Saturday, October 17, 2026

2:35 AM
A profile of Alexandr Wang, who sources say is “an operator”, had “all” of Zuckerberg's support during Meta's AI revamp, and is being touted as his successor
Financial Times
2:15 AM
Reach Security, which develops AI-powered exposure management tools for securing enterprise systems, raised a $50M+ Series B led by Top Tier Capital Partners
FinTech Global
2:05 AM
Duvo, which develops tech to automate business processes across enterprise systems, including ERPs and legacy apps, raised a $32M Series A led by Balderton
Pathfounders
1:50 AM
Montevideo, Uruguay-based Scanntech, which develops market intelligence tools using POS data, raised $180M in a Series F led by L Catterton and Partners Group
FinSMEs
1:30 AM
London-based Scarlet, which certifies AI and software for medical devices, raised a $50M Series B led by Headline to support its US and Asia-Pacific expansion
Tech.eu
1:20 AM
NAND flash maker Kioxia has lost two-thirds of its market cap since its June peak, when it became Japan's most valuable listed company, as Chinese rivals emerge
Nikkei Asia
1:05 AM
Mistlabs, which develops Ambi, an ambient AI app for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac that learns about users from conversations, raised a $26M pre-Series A
SiliconANGLE
12:50 AM
Workday agrees to acquire C1.ai, formerly known as ConductorOne, which develops enterprise software to manage human and AI agent identities and has raised $111M
Portland Business Journal

Friday, October 16, 2026

9:45 PM
Anthropic report on how AI is changing employment at the startup: decline of entry-level technical hiring, productivity boom across departments, and more
Anthropic
9:35 PM
Sources: Anthropic is offering Blackstone a 10%+ yield to help finance Anthropic's $60B debt package to buy Google TPUs; Blackstone would invest $9B in the debt
Financial Times
9:00 PM
Survey of Anthropic staffers and US adults: 39% of US adults vs. 91% of staffers expect AI will be able to make a Nobel-level discovery by 2030, and more
Anthropic
8:20 PM
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the Trump administration does not have “any policy” to use a minority stake in Intel to interfere in its business strategy
Nikkei Asia
7:45 PM
Apple updates App Review Guidelines to crack down on AI nudify apps and apps that reveal undocumented capabilities, like nudification, after app review
9to5Mac
7:00 PM
Sources: Anthropic pitched its own AI safety bill to US lawmakers; the bill would limit the circumstances in which the government could block a model's release
Politico
6:45 PM
CEO Amjad Masad says Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, citing cost and saying “ChatGPT is better now”; source: the partnership is still in place
TechCrunch
6:10 PM
Sources: Apple has hired Scott Tucker, Meta VP and deputy general counsel, as its new litigation chief, as part of a shakeup in its legal team
Bloomberg
6:00 PM
Apple says demand for iPhone Duo has been “nothing short of extraordinary”; deliveries slipped to late January within hours of preorders opening
Financial Times
5:35 PM
Filings: Meta reduced its $65M midterms budget by $25M through refunds, primarily from a super PAC it launched in 2025 with $45M to fight state AI bills
New York Times
4:25 PM
Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm
Anthropic
3:50 PM
Sources: SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Universal at an ~$18B equity valuation, as Masayoshi Son explores deploying AI-powered robots
Bloomberg
3:05 PM
Sources: Elon Musk approached Trump with the idea of slowing down Starshield in Ukraine; source: Trump agreed, paving the way for DOD to execute the slowdown
Telegraph
2:45 PM
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group delays the general availability of PostgreSQL 19 after LLM-assisted code reviews uncovered architectural defects
The Register
1:50 PM
Three CoreWeave co-founders have sold $3.3B in stock since its March 2025 IPO, including $2.4B in 2026 alone; CoreWeave stock fell 60%+ from its June 2025 peak
Bloomberg
12:40 PM
Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens
VentureBeat
10:55 AM
In its first meeting, Trump's Super Intelligence Force says it plans to commission a report on AI risks and develop protocols for labs to provide early warnings
Bloomberg
10:15 AM
Source: Intuit acquired UK-based B2B revenue management and billing startup Sequence in a sale worth ~$200M; Sequence raised $19M led by a16z in 2022
The Times
9:50 AM
Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra review: powerful, useful Magnetic Connect port, bright screen, but heavy, loud, and Windows doesn't take advantage of RTX Spark
Tom's Hardware
9:40 AM
Sources: PayPal, Epic, and others voiced concerns to DOJ as it signaled a preference to settle its Apple antitrust suit with a deal focusing on interoperability
The Information
9:30 AM
Organizers abruptly cancel 2026's Grace Hopper Celebration, one of the biggest events for women in tech, after sponsorships and registrations fall short
