| 11:50 PM • | Bloomberg: Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services |
| 11:40 PM • | Stefan Boscia / Politico: The UK's defense ministry is using an AI model created by Palantir to sift through submissions for a comprehensive review of the country's defense capabilities |
| 11:10 PM • | The Information: Sources: Sierra, an AI agent startup co-founded by Bret Taylor, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding led by Greenoaks at a $4B+ valuation |
| 10:50 PM • | Samantha Cole / 404 Media: WordPress.org adds a checkbox to confirm users aren't “affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise” before they log in or register an account |
| 10:20 PM • | Hayden Field / CNBC: OpenAI says it has disrupted 20+ operations and deceptive networks in 2024 so far that tried to use its models, including four that had election-related content |
| 9:25 PM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a “malicious cyberattack”, about two weeks after hackers put 31M customers' alleged personal data on Telegram |
| 8:55 PM • | CNBC: Grabango, which provided cashierless checkout tech and raised $73M+, shuts down after failing to “secure the funding it needed to continue providing service” |
| 8:30 PM • | Natalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW: The US GSA's Login.gov is giving government agencies access to its IAL2-compliant face recognition tech, which compares a user's live selfie with their photo ID |
| 8:05 PM • | Michael Kan / PCMag: Florida-based data broker National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admitting its breach that led to the August 2024 SSN leak may impact “hundreds of millions” |
| 7:35 PM • | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9 |
| 6:55 PM • | Umar Shakir / The Verge: Some Threads and Instagram users say their accounts are being deleted or restricted due to moderation failures; Adam Mosseri says he's “looking into it” |
| 5:30 PM • | Cory Weinberg / The Information: Docs: OpenAI's projections suggest it won't turn a profit until 2029, when its revenue would hit $100B; losses could hit $14B in 2026, nearly 3x its 2024 losses |
| 5:15 PM • | CoinDesk: US prosecutors charge four purported crypto market makers, a handful of crypto projects, and over a dozen individuals with manipulating various crypto markets |
| 4:20 PM • | Reuters: FTC: Marriott agrees to pay a $52M penalty to 49 states and DC to resolve data security allegations, and, in another settlement, agrees to a new infosec program |
| 3:50 PM • | Will Knight / Wired: Amazon announces AI Shopping Guides, which show AI-generated descriptions and recommendations for 100+ product types on its US mobile website and in its US app |
| 3:40 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Zoom plans to launch a feature in 2025 that lets users create an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar with a head and arms from a video they record of themselves |
| 3:10 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: X updates its Creator Revenue Sharing program to pay creators based on engagement with their content from Premium users, not how many see ads in their replies |
| 3:00 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Dan Riccio, Apple's Vision Pro chief and former SVP of hardware engineering, is leaving in October; the Vision Pro team will now report to John Ternus |
| 2:45 PM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon aims to deploy Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval, an AI tool to help drivers quickly find the right package in delivery vans, in 1,000 vans by early 2025 |
| 2:05 PM • | Hayden Field / CNBC: Writer debuts Palmyra X 004, an enterprise LLM trained for just $700K by using synthetic data; a source says Writer is raising up to $200M at a $1.9B valuation |
| 1:10 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon Pharmacy plans to expand same-day prescription delivery to 20 more US cities in 2025, including Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and San Diego |
| 12:45 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation to defend itself from hostile takeovers and protect Sam Altman from outsider interference |
| 11:10 AM • | Anna Washenko / Engadget: Meta rolls out Meta AI in six more countries, plans to add 15 more countries over the coming weeks, and adds it to its Ray-Ban glasses in Australia and the UK |
| 11:00 AM • | Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post: Russia's Roskomnadzor bans Discord, drawing ire from the Russian military, which has extensively used the app to coordinate units on the battlefield in Ukraine |
| 9:55 AM • | Associated Press: The All England Club says AI will make “out” and “fault” calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test |
| 9:40 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseFold model outperforms AlphaFold 2 at predicting proteins, raised a $60M Series B, for $85M in total funding |
| 9:20 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ring unveils Ring Home Premium for $20 per month, with 24/7 recording and AI-powered Smart Video Search from November 5 in the US, and changes its other plans |
