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October 15, 2026, 9:10 AM
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Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic told investors that its Q3 revenue hit $16.8B, up from $11.5B in Q2, and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis in Q3, ahead of its IPO  —  Rapid growth is slower than some anticipated as fears about AI trade rattle markets  —  Anthropic told investors …
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Sources: Anthropic told investors that distillation accounts for 5% to 7% of its revenue; its rapid but slowing revenue growth could weigh on its IPO valuation
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife, and a family member booked one-way tickets from the US to Saudi Arabia for October 12; the FBI arrested him on October 9  —  The OpenAI employee who was arrested and charged with allegedly using a hidden recording device in one of the ChatGPT maker's …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI executives have warned staff over potential espionage like honey pots and insider threats and told them to adopt operational security measures
Wired:
Citizen Lab details AdFection, a zero-click spyware campaign where an Israeli ad company routed targets to spyware servers and infected dozens of devices  —  Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 50.9% YoY to $46.36B, net income up 68.7% to $23.7B, both above est., marking a sixth straight quarterly profit record on AI demand  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday reported a record third-quarter profit that beat estimates, powered by an unrelenting global appetite for AI chips.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flock CEO Garrett Langley defends the company's cameras, arguing that reducing crime means sacrificing privacy in return and that “we shouldn't pause progress”  —  Flock's founder and CEO Garrett Langley doesn't think the risks of introducing surveillance technology at scale outweigh the rewards.
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.
Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:
Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and others disrupt a Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem used to send 1B+ messages to 75K+ entities in 2026  —  In less than 10 months, cybercriminals used the arsenal of customized, targeted phishing kits to send more than 1 billion malicious messages …
Bloomberg:
OpenAI agrees not to use trade secrets that Apple claims were stolen while their lawsuit plays out, and to collect forensic images of 14 employees' devices  —  OpenAI agreed not to use trade secrets that Apple Inc. claims were stolen by employees who defected from the iPhone maker …
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters:
A US appeals court lets Florida enforce a law banning social media accounts for under-14s, rejecting tech groups' claims that it violates free speech rights  —  A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed Florida to enforce a state law barring children under 14 from accessing social media platforms …
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune:
Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026; 87%+ of the payments were for less than 10 cents  —  The field of agentic commerce, which describes the use of AI agents to carry out internet transactions, is rapidly maturing, and crypto is fueling the boom.
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 in 2026  —  YouTube Music announced Wednesday the rollout of a new labeling system aimed at improving transparency around songs created with the help of generative AI.
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.
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 …
Sam Kessler / Wall Street Journal:
Sources and docs: while Bo Hines helped craft the crypto-friendly Genius Act, he had a 33% stake in consulting firm Nxum, which received millions from Tether  —  Money from Tether flowed to Nxum while Bo Hines worked in the White House on landmark stablecoin legislation.
Reuters:
Jio Platforms seeks to raise up to $3.2B in India's largest IPO, which would value it at as much as $108.3B; the offering opens October 21 and closes October 23  —  Jio Platforms is set to raise up to $3.2 billion in India's largest IPO to date, which will value the group founded …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Figma announces new features to define how AI agents work on its platform, including Figma Specs, a Markdown editor that lets users define their design language  —  Design platform Figma announced a new Markdown-based editor to help define a company's design, bring in design and code libraries …

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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
LIV Golf is shutting down after five years and over $5B in Saudi backing, ending its efforts to build a TV audience on Fox and, before that, The CW

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Nexstar reports Q3 net income up 285% YoY to $250M and net revenue up 78% YoY to $2.1B, as Q3 political ads brought in $317M; results include Tegna numbers

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Xiaofei Xu / South China Morning Post:
ASML expects China to account for ~20% of total sales in 2026, after Q3 sales there surged 109% QoQ, lifting China's share of machine sales from 14% to 23%

Earlier Picks

Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
Letter: Democratic senators question Meta's $6.6B in federal tax credits claimed over the past two years toward costs of building “experimental” AI data centers
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fox Corp. and Roku shareholders approve Fox's $22B acquisition of Roku; Fox expects the deal to be finished in H1 2027, subject to regulatory clearance
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
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 closed down 15.5% as yields on its bonds near 15% amid concern over tech companies' heavy AI borrowing; Oracle dropped 8.8%, Nebius 10%, Dell 11.3%
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