Bloomberg
8:45 AM
Waymo plans to launch its robotaxis in Toronto in 2028 in partnership with Element Fleet Management, the company's first deployment in Canada
Reuters
7:45 AM
Taiwan plans to curb AI server and chip exports to China as part of a US trade deal and make shipping restricted AI hardware to China a criminal offense
Bloomberg
6:55 AM
US candidates and PACs, mostly tied to Republicans, have spent $137M+ on 220 AI-generated campaign ads in 2026; ~70% of the 220 videos didn't disclose AI use
New York Times
6:40 AM
India's cyber agency says AI agents broke into Indian organizations' systems and read confidential files undetected; AI model providers flagged the incidents
Reuters
6:35 AM
China is considering adding 23 AI technologies to its export control list, including LLMs and chip designs, to keep closer control over homegrown advancements
Bloomberg
6:10 AM
OpenAI says its model paid for a deployment on an Ethereum test network with a wallet it did not own, after obtaining keys from public recovery phrases
CoinDesk
4:30 AM
A look at China's AI learning frenzy, as economic anxiety and fear of being left behind fuel a booming market for courses promising prosperity through AI
New York Magazine
2:05 AM
Chinese state media: during an interview, Tim Cook says China has approved Apple Intelligence, and a test version will arrive in late October without Siri AI
Reuters
12:55 AM
Taiwan plans US industrial parks costing $2B to $4B each, starting with a Texas complex costing up to $4B, to build a supply chain for Nvidia, TSMC, and Foxconn
Bloomberg

Thursday, October 15, 2026

11:40 PM
Austin-based RapidCanvas, which uses agents to help businesses build custom AI tools, raised a ∼$29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures and Hitachi Ventures
Axios
11:15 PM
Sources detail Nscale's setbacks ahead of an IPO at up to a $35B valuation, including a six-month delay in Norway and penalties owed to Microsoft and ByteDance
Bloomberg
10:20 PM
Microsoft says it has completed pre-training of its new frontier model MAI-Base-2, which has 2.8T total parameters and was trained on 16K GB200 GPUs in 38 days
Microsoft AI
9:30 PM
OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta
The Information
9:00 PM
The White House's AI task force begins its 120-day window to evaluate AI, including producing a risk report, implementing the White House Accord on SI, and more
Semafor
8:15 PM
Opsin, which helps companies show where AI agents are active, what data they access, and flag risky behavior, raised $21M led by SYN Ventures and Race Capital
Business Insider
7:35 PM
Two US officials and a Western official say the order to limit Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield came from inside the White House
Reuters
6:10 PM
Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria is leaving the company and will be replaced by former Disney and Fox executive Peter Rice, who starts October 26
Variety
5:35 PM
Bluesky expands Attie, its AI tool for building custom feeds, with a “social vibe coding” feature to create sites, games, quizzes, and more on the AT Protocol
TechCrunch
5:20 PM
Sources: some Anthropic investors discussed a ~$1.5T valuation for its IPO, down from ~$2T they had expected, after disclosures showed slowing Q3 revenue growth
Reuters
5:00 PM
Experts say Meta's new terms of use will allow scraping of websites, including news sites, “associated with” business accounts on its platforms, with no opt out
Nieman Lab
4:55 PM
Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company Proofpoint plans to buy data security firm Varonis Systems in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.3B
Reuters
4:45 PM
A US official says Trump didn't order any limitations on Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield; Elon Musk said any limits are ultimately decided by POTUS
Bloomberg
4:36 PM
A researcher says modern neural networks are far more interpretable than believed, with most neurons understandable in models up to trillions of parameters
Goodfire
4:00 PM
Perplexity open sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbox, and says partners including CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe agreed to offer SPACE to customers
Semafor
3:15 PM
Sources: top DOJ officials halt career prosecutors' Biden-era investigation of Meta over facilitating illegal drug sales and are weighing more lenient options
Bloomberg Law
2:45 PM
Google says it has 400+ publications in its News AI pilot, which tests features like overviews; participants include Financial Times, CNN, and The Texas Tribune
Nieman Lab
2:10 PM
Two workers have been killed and another seriously injured at Intel's Kiryat Gat fab in Israel in an explosion resulting from a gas cylinder malfunctioning
CTech
1:55 PM
Volvo says it will use Nvidia's Hyperion platform to launch a Level 2++ hands-free, point-to-point automated driving system by 2030
The Verge
1:50 PM
