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Senate Republicans share an AI&generated video falsely depicting Chuck Schumer saying on camera comments he made in a print interview on the government shutdown (Thomas Beaumont/Associated Press)

Senate Republicans share an AI&generated video falsely ...

Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press: Senate Republicans share an AI-generated vid...

Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy&protecting tech to replace third&party cookies (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)

Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies;...

Kendra Barnett / Adweek: Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies;...

Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, letting parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and sending them "insights" from teens' chats (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, let...

Robert Hart / The Verge: Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, let...

Anthropic's Skills for Claude, which are conceptually very simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Anthropic's Skills for Claude, which are conceptually v...

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Anthropic's Skills for Claude, which a...

EssilorLuxottica stock jumps 10%+ after reporting Q3 revenue up 11.7% YoY to €6.9B, with wearables like Ray&Ban Meta contributing 4 percentage points to growth (CNBC)

EssilorLuxottica stock jumps 10%+ after reporting Q3 re...

CNBC: EssilorLuxottica stock jumps 10%+ after reporting Q3 revenue up 11.7% YoY ...

Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies that work with Flock request footage from Ring doorbell users (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcemen...

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enf...

Aboon, an AI&powered platform for financial advisers to help business owners launch and manage 401(k) plans, raised a $17.5M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures (Davis Janowski/WealthManagement.com)

Aboon, an AI&powered platform for financial advisers to...

Davis Janowski / WealthManagement.com: Aboon, an AI-powered platform for financi...

A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's...

Jeremy Stern / Colossus: A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's...

Kraken acquires Small Exchange, a US&licensed futures exchange, from the IG Group, for $32.5M in cash and $67.5M in Kraken parent's Payward stock (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Kraken acquires Small Exchange, a US&licensed futures e...

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Kraken acquires Small Exchange, a US-licensed futures...

Japanese chip material maker Tekscend rose 13% on its Tokyo debut after raising $1B in its IPO; Tekscend makes photomasks to transfer tiny circuits onto wafers (Yasutaka Tamura/Bloomberg)

Japanese chip material maker Tekscend rose 13% on its T...

Yasutaka Tamura / Bloomberg: Japanese chip material maker Tekscend rose 13% on i...

Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M+ paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and ver...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and ...

Viven, which builds AI "digital twins" that grant employees access to crucial information when coworkers are unavailable, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Viven, which builds AI "digital twins" that grant emplo...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Viven, which builds AI “digital twins” that grant em...

David Sacks says Anthropic is running a "regulatory capture strategy based on fear&mongering", responding to Anthropic co&founder Jack Clark's post on AI policy (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)

David Sacks says Anthropic is running a "regulatory cap...

Dave Lee / Bloomberg: David Sacks says Anthropic is running a “regulatory captur...

Sam Altman says OpenAI is "not the elected moral police of the world" after receiving backlash for saying ChatGPT will allow "erotica for verified adults" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Sam Altman says OpenAI is "not the elected moral police...

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Sam Altman says OpenAI is “not the elected moral police of...

SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the "physical AI" era (Chris Bryant/Bloomberg)

SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is ano...

Chris Bryant / Bloomberg: SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is an...

Inside First Wap, a European&led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others (Mother Jones)

Inside First Wap, a European&led phone tracking company...

Mother Jones: Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indones...

How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs (Reuters)

How AI is upending India's business process management ...

Reuters: How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which em...

Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a ye...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a yea...

Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selectio...

Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak its search results to show vertical search engines in their own box on Search (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak ...

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak i...

Trio of researchers share Nobel in economics for ‘explaining innovation&driven growth’

Trio of researchers share Nobel in economics for ‘expla...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, an...

US&China trade tensions escalate as tit&for&tat port fees come into effect

US&China trade tensions escalate as tit&for&tat port fe...

Port fees imposed by China and the US took effect on Tuesday, adding a new front...

Dealroom: 230+ European defense tech startups have launched since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, driven by interest in drones, as investors foresee a shake&out (Sylvia Pfeifer/Financial Times)

Dealroom: 230+ European defense tech startups have laun...

Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times: Dealroom: 230+ European defense tech startups ...

Researchers used an off&the&shelf system to compile a vast collection of private data, including T&Mobile users' calls and texts, sent by satellites unencrypted (Wired)

Researchers used an off&the&shelf system to compile a v...

Wired: Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compile a vast collection of ...

Nvidia says it is donating the Vera Rubin NVL144 server rack architecture to the Open Compute Project and outlines its vision for "gigawatt AI factories" (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Nvidia says it is donating the Vera Rubin NVL144 server...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia says it is donating the Vera Rubin NVL144 s...

