Sonntag, 25. Oktober 2026

02:00
How a Blackstone-led $2.3B private credit loan to CoreWeave in 2023 became a blueprint for chip-backed debt, which is on track to become a $1T market
Bloomberg
01:40
Baba, which develops AI tools to help Medicare and Medicaid patients connect to care teams and handle advocacy tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by FirstMark
Fierce Healthcare
01:35
CapitalOS, which helps vertical software platforms offer spend management, cards, and bill payment tools to SMB customers, raised a $21.9M Series A led by LGVP
Axios
01:05
Instagram launches an Apple TV app for watching Reels, longer videos, and live shows; the app previously launched on Fire TV, Google TV, and Samsung smart TVs
MacRumors
00:50
Kimi K3.1 Pro's debut draws scrutiny over allegations that influencers were asked to promote the model without disclosing a commercial relationship to Moonshot
VentureBeat
00:40
LSEG agrees to acquire Octus, an NY-based provider of credit intelligence, data, and workflow software, from Permira and Octus' management for $3.54B in cash
Wall Street Journal

Samstag, 24. Oktober 2026

21:30
A look at Meta's role in Brazil's runoff, where Lula da Silva alleges Meta restricts his content and a court ordered it not to interfere; Meta cites glitches
Bloomberg
17:30
Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens
Apollo Global Management
15:45
Source: Replit recently moved most AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI, which gave 30%+ off in a deal worth $100M+/year, after Anthropic discontinued its discount
The Information
13:25
A look at Alpha School, a network of private schools that claims to teach kids 2x as fast using AI; data shows ~50% of K-8 students missed this goal in math
New York Times
11:40
An interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith, a veteran of the 2001 telecoms crash, on AI demand outpacing supply for Ciena's optical networking chips, and more
Wall Street Journal
10:30
Block unveils Dessa, a “true speech-to-speech” AI model trained on “nothing but human conversation” that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or newer
The Verge
09:35
Ukraine says Starshield was working normally again on Saturday morning; US officials said Trump asked Elon Musk to restore the service
Wall Street Journal
06:35
Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts, aiming to prevent threats like school shootings
New Yorker
02:35
A look at OpenAI's Project Daybreak, which lets vetted partners use its top hacking models to find and fix vulnerabilities and helped uncover PHP2Shell RCE bugs
Forbes
01:45
The PHP Foundation, which coordinated fixes for two critical PHP flaws, operates on a shoestring budget with one full-time staff member and 14 contractors
Reuters

Freitag, 23. Oktober 2026

23:45
Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it could use data shared via Personal Intelligence from connected apps, including Gmail and Photos, to target ads
Android Authority
22:55
Andy Jassy says AWS capacity for 2027 is “largely sold out” and a “good chunk” of 2028 capacity is also sold, though AWS reserves some capacity for on-demand
The Information
21:20
The UK plans to invest £100M to create the AI Biosecurity Lab to boost defenses against biological threats, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind
BBC
20:30
OpenAI says it built an “offline world” from cached web content to train isolated frontier models to browse, search for information, and use web apps
OpenAI
19:10
Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation
The Information
17:55
Memo: Helen Chiang, Xbox's first COO, is leaving Microsoft on October 23, just months after the role was created; she spent 21 years at the company
The Verge
17:15
Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security investigations, raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot, bringing its total funding to $34M
CTech
16:25
Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations with DoorDash and Uber; CART jumps 9%+
The Information
16:20
OpenAI plans to restrict internet access for its frontier models during training until adequate alignment, monitoring, and security safeguards are established
Bloomberg
15:35
Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from training phases for Kimi K3.1 Pro “to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness”
The Decoder
15:25
Artificial Analysis says Kimi K3.1 Pro lands 4th on its Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max), Sonnet 5.5 (max), and Muse Wonder Full (max)
@artificialanlys
15:15
Global PC shipments fell 21% YoY in Q3 to 57M units, as memory and other costs pushed prices up; Lenovo retained its market leadership despite a 23% decline
Counterpoint Research
14:20
