp. revealed today that it has raised more than $100 million in new funding.
More: FinSMEs, BetaKit, Unite.AI, Canadian Press, and Globe and Mail
| Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: |
Circuit Mind, which uses AI to automate electronics and circuit design, raised $25M, including an $18.5M Series A led by Norwest, and plans a US relocation — Circuit Mind, a startup developing AI software for electronics design, raised $25 million, CEO Tomide Adesanmi tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: The SaaS News
| Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: |
Collective, which uses AI to automate bookkeeping for solo business owners, raised a $40M Series B and $60M in nondilutive capital from GC's Customer Value Fund — Collective, a financial services platform for solo business owners, secured $100 million in financing, CEO Hooman Radfar tells Axios.
More: FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, Accounting Today, and Tech Funding News
| Bloomberg: |
Sierra Club expects US power emissions to hit 2.1B metric tons by 2030, up 42% on 2025 and erasing 15 years of cuts, with off-grid data centers matching Mexico — The boom is set to produce enough greenhouse gases to cancel out 15 years of declines in power-sector emissions, according to a Sierra Club analysis.
More: Tom's Hardware. X: @sierraclub and @jemillerbalt
Bluesky: @brendan and @jessefelder.com
Forums: r/environment, r/climatechange, and r/climate
| Ashutosh Joshi / Bloomberg: |
Jio Platforms adds $36B in market value in two trading sessions, hitting a $144B market cap, up from its ~$108B IPO valuation, after India's biggest-ever IPO — Jio Platforms Ltd. has added almost $36 billion in market value in two trading sessions, extending its blistering run … Sponsor Posts
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