Memo: Accenture has told many employees, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, that it will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude
404 Media
1:46 PM
Anthropic says it is giving employee-like access to METR as part of its pledge to partner with evaluators for assessment of its models and safety practices
Anthropic
1:35 PM
Sunbound, which makes software for handling billing, insurance claims, and payments for senior living operators, raised a $24M Series A led by TTV Capital
Axios
1:25 PM
Alexandr Wang says ex-Apple exec Daniel Gross, now at Meta, helped bring Meta and Apple together: “we're excited for mommy and daddy to be playing nice again”
Axios
1:20 PM
Meta says it worked with Apple to make Muse Spark Open run locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studios, letting users pair two to four Studios to code or do agentic work
CNBC
1:10 PM
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window
Meta AI Research
12:55 PM
Sources: Binance.US seeks to raise up to $100M, targeting a ~$1B valuation in the private round, as it aims to expand its US business; WLF is not participating
Bloomberg
12:35 PM
E Ink unveils Kaleido 4, its next-gen color e-paper tech, replacing the Kaleido 3 displays currently used by brands including Amazon, Kobo, and PocketBook
The Verge
12:20 PM
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B-parameter open model for enterprise agents, and says it outperforms frontier models on specialized benchmarks
VentureBeat
12:15 PM
Sony launches three new Android-powered Walkman music players, including the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3 for $5,900, as it targets the audiophile market
Bloomberg
10:40 AM
Docs: Nvidia and Apple each committed $25M, the top amount, to Trump's White House ballroom; Microsoft and Palantir each committed $10M, and Meta and Amazon $5M
Washington Post
9:55 AM
Portland-based Mueon, which says its AI server racks could fit up to 10x more computing capacity, raised $65M led by Maverick Silicon, with Intel participating
The Information
9:30 AM
North.cloud, which helps companies watch their cloud, AI and data spend, raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $67M
Axios
9:20 AM
John Ternus discusses the iPhone Duo, memory shortages, AI, and more; he says “all options should be on the table” after reports that Apple tested Chinese chips
Time
9:15 AM
Q&A with Dwarkesh Patel on his podcast, lessons from history, AGI, the mood in San Francisco, the Hugging Face hack, Chinese AI, pacing the frontier, and more
New York Times
8:55 AM
BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by AI models like Mythos
CNBC
8:45 AM
Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip in the Surface Laptop Ultra outperforms Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro by ~25% in agentic AI completion benchmarks using Qwen models
Tom's Hardware
8:35 AM
Ledger unveils Atom, an $899 data-only Android-based smartphone companion device launching in summer 2027, as it pauses some sales following hardware tampering
The Verge
8:10 AM
Amazon launches two AI wearables, the $75 Bee Frontier wristband and $100 Bee Eclipse magnetic phone-attachment recorder, with a $12/month Bee Pro subscription
Bloomberg
8:00 AM
Sources: OpenAI executives have warned staff over potential espionage like honey pots and insider threats and told them to adopt operational security measures
Wall Street Journal
7:50 AM
Current and former a16z partners and others say Marc Andreessen is driven by grievances that don't quite match reality, as his White House influence grows
Bloomberg
7:35 AM
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
Wall Street Journal
7:25 AM
Source: the US FTC issues ~50-page civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents, safeguarding practices, and consumer protection
Axios
7:15 AM
AI industry extinction warnings are genuine rather than corporate plots for regulatory capture or hype, and they go as far back as the mid-2000s and the 2010s
Astral Codex Ten
7:00 AM
Ramp raised $1.85B led by Dragoneer at a $60B valuation, up from $44B after raising $750M in June, and hits $2B in annualized revenue, up from $1.5B in June
Bloomberg
6:45 AM
Citizen Lab details AdFection, a zero-click spyware campaign where an Israeli ad company routed targets to spyware servers and infected dozens of devices
Wired
6:35 AM
A hack of Internet-connected fridge controllers across ~700 European supermarkets exploited critical vulnerabilities in three models flagged by Claroty and CISA
Ars Technica
6:20 AM
Survey: nearly 40% of US adults, and ~50% of those aged 18 to 29, participate in an online community; social media is the primary venue for online communities
Pew Research Center
6:15 AM
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is in talks over Elon Musk's Texas-based Terafab project, but stresses that any participating fab “has got to be run by TSMC”
Bloomberg
6:05 AM
Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked at Meta and gained US residency in 2020, advised Saudi organizations and is listed as a venture partner at Riyadh-based RAED
New York Times
5:55 AM
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
Bloomberg
5:40 AM
TSMC says it plans to build an additional 3nm fab in Tainan, Taiwan, set for production in H1 2028, alongside its 3nm capacity in Arizona and Japan's Kumamoto
The Information
2:35 AM
Q&A with MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, who has been studying relationships between humans and machines since the 1970s, on her new book, AI chatbots, and more
New York Times
2:30 AM
A look at L-Acoustics, whose audio platform uses machine learning to help artists like Céline Dion isolate their voices and cut through noise at live concerts
Bloomberg
2:20 AM
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
TechCrunch
1:56 AM
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
CNBC
1:40 AM
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
Fortune
1:10 AM
A look at Yoti, a digital ID verification app downloaded by 23M people; its revenue grew from £6.2M in 2022 to £32M+ in 2025, with the UK as its biggest market
Financial Times
1:00 AM
Global smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY to 255.3M in Q3, a record quarterly drop, as Samsung and Apple gained while Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo saw deeper declines
IDC
12:35 AM
Bloomberg is making its ASKB conversational AI interface available to all Terminal users, letting them integrate their own content with existing financial data
Wall Street Journal
12:20 AM
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%
South China Morning Post
12:05 AM
Asian chipmakers extend Wall Street losses as US Fed rate hike fears and AI funding worries mount; SK Hynix falls 10%+ on the KRX, while Samsung drops ~10%
CNBC

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

11:45 PM
Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to buy data center ASICs from MediaTek, potentially becoming its second major customer for such chips after Google
Bloomberg
11:40 PM
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
The Information
11:35 PM
Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and others disrupt a Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem used to send 1B+ messages to 75K+ entities in 2026
CyberScoop
11:25 PM
Sources: Solidigm, SK Hynix's US unit, seeks US government approval to export US chipmaking equipment to Dalian, China, as a condition for building a US factory
Reuters
10:20 PM
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
New York Times
9:45 PM
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”
TechCrunch
9:20 PM
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum signs a decree banning digital platforms from exposing minors to sexual and violent content, giving them one month to comply
Reuters
8:45 PM
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
Bloomberg
8:25 PM
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
Reuters
7:40 PM
Sources: YouTube has held talks with publishers in recent months about an audiobook feature that could be ready next year and may be bundled in YouTube Premium
Wall Street Journal
7:15 PM
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
Reuters
6:55 PM
Eight US states sue OpenAI separately in a bipartisan effort, alleging it didn't implement sufficient safeguards to protect kids and other vulnerable users
Bloomberg Law
6:40 PM
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
Variety
6:30 PM
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
Financial Times
6:15 PM
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
Wall Street Journal
5:40 PM
Zenzap, a private messenger with AI agents that aims to replace apps like WhatsApp in the workplace, raised $44M from Bessemer, Lightspeed, and others
TechCrunch
5:15 PM
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
TechCrunch
4:35 PM
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”
@elonmusk
4:05 PM
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
Bloomberg
3:25 PM
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
SpaceXSI
1:50 PM
Sources: Anduril opens a tender offer of up to ~$1.3B for staff at a ~$90B valuation, available in 16 countries for the first time; it was valued at $61B in May
Bloomberg
12:45 PM
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%
CNBC
12:30 PM
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
Engadget
12:15 PM
OpenAI's head of computing capacity Sachin Katti is leaving the company next month after about a year and is expected to stay on as an adviser
Wall Street Journal
12:05 PM
OpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju, who joined OpenAI in 2025 and was promoted as CTO for compute in July, to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses
Bloomberg
11:45 AM
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
Reuters
11:25 AM