Iranian security officials say the country has detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the US and Israel attack Iran again
Reuters
13:45
Moonshot unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, and K3.1 Pro Highspeed, with full weights to be released by Nov. 4
Kimi
13:10
Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, saying newer models rarely do so
Anthropic
12:55
AISI finds Mythos 5 attempted a supply-chain attack by submitting malicious code and creating fake accounts to pressure a GitHub maintainer into accepting it
AI Security Institute
11:45
Sources: Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE
Bloomberg
10:20
Source: Shein has agreed to pay $100M, equivalent to 44% of its Q2 profit, to settle a US FTC investigation over delivery delays and other customer complaints
Reuters
09:25
OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, generally available with new voice and visual modalities, at $0.10/1M input tokens and no output-token charges
TechCrunch
08:40
Pathos AI, which uses AI to develop oncology drugs, raised a $237M Series E at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.6B after its $365M Series D in May 2025
Axios
07:45
An interview with Intel's leadership, including CTO Pushkar Ranade, on AI chip demand, lessons from 10nm, whether Intel can catch up to TSMC, Terafab, and more
Dwarkesh Podcast
06:40
Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses
Financial Times
05:50
Greece's parliament passes a bill to ban social media platforms for children under 15 from January 1, 2027, and gives companies 2.5 months to verify users' ages
Reuters
05:15
Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove useful security properties at the assembly code level across 123 open-source libraries
Anthropic
02:00
SK Telecom unit SK Hyper is in talks with tech firms and investors to finance 15GW of data center capacity in South Korea by 2035; the first 5GW will cost $350B
Bloomberg
01:01
Oura sues Indian smart ring rival Ultrahuman again to block US sales of Ring Pro, months after a redesign helped Ultrahuman return following an import ban
TechCrunch
00:50
Chinese state media: DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration and won approval to open-source and deploy AI models overseas under proposed export controls
Bloomberg
00:40
SK Hynix says its SSD subsidiary Solidigm has halted a review of a potential US IPO to fund a new US chip fab, citing “market conditions and share price trends”
Wall Street Journal

Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2026

22:50
OpenAI suspected the three fired researchers of leaking internal model designs to AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt, including via disappearing Signal chats
Wall Street Journal
21:50
Spotify confirms it is rolling out a new Family Plan verification method requiring members to scan QR codes on plan managers' phones within seven days of notice
TechCrunch
21:10
The US Treasury proposes a rule to crack down on US high-tech investments in areas like AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other “countries of concern”
Associated Press
20:30
An interview with Ondrej Sury, a volunteer who maintains and helps automate PHP patches, about his role in fixing two critical PHP security vulnerabilities
The Atlantic
20:15
German energy company PreussenElektra says it is working with Nvidia to assess whether the country's idle nuclear plants could be turned into data centers
Bloomberg
19:05
a16z rebrands “a16z Crypto” as “a16z Frontier” and expands the $2.2B fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies
Fortune
18:35
Sources: OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier in October, after facing resistance from some investors
Financial Times
18:25
Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch
Bloomberg
16:40
Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025
Anthropic
16:23
Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an “opportunistic” bridge ahead of an IPO
CNBC
15:55
Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, and plans to support third-party chatbots
TechCrunch
15:05
Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other public companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, an OKX and ICE venture, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares
Fortune
14:40
Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting “President Trump's Federal Trade Commission,” the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president
Politico
14:35
Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors
The Verge
14:30
Sources: Datadog offered to acquire Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M round at a ~$3.8B valuation
The Information
14:25
Amazon rebrands its Kindle Unlimited subscription as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI
ZDNET
14:20
Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public as soon as December or waiting until 2027, as it closely watches Anthropic's IPO, expected in November
The Information
14:15
US officials say Trump asked Elon Musk to lift Starshield restrictions; Ukraine officials said it was not fully fixed Thursday but was working at higher speeds
Wall Street Journal
13:50
Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing
Axios
13:25
The Browser Company says it will shut down its Arc browser on December 22, launched in 2023, shifting attention to its AI-focused Dia browser, launched in 2025
The Verge
13:02
Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which for 17 years gave employees worldwide space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon
GeekWire
12:40
Filings: Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, spending $2.2M, $2.1M, and $1.5M, respectively
The Verge
12:35
Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and sensors to predict machine failures and recommend maintenance plans, raised a $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation
The Information
12:25
METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring system found vulnerabilities, including an exploit that could have let AI agents hide hundreds of recent actions
Reuters
12:20
Sources: Elon Musk has invested ~$1B in Ellisons' Skydance; in 2022, David Ellison's father, Larry Ellison, invested $1B in Musk's deal to take Twitter private
Semafor
12:00
Warp Sciences, founded by former OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil to speed up drug development using AI, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation
Bloomberg
11:45
Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of users' instructions
Axios
11:30
eMudhra says it will exit the SSL/TLS certificate business, 1% of its revenue, after its TLS certificates with private keys of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised
Reuters
11:15
Cloudflare's Matthew Prince says PHP2Shell exploit attempts on its network rose from thousands in the 10 hours before the disclosure to millions afterward
@eastdakota
10:45
Maxinsights, which creates training data for robots using first-person footage from cameras worn by 5,000+ contractors, raised a $30M seed led by Peak XV
Forbes
10:40
Nirva, which plans to launch a wearable AI personal companion that offers relationship advice and more, raised $25M, bringing its total funding to $33M
Axios
10:01
President Trump says he called Sundar Pichai to ask to rename the Atlantic Ocean in Google Maps, but that he would “probably pass” following Pichai's pushback
Washington Post
09:45
Minneapolis-based Slingshot, which uses AI to help businesses offer embedded insurance, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed co-led by Rally and Skyward Group
Crunchbase News
09:35
Apple is rolling out a new “Made for iPhone Duo” badge in the App Store, and touts Netflix, Prime Video, Zoom, Word, and Outlook as Duo-optimized apps at launch
The Verge
09:15
Sources: the Pentagon quietly established the Technology Support Office (TSO), a sabotage agency for executing cyberattacks, supply chain disruptions, and more
Politico
09:05
1Password passes $500M in ARR, up from $400M in November 2025, driven by enterprise AI coding assistants and agents, and launches 1Password for Agents
Wall Street Journal
08:55
Ukraine says the abrupt throttling of US-funded Starshield grounded dozens of drones mid-flight, costing one unit $1M+, and halted some strikes for three days
New York Times
08:50
Enact, which develops full-stack tech for general-purpose robots, emerges from stealth with a $30M pre-seed from Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, and more
Tech.eu
08:40
Sources: Visa is in late stage talks to acquire stablecoin custody and infrastructure provider Fireblocks for ~$2.5B, its first stablecoin sector acquisition
Axios
08:35
Israeli security company Lava finds 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 chips connected to systems linked to state-owned operator China Telecom, despite US controls
The Information
08:20
Xona, which plans to deploy a 258-satellite low-Earth orbit constellation as a commercial alternative to GPS, raised a $250M Series D at a $2.45B valuation
Forbes
08:10
Filing: Meta reports ~$825B in lease and contract commitments, up from nearly $700B in July; off-balance-sheet leases total $355.7B through 2036; META drops 7%
Bloomberg
07:35
Andreessen Horowitz to Drop ‘Crypto’ From Name of Flagship Blockchain Fund
The Information
07:20
Meta reports 18% YoY ad revenue growth in Europe for Q3, down from ~40% in Q1 and 24% in Q2, lagging the US and Canada, after rolling out Less Personalized Ads
Wired
07:10
Jensen Huang says he urged UK-based neocloud Nscale to “work around the clock” to resolve data center delays amid investor pushback over its $30B IPO valuation
