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Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate staff, or ~30,000 people, its largest layoffs since 2022, to reduce costs and address pandemic overhiring (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate staf...

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate sta...

Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from the process and its financials remain dire, following Amazon abandoning a 2024 bid; IRBT drops 33%+ (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew f...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from ...

Papers, patents, and tenders show China's military is integrating DeepSeek and Qwen models in weapons like AI&powered drones, and continues to use Nvidia chips (Reuters)

Papers, patents, and tenders show China's military is i...

Reuters: Papers, patents, and tenders show China's military is integrating DeepS...

Sixty&five countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite privacy and security concerns from tech companies and activists (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)

Sixty&five countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to sha...

Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: Sixty-five countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to sh...

A look at Cal State's plans to become an "AI&empowered" university via partnerships with Amazon and a $16.9M deal to provide ChatGPT Edu to students and staff (New York Times)

A look at Cal State's plans to become an "AI&empowered"...

New York Times: A look at Cal State's plans to become an “AI-empowered” universi...

Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, where sources say Sam Altman largely relied on his executive team, with little input from outside advisors (Financial Times)

Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, whe...

Financial Times: Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, where sourc...

Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing ...

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allo...

Sources: Sam Altman's brain&computer interface startup Merge Labs hires Mikhail Shapiro, who works on noninvasive techniques for neural imaging and control (Alex Heath/Sources)

Sources: Sam Altman's brain&computer interface startup ...

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Mer...

Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones, raised $60M in seed and Series A rounds led by Caffeinated Capital and Convective Capital (Christopher Marquis/Forbes)

Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting dro...

Christopher Marquis / Forbes: Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefightin...

Austin&based Roller, a provider of venue management software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to over $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Austin&based Roller, a provider of venue management sof...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Austin-based Roller, a provider of venue management softw...

Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in&game events, not to train AI models (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recent...

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which ...

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M+ accounts, for ~$90M (CTech)

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dyna...

CTech: Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streaml...

A look at AI startups aiming to address loneliness among the elderly; a study predicts the AI market for aging and elderly care will grow to over $43B in 2025 (Forbes)

A look at AI startups aiming to address loneliness amon...

Forbes: A look at AI startups aiming to address loneliness among the elderly; a ...

Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks (The Information)

Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate musi...

The Information: Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from t...

Sources detail how Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others brokered a call between SF Mayor Daniel Lurie and Trump to stop National Guard deployment (Wall Street Journal)

Sources detail how Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Marc Benio...

Wall Street Journal: Sources detail how Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, ...

Oreo maker Mondelez has spent $40M+ on an AI tool, developed with Publicis and Accenture, to cut costs for the production of marketing content by 30% to 50% (Jessica DiNapoli/Reuters)

Oreo maker Mondelez has spent $40M+ on an AI tool, deve...

Jessica DiNapoli / Reuters: Oreo maker Mondelez has spent $40M+ on an AI tool, d...

Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined in January, has left; X's CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki left in early October after less than a year in the role (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined i...

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who ...

UK prosecutors say the ringleader of a 2024 arson attack on Ukraine&linked businesses in London discussed kidnapping Revolut's Russia&born CEO Nikolay Storonsky (Michael Holden/Reuters)

UK prosecutors say the ringleader of a 2024 arson attac...

Michael Holden / Reuters: UK prosecutors say the ringleader of a 2024 arson atta...

Sources: banks are preparing to launch a $38B debt sale to fund Oracle data centers, including $23.25B for a Texas data center and $14.75B for a Wisconsin site (Jeannine Amodeo/Bloomberg)

Sources: banks are preparing to launch a $38B debt sale...

Jeannine Amodeo / Bloomberg: Sources: banks are preparing to launch a $38B debt ...

HP plans to build millions of computers in Saudi Arabia by 2030, primarily for export to MENA, as part of the kingdom's plans to boost manufacturing and exports (Matthew Martin/Semafor)

HP plans to build millions of computers in Saudi Arabia...

Matthew Martin / Semafor: HP plans to build millions of computers in Saudi Arabi...

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft won't provide erotica AI services and that "other companies will build that", after Sam Altman said ChatGPT would offer erotica (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft won't provide erotica A...

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft won't provide erotica...

EA strikes a partnership with Stability AI to build game developer tools that serve as "smarter paintbrushes" (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

EA strikes a partnership with Stability AI to build gam...

Jennifer Maas / Variety: EA strikes a partnership with Stability AI to build gam...

Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its global workforce and expects the layoffs to cost $160M to $180M; it had 36,100 employees as of the end of July (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)

Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its globa...

Nick Turner / Bloomberg: Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its globa...