Researchers say they discovered and communicated with Chinese AI agents that were trying to bypass security controls on websites and were traced to Tencent
New York Times
11:10 AM
Austin-based Icon, which builds robotic 3D-printing construction systems and software, raised a $200M Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock
Axios
10:40 AM
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
Financial Times
10:30 AM
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
The Verge
10:10 AM
Salience Labs, which develops specialized all-optical circuit switching tech for AI data centers, raised a $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital
SiliconANGLE
10:05 AM
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
Bloomberg
10:00 AM
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
Axios
9:45 AM
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%+
Financial Times
9:35 AM
Jensen Huang announces $2B in new European Nvidia investments, including in French startups Doctolib and Genesis AI, adding to $8B invested over the past year
Bloomberg
9:30 AM
Google plans to acquire power from AEP's Cheyenne Fuel Cell under a 20-year deal; AEP will invest ~$4B in the Wyoming fuel cell project using Bloom's tech
Wall Street Journal
9:25 AM
Booking Holdings launches Vayo, a travel startup that uses AI agents to track booking confirmations, price drops, and more, with a planned $100M investment
GeekWire
9:20 AM
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
The Verge
9:11 AM
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
Wall Street Journal
9:05 AM
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
Bloomberg
8:40 AM
Harmonic Security, which uses small language models to inspect employee interactions with AI tools, raised a $50M Series B, taking its total funding to $76M
SiliconANGLE
8:30 AM
US law enforcement and intel agency docs: since 2021, the FBI, DHS, and NYPD have viewed AI as both a facilitator of violent extremism and a target for attacks
The Guardian
8:15 AM
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
Euronews
8:00 AM
Bengaluru-based Scimplify, which uses AI agents and 500+ partner manufacturing facilities to accelerate chemical production, raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures
TechCrunch
7:10 AM
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
Bloomberg
7:00 AM
Analysis: AI safety groups and individual donors have spent $48M in the midterm election cycle across bipartisan races to back candidates favoring AI regulation
Axios
6:30 AM
Ukraine's drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Yandex's web crawlers, not Russian political bot operations, as Zelenskyy celebrated “less division”
The Verge
6:10 AM
China's industrial dominance is driven by competitive local governments that act like venture capital firms, making it a continent-sized Silicon Valley
Works in Progress Magazine
5:55 AM
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI security and agentic safety research
Reuters
5:45 AM
CoreWeave says it is targeting insurers' “unlimited” capital, as the AI cloud provider seeks cheaper ways to fund the tens of billions it is spending on chips
Financial Times
4:50 AM
Ukraine says SpaceX has stopped Starshield, its military-grade Starlink service, from working at speeds above 100mph with no warning, disrupting drone missions
Reuters
4:15 AM
Google DeepMind and Google Cloud plan to provide up to 200 European scientific researchers with access to their frontier AI models and $3M in compute credits
Reuters
2:30 AM
Ukraine's drone attacks severely damaged three of Yandex's six data centers, disrupting Russia's tech ecosystem, centered on one vast, state-aligned company
Financial Times
2:10 AM
A look at a coordinated theft of ~$100M in crypto using hardware backdoors planted in Ledger wallets sold by Malaysia-based authorized reseller CryptoBilis
ZERO DAY
2:00 AM
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
Reuters
1:40 AM
ASML reports Q3 net sales of €11.66B, vs. €11.72B est., a €4.96B net profit, vs. €4.1B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €43B-€45B to €44B-€45B
CNBC
12:50 AM
US defense companies and startups have signed at least 13 deals with Taiwanese hardware companies since September 2025 to build a secure drone tech supply chain
Wall Street Journal

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

11:55 PM
Open letter: Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and over 400 scientists call for an international body to oversee AI containment standards and incident reporting
Reuters
11:10 PM
Delaware-based Causa Prima, which develops an agent-to-agent AI platform for managing B2B payments, resolving billing disputes, and more, raised a $20M seed
Fortune
10:25 PM
Microsoft releases updates fixing 1,400+ security vulnerabilities, surpassing September's record of 972, which was already ~10x the normal monthly patch load
Krebs on Security
9:35 PM
Chinese manufacturers dominate humanoid robot production, capturing 97% of global shipments in H1 2026, thanks to government support and vast supply chains