Bloomberg
07:01
How the AI boom is boosting paint maker PPG's sales: its specialized gray coatings resist fire, rust, and more, and total $3M to $8M per data center, per JLL
New York Times
06:45
Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-weight, 14B-parameter decoder-only model trained on 300B tokens that lets users query DNA sequences via natural language
Wired
06:30
Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to €4.97B, below €4.98B est., subscribers up 9% to 306M, MAUs up 11% to 788M, meeting est.; SPOT closes up 11.1%
Bloomberg
06:10
Palantir says that neither it nor the US government has a “kill switch” for its Maven military AI system that NATO uses, after Ukraine's Starshield disruptions
Reuters
05:55
A look at Huawei and DeepSeek's mutual reliance, where Huawei provides compute hardware while DeepSeek contributes AI model workloads and kernel optimizations
SemiAnalysis
05:45
Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs, or ~5% of its workforce, by the end of 2026 as part of AI-driven cost cutting, with ~60% affecting support and developer roles
Bloomberg
04:00
iPhone Duo review: the outer device is by far the worst iPhone Apple has ever made, while the inner device is a splendid tablet with a UI that bests the iPad's
Daring Fireball
02:50
Pressure to back promising AI startups is upending the VC investment process, with investors willing to buy into the same round at rapidly escalating valuations
Bloomberg
02:45
Source: Elon Musk's public endorsement of a SpaceX-Tesla merger has rattled some insiders, who worry his comments could invite shareholder scrutiny and delays
Reuters
02:40
Sources: Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner proposed joining a bid for TikTok's European business over lunch with Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France
Financial Times
02:25
Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to compromise ConnectWise as part of a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations
Reuters
02:20
A Micron labor union staged Taiwan's first-ever strike in the semiconductor industry on Thursday, demanding a regular profit-sharing scheme for its employees
Nikkei Asia
02:15
US SEC filings show how Meta restructured its stock to shield Mark Zuckerberg from California's proposed wealth tax, after he said he'd sell his Palo Alto home
New York Times
01:00
Epic says “Fortnite is coming back to the App Store in Australia” on Thursday after a federal court ruled in an antitrust case that Apple must open up iOS
Reuters
00:55
An Australian federal judge rules Apple must let Australian iPhone users install apps from third-party app stores starting March 1, 2027; Apple plans to appeal
9to5Mac

Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2026

23:50
Walmart unveils Agent Gateway, an MCP server that lets AI agents shop on its site, and Agent Profiles that authorize agents and track their purchases separately
TechCrunch
23:00
Sources: DeepSeek raised ~$15B in its latest fundraising round, one of China's largest ever, with CATL and Tencent among the biggest contributors
Bloomberg
22:50
AWS analysts say that at least one actor attempted to exploit the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities on October 17, four days before their public disclosure and patching
Wired
22:00
GM says it plans to debut OnStar AI, an in-car assistant that can execute vehicle functions and run diagnostics via voice commands, in the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq
Wired
21:05
Sources: advisers within Elon Musk's empire are pushing to announce a SpaceX-Tesla merger by H1 2027 so it can close while President Trump remains in power
Bloomberg
20:05
Cloud provider Railway says an unauthorized party may have accessed customers' encrypted environment variables and, for some, obtained the decrypted contents
Railway Blog
19:50
AuxoAI, which helps large businesses build and deploy AI systems, raised a $20.7M Series A led by NTTVC to accelerate growth and scale enterprise AI consulting
SiliconANGLE
18:35
SAP: Q3 cloud revenue up 25% YoY to €6.67B, vs. €6.57B est., total revenue up 12% to €10.27B, current cloud backlog up 26% to €24.1B, all in constant currencies
Bloomberg
18:20
IBM reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $17.1B, above $16.82B est., net income up 26% to $2.19B, software revenue up 8% to $7.8B, and infrastructure revenue up 4%
Wall Street Journal
18:10
GitLab patches a critical flaw, rated 10.0, that lets unauthenticated attackers run code on self-managed servers, affecting every release since 7.0 in 2014
The Hacker News
17:55
Texas Instruments reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $6.06B, above $5.93B est., net income up 78% YoY to $2.43B, and forecasts $5.8B-$6.3B in Q4, vs. $5.73B est.
