Techmeme River
Freitag, 23. Oktober 2026
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
US Treasury proposes rules tightening restrictions on US investments in areas including AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other “countries of concern”
Associated Press
20:30
An interview with Ondřej Surý, a volunteer who maintains PHP and automates its 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 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 this month, 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, with plans to support third-party chatbots
TechCrunch
15:05
Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, a venture of OKX and ICE, 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
03:15
How the US and China are building rival “AI empires” to extend their power over innovation, production, science, culture, and, ultimately, advanced thought
Foreign Affairs
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
22:10
An interview with Goodfire researcher Nick Cammarata, whose viral blog post claimed LLMs are easier to understand than previously thought, as others push back
MIT Technology Review
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
13:45
Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI staff of three AI endgames: an IAEA-style regulator, a CERN-like lab merger, or one lab using RSI to “melt everyone else's GPUs”
The Information
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
07:35
Four Z.ai founders participated in a 2018 to 2021 research project co-funded by CGTRI, which the UK's MI5 said had “very strong ties” to China's main spy agency
Bloomberg
07:20
Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei are pouring billions into data centers in Shaoguan, China, a hinterland region with cheap power and a cool climate, angering locals
Financial Times
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
06:55
AI safety advocates widely criticize Anthropic's leaked US federal AI bill as much weaker than the bipartisan FRONTIER Act, undermining its safety-first pitch
Transformer
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
06:15
Survey: 20% of US adults regularly consume news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020; 39% of those aged 18 to 29 and 25% of those aged 30 to 49 do so regularly
Pew Research Center
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
06:05
Analysis: London fell from 7th to last place out of 18 European capitals for median mobile download speed from 2021 to 2026; 5G adoption has outrun 5G capacity
Ookla
05:50
OpenAI says its new models are better for building and migrating software in low-resource legacy programming languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic
OpenAI
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
04:00
Ant-backed Mynt, which runs mobile wallet app GCash, rose as much as 2.4% in Manila after raising $841M in the Philippines' largest-ever IPO, valuing it at ~$7B
Wall Street Journal
02:15
Leaked documents detail ECHOTRIBBLE, a nascent US Army Cyber Command program for agentic AI to autonomously navigate networks to identify and neutralize targets
The Intercept
00:45
Chinese robovan maker Neolix raised a $400M Series E led by Boyu, taking total funding to $1.4B+; it operates 30K+ vehicles in 300+ cities across 20 countries
Bloomberg
Montag, 19. Oktober 2026
23:45
An Australian minister says the eSafety Commissioner plans to sue Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube over alleged non-compliance with the under-16 social media ban
Bloomberg
23:05
Mercury CEO Immad Akhund says the fintech hit $1B in annualized revenue, up ~50% YoY, now has 450K+ customers, and is launching a payroll service
Newcomer
21:45
Inception debuts Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM that it says tops GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash on agentic benchmarks while being 4x to 8x faster
The Deep View
20:56
Seoul-based data center infrastructure company Elice falls 30%+ in its Kosdaq debut, the worst-ever opening day for a sizable Korean IPO, after raising ~$151M
Bloomberg
19:38
Sources: OpenAI is racing to secure investor commitments before Anthropic's expected mid-November IPO, at a $1.4T+ valuation; source: OpenAI could raise ~$30B
Reuters
19:30
Sources: Ted Sarandos complained for months that Netflix was short on new hit shows and lower US watch time; Netflix just fired its film chief and content chief
Wall Street Journal
19:10
Sources: Waymo aims to expand its fleet to 8,000 by the end of 2026, up from 4,000 now, and to 20,000 by the end of 2027, after raising $5B in debt in October
Semafor
18:40
Sources: Eric Schmidt, who owns ~1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions in its Series A, is poised to have one of the largest windfalls from its IPO
Bloomberg
18:35
Cloudflare debuts Clairic, a System One-class extraction model it says processes unstructured data faster, more cheaply, and more accurately than normal LLMs
Cloudflare
17:55
The US FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp acquisition, subject to a consent decree requiring equal access to LiveRamp's data connectivity tools for all clients
Bloomberg
17:25
Dream Labs, which offers a public API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures
Forbes
16:00
Ramp says it applied to the US OCC for a trust bank charter that, if approved, would allow it to offer fiduciary investment management and digital asset custody
Bloomberg
15:55
Sources: Nscale is in talks for a second deal with Anthropic worth ~$45B to deliver 460MW of computing power at its West Virginia campus using Vera Rubin chips
Bloomberg
14:25
Meta details Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale supercluster in Ohio, which Meta is scaling to ~1M GPUs and used to train its Muse family of foundational models
Engineering at Meta
14:20
Town, which develops enterprise AI assistants, raised a $108M Series B at a $1B valuation led by Forerunner and Menlo, after announcing a $55M Series A in June
TechCrunch
14:05
Developers and vibe coders are using AI tools like Claude Code to remove sponsored ads on their smart TVs, speed up app launchers, disable tracking, and more
TechCrunch
13:50
NYC-based Prism Data, which provides credit-scoring data and analytics that help lenders assess borrowers, raised a $20M Series A led by Story Ventures
Axios
13:15
Tolan, an AI assistant focused on users that are not tech-savvy, raised $30M from USV, Khosla Ventures, and Homebrew, and says 70% of its users are women
Upstarts Media
13:05
Sources: DeepSeek and Huawei are collaborating on future AI chip designs and DeepSeek plans to start using Ascend 950DT for pretraining as soon as 2026's end
The Information
12:20
SCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, and Warner Music, upholding a decision that copyright termination rights apply globally, not just in the US
Reuters
12:15
Apple announces a “Pro and tell” event on October 28 at 10am PT in LA, where its first touchscreen MacBook, a 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, and more are expected
9to5Mac
11:55
Amazon launches TorchNeuron, an open-source framework that lets developers run PyTorch code on Amazon's Trainium chips with no rewriting needed, in public beta
GeekWire
11:40
AI infrastructure startup Modal says it plans to start using Nvidia's Vera CPUs for the first time for hosting agents, alongside its current Intel and AMD chips
Reuters
11:30
MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, saying it delivers “a generational leap” in agentic tasks, coding, computer use, and cybersecurity, with weights due October 23
MiniMax
11:10
Sources: DHS officials asked CISA to hack a voting machine to report vulnerabilities to the White House without telling the vendor; the request wasn't acted on
ProPublica
10:55
The US DHS orders all federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek's tech from their IT systems and prohibits future procurement of its products and services
Wall Street Journal
10:35
Sources: US investigators pursuing ShinyHunters, which stole FBI data, identified executives at two ransomware negotiation firms who had unusually close ties
Krebs on Security
10:25
Filing: US prosecutors say OpenAI suspect Abdulrahman Alfozan maintained frequent WhatsApp contact in 2025 and 2026 with an unnamed Saudi Royal Family member
CNBC
10:15
Source: Anthropic is preparing a model with better intuition and reasoning that can discern underlying intentions and is better at thinking outside of the box
The Information
09:25
Microsoft debuts new security tools in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception system that treat AI agents as potential insider threats via risk assessments
GeekWire
09:05
How Democrats, who polls predict will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, are preparing to aggressively scrutinize the AI industry
The Verge
08:30
Researcher: a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to target 1,200+ websites and breach 100+ entities, like Deere and SharkNinja, spending ~$5,000 in tokens
Reuters
08:20
Tel Aviv-based doubleAI releases a code execution model for improving GPU and CPU performance; doubleAI raised $220M, using ~50% to buy 1,000 Nvidia B300 chips
Wall Street Journal
08:10
Vinted sees an influx of listings suspected of containing stolen goods following widespread French riots, which hit Sephora, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, and others
Bloomberg
07:55
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone agree to explore a joint bid to offer “direct-to-device” satellite service in Europe, challenging Starlink
Financial Times
07:45
AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X at a $6.2B valuation, up from $2.6B after raising $700M in 2024
Bloomberg
07:30
Analysis: companies are set for a massive acceleration of 50GW+ in data center capacity additions in 2027; 24GW+ across 40 campuses are in the advanced stages
SemiAnalysis
07:10
Character.AI's Chapter 11 court filings indicate a two-part deal with Disney to transfer talent and tech, shielding Disney from Character.AI's legal liabilities
Wired
06:50
A look at Anthropic's opaque, five-member Long-Term Benefit Trust, where members own no Anthropic equity but hold enormous sway by appointing most of its board
Wall Street Journal
06:30
Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price
The Decoder
06:00
Foxconn agrees to acquire a 50% stake in Mitsubishi's automotive components unit for ~$727M; Mitsubishi will provide autonomous tech for Foxconn's EV platforms
Bloomberg
05:40
Elon Musk says “I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America” in 2027, a gift worth ~$10.5B, after Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to APBF
CNBC
05:15
Q&A with Nvidia's Vera team on agentic AI driving CPU demands and forcing CPU design back to prioritizing single-threaded performance over core counts, and more
Wccftech
04:40
How the data center industry courts kids amid a backlash: 11+ firms and groups hosting field trips since 2025, flag kits and cards for first graders, and more
Wired
04:00
CyberSN: US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% YoY to a four-year low of 235,786 roles from January to September; AI security engineer demand soared 268.3%
SecurityWeek
02:25
AI's ability to forecast extreme weather faces a major test in the coming months amid 2026's historic El Niño, as some scientists question the tech's accuracy
Financial Times
01:20
Stripe Link data shows agentic transactions increased by 38x and volume of payments by 20x in September, with retail leading in both, and a ~$100 average spend
Upstarts Media
00:40
Abby Care, which runs an AI-powered platform that trains and certifies family members as paid caregivers, raised an $82M Series C led by Transformation Capital
Fortune
00:15
Allium: stablecoin payments rose 45% YoY to $482B YTD through September 30, with transactions up 71% to 1.04B, while circulating supply grew just 0.4% to ~$305B
CoinDesk
Sonntag, 18. Oktober 2026
23:50
Intel unveils its GPU D-series for data centers, featuring up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, an unusually large capacity to support demanding inference workloads
TechRadar
23:30
China's GDP grew 4.5% YoY in Q3, up from Q2's three-year-low growth rate of 4.3% but below Q1's 5%, as AI-driven exports helped offset weak domestic spending
BBC
23:10
Sam Altman's World debuts a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools for verifying human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering
The Block
18:15
Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback over its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower $16B-to-$19B valuation, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal
Bloomberg
15:55
Sources: two industry execs expect 7-10 of hundreds of neoclouds to survive, as Nvidia supports them with easier credit terms, site finding, and $20B in leases
The Information
15:10
Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, for a total of ~20% with co-founder and staff pledges, plus 2% per 50% valuation rise
Anthropic
14:10
Sources: Nvidia asked Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron to use TSMC's 3nm process to produce NVHBM memory base dies; Samsung agreed, its first use of TSMC for HBM
Reuters
11:30
Sources: HomeView units sat in warehouses for months; Apple plans a November 6 store reset, likely for new Macs; iPhone Duo preorder mess could boost the 18 Pro
Bloomberg