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6abc:
Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18  —  Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and Entertainment  —  ShareFollow 6abc on Google
New York Times:
Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed  —  The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip.  The incidents led the White House …
More: Marcus on AI.  X: @juliemenin.  Bluesky: @justinhendrix, @paulthedogman, and @markharris.  Forums: Hacker News
Paul Sawers / The New Stack:
Cloudflare acquires Deno, co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers and had raised $26M  —  Cloudflare is buying the startup co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, a longtime competitor that recently built its own open-source version …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
In PA, FBI agents arrested a co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm specializing in ransomware negotiations, as part of the ShinyHunters investigation  —  Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection …
Katharine Schwab / Forbes:
Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams  —  This voice experience is generated by AI.  Learn more.  —  Last year, TikTok's executives quietly defanged its advertising rules …
Kaan Serin / Eurogamer.net:
Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices  —  “Price sensitivity is becoming a real problem.”  —  Follow Grand Theft Auto VI … PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request  —  Bitter rivals are forming alliances and executives are having to personally intervene over the scramble for resources to fuel the AI boom
Nik Popli / Time:
A US Senate investigation led by Senators Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public about AI data centers' costs and benefits  —  Nik Popli … As the world's biggest technology companies race to build data centers across the country to power an AI boom …
More: Bloomberg
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Sources: Ramp raised about $1.85B led by Dragoneer and Thrive Capital at a $60B pre-money valuation, up from $44B in June, when it raised $750M  —  Fintech startup Ramp has reached a roughly $60 billion valuation with its latest fundraising effort, according to people familiar with the matter.
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
Sabi, which is building a baseball cap that uses 100K non-contact neuro-sensors to convert neural signals into text prompts for AI systems, raised a $50M seed  —  Palo Alto-based Sabi is betting its cap, outfitted with 100,000 sensors, will enable people to talk to their AI agents just by thinking.
Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk:
NY AG announces an up-to-$35M settlement with ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky that permanently bars him from the securities, commodities, and crypto industries  —  New York Attorney General Letitia James said Friday she secured up to $35 million from former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky …
Hugh Langley / Business Insider:
Sources: as Google prepares to roll out its Gemini 4 Argon, staff are testing a new version internally named Carbon; one staffer says it “feels like Opus 5.5”  —  As Google prepares to roll out its new Gemini 4 ‘Argon’ model to the public, staff inside the company are testing better versions …
Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event  —  - The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders …
Bloomberg:
Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised a $870M Series A led by a16z at a $7.5B valuation with Sequoia and others participating, says ~33% of the Fortune 500 use Jev  —  TypeSafe AI, the startup behind Jev, a new artificial intelligence model that went viral after it launched only a few weeks ago …
Reuters:
Sources: Nuvacore, a six-month-old Sequoia-backed chip startup that's designing a new central processor for data centers, is raising funds at a ~$2.5B valuation  —  Six-month-old microchip startup Nuvacore, which does not yet have a product, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars …
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
Verizon closed down 8.75%, its worst day since 2002, while T-Mobile fell 13.27% and AT&T 9.81% after SpaceX announced a nationwide spectrum deal on Thursday  —  Telecommunications stocks sold off on Friday after Elon Musk's SpaceX announced an agreement to purchase a nationwide spectrum portfolio …
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
A man US authorities called a “fixer”, who was charged alongside Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw with smuggling restricted chips to China, pleaded guilty  —  A man charged along with Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw of conspiring to send cutting-edge chips …
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Jasper Ward / Reuters:
Filing: a US judge dismisses with prejudice Trump's defamation lawsuit against Wall Street Journal regarding a birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein signed by Trump

Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

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Earlier Picks

Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Sources: Netflix is preparing to cut ~5% of employees, or ~850 jobs, as early as next week, amid pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price
Michael Considine / CNBC:
OpenAI says it didn't fire three researchers for “raising safety concerns or speaking out”, but for violating “clear policies on handling sensitive information”
IDC:
Global PC shipments dropped 20.1% YoY in Q3 to 62.7M units due to higher prices and supply issues; Lenovo dropped 22.6% YoY, HP 30.9%, Dell 25%, and Apple 11.3%
Reuters:
Sources: Flock plans to let go of ~270 employees, or 18% of its staff, at the end of October; the layoffs come after a voluntary buyout program in September
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
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
David Pierce / The Verge:
Amazon unveils Alexa Tablets, replacing Fire tablets, with Android and Google Play Store: 12 Pro for $500+, 11 for $330+, and 8 for $230+, shipping October 14
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