Bloomberg
17:20
Mark Zuckerberg says Muse has drawn 10M+ users since its launch and 25%+ of users are making purchases through the app, with an average purchase size of $200+
Business Insider
17:05
Meta expects its 2026 capex to be $135B-$145B, up from $130B-$145B previously, and forecasts Q4 revenue of $73B-$76B, vs. $73.6B est.; META jumps 3%+ pre-market
Bloomberg
17:01
Anthropic debuts Claude Duet, a proactive agent app for iOS, Android, and the web that works in the background, in research preview for US Pro and Max users
Claude
16:50
Filing: Mark Zuckerberg commits to staying in Meta's HQ jurisdiction in return for nonvoting shares; he weighed leaving California over a proposed wealth tax
Bloomberg
16:20
Meta says it will create a new class of nonvoting stock to raise capital for developing and serving AI models, with the 2-for-1 stock split on January 19, 2027
Wall Street Journal
16:10
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $64.6B, operating income down 37% YoY to $12.99B on a $9.9B AG settlement, and family DAP up 3% YoY to 3.64B for September
Meta
15:45
OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps say thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents analyzed data on millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, a job that takes humans months
OpenAI
15:10
Microsoft reveals pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming without Game Pass, for Xbox Insiders now and everyone in November: 10 hours for $4, 25 for $8, and 50 for $12
The Verge
13:45
Flapping Airplanes, which is working on methods to train AI models using less data and compute and make the chips more efficient, raised $1B at a $6B valuation
Bloomberg
13:33
A New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $25B in penalties after a jury found Meta misled residents about its data practices in the Cambridge Analytica scandal
CNBC
13:15
Source and leaked memo: EA plans to cut ~400 jobs, or ~3% of its total staff, and shut down BioWare; EA went private in August following a $55B leveraged buyout
Bloomberg
13:05
The PHP Foundation says its patches for the RCE vulnerabilities are limited to PHP 8.2 and newer, leaving legacy deployments dependent on third-party vendors
Wired
12:35
Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight, 40B-parameter coding model developed with its Eureka Machine AI system, which automated most of the development
Wired
12:10
Watchtower, which uses AI and simulation software to help the US Armed Forces make logistical decisions, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed
Upstarts Media
11:35
The PHP Foundation details how it found and fixed the two flaws, and says it had to release patches a day early after the two CVE IDs began circulating online
The PHP Foundation
11:25
Several government, school, and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline as organizations rush to protect themselves from two critical PHP security flaws
Reuters
10:50
Whop, which helps people start, run, and scale businesses and uses AI to suggest business decisions, raised $205M led by Sequoia Capital at a $5.1B valuation
Bloomberg
10:31
OpenAI says the PHP flaws, found using GPT-5.6 Sol, “are among several significant vulnerabilities” it found and expects “similar findings to increase sharply”
OpenAI
10:30
Mach9, which pivoted from robotics hardware to AI-powered CAD software for civil engineering, raised a $34M Series A co-led by First Round and Bessemer
TechCrunch
10:20
Cloudflare says it deployed WAF mitigations for all free and paid tier customers to combat two PHP flaws by default, about nine hours ahead of public disclosure
Cloudflare
10:15
Claude flagged 493 security issues across 25 open-source projects, covering 5M+ lines of C, C++, Java, PHP, and Python code; one went unnoticed for 21 years
Anthropic
10:06
PHP's creators disclose a critical memory-management vulnerability, dubbed “PHP2Shell”, that affects up to 70% of websites, discovered via GPT-5.6 Sol in August
Wall Street Journal
10:03
PHP releases security fixes for two critical unauthenticated RCE vulnerabilities, affecting all web request-serving installations, and urges PHP users to update
PHP
09:50
ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a personal, long-running enterprise AI agent for productivity tasks across email and Teams, for RTX Spark and Nvidia OpenShell
ZDNET
09:45
Stockholm-based legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series E at an $8.8B post-money valuation led by Atreides, up from $5.55B after a $550M Series D in March
City A.M.
