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| New York Times: |
US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, who has a close relationship with Jensen Huang, is a Chinese asset; Trump was briefed and took no action — Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, is influential at the White House on technology policy and has developed …
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Bluesky: @jessefelder.com, @admiralmpj, @jonathansocials.com, @carlquintanilla, and @adelpreore
Forums: r/politics, r/neoliberal, r/technology, and r/Economics
| Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
Alphabet's stock falls 12%+, wiping a record $500B from its market cap, after reporting negative cash flow amid its AI spending; the Nasdaq falls 1.4%+ — Google owner admits ‘AI mode’ has hurt traditional search as sales and profits undershoot expectations
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Bluesky: @tyleraking.com, @mims, @stevekovach, @markriedl, and @serghei
| 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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| 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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Bluesky: @dell and @middlerage
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| 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, Gizmodo, and The Washington Sun
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Mastodon: @garrett@infosec.exchange, @iamkonstantin@mstdn.social, and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: r/BlueskySocial and r/pwnhub
| 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 … | 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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| Alphabet: |
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| 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
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Forums: r/Destiny and r/MistralAI
| 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: iPhone in Canada, 24/7 Wall St., Wccftech, and Wall Street Journal
| 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 …
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Bluesky: @forbesmm and @raphae.li
Forums: r/technology and r/AirForce
| 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 …
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| Rocket Drew / The Information: |
Source: Dulo, a startup co-founded by Google veteran Sebastian Thrun to build “foundation models for hardware design”, raised a $130M seed — Sebastian Thrun, the computer scientist who pioneered several AI projects at Google, has co-founded a new startup focused on creating AI models … | Andy Larsen / Salt Lake Tribune: |
Utah files 14 criminal charges against Kalshi and its co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara for allegedly breaking Utah's gambling laws — The state of Utah has filed 14 criminal charges, including 13 felony counts, against the prediction market site Kalshi and its co-founders …
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| 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.
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| Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: |
Wabi, which is building an AI assistant that integrates into group chats and can take actions like booking appointments, raised $55M at a $1.25B valuation — AI assistant startup Wabi Inc. has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation to build out its software that lets groups …
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| 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 …
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| 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.| OpenAI: |
OpenAI updates Model Spec to reorganize it around five values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care — As our models get smarter and take more consequential actions in the world, it becomes increasingly important that they go beyond … | 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.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Situational Awareness is pitching clients to invest in Fluidstack alongside it in a round that values the neocloud at $40B, up from $18B in September — Situational Awareness is raising money from its investors to plow into neocloud startup Fluidstack Ltd., just three months … | John Collison / Cheeky Pint: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on finding PHP bugs, sandboxing superhuman models as an unsolved safety dilemma, robotics scaling data centers, math, agent swarms, and more — Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, joins John to break down how models uncovered critical PHP vulnerabilities …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
SuperMe, which generates AI-powered chats with simulated profiles of prominent industry experts to let users ask questions, raised $20M — When people have career or job questions, they usually tap into their network to find experts who've faced a similar predicament and can offer answers.
X: @caseynewton
| 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.| 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. drew blowout demand for its jumbo bond offering, as investors made room in portfolios stuffed with AI-related debt … | Claire Rychlewski / Axios: |
Thrive Holdings agrees to acquire ADT in an all-cash take-private deal, valuing ADT at ~$7.6B in equity value, a ~46% premium over its October 27 closing price — Thrive Holdings has agreed to acquire ADT in an all-cash take-private, valuing the home security company at $15.3 billion in enterprise value, the companies announced today.| Bloomberg: |
Canada-based Cohere completes the first close of a round that it expects to total up to $5B, with Canada agreeing to invest up to $1.14B, at a $20.5B valuation — Cohere Inc., an artificial intelligence model maker, is in the process of raising a large funding round at a $20.5 billion valuation …
More: Cohere Inc, Politico, Finimize, Globe and Mail, BetaKit, Dow Jones Newswires, Canadian Press, Quartz, CBC News, Light Reading, Financial Post, Unite.AI, Cohere, and The Logic. X: @cohere
| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $92.28B, above $90.69B est., Azure revenue up 48% to $33.17B, above $32.32B est., and net income up 32% to $36.63B — REDMOND, Wash. — October 28, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30 …
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