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| Scott Aaronson / Shtetl-Optimized: |
A theoretical computer scientist, citing sources, says AI labs have started investigating whether their latest internal models can break cryptographic protocols — -friend-of-the-blog Omer Reingold (shared with permission) — Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife …
More: The Independent, Financial Times, Implicator.ai, Trak.in, CryptoSlate, OpenAI on GitHub, OpenAI, and Scientific American
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Buttcoin, r/accelerate, r/singularity, and Lobsters
| Felix Ng / Cointelegraph: |
Vitalik Buterin says “we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously”, replying to a “bunker mode” call for the blockchain industry — Ethereum researchers say crypto users should consider moving funds to fresh addresses …
More: Decrypt, Business Insider, Metacurity, Neowin, Blockchain.News, CoinDesk, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, CryptoPotato, The Crypto Times, Unchained, The Coin Republic, and Protos
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| AHM: |
The Association for Human Mathematics says OpenAI's new math documents show power, not scholarship, and urges mathematicians to stop working with the startup — Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI - which is currently defending lawsuits against accusations of illegal plagiarism …
More: Neowin and The Indian Express
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI, r/aiwars, r/artificial, r/accelerate, and r/singularity
| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a “Welcome home” event on October 13 at 9AM ET in NYC, where it is expected to unveil a “HomePad”, a new Apple TV, LG home accessories, and more — Today Apple announced a special event happening next Tuesday, October 13 with the tagline 'Welcome home.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Google Cloud unveils the Gemini agent, which can handle multiday enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack using Gemini and other AI models — Google is unveiling a new universal AI agent for the workplace that can research information, create documents, write code …
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LinkedIn: Benedicte Gauthier and Raj Grover
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Amazon retires the Fire brand for tablets after 15 years, replacing it with Alexa Tablets that run Android and ship from October 14, including the $499 12 Pro — They're powerful, priced to move, and filled with AI ideas. Don't you dare call them Fire tablets.
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| Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Reuters: |
The US suspends Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, and others from a program that lets skilled foreign workers gain permanent residency, citing alleged fraud — US Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that the federal government was suspending Microsoft from a program …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, and r/UpliftingNews
| The Verge: |
Xbox launches XP, a unit that will manage four non-gaming “investment areas”: Xbox Pictures for film and TV, Xbox Products, Xbox Places, and Xbox Partnerships — Xbox's new ‘XP’ arm will oversee Xbox experiences outside of video games, including movies, consumer products, and live events.
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Forums: r/gaming, r/television, r/kindafunny, r/xbox, r/MediaMergers, and r/xbox
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation, up from $1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index — Arena Intelligence Inc., the startup behind a popular artificial intelligence model leaderboard, has raised $200 million in funding … | Janine Liberty / MIT News: |
Margaret Hamilton, who led an MIT software team for NASA's Apollo program and helped establish software engineering as a discipline, died on September 30 at 90 — Over two decades at MIT, Hamilton forged new paths in computer science and engineering. Her groundbreaking work included leading …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
OpenAI disrupts a Russian influence campaign tied to the Politology network that targeted schools, media, and foreign officials, and gives it a 5/6 impact score — OpenAI says the campaign is the most far-reaching influence operation it has disrupted. — A Russian propaganda operation tricked schools … | Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify and Joe Rogan renew their multiyear licensing and ad sales deal; sources say the terms are similar to Rogan's last deal, worth $250M, signed in 2024 — Latest multiyear agreement comes as ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ remains No. 1 in U.S. listenership
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| Anniek Bao / CNBC: |
Manus' parent company Butterfly Effect raised $500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG, in its first funding since Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition — AI agent startup Manus has raised more than $500 million in its first funding round since Meta was forced to abandon its acquisition of the company.