| 8:40 AM • | Liana Baker / Bloomberg: KKR-owned BMC Software plans to split: BMC for enterprise mainframes and BMC Helix for enterprise software; BMC will get ~66% of BMC Software's $2.3B in revenue |
| 8:10 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Glassdoor launches short videos, polls, and images to foster engagement on its platform, and says it has 63M monthly unique users, up from 55M in September 2021 |
| 7:25 AM • | New York Times: How Withheld for Privacy and other proxy services that help domain operators shield their identities have turned Iceland into a global hub for illicit activity |
| 7:05 AM • | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft issues Surface Duo 2's final security update ahead of its October 21 end of support; the Duo 2, released in October 2021, got one major Android update |
| 6:45 AM • | Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg: OpenAI says that China-based SweetSpecter tried to phish its employees earlier in 2024, posing as a ChatGPT user to send customer support emails to its staff |
| 6:20 AM • | Bloomberg: The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction” |
| 5:50 AM • | Wall Street Journal: A look at disagreements over automation between US dockworkers and shipping industry officials, who say they need AI-powered stacking cranes and other machines |
| 5:20 AM • | Bloomberg: CamScanner app maker Intsig is the best-performing China IPO stock in 2024 for $100M+ listings, after a euphoric market response to Beijing's stimulus measures |
| 4:50 AM • | Sarah Vowell / Washington Post: A profile of National Archives and Records Administration Chief Innovation Officer Pamela Wright, who leads the agency's project to digitize its 13B+ records |
| 4:10 AM • | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: MiniMax, ByteDance, and 01.ai are among a group of Chinese AI startups that have launched AI products overseas, particularly in the US, to boost revenue growth |
| 3:15 AM • | Laura Dobberstein / The Register: OpenAI says Singapore will serve as its APAC hub and appoints Oliver Jay, who served as Asana's Chief Revenue Officer, to lead its international expansion |
| 2:30 AM • | Financial Times: A look at Ireland's challenges in its role as a data center hub, as energy supply problems and planning hurdles mean that AWS and others are looking elsewhere |
| 2:05 AM • | Alex Konrad / Forbes: Braintrust, which helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised a $36M Series A led by a16z, a source says at a ~$150M valuation |
| 1:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's “altruism versus greed” lawsuit is part of his “blusterous campaign to harass OpenAI for his own competitive advantage” |
| 1:20 AM • | Reuters: Turkey blocks access to Discord following a court decision over sufficient suspicion that some users had committed crimes of “child sexual abuse and obscenity” |
| 1:15 AM • | Allison Johnson / The Verge: MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9400 mobile SoC, featuring a CPU with eight “Big” cores and its eighth-gen NPU, claiming “80% faster LLM prompt performance” |
| 12:30 AM • | Financial Times: The US DOJ's quest to end Google's long-standing dominance remains the stuff of fantasy, as whatever the courts may order, any real reckoning will take years |
| 12:05 AM • | Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword: Google says the US DOJ's “radical and sweeping proposals” in the Search antitrust case risk “hurting” consumers, businesses, developers, and US competitiveness |
| 12:00 AM • | Wall Street Journal: US judges have little modern precedent to guide them on whether a breakup like the one the DOJ is proposing in the Google Search antitrust case is appropriate |
| 10:55 PM • | Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Filing: the US DOJ lays out “behavioral and structural remedies”, including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case |
| 9:50 PM • | Joel Khalili / Wired: HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery says Peter Todd, known for his Bitcoin codebase contributions, is Satoshi Nakamoto, a claim Todd denies |
| 8:55 PM • | Jacob Robbins / PitchBook: Brazil-based Asaas, which offers SMBs payment processing, invoicing, fraud protection, and other financial services, raised a $148M Series C led by Bond Capital |
| 8:15 PM • | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Anthropic launches Message Batches API in beta, for batches of up to 10K queries that are processed within 24 hours and cost 50% less than standard API calls |
| 6:25 PM • | Pew Research Center: US adults on TikTok follow influencers and creators popular on social media but very few politicians, civic actors, or traditional media outlets and journalists |
| 5:20 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: The Biden-Harris administration launches a White House account on Reddit for news and info about federal government work; the first posts cover Hurricane Helene |
| 5:15 PM • | Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: Marketing tech company Zeta Global agrees to acquire LiveIntent, another marketing tech provider, for $250M in cash and stock, in a deal set to close in Q4 2024 |
