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Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are laying off tens of thousands of white collar workers, as executives hope AI can handle their workload (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-29 Amazon AI

IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, designed to run on consumer hardware and even in web browsers (venturebeat.com)
2025-10-29 IBM AI

A look at the FGC-9, a 3D-printed semiautomatic gun created by a German incel that scholars and lawmakers say is the most popular “ghost gun” outside the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 Germany

Sources: OpenAI's restructuring, approved by California's AG, paves the way for an IPO as soon as 2027; Sam Altman says an IPO is likely but gave no timeframe (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-29 IPO California

After Nvidia GTC, Jensen Huang says “I don't believe we're in an AI bubble” and that Nvidia expects to sell 20M Blackwell chips, up from 4M Hopper chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 AI Nvidia

French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation (www.politico.eu)
2025-10-29 France Tax

US FEC filings and public statements: a handful of crypto super PACs have amassed ~$263M ahead of the 2026 midterms; Fairshake remains the biggest at $141M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29

Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience (www.adweek.com)
2025-10-29 AI Reddit

China Pushes Boundaries With Animal Testing to Win Global Biotech Race (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-29 China Biotech

A survey of 16K+ creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more (news.adobe.com)
2025-10-29

USC sues Google in Texas federal court, alleging that Google Earth, Maps, and Google Street View violate its patents for overlaying 2D images onto 3D models (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-29 Google Texas

All three major South Korean telcos, SK Telecom, KT Telecom, and now LG Uplus, have reported cybersecurity incidents to the government over the past six months (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-29 Korea

Ripple's shares trade between $135 and $170 in private markets, up ~2x-3x since early 2025, valuing the company at $22B-$30B after several major acquisitions (www.forbes.com)
2025-10-29

EV maker Lucid partners with Nvidia to develop a fully autonomous vehicle platform, starting with building more ADAS tech for Lucid's existing Gravity SUV (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 Nvidia Autonomous Car

Palantir announces a partnership to use Nvidia's chips and software to help its customers speed up decision-making in complex fields such as logistics (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-29 Nvidia Logistics

CrowdStrike and Nvidia announce an expanded partnership to deepen the use of each other's technologies for creating and deploying AI agents for cybersecurity (www.crn.com)
2025-10-29 AI Nvidia

SK Hynix says its DRAM, NAND, and HBM production capacity for next year “has been sold out” and that it would set up a production system to meet OpenAI's demand (www.ft.com)
2025-10-29

Eli Lilly partners with Nvidia to build what the companies say will be the most powerful supercomputer run by a pharma company, powered by 1,000+ Blackwell GPUs (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-29 Nvidia

Sublime Security, which uses AI agents to protect against phishing and other email threats, raised a $150M Series C, bringing its total funding to $240M+ (www.securityweek.com)
2025-10-29 AI

Foxconn says it plans to deploy Nvidia's Isaac GR00T N model of humanoid robots at its factory in Houston, Texas, which produces AI servers for Nvidia (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-29 AI Robot Nvidia Texas

Westinghouse Is Claiming a Nuclear Deal Would See $80 Billion of New Reactors (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-10-29

Memo: California's AG says OpenAI's restructuring has “no impact” on other cases, likely referring to Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over its restructuring (www.theinformation.com)
2025-10-29 Elon Musk California

Sources: Francisco Partners is in talks to acquire Jamf, which provides remote device management tools, taking it private; Jamf has a market cap of ~$1.5B (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-29

Society Will Accept a Death Caused By a Robotaxi, Waymo Co-CEO Says (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-29

Nvidia's New Product Merges AI Supercomputing With Quantum (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-29 AI Nvidia Quantum

GitHub updates VS Code with Plan Mode for building step-by-step project approaches, MCP Registry integration, definable project rules via AGENTS.md, and more (venturebeat.com)
2025-10-29 GitHub

Ubuntu Unity Faces Possible Shutdown As Team Member Cries For Help (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-29 Ubuntu

Senators Announce Bill That Would Ban AI Chatbot Companions For Minors (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-29 AI chatbot Ban

Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, is set to raise $250M at a $4B+ valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 AI Robot

China's DeepSeek and Qwen AI Beat US Rivals In Crypto Trading Contest (slashdot.org)
2025-10-29 China AI

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