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SignSplit, which offers infrastructure to let people digitally sign datasets, likenesses, and creative works, raised $400M from W Group at a $1B valuation (siliconangle.com)
2026-10-6

London- and Paris-based tokenized cash startup Spiko raised a $90M Series B at an $800M valuation, taking its total funding to $120M, and hits ~$2.7B in AUM (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-6 Startup London Paris

AMD CEO Lisa Su says the company plans to “substantially increase” supply in 2027 and needs “more advanced wafer capacity”, as she meets Foxconn and TSMC (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-6 AMD

Sources: Kuaishou's Kling selects banks to lead a Hong Kong IPO aiming to raise $1B+ as early as 2027; Kling hit a $15B valuation after raising $2.8B in July (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-6 Hong Kong IPO

South Korea plans to launch a ~$3.5B program to develop a frontier AI model starting as early as March 2027 and will open a competition to select participants (www.koreaherald.com)
2026-10-6 Korea AI

At an Australian hearing, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon pledged faster safety incident disclosures; Anthropic representatives made similar pledges (www.abc.net.au)
2026-10-6 Australia

The UK's Ofcom opens an OSA probe into Meta over Instagram Instants, launched in May; Meta says it “briefed Ofcom about this feature on a number of occasions” (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-6 Instagram

South Korean officials are probing whether AI agents were used in recent bank hacks, after President Lee Jae Myung said “signs” suggest AI models were involved (www.nytimes.com)
2026-10-6 Korea AI

Old Hearts Become Biologically Younger When Transplanted Into Younger People (science.slashdot.org)
2026-10-6

ChatGPT is not only using New Yorker cartoonists' style but also adding their signatures to the fake cartoons it creates, which have gone viral on social media (www.niemanlab.org)
2026-10-6

Q&A with Senator Adam Schiff on recursive AI becoming a real national security threat, making AI companies retain training data, needing an FDA for AI, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-10-6 AI

Analysis: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar claims caused by rogue AI agents, amid concern that execs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei could be held liable (www.ft.com)
2026-10-6 AI

Sources: DeepSeek is close to raising $12B+ in a round that could reach ~$14.9B, with Tencent and CATL as the biggest contributors, ahead of an early-2027 IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-6 IPO Tencent

Sources: Seagate and Toshiba are bidding for TDK's HDD magnetic head business in a multibillion-dollar deal, as they compete for AI data center storage demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-6 AI Toshiba

Texas City Demands $2 Million For Public Records On Flock Usage (news.slashdot.org)
2026-10-6 Texas

Singapore-based data center operator DayOne files for a US IPO, reporting its H1 revenue more than tripled YoY to $512M while its net loss widened to $77.2M (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-6 IPO Singapore

Sources: Moonshot AI closes its final private funding round at a ~$50B valuation and is targeting a Hong Kong IPO in Q1 2027 to raise up to $5B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-6 Hong Kong IPO AI

Sources: AI inference-chip startup Etched is in early talks to raise funding at a $40B-$50B valuation, up from $21B in August (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-6 Startup AI

Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break (news.slashdot.org)
2026-10-6 Tax

OpenAI is adding invisible watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-6

Hackers Steal 8 Million Citizens' Records From Danish Government Database (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-10-6 Database

Analysis: Anthropic's subscriptions offer ~5x more API-equivalent value per month than OpenAI's for agentic workloads with Claude Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6.1 Sol (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-10-6

Wikipedia Operator Says OpenAI's 'Rogue' Bots May Be Linked to a May Outage (news.slashdot.org)
2026-10-6

SpaceX stock closes up 7.6% after Morgan Stanley called SPCX “cheap”, reaching its highest level since mid-June and returning Elon Musk to trillionaire status (www.cnbc.com)
2026-10-6 Morgan Stanley Elon Musk SpaceX

Rejetto HFS servers now actively scanned for critical RCE flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-6

Meta Rushed To Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-10-6

TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-6 AI

Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen 3.8-Max (www.semafor.com)
2026-10-6

Norway Plans Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-10-6 Ban Norway

Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-6 AI

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