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Profile of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national the FBI arrested after OpenAI found a recording device; he has deep ties to Saudi officials and tech investors (www.ft.com)
12 days ago FBI

Global smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY to 255.3M in Q3, a record quarterly drop, as Samsung and Apple gained while Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo saw deeper declines (www.idc.com)
12 days ago Samsung Apple Xiaomi OPPO Vivo

ASML expects China to account for ~20% of total sales this year, after Q3 sales there surged 109% QoQ, lifting China's share of machine sales from 14% to 23% (www.scmp.com)
12 days ago China

Bloomberg is making its ASKB conversational AI interface available to all Terminal users, letting them integrate their own content with existing financial data (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago AI

Schools Across US Protest FCC Plan That Could Disconnect Kids From Internet (news.slashdot.org)
12 days ago

Asian chipmakers extend Wall Street losses as US Fed rate hike fears and AI funding worries mount; SK Hynix fell 10%+ on the KRX, while Samsung fell ~10% (www.cnbc.com)
12 days ago Samsung AI Wall Street

Sources: Solidigm, SK Hynix's US unit, seeks US government approval to export US chipmaking equipment to Dalian, China, as a condition for building a US factory (www.reuters.com)
12 days ago China

Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and others disrupt a Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem used to send 1B+ messages to 75K+ orgs this year (cyberscoop.com)
12 days ago China Japan Microsoft

Sources: Anthropic told investors that distillation accounts for 5% to 7% of revenue; its rapid but slowing revenue growth could weigh on its IPO valuation (www.theinformation.com)
12 days ago IPO

Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to buy data center ASICs from MediaTek, potentially becoming its second major customer for such chips after Google (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Google

Letter: Democratic senators question Meta's $6.6B in federal tax credits claimed over the past two years toward costs of building “experimental” AI data centers (www.nytimes.com)
12 days ago Tax AI

Flock CEO Garrett Langley defends his company's cameras, arguing that reducing crime means sacrificing privacy in return and that “we shouldn't pause progress” (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum signs a decree banning digital platforms from exposing minors to sexual and violent content, giving them one month to comply (www.reuters.com)
12 days ago Mexico

OpenAI agrees not to use trade secrets that Apple claims were stolen while their lawsuit plays out, and to collect forensic images of 14 employees' devices (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Apple

A US appeals court lets Florida enforce a law banning social media accounts for under-14s, rejecting tech groups' claims that it violates free speech rights (www.reuters.com)
12 days ago

Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
12 days ago

Sources: YouTube has held talks with publishers in recent months about an audiobook feature that could be ready next year and may be bundled in YouTube Premium (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago YouTube

Jio Platforms seeks to raise up to $3.2B in India's largest IPO, which would value it at as much as $108.3B; the offering opens October 21 and closes October 23 (www.reuters.com)
12 days ago India IPO

Eight US states sue OpenAI separately in a bipartisan effort, alleging it didn't implement sufficient safeguards to protect kids and other vulnerable users (news.bloomberglaw.com)
12 days ago

Eight US States Sue OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Harms Young Users (yro.slashdot.org)
12 days ago

Shareholders for both Fox Corp. and Roku approve Fox's $22B acquisition of Roku; Fox expects the deal to be finished in H1 2027, subject to regulatory clearance (variety.com)
12 days ago

Microsoft Defender Now Supports Linux Desktops (linux.slashdot.org)
12 days ago Linux Microsoft

Sources: Anthropic told investors that its revenue jumped to $16.8B in Q3, up from $11.5B in Q2, and that the company was profitable on an adjusted basis in Q3 (www.ft.com)
12 days ago

Apple closes above a $5T market cap for the first time, the second company after Nvidia to do so; Apple had crossed $5T six times intraday previously (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago Apple Nvidia

Zenzap, a private messenger with AI agents that aims to replace apps like WhatsApp in the workplace, raised $44M from Bessemer, Lightspeed, and others (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago AI WhatsApp

YouTube Music rolls out labels for songs created with the help of AI; Spotify has AI labels, and Apple Music plans to add “Made With AI” labels later this year (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago AI Apple YouTube Spotify

Epic Games' New Vibe-Coded Launcher Is 46% Faster Than Steam (games.slashdot.org)
12 days ago

Elon Musk says the US government owns and controls Starshield systems and “any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS” (x.com)
12 days ago Elon Musk

Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, with features first rolled out in 2024; the launch won't include Siri AI (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago IOS China AI Apple Intelligence

FBI raids DPRK IT worker laptop farms in Texas, US nationals arrested (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
12 days ago FBI Texas

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