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Does the Internet Have a Philly Accent? Why Too Much Time Online Can Make You 'Culturally Philadelphian.' (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-14

Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with “a vibrant new identity” (www.macrumors.com)
2025-10-14 Apple

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, which mandates safety protocols for AI chatbot companions, the first state law to regulate such AI chatbots (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-14 AI chatbot California

Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 1043, which requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google, Meta, and OpenAI supported the bill (www.politico.com)
2025-10-14 Google

Earth's Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a 'New Reality' (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-14 Climate

Anduril plans to make 100 units of its AI-powered EagleEye helmet and eyewear for the US Army by Q2 2026, replacing Microsoft's IVAS; Meta provided some tech (defensescoop.com)
2025-10-14 Microsoft AI

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 56, which requires social media companies to add warning labels on mental health risks for users under 18 in the state (www.politico.com)
2025-10-14 California

OpenAI, Broadcom Forge Multibillion-Dollar Chip-Development Deal (slashdot.org)
2025-10-14

The Pope Urges Vigilance About Who Controls AI (slashdot.org)
2025-10-14 AI

Salesforce plans to invest $15B in San Francisco over the next five years, including funding an AI Incubator Hub and workforce programs; CRM is down 25% in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-14 AI Salesforce San Francisco CRM

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveils Agentforce 360, a unified agentic AI stack to connect humans, AI agents, and more, and positions Slack as an “agentic OS” (www.constellationr.com)
2025-10-14 AI Salesforce Slack Qihoo

Sources: the Trump administration cut 176 CISA jobs last week as part of laying off 4,000+ US federal workers, and is likely to make further mass CISA layoffs (www.metacurity.com)
2025-10-14 Trump Layoffs

OpenAI agrees to acquire 10GW of chips from Broadcom and co-design custom GPUs with Broadcom to run its AI models; sources: the deal is worth multiple billions (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-14 AI

Amazon plans to hire 250K workers for the 2025 holiday season, the same as in 2023 and 2024, including full-time and part-time, and will pay $19/hour on average (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-13 Amazon

Slack is testing an AI-based version of Slackbot that acts as a personalized assistant, operating via AWS' virtual private cloud, rolling out by the end of 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-13 AI Slack

New York- and London-based ClaimSorted, which uses AI to help speed up insurance claims and works with 20+ insurers, raised a $13.3M seed led by Atomico (www.forbes.com)
2025-10-13 AI Insurance New York London

Sources: London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve is in early stage talks with Microsoft and SoftBank to raise between $1B and $2B, valuing it at ~$8B (t.co)
2025-10-13 Microsoft Startup London

CoinGecko: crypto's combined market cap rises 6% to hit $4T, recovering from a brutal weekend selloff as President Trump tries to calm US-China trade war fears (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-13 Trump China

Hollywood Demands Copyright Guardrails from Sora 2 - While Users Complain That's Less Fun (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-10-13

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on how innovation and technological progress helps economic growth (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-13 Nobel

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K under the OSA for failing to provide information on the risk of illegal content; a UK minister says the government “fully backed” Ofcom (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-13

Sources: UK security services including MI5 step up work with the country's largest companies over hacking fears and to improve UK cyber warfare preparedness (t.co)
2025-10-13

Tencent is investing in shooting games, traditionally dominated by Western companies, after the 2024 success of Delta Force, which still has 30M players daily (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-13 Tencent

A profile of eBay CEO Jamie Iannone, who said the platform was “too complacent” in 2020 and now focuses on its power users, boosting its stock by ~50% in 2025 (www.semafor.com)
2025-10-13 eBay

Parisians and BHV Marais staff protest Shein's 1,000-square-meter store, set to open November 1, as France tries to curb the company's presence in the country (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-13 France

Data center proposals are facing growing opposition from towns across the US, as residents and officials raise concerns about water and electricity use (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-10-13

Strava CEO Michael Martin says Strava plans to launch a US IPO; Sensor Tower says Strava has 50M MAUs and users spent $180M+ on Premium in the year to September (www.ft.com)
2025-10-13 IPO Sensor

Q&A with journalist Jacob Silverman on his new book Gilded Rage, the radical politics of certain tech elites, AI's impact on Silicon Valley politics, and more (www.politico.com)
2025-10-13 AI

Flatpak Doesn't Work in Ubuntu 25.10, But a Fix is Coming (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-13 Ubuntu

OpenAI's blockbuster deals with Nvidia and AMD add a new layer to its complicated ownership structure and will dilute existing shareholders like Microsoft (www.ft.com)
2025-10-13 Microsoft Nvidia AMD

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