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An investigation finds rampant caste bias in ChatGPT and Sora; a researcher also finds caste bias in Sarvam AI, which touts itself as a sovereign AI for India (www.technologyreview.com)
2025-10-4 India AI

Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O'Neill says the Trump administration doesn't support CHAI, an effort by OpenAI, Mayo Clinic, and others to vet AI tools for healthcare (www.politico.com)
2025-10-4 Trump AI

Signal Braces For Quantum Age With SPQR Encryption Upgrade (it.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4 Quantum

Inside the aftermath of FTX's collapse, law firm Sullivan & Cromwell's role, and an interview with SBF, who is preparing to appeal his conviction in November (www.motherjones.com)
2025-10-4 Interview

Kioxia, whose stock has more than tripled since its public debut in Tokyo last December, expects NAND storage demand to grow by ~20% annually amid the AI boom (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-4 AI Tokyo

Singapore dollar-pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinbase, giving the city-state a head start over Hong Kong in launching a local currency-linked stablecoin (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-4 Hong Kong Singapore Coinbase

KKR invests in Infobric, a Stirling Square-backed Swedish company that offers software to the construction industry, sources say at a ~€600M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-4 Sweden

Applied Materials expects new US export rules from BIS restricting certain product shipments to China to hurt its Q4 revenue by $110M and 2026 revenue by $600M (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-4 China 4Q

US semiconductor equipment companies Axcelis and Veeco agree to merge in an all-stock deal, creating a combined company with an enterprise value of $4.4B (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-4

Indian ministers push domestic alternatives to Google and Microsoft apps amid US tensions; Sensor Tower: Zoho messaging app Arattai hit 400K+ downloads in Sept. (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-4 India Google Microsoft Sensor

Indonesia Suspends TikTok Registration With Over 100 Million Accounts At Risk (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4 Indonesia

Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-4 AI Browser

Google Is Ending Gmailify and POP Support (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4 Google

Bay Area University Issues Warning Over Man Using Meta AI Glasses On Campus (meta.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4 AI

Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning two Sora changes for rightsholders: granular controls over generation of their characters and a revenue sharing system (blog.samaltman.com)
2025-10-4

SEC Approves Texas Stock Exchange (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4 Texas

Varun Shetty, OpenAI's media partnerships head, says OpenAI didn't put too many guardrails in Sora because it didn't want to “be at a competitive disadvantage” (www.newcomer.co)
2025-10-4

Google's Jules Enters Developers' Toolchains As AI Coding Agent Competition Heats Up (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4 Google AI

Thwarted Plot To Cripple Cell Service In NY Was Bigger Than First Thought (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4

Source: Xbox gave up more than $300M in Call of Duty sales on consoles and PCs last year after its decision to put some of its top titles on Game Pass (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-4 Xbox

OpenAI acquires AI-powered personal finance app Roi; source: CEO and co-founder Sujith Vishwajith is the only member of Roi's four-person team joining OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-4 AI

Sources: former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1B led by a16z at a $5B valuation for his new AI hardware startup Unconventional (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-4 Startup AI

OpenAI Becomes World's Most Valuable Startup After $500 Billion Valuation (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4 Startup

Coinbase applies for a national trust company charter, says it “has no intention of becoming a bank” and the charter will allow expansion in areas like payments (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-4 Coinbase

Google Confirms Android Dev Verification Will Have Free and Paid Tiers, No Public List of Devs (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4 Android Google

Apple's removal of ICEBlock raises questions about the limits of what the company will resist under the Trump administration's increasingly outrageous demands (daringfireball.net)
2025-10-4 Trump Apple

Chipmaker Cerebras withdraws its IPO, a little over a year after filing its IPO prospectus; it announced a $1.1B raise at a $8.1B valuation on September 30 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-4 IPO

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that gives ride-hailing drivers in California the right to unionize while remaining classified as independent contractors (apnews.com)
2025-10-4 California

Hotel Prices Lead Countries To Consider Skipping COP30 Climate Summit (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4 Climate

Microsoft is About To Launch Free Xbox Cloud Gaming With Ads (games.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4 Microsoft Xbox

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