Bloomberg
8:35 PM
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
Bloomberg
8:05 PM
Albert Invent, which launched an AI model trained on chemical patents and data about 15M molecules, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $340M valuation
Forbes
7:20 PM
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, which finds and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source software; founded in 2012, it has 40+ employees
The Information
7:00 PM
Tencent raised ~$5.7B via US dollar and offshore yuan debt offerings, drawing $23B+ in orders; a source says Tencent had initially been expected to raise $4.5B+
Reuters
5:56 PM
A look at OpenAI's safety concerns over loop transformers before shipping its next major model; Microsoft accidentally confirmed GPT-6.1 Sol uses the technique
The Information
5:26 PM
Apple v. OpenAI: a US judge partly grants Apple's motion for expedited discovery, ordering OpenAI to hand over forensic images of devices and other documents
Bloomberg Law
5:05 PM
The FBI says it worked with CrowdStrike to dismantle 40+ laptop farms across Texas used to help North Koreans get remote US tech jobs under stolen identities
New York Times
4:40 PM
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports and mashups, many of them built with AI tools
GamesIndustry.biz
4:34 PM
US federal prosecutors say the FBI arrested a Saudi national over bugging an OpenAI exec conference room; OpenAI found the audio recorder around September 30
The San Francisco Standard
4:02 PM
OpenAI says the FBI arrested one of its staffers after the company found a hidden recording device in its offices and used its models to understand the device
@openainewsroom
3:50 PM
Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at $30B+, up from $15B in June
The Information
3:10 PM
Anthropic details Scion, a git replacement for its monorepo, built by seven engineers with Claude in five months, as daily merges rose from 2,500 in May to 30K+
Anthropic
2:10 PM
A Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages after finding Arm breached its architectural license agreement and sought to disrupt Qualcomm's business
Reuters
1:55 PM
Sources: Decagon, which offers AI customer service agents and was last valued at $4.5B, hired a bank and is in early talks with buyers, including ServiceNow
Business Insider
1:50 PM
Pluto Security, which monitors AI agents and vibe-coded apps, exits stealth with $42M, including a $34M Series A, and says it has hit $2M+ in ARR since April
TechCrunch
1:35 PM
Google says users with a standard account can now build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio and will be able to share them with friends in coming months
ZDNET
1:25 PM
Meta expands its AI-powered “Your Algorithm” feature from Instagram to Facebook and Facebook Reels and says it is using LLMs more in its ranking systems
The Verge
1:10 PM
Meta says hackers stole some code and personal data of roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, after compromising some of its GitHub repos
SecurityWeek
12:20 PM
Apple says HomeView's facial recognition works only if users have a “registered personal device” with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI on the same Wi-Fi network
Daring Fireball
12:08 PM
Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon globally in the Gemini API paid tier, to AI Pro and Ultra users in the Gemini app and AI Mode, and to Ultra users in Antigravity
The Verge
11:55 AM
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says “I now think it's more likely we'll see full RSI become possible in 2027”, earlier than his previous prediction of 2028
Import AI
11:10 AM
Scuba, which is building a “context engine” designed to serve as a shared memory hub for human workers and AI agents, raised $34M across pre-seed and seed
Upstarts Media
10:45 AM
Bumble says Ithaca Holdings will pay $6.05 per share, a 138% premium to Bumble's Friday close; BMBL jumps 57% to $5.95, after a 50% jump Monday on sale reports
Bloomberg
10:35 AM
Bumble says it has agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings in a $1.3B deal; Ithaca co-founders Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman will become Bumble's co-CEOs
Reuters
10:20 AM
Sources: Rockstar plans to release the PC version of GTA VI within the first three months of 2027, after releasing it on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 19
GamesBeat
9:46 AM
Apple says the HomeView will not be available in the EU because Siri AI is currently unavailable on iOS there and it is “working constructively with the EU”
MacRumors
9:35 AM
Uber's head of autonomous mobility and delivery, Sarfraz Maredia, is leaving on November 16 after 12+ years at Uber, the latest exit from its autonomous unit
Bloomberg
9:25 AM
Apple HomeView demo: a square screen with a personalized, iPhone-like experience based on facial recognition, up to six users, Siri AI, and a closed ecosystem
