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October 14, 2026, 7:10 PM
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Wall Street Journal:
Memo: Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or ~1,000 jobs globally across product, tech, legal, and HR, its biggest layoffs since 2022, amid slowing growth  —  Job cuts affect about 1,000 positions and come as the company struggles with slowing growth  —  Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff …
Yuliia Dysa / Reuters:
Ukraine says SpaceX has stopped Starshield, its military-grade Starlink service, from working at speeds above 100mph with no warning, disrupting drone missions  —  SpaceX (SPCX.O) has introduced a limit on some Starlink services in Ukraine, disrupting combat drone missions for which the technology …
Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
Elon Musk says the US government owns and controls Starshield systems and “any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS”
Michelle Fox / CNBC:
CoreWeave stock drops 15%+ and its bond yields near 15%, over concerns that some tech companies are borrowing too heavily for the AI build-out; ORCL drops 8%+  —  CoreWeave's stock and bonds were both hit on Wednesday as investor fear grew that some technology companies are borrowing too heavily …
Reuters:
Filing: OpenAI says a staffer who joined Apple sent 100+ files to a personal account and made a presentation about an unreleased product to Apple leadership  —  An OpenAI employee who left the ChatGPT maker for Apple (AAPL.O) sent more than 100 files about an unreleased product to a personal account …
Dylan Freedman / New York Times:
Researchers say they discovered and communicated with Chinese AI agents that were trying to bypass security controls on websites and were traced to Tencent  —  Researchers discovered that the agents were trying to bypass security controls on websites and made contact with them.
SpaceXSI:
SpaceXSI debuts Grok Voice 3.0, saying it tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index, responds in under a second, and costs less than rivals, at $0.08/min  —  The world's most intelligent voice model. … Today, we're announcing Grok Voice 3.0, the world's most intelligent speech-to-speech model.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Epic unveils a refresh of its Epic Games Launcher for PC in preview, saying that the new version is “vibe coded” and “way faster”, and now supports Linux  —  Epic is making a big push into AI-assisted development, and that approach includes its work on the new, faster launcher.
Reuters:
ASML says it cannot fully meet AI-driven demand for its chipmaking tools in 2027 and 2028, and is seeing “strong interest” in orders for 2029 and 2030  —  ASML (ASML.AS) said on Wednesday AI-driven demand for its chip-printing tools is so strong that it will not be able …
Chris Metinko / Axios:
AI infrastructure startup Modal raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $1.2B, and passes $1B ARR  —  AI infrastructure startup Modal raised a $750 million Series D at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation and topped $1 billion in ARR …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Shareholders for both Fox Corp. and Roku approve Fox's $22B acquisition of Roku; Fox expects the deal to be finished in H1 2027, subject to regulatory clearance  —  At separate special meetings of shareholders Wednesday to vote on the deal, the majority of shares owned by Fox Corp. and Roku investors were in favor the deal.
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
YouTube Music rolls out labels for songs created with the help of AI; Spotify has AI labels, and Apple Music plans to add “Made With AI” labels later this year  —  YouTube Music announced Wednesday the rollout of a new labeling system aimed at improving transparency around songs created with the help of generative AI.
Peter Wells / Financial Times:
Berkshire Hathaway invests an additional $330M in Bending Spoons, taking its stake to 4%, after investing $600M during Bending Spoons' July IPO; BSP jumps 40%+  —  Shares of conglomerate that owns AOL and Vimeo jump more than 50% on news of expanded investment by Nebraska asset manager
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, with features first rolled out in 2024; the launch won't include Siri AI  —  Apple Inc. is gearing up to release its artificial intelligence platform in mainland China, following a lengthy regulatory delay …
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple closes above a $5T market cap for the first time, the second company after Nvidia to do so; Apple had crossed $5T six times intraday previously  —  To power Apple's next phase, CEO John Ternus needs to raise Apple's AI game  —  Apple became the second company to close above …
Financial Times:
Profile of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national the FBI arrested after OpenAI found a recording device; he has deep ties to Saudi officials and tech investors  —  Arrest of computer engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan has shocked tech figures in Saudi Arabia, where he is deeply connected
Bloomberg:
Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI staffer charged with bugging a conference room, used a Seeed Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense dev board; a website sells it for $14
Reuters:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI security and agentic safety research  —  US chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) has pledged $250 million worth of computing resources to Britain over five years, to fund AI security research …
Bloomberg:
Sources: the EU is negotiating with China to lift sanctions on an unnamed Chinese company in exchange for China lifting sanctions on a German ASML supplier  —  The European Union is in talks with China to secure relief from sanctions that threatened the survival of Sindlhauser Materials GmbH …
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
WhatsApp rolls out a guest calling feature letting people join a call even if they don't have an account; guests cannot start a call and have to be invited  —  It's also working on calendar integrations for later this year.  —  WhatsApp is adding more flexibility for talking to people who aren't regular users of its service.
Cassandre Coyer / Bloomberg Law:
Eight US states sue OpenAI separately in a bipartisan effort, alleging it didn't implement sufficient safeguards to protect kids and other vulnerable users  —  More than half a dozen states sued OpenAI Inc. Wednesday alleging the tech giant didn't implement sufficient safeguards to protect vulnerable users, including kids.
Luca Bertuzzi / Euronews:
The EU Commission's AI Office launches formal AI Act probes into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI agent hacks; experts say the AI Act includes an R&D exemption  —  The EU is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic over AI agents that hacked outside organisations, raising questions about whether …

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Bloomberg:
A judge extends an earlier order to ban taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads until Nov. 8, past Election Day; she'll hold a hearing on a more permanent order Nov. 4

Jem Aswad / Variety:
Sources: UMG is executing extensive layoffs across the US and UK, with several top executives, including Def Jam Records Chairman-CEO Tunji Balogun, leaving

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Skydance stock fell 22.2% after it distributed ~471M warrants to Paramount Skydance Class B shareholders, giving them the option to buy stock in the new company

More News

David Pierce / The Verge:
Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro review: gorgeous screen, Android apps, and nice design and build quality, but Amazon's bloatware is pervasive and Alexa+ is subpar
Bloomberg:
GlobalFoundries plans to build two “essential chip” plants in Malta, New York, backed by up to $21B from Japan; the US will take a 4% stake in GlobalFoundries

Earlier Picks

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Inside the making of Rockstar's GTA VI, which analysts expect to sell 40M copies and make $3B+ in revenue in its first four months; Rockstar now has 4,711 staff
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Ukraine's drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Yandex's web crawlers, not Russian political bot operations, as Zelenskyy celebrated “less division”
Works in Progress Magazine:
China's industrial dominance is driven by competitive local governments that act like venture capital firms, making it a continent-sized Silicon Valley
Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY:
A look at a coordinated theft of ~$100M in crypto using hardware backdoors planted in Ledger wallets sold by Malaysia-based authorized reseller CryptoBilis
Leo Marchandon / Reuters:
Open letter: Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and over 400 scientists call for an international body to oversee AI containment standards and incident reporting
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