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Sources: OpenAI is racing to secure investor commitments before Anthropic's expected IPO in mid-Nov. and aims to raise ~$30B; the round could value it at $1.4T+ (www.reuters.com)
7 days ago IPO

Sources: Ted Sarandos complained for months of a lack of new hit shows at Netflix and US watch time being down; it just fired its film chief and content chief (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Netflix

Sources: Waymo aims to expand its fleet to 8K by the end of this year, up from 4K today, and to 20K by the end of 2027, after raising $5B in debt this month (www.semafor.com)
7 days ago

Professor Calls To Abolish Business Schools For Failing Society (news.slashdot.org)
7 days ago

Sources: Eric Schmidt, who owns ~1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions in its Series A, is poised to have one of the largest windfalls from its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago IPO

Cloudflare debuts Clairic, a System One-class extraction model it says processes unstructured data faster, more cheaply, and more accurately than normal LLMs (blog.cloudflare.com)
7 days ago

The US FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp acquisition, subject to a consent decree requiring equal access to LiveRamp's data connectivity tools for all clients (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago

TP-Link Moves to Assemble Routers In the US Following Import Ban (mobile.slashdot.org)
7 days ago Ban

Nikkei discloses third data breach in a month, 1.8M records exposed (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
7 days ago

Dream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures (www.forbes.com)
7 days ago Robot

WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math compromised to backdoor websites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
7 days ago WordPress Mathematics

Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine (politics.slashdot.org)
7 days ago Trump

Ramp says it applied to the US OCC for a trust bank charter that, if approved, would allow it to offer fiduciary investment management and digital asset custody (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago Asset

A Hacker Broke Into John Deere, SharkNinja With an Army of AI Agents (it.slashdot.org)
7 days ago AI Hacker

Hackers hijack AOMEI update servers to secretly spread malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
7 days ago

Sources: Nscale is in talks for a second deal with Anthropic worth ~$45B to deliver 460MW of computing power at its West Virginia campus using Vera Rubin chips (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago Virginia

Apple Announces October 28 'Pro and Tell' Event (hardware.slashdot.org)
7 days ago Apple

Bullhorn takes staffing platform offline to contain cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
7 days ago

Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info (yro.slashdot.org)
7 days ago

Meta details Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale supercluster in Ohio, which will have ~1M GPUs at full scale and was used to train its Muse foundational models (engineering.fb.com)
7 days ago

Town, which develops enterprise AI assistants, raised a $108M Series B at a $1B valuation, after announcing a $55M Series A in June (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago AI

OpenCode hack exposes API keys amid AI distillation attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
7 days ago AI

Developers and vibe coders are using AI tools like Claude Code to get rid of sponsored ads on their smart TVs, disable tracking features, and more (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago AI

Elon Musk Vows To Give a SpaceX Share To 'Every Kid In America' (news.slashdot.org)
7 days ago U.S. Elon Musk SpaceX

Prism Data, which provides credit-scoring data and analytics that help lenders assess borrowers, raised a $20M Series A led by Story Ventures (www.axios.com)
7 days ago

Tolan, an AI assistant focused on users that are not tech-savvy, raised $30M from USV, Khosla Ventures, and Homebrew, and says 70% of its users are women (www.upstartsmedia.com)
7 days ago AI

Wine Ported to OpenBSD (tech.slashdot.org)
7 days ago

Sources: DeepSeek and Huawei are collaborating on future AI chip designs; DeepSeek plans to start using Ascend 950DT for pre-training as soon as 2026's end (www.theinformation.com)
7 days ago AI

SCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, and Warner Music, upholding a decision that copyright termination rights apply globally, not just in the US (www.reuters.com)
7 days ago Sony

Apple announces a “Pro and tell” event on October 28 10am PT in LA, where its first touchscreen MacBook, a 14" MacBook Pro with M6, and more are expected (9to5mac.com)
7 days ago Apple MacBook

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