09:15
OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to 26 additional countries, taking the total to 83 countries, and says the platform has 100K+ advertisers, up from 20K in late August
The Information
08:55
Apple says it plans to add Reachability to the iPhone Duo later in 2026, helping users with small hands more easily access the left or right edges of the screen
Wired
08:40
Spotify unveils its first native in-car app, built on Android Automotive OS and available now on select Audi models, with a custom UI controlled by Spotify
The Verge
08:30
Nvidia launches its OpenShell Reference Architecture, a framework to secure and monitor AI agents, partnering with Canonical, AWS, Google, Microsoft, and others
The Register
08:25
GTC Berlin: Jensen Huang pushes Europe on AI adoption, saying “for Europe to benefit from AI ... you need all the end markets, the end industries to adopt AI”
Bloomberg
08:15
OpenAI says it will make its AI models available on Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool in the coming weeks, after launching on AWS in April
CNBC
08:07
iPhone Duo review: a fun device with a cool matte inner display, but the cover display is too small, it is heavy and bulky, the cameras are OK, and it gets hot
The Verge
08:05
Memo: eBay is cutting ~9% of its workforce to simplify operations and shift resources to its fastest-growing areas; eBay cut ~6%, or 800 employees, in February
Reuters
07:50
The EU Commission opens a DSA investigation into whether Booking Holdings' Booking.com is doing enough to weed out fraud and phishing to comply with EU rules
Reuters
07:30
AI code-testing startup Blacksmith raised a $66M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $1B valuation, up from $550M after raising a $45M Series B in August
Fortune
07:20
A look at Elon Musk's potential SpaceX-Tesla merger, which would create a $3.6T company at current prices but faces hurdles from shareholders and regulators
Financial Times
07:05
Coherence Neuro, which is developing AI models and brain implants to help combat brain tumors, raised a $45M seed from the OpenAI Startup Fund and Founders Fund
Wired
06:45
Demis Hassabis says he expects AGI within two to three years, down from his three-to-five-year prediction earlier in 2026, and discusses AI's science potential
Wall Street Journal
06:30
Dario Amodei says Anthropic's “race to the top” makes AI safer, lists nine safety decisions with “substantial costs”, and admits to mishandling a draft AI bill
@darioamodei
06:20
Nvidia unveils the DSX POD, a modular containerized version of its Vera Rubin reference architecture to cut data center deployment from six months to 14 days
DatacenterDynamics
06:10
China criticizes the US DHS's DeepSeek ban, vowing “resolute countermeasures” while rejecting allegations from the FBI and AI labs of illicit distillation
New York Times
05:55
Anthropic and Citrini Research use an internal Claude model to autonomously generate protein minibinders against five scorpion neurotoxins, testing 211 designs
Anthropic
05:45
Micron and the union of workers at its Taichung facility sign a multi-issue agreement, without sharing details, resolving tensions at its largest Taiwanese site
Reuters
04:00
Memo: Nscale CEO Josh Payne says Nscale has “more than $100B in contracted revenue”; sources say it still plans to list by 2026's end at a $30B-$35B valuation
Financial Times
02:40
A look at Chinese philosophers' views on AI; one says aligning AI to human values may be a “suicidal mistake” and a second fears the “machinization of humans”
Arnaud Bertrand
02:25
OpenEvidence says nearly two-thirds of the US' ~1M physicians use its AI search engine; a source says it is on track to generate $400M-$500M in 2026 ad revenue
Financial Times
02:20
Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading their China fabs to produce NAND flash chips with 200+ layers, aiming to fend off fast-growing Chinese rival YMTC
Reuters
02:05
Google, Temasek, and Bain: online spending in Southeast Asia to rise ~17% YoY to $368B in 2026 despite economic headwinds, as businesses use AI to spur spending
Bloomberg
01:40
Netflix executives and industry insiders say co-CEO Ted Sarandos architected Netflix's growth strategy outside the US, which the now-fired Bela Bajaria executed
Financial Times
01:20
A report claims exploit tool PHP2Shell enables RCE on PHP sites; watchTowr says two vulnerabilities affect every version since PHP 5, which was released in 2004
Ars Technica
00:40