Trio of researchers share Nobel in economics for "explaining innovation&driven growth"

Trio of researchers share Nobel in economics for "expla...

The 2025 Nobel economics prize went to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Ho...

Apple says iPhone Air will go on sale in China on October 22, after initially delaying the launch due to regulatory issues with the device's eSIM&only design (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

Apple says iPhone Air will go on sale in China on Octob...

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple says iPhone Air will go on sale in China on Oc...

Apple says that its Apple TV+ streaming service has been renamed Apple TV, "with a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Apple says that its Apple TV+ streaming service has bee...

Eric Slivka / MacRumors: Apple says that its Apple TV+ streaming service has bee...

Sources: Raymond Zage and James Lu, who control most of Grindr, are in talks to take it private after a Temasek unit sold shares pledged for personal loans (Liz Hoffman/Semafor)

Sources: Raymond Zage and James Lu, who control most of...

Liz Hoffman / Semafor: Sources: Raymond Zage and James Lu, who control most of G...

Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek and Doubao for therapy to save time and money, while avoiding stigma around mental health (Yi&Ling Liu/Rest of World)

Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like D...

Yi-Ling Liu / Rest of World: Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots li...

John Searle, known for "the Chinese Room" thought experiment on AI consciousness, died on Sept. 16 at 93; his UCB tenure ended over alleged sexual harassment (Alex Traub/New York Times)

John Searle, known for "the Chinese Room" thought exper...

Alex Traub / New York Times: John Searle, known for “the Chinese Room” thought e...

The Dutch government takes control of Chinese&owned Dutch chipmaker Nexperia under the Goods Availability Act to safeguard chip supply for European industries (Financial Times)

The Dutch government takes control of Chinese&owned Dut...

Financial Times: The Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned Dutch chipm...

Sources: Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paired with Mac and a lighter UI with iPhone; Apple may unveil M5 iPad, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro this week (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paire...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paire...

How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women (Zilan Qian/ChinaTalk)

How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion pl...

Zilan Qian / ChinaTalk: How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion pla...

A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estima...

Forbes: A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is ...

Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to S...

Sources: Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments, is in talks to go public via a SPAC started by Cantor Fitzgerald at a $1B+ valuation (Bloomberg)

Sources: Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenize...

Bloomberg: Sources: Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments,...

AMD's SVP of AI Vamsi Boppana says the company's AI software, designed with input from OpenAI, helped secure the multi&billion dollar deal with OpenAI (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

AMD's SVP of AI Vamsi Boppana says the company's AI sof...

Richard Nieva / Forbes: AMD's SVP of AI Vamsi Boppana says the company's AI soft...

Thoughts on The Curve conference, where prominent figures debated about AI progress, and why automating research engineers is plausible within years (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects)

Thoughts on The Curve conference, where prominent figur...

Nathan Lambert / Interconnects: Thoughts on The Curve conference, where prominen...

Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B+ in liquidations, 10x+ the liquidations during the FTX crash (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra ...

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra ...

Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables browser notifications from websites users haven't interacted with recently, on Android and desktop (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disable...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disabl...

Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens processed across its services this summer, up from 980T monthly tokens announced in July (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillion month...

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillio...

Filing: corporate travel and expense management software maker Navan plans to raise up to $960M in a US IPO and is targeting a valuation of up to $6.45B (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)

Filing: corporate travel and expense management softwar...

Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters: Filing: corporate travel and expense management so...

Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer vision startup Prompt AI; it was approached by other potential suitors, including xAI and Neuralink (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer ...

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer visi...

Sources: China tightens customs checks on chip imports, starting with Nvidia's H20 and RTX Pro 6000D, after urging local tech companies to avoid Nvidia products (Financial Times)

Sources: China tightens customs checks on chip imports,...

Financial Times: Sources: China tightens customs checks on chip imports, startin...

Block debuts Square Bitcoin, a BTC wallet allowing US&based SMBs to convert up to 50% of daily sales into BTC now and accept BTC payments starting November 10 (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)

Block debuts Square Bitcoin, a BTC wallet allowing US&b...

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: Block debuts Square Bitcoin, a BTC wallet allowing US-ba...

OpenAI says GPT‑5 instant and GPT‑5 thinking cut political bias by 30% from earlier models, and show greater robustness to charged prompts (Ashley Gold/Axios)

OpenAI says GPT‑5 instant and GPT‑5 thinking cut politi...

Ashley Gold / Axios: OpenAI says GPT‑5 instant and GPT‑5 thinking cut political ...

A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "backdoor" vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume (Anthropic)

A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents ca...

Anthropic: A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a “b...

Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more efficiently via Chrome, raised $22M in seed and Series A led by Accel (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more ...

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more eff...

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini E...

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gem...

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