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 (Reuters)

Alibaba launches a free consumer&focused AI chatbot in ...

Reuters: Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in its Quark app, p...

AI creative studio Wonder Studios, backed by OpenAI and Google DeepMind execs, raised a $12M seed led by Atomico and aims to release its first content in 2026 (Najat Kantouar/Wall Street Journal)

AI creative studio Wonder Studios, backed by OpenAI and...

Najat Kantouar / Wall Street Journal: AI creative studio Wonder Studios, backed ...

Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by UAE&based Stone Venture without disclosing its valuation, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026 (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by UAE&...

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by ...

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 (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

SAP reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to €9.08B, cloud reven...

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: SAP reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to €9.08B, c...

IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1B est., and Hybrid Cloud (Red Hat) revenue up 14%, below 16% est.; IBM drops 5%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1B...

Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI and autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderso...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on...

Electricity demand from data centers powering the AI boom has caused a gas turbine supply crunch, as the US becomes the epicenter of new gas&fired power plants (Financial Times)

Electricity demand from data centers powering the AI bo...

Financial Times: Electricity demand from data centers powering the AI boom has c...

Keycard, which lets enterprises manage AI agent access to internal systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $8M seed led by a16z and boldstart (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Keycard, which lets enterprises manage AI agent access ...

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Keycard, which lets enterprises manage AI agent ...

EBU/BBC study: 45% of responses from top AI assistants misrepresented news content with at least one significant issue and 31% showed serious sourcing problems (Olivia Le Poidevin/Reuters)

EBU/BBC study: 45% of responses from top AI assistants ...

Olivia Le Poidevin / Reuters: EBU/BBC study: 45% of responses from top AI assist...

Google launches new features for its Google AI Studio developer platform, including a revamped "Build" tab to vibe code AI apps (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)

Google launches new features for its Google AI Studio d...

Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: Google launches new features for its Google AI...

First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents r...

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as...

OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas' opt&in browser memories feature can remember key details from users' web browsing to improve chat responses and offer suggestions (OpenAI)

OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas' opt&in browser memories feat...

OpenAI: OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas' opt-in browser memories feature can remember ...

Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins VC firm Benchmark as general partner, following a slew of personnel departures at Benchmark (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, jo...

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: Everett Randle, a former partner at Klein...

Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models (Michael Beltran/Rest of World)

Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup ...

Michael Beltran / Rest of World: Some Japanese stores are using robots from the ...

To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal sp...

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman'...

LangChain, whose open&source framework connects AI apps to real&time data, raised a $125M Series B led by IVP at a $1.25B valuation (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

LangChain, whose open&source framework connects AI apps...

Sharon Goldman / Fortune: LangChain, whose open-source framework connects AI app...

CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers (David Pan/Bloomberg)

CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner exp...

David Pan / Bloomberg: CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner expan...

Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offerin...

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering f...

Chinese leaders meet to formulate country's next five&year plan

Chinese leaders meet to formulate country's next five&y...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Communist Party elites are in Beijing for the F...

Counterpoint: iPhone 17 series outsold iPhone 16 by ~14% in the first 10 days of sales in the US and China; base iPhone 17 sales doubled over iPhone 16 in China (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

Counterpoint: iPhone 17 series outsold iPhone 16 by ~14...

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Counterpoint: iPhone 17 series outsold iPhone 16 by ~14%...

Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20 required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it clai...

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling sys...

A look at Opera's Neon, a $20&per&month agentic AI browser that can take over browsing tasks, but its three built&in AI chatbots can be confusing and unreliable (The Verge)

A look at Opera's Neon, a $20&per&month agentic AI brow...

The Verge: A look at Opera's Neon, a $20-per-month agentic AI browser that can t...

China says the NSA has been hacking its National Time Service Center, which provides high precision time services for the government and others, since 2023 (Bloomberg)

China says the NSA has been hacking its National Time S...

Bloomberg: China says the NSA has been hacking its National Time Service Center,...

Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions to the American Federation of Teachers to build AI training hubs aimed at educating 400,000 teachers (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)

Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions...

Jocelyn Gecker / Associated Press: Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providin...

ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's mo...

Zeyi Yang / Wired: ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most pop...

How Robinhood is expanding beyond commission&free trading into retirement accounts, tokenized equities, and sports betting, with some 27M people using its app (Bloomberg)

How Robinhood is expanding beyond commission&free tradi...

Bloomberg: How Robinhood is expanding beyond commission-free trading into retire...

A profile of Anton Pavlovsky, CEO of Kyiv&based Headway...

Martina Di Licosa / Forbes: A profile of Anton Pavlovsky, CEO of Kyiv-based Head...

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