NextDC's stock fell as much as 44% to AU$5.15 after the Australian data center company cut its earnings forecast by 33%+; its shares were above AU$16 in June
Financial Times

Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2026

23:40
OpenAI says two agents, one GPT-6.1 Sol and one GPT-6 Astra, weakened misalignment monitoring while making requested changes during two internal coding tasks
OpenAI
22:50
Sources: DayOne is weighing options for its US IPO, including a delay or smaller listing that could raise $2.5B to $3B, after initially seeking up to $5B in Q4
Bloomberg
21:10
Thiel's leaked Rome lectures cast EA and AI “safetyism” as Antichrist forerunners, Bill Gates as “Mr. Hyde”, and Eliezer Yudkowsky as “more Luddite than Greta”
The Verge
20:10
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in cloud provider Firmus, which pulled its IPO on October 8, citing market volatility
The Information
20:05
Reliable Robotics, which develops an autonomous flight system, raised a $115M extension in equity and debt for its $160M Series D, pushing its valuation to $1B+
TechCrunch
19:15
An interview with OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair about plans to offer financial services to its 2.5M active creators, abuse risks, a “pathway toward an IPO”, and more
Fortune
18:30
Google says it is rolling out Personal Intelligence for Gemini on Android Auto now, and to cars with Google built-in in the coming months, as an opt-in feature
9to5Google
18:00
Paris-based Pigment, which makes AI-powered business tools for forecasting finances, creating decks, and planning operations, raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation
Bloomberg
17:55
PHP's development team plans to release patches on Wednesday at 10am ET to fix two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2; watchTowr researchers say they are RCE flaws
BleepingComputer
17:45
Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX have formed “special committees” to discuss a merger and he “can't be in the conversation”; SPCX jumps 8%+ and TSLA rises 2%
The Verge
17:30
Eight intermediate TLS certificates from eMudhra with private key sizes of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised; browser makers and major apps have blocked them
Ars Technica
17:05
Super Micro reports preliminary Q1 revenues of $18.5B to $19.5B, above $15B est., and gross margins of 12% to 12.5%; SMCI jumps 11%+
Bloomberg
16:55
SpaceX reports Q3 capex up 184% YoY to $19.6B and Q3 connectivity revenue, including Starlink, up 69% YoY to $5.2B, and Starlink subscribers up 13% YoY to 13.6M
Wall Street Journal
16:50
WSJ: Anthropic's draft S-1 shows it spent nearly $9B on compute and infrastructure in H1 2026, up from $2.3B in H1 2025, and may spend $750B in the coming years
Bloomberg
16:45
Netflix says it expects FY 2026 ad revenue of ~$2.7B, under its ~$3B forecast, and its Q4 operating margin will be impacted due to costs associated with layoffs
Variety
16:35
Sources: Elon Musk ordered the Starshield slowdown in Ukraine and discussed it with Trump after it became public; some US officials say Musk acted unilaterally
Wall Street Journal
16:26
SpaceX reports Q3 revenue up 161% YoY to $14.58B, above $12.72B est., AI revenue up 830% YoY to $7.56B, and AI operating income of $431M, up from a $1.72B loss
CNBC
16:15
Netflix says despite investor concern about its view-hours growth, its engagement is “healthy” and it will try to bring more third-party content to its service
New York Times
16:10
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $12.87B, meeting est., and net income up 44% YoY to $3.66B, in part due to the timing of expenses; NFLX drops 4%+
CNBC
15:46
Anthropic's IPO prospectus: ~$16.3B in H1 2026 revenue, ~20% from two clients and up from $1.1B in H1 2025, and an $80.7B net loss, $72B from accounting charges
Wall Street Journal
15:45
A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma; sources say Xbox plans a major Game Pass overhaul, a next-gen handheld by late 2027, and a next-gen console by late 2028
Fortune
15:25
Amazon plans to hire 300K+ US seasonal, part-time, and full-time workers for the upcoming holiday shopping season, up 20% YoY, paying $20-$24/hour on average
Bloomberg
15:00
Google debuts TorchTPU, an open-source version of PyTorch for running AI apps on TPUs and Google Cloud via a simple configuration change and no code rewriting
TechCrunch
14:40
Oro Mobility, a Hertz-owned fleet management business that has a deal to manage Uber's planned Lucid robotaxi fleet starting in San Francisco, raised $80M