More: TechCrunch, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Finimize, Quartz, Neowin, Silicon Republic, and The Information
| Bloomberg: |
Hone, founded by former OpenAI and Cognition staffers to create AI agents that can help run a business, raised a $60M seed at a $285M valuation — A group of former employees from some of the fastest-growing artificial intelligence firms, including OpenAI and Cognition AI Inc. … | Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude, ending chats as the primary enforcement mechanism — The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
ICANN receives 1,615 TLD applications from 481 applicants; Meta, OpenAI, and eight others applied for .agent, seven companies applied for .agi, and six for .asi — ICANN's latest top-level domain applications are out, and they are all about AI. … For the first time in years …
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Bluesky: @zoocoup and @mattburgess1
| Priyanka Salve / CNBC: |
Elon Musk claims “certain oligarchs” are stalling Starlink's India launch to protect a “monopolistic chokehold”; SpaceX signed MOUs with Jio and Airtel in 2025 — SpaceX founder Elon Musk has accused vested interests of blocking the launch of his company's satellite internet service …
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| Ashley Campion / CrowdStrike: |
Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX — CrowdStrike Intelligence identified infrastructure associated with a targeted campaign against South Korean financial organizations that resulted in exfiltrated data.
More: Wccftech, The Register, The Hacker News, Reuters, Infosecurity, Cyber Security News, Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha, and Kyodo News
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a $99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct — Meet Interface, a new $99 smart ring from AI and hardware startup Natura that's designed for the era of AI agents.| Bloomberg: |
Samsung reports preliminary Q3 operating profit up 782% YoY to ~$80.1B, below ~$81.2B est., and revenue up 127% YoY to ~$145.7B, below est., amid the AI boom — Samsung Electronics Co. earned a nearly nine-fold rise in quarterly operating profit, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the IPO of Nvidia-backed data center provider Firmus is uncertain after failing to attract adequate support, underscoring concerns over AI funding — The sudden plunge in demand for an Nvidia-backed data center company's initial public offering is revealing fresh cracks in the AI funding boom.
More: PYMNTS.com, SmartCompany, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, Coinpaper, and Australian Financial Review. X: @codecrackx15
| Financial Times: |
Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50B at the end of September, well below the $70B reported by media based on investor docs — AI giant recently told investors the key figure was approaching $50bn in September, far less than the $70bn that was widely reported
More: ZeroHedge News. Bluesky: @taumuyi. Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/BetterOffline, and r/technology
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Quantum startup Oratomic raised a $475M Series B at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.5B after raising a $300M Series A in July, taking its total funding to $775M — Oratomic's latest raise brings the company's total funding to $775 million — Quantum computing startup Oratomic raised $475 million … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: London-based Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a $40B to $50B valuation — Malaysian Chip Firm SQAI Said to Plan $73 Million IPO in Early 2027 … By continuing, I agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.| Reuters: |
Drones struck a data center owned by Russia's Yandex in the town of Sasovo, marking the first major attack on a Russian data hub since the Ukraine war began — Drones hit a data centre owned by Russia's Yandex , the country's leading AI and technology company said on Thursday …
More: DatacenterDynamics, Tom's Hardware, Daily Sabah, CNBC, The Kyiv Independent, Ukrainska Pravda, Los Angeles Times, The Record, Metro.co.uk, The Moscow Times, and Reuters. Bluesky: @russwilcox
| Colin Demarest / Axios: |
Gallatin AI, which uses AI to digitize and streamline military logistics data, raised a $50M Series A, bringing its total funding to $70M — Gallatin AI raised a $50 million Series A, with defense-tech frequent fliers 8VC and Silent Ventures pitching in, CEO Woody Glier told Axios.
More: FinSMEs and RuntimeWire
| Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: |
Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to stop work that decreases AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” — In a letter to the board, recently-terminated employees ask that the industry not move forward with work that would degrade the ability to monitor AI
More: Gizmodo and The Hans India
X: @zeffmax, @garrisonlovely, @ryanfedasiuk, @onagel33303, @timfduffy, and @zeffmax
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
UK-based quantum computing startup Universal Quantum raised a $100M+ Series A led by DCVC and Firgun Ventures to expand research hubs in Germany and Singapore — A British startup seeking to build a working quantum computer has raised $100 million from a range of investors …
More: Universal Quantum, The Quantum Insider, Ventureburn, Silicon Republic, Tech.eu, The Straits Times, FinSMEs, and Startup.eu
LinkedIn: Stephanie Sinclair-Lappi and Universal Quantum
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