| 4:55 PM • | Bloomberg: Brazil's Supreme Court authorizes the return of X after the company complied with its demands, including taking down some accounts and appointing a legal rep |
| 4:30 PM • | Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Samsung removes the Galaxy Z Fold2, which launched in September 2020 for $2,000, from its list of devices that will receive security updates |
| 2:42 PM • | Washington Post: ISD: top officials in NC and at FEMA responding to Hurricane Helene face antisemitic attacks largely on X, where 10 of the posts collectively drew 17.1M views |
| 1:55 PM • | Helen Reid / Reuters: Filing: Shein's UK business made £1.55B in 2023 revenue, up 38% over a 16-month period to the end of 2022, as the fast fashion group prepares for a London IPO |
| 12:50 PM • | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Study: X moves slowly to remove AI-made nudes reported as nonconsensual intimate media, if at all, but is quick if they're reported for copyright violations |
| 12:25 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: OpenAI signs a content deal with Hearst to use content from 40+ local newspapers and 20+ magazines in its products, after Condé Nast and Dotdash Meredith deals |
| 12:15 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Snap says it is bringing Sponsored Snaps to Snapchat's Chat tab for the first time, starting with ad partner Disney, and launches “Promoted Places” on Snap Map |
| 11:55 AM • | Kris Holt / Engadget: Rockstar plans to bring Red Dead Redemption to PC, 14 years after its PS3 and Xbox 360 debut, via the Rockstar Store, Epic Games Store, and Steam on October 29 |
| 11:50 AM • | Jason Koebler / 404 Media: An era of politically motivated AI slop is here, exacerbating viral conspiracy theories and making a big impact after disasters, as in the US, Brazil, and Gaza |
| 11:40 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta begins rolling out new AI tools that let advertisers expand the aspect ratio of their videos and generate an Instagram Reel video ad from a static image |
| 10:18 AM • | Daniel Arkin / NBC News: A bipartisan coalition of 14 US state AGs file lawsuits accusing TikTok of damaging minors' mental health and collecting their data without parental consent |
| 9:55 AM • | Sarah Wynn / The Block: Crypto.com sues the US SEC after receiving a Wells notice that the agency plans to bring an enforcement action against it; Consensys sued the SEC in April 2024 |
| 9:50 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe launches a Content Authenticity web app to let creators use its Content Credentials “nutrition labels” to apply attribution and opt out of AI training |
| 9:30 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Bellevue, Washington-based Auger, founded by ex-Amazon and Flexport exec Dave Clark to offer AI-powered supply chain tools, raised a $100M seed led by Oak HC/FT |
| 9:21 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Short seller Hindenburg Research releases a report accusing Roblox of inflating user metrics to investors and prioritizing growth over child safety |
| 9:10 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers cloud-based access to AMD MI300X chips for AI workloads, raised $43M led by Nexus VP at a $100M post-money valuation |
| 8:35 AM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: EvenUp, a startup making AI tools for personal injury law firms, raised a $135M Series D led by Bain Capital at a $1B+ valuation and says it has 1,000+ clients |
| 7:05 AM • | Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: TrendForce: TSMC's global foundry revenue share will hit ~64% in 2024, up from 51% in 2019, while Samsung's share is set to drop to ~10%, down from 16% in 2019 |
| 6:50 AM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Uber announces an EV-only Uber Green in 40 cities that riders can prioritize, a GPT-4o-powered chatbot coming in 2025 to answer drivers' EV questions, and more |
| 6:30 AM • | Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for “foundational discoveries” in machine learning |
| 6:15 AM • | Chris Miller / Financial Times: Israel compromising Hezbollah pagers shows the West must take hardware security more seriously, especially as most electronics manufacturing has shifted to Asia |
| 5:55 AM • | Bloomberg: Filing: Saudi Arabia's PIF sold ~17.3M Nintendo shares from August 21 to October 1, lowering its stake to 7.54%; on September 26, an exec said PIF may buy more |
| 5:40 AM • | Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: Dublin-based Appeals Centre, backed by Meta's Oversight Board, launches to moderate disputes between EU users and Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube under the DSA |
| 4:35 AM • | Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company plans to build a plant in Mexico's Guadalajara to make Nvidia GB200 Blackwell AI servers, as tech decouples from China |
| 2:00 AM • | Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Online gig platforms seek to increase their “take rates” amid slowing growth; PitchBook: Fiverr and Upwork are trading at less than 20% of their pandemic peaks |
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