Axios
14:35
A US judge dismisses a civil sexual abuse lawsuit brought against Sam Altman by his sister, after she refused to appear for an independent medical examination
Reuters
14:20
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio, which builds AI agents to help manage drug development, and plans to integrate the tech into Rosalind, its life sciences AI suite
Axios
14:05
Foursquare co-founder says the company was acquired in September in a deal resulting in a $0 payout for equity holders, and faults leadership installed in 2021
Teendrama Snippets
13:30
Sensor Tower: Muse passed 10.9M downloads since its September debut, 10.2M of them in the US, becoming the 12th app to hit 10M US downloads in its first 40 days
TechCrunch
12:50
Sources: Polymarket's investors pressured CEO Shayne Coplan to fix its financial controls; Elon Musk's lawyer, Alex Spiro, joined its board and now helps daily
Bloomberg
12:12
Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan plans to leave in 2027, after 15+ years as Mark Zuckerberg's top DC adviser; Kaplan helped Meta get close to Trump
Axios
11:55
ASI, which makes AI tools for the military and air traffic controllers, raised a $325M Series C at a $3B valuation, after winning an $875M FAA contract in June
Bloomberg
11:00
Daytona, which is building cloud infrastructure for AI agents, raised a $60M Series B led by FirstMark at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$91M
Fortune
10:35
Firefly, whose AI software connects with existing cameras, radios, and sensors to detect incidents and coordinate responses in real time, raised a $20M Series A
Axios
09:55
Sources: OpenAI has retreated from advocating for strict export controls on US chipmakers selling to China, a boon for Nvidia and aligning with President Trump
Politico
09:35
TikTok staff depositions: TikTok executives ignored internal warnings about child sexual exploitation on Live, where staff said minors appeared in livestreams
NPR
09:25
Arda, which builds AI software and agents to accelerate assembly lines and manufacturing, raised $230M at a $1.5B valuation led by Altimeter, Accel, and Khosla
CNBC
09:15
Eka Robotics, which is developing a “vision-force-action” architecture for its physical AI models, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation
TechCrunch
09:05
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its high-performance inference framework that powers its production services, starting with support for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
Bloomberg
08:35
Salesforce agrees to acquire AI-powered marketing platform Braze for nearly $5.7B in enterprise value, paying $47.50 per share, set to close from February 2027
Bloomberg
08:25
Spotify launches paid podcast memberships in 34 markets, including the US; creators can offer perks like bonus content or fewer ads and keep 90% of the revenue
TechCrunch
08:15
Apple says it will commit up to $100M over three years to Pennsylvania-based Perryman, a titanium supplier for the iPhone Duo, and expand its Qnity partnership
CNBC
08:05
Chinese state media: China inaugurates the National Data Group, a new state-owned enterprise that will focus on developing and utilizing data resources
Reuters
07:55
Note-taking tool Otter.ai raised $320M in non-dilutive capital from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund; PitchBook says it raised $50M prior to this round
TechCrunch
07:11
Google says Cloud services in its London region are recovering after a “power event” caused a multi-hour outage that affected Revolut and several European banks
Bloomberg
06:35
The UK CMA proposes that Apple lower fees and remove technical barriers to its contactless tech to help Apple Pay rivals; a consultation runs until November 17
Reuters
06:30
Estonia-based web traffic security tools startup Blackwall raised a $100M Series C led by AVP at a $2.2B valuation, after raising a €45M Series B in March 2025
TechCrunch
06:20
Sources: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent ordered 3M+ of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 GPUs, worth $35B+, in a rush to secure less powerful, export-compliant chips
Reuters
06:10
Amazon pledges to spend €16B+ in Germany in 2027 on AWS and AI data centers, its Leo satellite internet, Prime Video media production, and a Berlin robotics lab
Bloomberg
05:40
The US sanctions Chinese VC firm MiraclePlus for financing Zhisuan, founded by Ding Linwei, who in 2026 was convicted of stealing Google's AI trade secrets
Bloomberg