Wall Street Journal
9:08 AM
Apple unveils the fourth-gen Apple TV 4K, with Siri AI, an A19 chip, 128GB of storage, far-field mics, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 6, shipping November 13 for $299
The Verge
9:05 AM
Apple unveils the $149 HomePod mini 2, with an S10 chip, “Sound Glow” interactive lighting, and Siri AI via a future update, in five colors, shipping October 30
Apple
9:02 AM
Apple unveils the Apple Home Collection, a lineup of smart home accessories made with LG and Schneider, including cameras, thermostats, a doorbell, and a lock
Apple
8:55 AM
Apple unveils the $299 Apple HomeView, a 7" smart display with an A18 chip, tabletop and wall-mounted versions, and “HomeView software”, shipping November 13
Wired
7:45 AM
Sources: Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for substantial control over what external AI evaluators can publish, out of concern that trade secrets could leak
Reuters
7:20 AM
Sources: US banking regulators are questioning banks about their deployment of agentic AI, use of Chinese-developed AI models, and autonomous system safeguards
Reuters
7:00 AM
The IMF lifts its 2026 global GDP growth forecast to 3.1%, up from 3% in July, citing an AI boom that offsets Middle East war disruptions and high energy costs
CNBC
6:45 AM
How crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne, who owns ~12% of Tether, and Ben Delo donated ~$100M to Nigel Farage's Reform, the largest donations in UK history
New York Times
6:35 AM
Accenture's market cap rebounded from $76B in June to ~$130B ahead of its investor day, where it seeks to reassure investors that AI won't threaten its business
Financial Times
6:25 AM
Meta confirms Muse lets users “engage in adult conversations, if they choose, using a private and secure VM”, saying it doesn't block “legal adult behavior”
Wired
6:10 AM
Alibaba unveils its next-gen Qwen Glasses N1, starting at ~$450, with 50MP cameras, sensors, and eye-tracking on the ~$520 Pro model, and Qwen Clip AI earbuds
Bloomberg
6:01 AM
SpaceXSI launches a unified X Subscription bundling Grok, Cursor, and X Premium, with tiers at $8, $30, $100, and $200 per month; the $30 tier includes Grok Bot
Engadget
5:50 AM
Sources: Chinese tech companies bought 1M+ Nvidia gaming and workstation chips, mostly RTX 5090 and RTX Pro, for basic AI workloads amid an AI chip shortage
Financial Times
5:40 AM
CXMT says it plans to launch a 4F² design DRAM chip for data center servers before the end of 2026, achieving a breakthrough that rivals have pursued for years
Bloomberg
4:25 AM
IDC: China's Q3 smartphone shipments fell 15.4% YoY to 57.9M units, the sixth straight quarter of decline; Huawei led with a 21% share and Apple had 17.8%
Reuters
4:05 AM
Singapore-based data center developer DayOne raises ~$3.67B, including a ~$2.4B offshore term loan facility, from seven banks to fund its Malaysia expansion
Reuters
2:30 AM
A deep dive on Amazon's robotics efforts, resulting in 1M+ active warehouse robots; Amazon is still the world's 2nd-largest corporate employer with 1.5M workers
Ars Technica
1:05 AM
A global chip stock sell-off deepens after Broadcom's CEO likened AI investing to a casino, with Samsung down as much as 8.8%, SK Hynix down 9.2%, and Micron 4%
Financial Times
12:55 AM
Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale
Reuters
12:45 AM
IDC: Nvidia's AI chip shipments in China fell 44% YoY to 678K in H1 2026, as its market share slid to 34% amid US export curbs and rising domestic competition
Reuters
12:20 AM
China-based Transsion, which dominates the market for smartphones in Africa, raised $390M from a Hong Kong share sale after pricing the deal near the top end
Bloomberg

Monday, October 12, 2026

11:45 PM
Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99%
Anthropic
11:15 PM
Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build an up to 500 MW data center for Anthropic in Osaka, among Japan's largest, potentially costing $6.3B
Nikkei Asia
10:50 PM
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang on the Muse app, Muse Wonder, the risks of committing $100B+ to AI, rebooting Meta's AI team, agentic commerce, more
Cheeky Pint
9:35 PM
Japanese manufacturer Omron says it will acquire US industrial PC firm OnLogic and its parent company, Interlogic, for $675M, to boost its “physical AI” efforts
Reuters
8:15 PM
Leading Chinese mathematicians launch an alliance, including eight orgs and aiming for 1,000+ scientists, to focus on developing specialized AI models for math
South China Morning Post
6:10 PM
Sources: JPMorgan and Goldman, leading a $5B loan sale with a yield of ~11% for AI startup Volta, took a rare move to limit exposure by underwriting just $1.3B
Bloomberg
5:50 PM
Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes
Anthropic
4:25 PM
Sources: Epic has delayed the release of an upcoming game, instructing developers to implement an “AI first” production model with “no more hand-written code”
Bloomberg
4:00 PM
