Tech

TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to ~$14.8B, beating est., after previously reporting a 30% rise in revenue, the latest sign of robust spending on AI chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-16 AI

Nvidia partners with startup Firmus on Project Southgate, a $2.9B initial undertaking to build renewable energy-powered AI data centers across Australia (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-16 Australia Energy Startup AI Nvidia Renewable

South Korea's AI textbook program, meant to personalize learning, was rolled back after just four months after complaints about inaccuracies and extra workload (restofworld.org)
2025-10-16 Korea AI

GiveDirectly plans to pilot a program using Google's AI-based Flood Hub, which provides forecast warnings, to send early aid to at-risk families in Bangladesh (restofworld.org)
2025-10-16 Google AI Bangladesh

How OpenSea reinvented itself from an NFT marketplace to a crypto trading aggregator, facilitating $1.6B in trades in the first two weeks of October (www.forbes.com)
2025-10-16

Analysis: ten loss-making AI startups, including OpenAI, gained ~$1T in valuation over the past year, fueling concerns of an inflating bubble in private markets (www.ft.com)
2025-10-16 Startup AI

Huawei's key partners SiCarrier and Qiyunfang showcased chipmaking gear and EDA software at a Shenzhen expo; SiCarrier's gear competes with older US products (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-16 Shenzhen

YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K+ full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (blog.youtube)
2025-10-16 YouTube GDP

Investigation: the Trump family's crypto empire has reaped over $1B in pre-tax profits over the past year; Eric Trump says the true figure is “probably more” (www.ft.com)
2025-10-16 Trump Tax

The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and other corporate donors to the $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-16 Trump Google Microsoft

Focused Sound Energy Holds Promise For Treating Cancer, Alzheimer's and Other Diseases (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-16 Energy Alzheimer

OpenAI says all Sora 2 users can now generate videos up to 15 seconds on the app and web, while Pro users can generate videos up to 25 seconds on the web (x.com)
2025-10-16

Liberate, which builds AI agents to automate insurance operations, raised a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures at a $300M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-16 AI Battery Insurance

Basis Theory, which provides data management and payments infrastructure tools, raised a $33M Series B led by Costanoa, taking its total funding to $50M (finovate.com)
2025-10-16

Sources: F5's breach is blamed on China, whose hackers had infiltrated F5's network for at least 12 months using the Brickstorm malware to steal source code (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-16 China

Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China (slashdot.org)
2025-10-16 China

Campfire, an AI-powered ERP and accounting services provider, raised a $65M Series B co-led by Accel and Ribbit Capital, after raising a $35M Series A in June (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-10-16 AI ERP

Google releases Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a 27B-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on its Gemma family of open models (blog.google)
2025-10-16 Google

Norway Says 'Mission Accomplished' On Going 100% EV, Proposes Incentive Changes (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-16 Norway

Paxos says it “mistakenly minted” $300T worth of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday and “burned” the tokens a little over 20 minutes later (decrypt.co)
2025-10-16

YouTube is down worldwide with playback error (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-16 YouTube

China 'Stole Vast Amounts' of Classified UK Documents, Officials Say (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-16 China

Documents: Rhoda AI, which raised a $162.6M Series A in April, and Genesis AI, which raised a $105M seed earlier this year, have been developing humanoid robots (www.forbes.com)
2025-10-16 AI Robot

Waymo's Robotaxis Are Coming To London (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-16 London

Salesforce says it expects FY 2030 revenue of $60B+, vs. $58.37B est., excluding impact from the $8B pending acquisition of data management company Informatica (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-16 Salesforce

Sources: Apple executive Ke Yang, who was appointed just weeks ago as head of a team developing AI-driven web search for Siri, is leaving for Meta (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-16 AI Apple

Mozilla Is Recruiting Beta Testers For a Free, Baked-In Firefox VPN (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-16 Firefox Mozilla VPN

Honor unveils its flagships Magic8, with a 7,000mAh battery, and Magic8 Pro, with 7,200mAh, both featuring an AI button, launching in China for ~$630 and ~$800 (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-16 China AI Battery

Anthropic Aims To Nearly Triple Annualized Revenue In 2026 (slashdot.org)
2025-10-16

Honor teases the “Robot Phone”, with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that unfolds from the phone's rear and can capture photos and video in any direction (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-16 AI Robot

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