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| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
Marvell agrees to acquire optical components maker Lumentum in a $115B all-stock deal, as it aims to rival Broadcom; Nvidia invested $2B in each company in 2026 — Marvell Technology (MRVL.O) is buying optical components maker Lumentum (LITE.O) in a $115 billion all-stock deal, including debt … | Bloomberg: |
Marvell's $115B Lumentum acquisition is one of the biggest tech deals ever and 2026's top M&A deal; Lumentum is up 128% YTD, giving it a ~$76B market cap — Marvell Technology Inc. has reached a deal to buy data center optics maker Lumentum Holdings Inc. at an enterprise value $115 billion … | Bloomberg: |
Supermarkets in Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia report fridge and freezer temperature spikes due to suspected hacks, echoing attacks in France — Supermarkets across Europe were hit by suspected cyberattacks that resulted in sudden changes in the temperatures of their fridges …
More: BBC, Reuters, The Record, The Guardian, The Irish Times, Associated Press, Tom's Hardware, Silicon Republic, The Register, The Verge, Security Affairs, BelgaShare.be, Neowin, Business Insider, Digital Trends, TheJournal.ie, and Political.org
X: @maxekaplan, @richdecibels, @malwaretechblog, @insidergeo, @youranontv, @osint613, @zackkorman, and @warmonitor3. Bluesky: @mktsutherland
Forums: r/cybersecurity, r/enshittification, and r/worldnews
| SemiAnalysis: |
SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, an AI frontier model benchmark measuring 11 domains, including chip design, cybersecurity, and RSI; Opus 5.5 tops with a 12% score — A comprehensive benchmark spanning RSI, hardware design, cyber, bio, finance, legal, quant trading, chip design, software engineering, materials science, and alignment
X: @negligible_cap, @semianalysis_, @_josephwang_, @semianalysis_, @aisignaldrift, @zeroxkyle, @teortaxestex, @melvinjohnsonp, @semianalysis_, @bryancsk, @vishalsingh2972, @sundarpichai, @eliebakouch, @fanofaliens, @kimmonismus, @bensprks, @dylan522p, @statswire, @maxkan, @_mohansolo, @smlay_ero, @_mohansolo, @ai_for_success, @sujaihiremath, @semianalysis_, @ellehcimnehs, @emollick, @dingchilling, @nicoup, @abhijaymrana, @_rahulparikh, @patricktoulme, @_josephwang_, @semianalysis_, @joshpurtell, @eliebakouch, @27upon2, @ritvikpandey21, @thefusioncube, @dr_gingerballs, @vitaliychiley, @s6juncheng, @nojansheybani, @semianalysis_, @qasim31wani, @coulthur, and @chakra_ai. Bluesky: @davidcrespo
| Siladitya Ray / Forbes: |
Elon Musk says the cost of serving Grok Bot was “unsustainably high relative to revenue”, following subscriber complaints regarding rapid usage limit depletion — Topline — Elon Musk acknowledged on Sunday that the cost of running SpaceX's AI agent Grok Bot was “unsustainably high” …
More: Business Insider, Telegraph, TechRadar, IGN, The Independent, Moneycontrol, and RuntimeWire
| YC Labs: |
More: Tom's Hardware. X: @ycombinator, @ycombinator, @ycombinator, @ycombinator, @ycombinator, @ycombinator, @ycombinator, @ycombinator, and @ycombinator
Forums: Hacker News and Hacker News
| Washington Post: |
Sources: SpaceX is in talks with EchoStar to acquire Boost Mobile or access its network, after Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T rebuffed requests for network access — Elon Musk approached the heads of America's top telecom companies in recent months with a request that would help him fulfill a years-long dream.
More: The Verge, Investor's Business Daily, Wccftech, Barron's Online, Quartz, New York Times, Reuters, CoinGape, and Telecompaper. X: @tmfassociates
| Rivka Galchen / New Yorker: |
A profile of UCLA professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process — A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.| Yasutaka Tamura / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Anthropic plans to raise up to $3.5B from Japanese investors as part of its IPO, joining Australia, Canada, and parts of Europe in having direct access — Anthropic PBC aims to raise up to $3.5 billion from Japanese investors in its initial public offering in the US …
More: Reuters, CoinGape, Political.org, and Tech in Asia
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Binance says net outflows were ~$3.64B, or 2.1% of assets, in the 9.5 hours after it began restoring withdrawals; DefiLlama puts 24-hour net outflows at $4.05B — The exchange said the outflows equal 2.1% of its assets and that withdrawal volumes have eased after an initial spike.
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| Kevin Whitelaw / Bloomberg: |
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Forums: r/programmingHungary and r/Bitcoin
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| Axios: |
OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory “speed limits” for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as “AI compute campuses” — Right after Tuesday's midterms, OpenAI will unleash a policy and PR blitz to try to get in sync with the new Washington …
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| Bloomberg: |
Ukraine says its air raid alert app was compromised late Sunday, sending false warnings of “nuclear danger”; Russia confirms a similar hack of its alerts app — Ukraine and Russia said they faced cyberattacks on emergency and air raid alert systems.
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Bluesky: @martinsfp and @tcarmody
Forums: r/worldnews and r/news
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Investigation: a network of 400+ domains and apps linked to Chinese-language developers bypasses app store reviews to generate nonconsensual deepfakes and CSAM — WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features … | Tim Keary / Forbes: |
Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … The SaaSpocalypse has become one of the most controversial topics in enterprise tech.| Rest of World: |
Hirundo, Lazarus, and others are applying machine unlearning and weight edits to Chinese models to remove censorship and harden security for Western companies — A growing number of startups are editing powerful Chinese open-weight models for Western businesses that are concerned about censorship and security.| Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times: |
British physicist and materials scientist Cyril Hilsum, widely recognized as “the father of liquid crystals” for enabling flat-panel display tech, died at 101 — The man who helped develop the technology for liquid crystal displays — the screens in flat-panel televisions and laptops — has died at 101.
X: @alistairburtuk, @mikerosenwald, @peterbale, @lindseyhilsum, and @bengreenman. Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com
| Scott Alexander / LessWrong: |
A look at AI safety debates and the rising popularity of “Stop Unilaterally + Raise Awareness”, or SURA; safety-focused AI labs shouldn't abandon the AI race — The AI Futures Project[1] distinguishes several different plans for navigating the AI transition, which I'll lump into two broader categories:| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
Letter: the White House argues it doesn't have to share the full draft of its voluntary AI testing framework, citing national security and commercial exemptions — The Trump administration declined to produce key documents related to its voluntary AI testing framework …
Bluesky: @gclaymitchell4th
| Emmy Martin / New York Times: |
How SF's AI boom is reshaping dating: founders treat first dates as interviews, use tech terms like “conversion rate” to track dates, and pay coaches $5K/month — San Francisco's A.I. boom has drawn a wave of young ambitious people who are now reshaping the city's dating life.Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times| Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: |
Analysis: Elon Musk contributed a record $474M to political groups for the 2026 midterms, including $216M to America PAC, the highest non-candidate spend ever — Never before has a single ultrawealthy person who was not running for office spent this much during a single election cycle.| Bruce Gil / Gizmodo: |
Fan fiction site AO3 says it could take two to four weeks to restore service after a security incident; AO3 hosts 18M+ works and has 11M+ registered users — “Black October” comes for the fan fic. — The popular fan fiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) went offline Thursday, and its millions of users are freaking out.Sponsor Posts
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