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Malaysia says it seized ~$12.11M worth of AI chips this month, as authorities close in on a syndicate suspected of smuggling through the country's main airport (www.reuters.com)
9 days ago AI Malaysia

Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago

S-1: Anthropic had $112.4B in cash and $19.3B in short-term investments on June 30, surpassing every non-bank US company except Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet (www.cnbc.com)
9 days ago Berkshire Alphabet

CDC Warns of Rising Threat of Drug-Resistant Germs (science.slashdot.org)
9 days ago

How Silicon Valley billionaires raised $333M+ to try to defeat a 5% California wealth tax; Patrick Collison's $33M is his most serious campaign engagement yet (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago Tax California

The CFTC files a legal challenge to block Utah's attempt to restrict prediction market betting, asserting it is the sole US regulator of prediction markets (www.coindesk.com)
9 days ago CFTC

SK Hynix expects memory shortages to persist through at least 2030; it has long-term deals with 14 major buyers for 50%+ of its output in 2027 and 2028 (www.theregister.com)
9 days ago

Industry insiders say PCBs and chip substrates are key supply constraints for consumer electronics makers as AI demand increasingly eats up production capacity (asia.nikkei.com)
9 days ago AI

Sources: TPG is in talks to acquire UK-based Ark Data Centres, which operates 27 data centers in the UK and Belgium, from Elliott Management at a ~$5B valuation (www.ft.com)
9 days ago Belgium

Jio Platforms, India's largest telecom and digital services company, rose 21.4% in its trading debut after raising ~$3.2B in the country's largest IPO (www.cnbc.com)
9 days ago India IPO

Sources: CXMT plans to start HBM3E production despite yields of just 20% to 30%; its HBM3E performance is closer to that of SK Hynix's previous-gen HBM3 chips (www.reuters.com)
9 days ago

Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Records In 2025, UN Says (news.slashdot.org)
9 days ago

Sources: Fujifilm plans to increase magnetic tape production capacity fivefold to meet AI-driven storage demand, its biggest production expansion in ~20 years (asia.nikkei.com)
9 days ago AI

Sources: HP, Asus, and Acer are shifting some PC production from Thailand and Vietnam back to China amid rising component costs; Dell is mulling a similar move (asia.nikkei.com)
9 days ago China Thailand Vietnam

Anthropic's S-1 implies a $40T+ annual TAM based the economic value of knowledge work in 2025, topping SpaceX's $28.5T estimate, without explicitly naming it (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago SpaceX

The US FCC approves Amazon Leo's $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar, giving Amazon access to Globalstar's 24 satellites and mobile satellite spectrum (www.reuters.com)
9 days ago Amazon Mobile

Sources: chipmaker Onsemi is in talks to acquire 16-year-old chip startup Ferric for ~$1B; PitchBook: Ferric last raised a $32.1M Series C in December 2024 (www.theinformation.com)
9 days ago Startup

Letter: two Democratic senators allege the Trump administration withheld a secret FISC ruling on search filters that let analysts access Americans' messages (www.wired.com)
9 days ago Trump U.S.

SK Hynix plans to return $22B+ in dividends and ~$15B in buybacks to shareholders, on top of its ~$30B buyback program completed in August (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago

AMD says it will invest $1B in Meta's equity offering, its first Helios rackscale systems are installed at Meta, and its EPYC CPUs power Meta's Muse AI agent (www.cnbc.com)
9 days ago AI Equity AMD

Toronto-based fintech Wealthsimple raised up to CA$425M led by GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$13.8B, up from CA$10B in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
9 days ago Fintech Toronto

The FCC warns TP-Link that three of its routers violate power limits, which could bring more bans, and it may have submitted “false or incorrect information” (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago

Source: OpenAI, a major Nvidia customer, plans to buy Google's TPUs; a job listing shows it seeks an engineer to “lead the optimization” of its models on TPUs (www.theinformation.com)
9 days ago Google Nvidia

SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 328% YoY to ~$78.8B, vs. ~$74.07B est., and operating profit up 632% to ~$62.76B, vs. ~$57.78B est. (www.cnbc.com)
9 days ago

Japan's GMO urges customers to shut down PCs amid ransomware threat (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago Japan

An Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them and tells junior engineers that “hunger beats tenure” (felixrieseberg.com)
9 days ago

Anthropic expands its US GSA partnership to give federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments a 40% discount on Claude, estimated to save $1B (www.anthropic.com)
9 days ago

Infisical, which helps companies use AI agents without handing over their private credentials, raised a $40M Series B led by Elad Gil at a $600M valuation (www.forbes.com)
9 days ago AI

Ford's Most Affordable EV Will Offer Built-In Bidirectional Home Charging (hardware.slashdot.org)
9 days ago Ford

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra is safer overall, but shows more destructive-action flags in tests (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago

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