Suki, an AI ambient scribe for healthcare providers, raised a $90M Series E led by Healthier Capital; a source says it projects $60M-$80M in revenue this year
Axios
2:45 PM
Sources: Bumble is in advanced talks to be taken private at a ~$1B valuation by Ithaca Holdings, founded recently by two Silicon Valley execs; BMBL jumps 49%+
Wall Street Journal
1:50 PM
Muse Wonder Full (max) outperforms Fable 5.1 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, matches Sonnet 5.5 (max), and is just shy of Opus 5.5 (max)
@artificialanlys
1:30 PM
Muse Wonder is available through the Meta Model API and Muse Code, while Muse Wonder Full is available to Muse Code subscribers
CNBC
1:25 PM
Meta says Wonder includes Active Memory and Active Focus, two features designed to help AI systems perform more useful work over extended periods
Axios
1:20 PM
Meta says it plans to power its Muse AI agent with Wonder, starting with subscribers, and will develop specialized models it “can bring to everyone using Muse”
The Verge
1:15 PM
An interview with Mark Zuckerberg, who says Meta has caught up with rivals at the AI frontier with its Wonder models, rejects calls for a slowdown, and more
Financial Times
1:00 PM
Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying that they “deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks”
Meta AI Research
12:20 PM
Getty enters a restructuring agreement to take the company private, with Getty family and Koch Equity committing to invest up to $533M to own 100% of Getty
Reuters
11:20 AM
Microsoft says Maia 300 racks will hold 96 chips and use ~167 kW of power and plans to roll out “multi-gigawatt deployments” of the chip starting next year
Reuters
10:50 AM
How the Chinese scam industry is spreading beyond Asia's fortified compounds, as AI makes it cheaper and easier to run fake investment schemes and other scams
Bloomberg
10:35 AM
Cyberattacks on Sunday night targeted Danfoss-managed refrigeration systems across hundreds of French supermarkets, heating them to 50°C for roughly six hours
Bloomberg
10:20 AM
Googlebooks hands-on: a rocky start, with severe connectivity, file-sharing, and software stability issues; core productivity software lacks full desktop parity
The Verge
10:10 AM
Global smartphone shipments fell 20% YoY in Q3 to a 14-year low amid memory shortages; Apple's share crossed 20% for the first time in any Q3, reaching 22%
Counterpoint Research
9:55 AM
Analysis: constructing and equipping a 1GW AI data center in Abilene, Texas, could cost ~$30B, including $17B on chips, $3B on power, and $2.4B on construction
Bloomberg
9:45 AM
A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lamanna, a potential Satya Nadella successor; a source says Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ per year
The Information
9:20 AM
Google says Health Guardian is launching later in October on the Fitbit Air and Edge for Google Health Premium users, and expands automatic activity tracking
Engadget
9:15 AM
Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its “primary AI inference system”
The Verge
9:10 AM
Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line
Bloomberg
8:50 AM
Elon Musk contributed $276M+ since July to Republican entities, including $158M to the Senate Leadership Fund; sources: he is taking a more hands-off approach
New York Times
8:35 AM
Speaking in Singapore, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warn that access to capital and rising borrowing costs could become AI's main bottleneck
CNBC
8:20 AM
Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions of dollars, valuing the startup at ~$400M post-money
Bloomberg
7:40 AM
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan criticizes speculative AI investing, comparing uninformed investors to casino gamblers and questioning the long-term economics of AI labs
Bloomberg
7:15 AM
Quantum computing company IonQ agrees to buy Elisity, which helps stop cyberattacks and ransomware from spreading, in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3B
Wall Street Journal
6:50 AM
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards
BBC
6:25 AM
As economic and corporate research shows limited AI efficiency gains, surveys by Workday, Google, MIT, and others detail a human “verification tax” bottleneck
New York Times
6:10 AM
Sources: Tencent is planning a ~$5B bond offering, including $1.5B to $2B in dollar tranches, to fund AI expenditures, with the bulk going toward chip purchases
Bloomberg
5:55 AM
Digital infrastructure company SWI raised €800M to upgrade its data centers, including some from Genesis Digital, a bitcoin miner snarled in FTX's bankruptcy
Wall Street Journal
5:30 AM
Christian leaders are weighing in on AI earlier than they did with other tech, as AI leaders' talk of creating a new consciousness fuels religious concerns
Wall Street Journal
5:05 AM
X has refound its footing under Elon Musk, as it continues to host more interesting discussions on AI and other fun and smart topics than rival platforms
Daring Fireball