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Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-8

A look at the OpenAI-AMD partnership, which added ~$78B to AMD's market cap and shows OpenAI is good at deals; last week, OpenAI deals boosted SHOP and ETSY (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-8 AMD

OpenAI's Computing Deals Top $1 Trillion (slashdot.org)
2025-10-8

Turn your iPhone into a pocket plant expert for just $15 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-8 iPhone

Google's new AI bug bounty program pays up to $30,000 for flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-8 Google AI

Redefining Security Validation with AI-Powered Breach and Attack Simulation (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-8 AI

Microsoft kills more Microsoft Account bypasses in Windows 11 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-8 Microsoft

Electronics giant Avnet confirms breach, says stolen data unreadable (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-8

AltStore, one of the first alternative app stores in the EU, raised a $6M Series A led by Pace Capital, aims to launch in Australia, Brazil, and Japan in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-8 Australia Japan Brazil

Irish Basic Income Support Scheme For Artists To Be Made Permanent (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-8

Sources: when Trump criticized Lip-Bu Tan in August, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Michael Dell, and others spoke to Trump or his aides to vouch for Tan (www.semafor.com)
2025-10-8 Trump

Qualcomm acquires Italian open-source electronics platform Arduino for an undisclosed sum and will retain the Arduino brand; Arduino releases a Pi-like board (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-8 Italy

Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands (www.theinformation.com)
2025-10-8 Tesla Robot Elon Musk

Docs: Oracle generated ~$900M from its Nvidia cloud server rental business, with a $125M gross profit, or a 14% margin, vs. its ~70% overall gross profit margin (www.theinformation.com)
2025-10-8 Oracle Nvidia

California Law Forces Netflix, Hulu To Turn Down Ad Volumes (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-10-8 Netflix California

FurtherAI, which uses AI to automate insurance tasks such as claims processing, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $30M (www.axios.com)
2025-10-8 AI Insurance

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-8 Quantum Nobel

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-8 AI JPMorgan

India's Grid Cannot Keep Up With Its Ambitions (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-10-8 India

EvenUp, which makes AI tools for personal injury law firms, raised a $150M Series E led by Bessemer at a $2B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $385M (fortune.com)
2025-10-8 AI

Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between 7% and 9%, up from its prior forecast of 3% to 4%, citing demand for AI infrastructure (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-8 AI

Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Million Jobs Could Be Lost To AI (politics.slashdot.org)
2025-10-8 AI Senate

Meanwhile, a Bermuda-regulated bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $82M from Apollo, Bain Capital, Haun Ventures, and others, after a $40M Series A in April (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-8 Bitcoin Insurance

10 Shocking Crimes Where the Perpetrator Walked Free (listverse.com)
2025-10-7

OpenAI's recent deals with Oracle, Nvidia, Samsung, AMD, SK Hynix, and others, plus its DevDay announcements, show it is making a play to be the Windows of AI (stratechery.com)
2025-10-7 Samsung AI Oracle Nvidia AMD

Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on social media algorithms, studying music at Stanford, music streaming economics, creators, TikTok, influencers, AI, and more (www.wired.com)
2025-10-7 AI Algorithm

Anthropic and IBM partner to make Anthropic's Claude models available in IBM's latest IDE, and IBM aims to make Claude available in more products soon (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-7 IBM

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming platforms like Netflix, the first such law in the US, modeled on a 2010 law (www.politico.com)
2025-10-7 Netflix California

How Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-7 Israel Netflix

At OpenAI's DevDay, Sam Altman and Jony Ive spoke in vague terms about the “family of devices” currently under development; Altman says “it will take a while” (www.wired.com)
2025-10-7

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