• Ukraine blindsided by Starlink throttling restrictions and intelligence gaps
• Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
• The Internet’s undersea backbone is slipping into the danger zone
• OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
• Martin Shkreli livestreamed himself violating lifetime pharma ban, FTC says
• ESA targets Anbernic emulation handhelds as "superfake" piracy enablers
• Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware
• Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it
• Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech
• Skydance’s Discovery+ prices increase by up to 20 percent
• The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have
• Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store
• Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
• Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299
• They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think.
• High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom
• 39-year-old unvaccinated woman becomes 6th measles death in Pennsylvania
• Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model
• After a 10-year redemption arc, No Man's Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad
• WHO report on Russian lab worker death highlights "key uncertainty"
| • 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)
• 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)
• CoreWeave stock drops 15%+ and its bond yields near 15%, over concerns that some tech companies are borrowing too heavily for the AI build-out; ORCL drops 8%+ (Michelle Fox/CNBC)
• 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 (Anna Washenko/Engadget)
• 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 (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
• OpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju, who joined OpenAI last year and was promoted as CTO for compute in July, to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
• 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)
• Researchers say they discovered and communicated with Chinese AI agents that were trying to bypass security controls on websites and were traced to Tencent (Dylan Freedman/New York Times)
• Austin-based Icon, which builds robotic 3D-printing construction systems and software, raised a $200M Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• 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)
• 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 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
• Salience Labs, which develops specialized all-optical circuit switching tech for AI data centers, raised a $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
• 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)
• 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 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• 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%+ (Peter Wells/Financial Times)
| • Sony is taking on DJI with its new ECM-W5 wireless microphone kit
• Deezer will let listeners completely filter out AI music
• Xbox has a teeny new gamepad
• YouTube Music adds new labels for AI-generated content
• Epic thinks you'll love its new vibe coded game launcher
• Netflix to lay off roughly 1,000 employees in biggest round of job cuts since 2022
• 2026 standout Titanium Court is springing onto consoles and mobile on October 29
• Android will use Gemini to warn you about scammy messages
• Alibaba AI models cleared for use in Apple Intelligence in China just in time for the iPhone Duo launch
• LG adds DTS:X and Google Cast to its Sound Suite home theater system
• WhatsApp adds a guest option for joining calls without an account
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake plays even better than it looks
• Samsung Health's sleep coaching now requires just three days of data
• CMF's first portable speakers are shaped like milk cartons and pair together
• 8BitDo Ultimate 2C review: A fabulous Switch 2 controller at a fraction of the price
• Beat the iPhone Duo pre-order rush with Apple's Get Ready tool
• People are hating on Apple Music's redesigned black-and-white logo
• Qualcomm wins lawsuit against Arm but will only receive two bucks
• Which smart TV brands offer the longest software support?
• Is Mini DisplayPort becoming obsolete?
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