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A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lamanna, a potential Satya Nadella successor; a source says Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ per year (www.theinformation.com)
15 days ago Microsoft

Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Google

Should We Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock? (yro.slashdot.org)
15 days ago

Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its “primary AI inference system” (www.theverge.com)
15 days ago Microsoft AI

Google says Health Guardian is launching later in October on the Fitbit Air and Edge for Google Health Premium users, and expands automatic activity tracking (www.engadget.com)
15 days ago Google

Elon Musk contributed $276M+ since July to Republican entities, including $158M to the Senate Leadership Fund; sources: he is taking a more hands-off approach (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Elon Musk Republican Senate

Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions of dollars, valuing the startup at ~$400M post-money (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Startup AI Robot

Speaking in Singapore, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warn that access to capital and rising borrowing costs could become AI's main bottleneck (www.cnbc.com)
15 days ago Intel AI Singapore

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan criticizes speculative AI investing, comparing uninformed investors to casino gamblers and questioning the long-term economics of AI labs (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago AI

Quantum computing company IonQ agrees to buy Elisity, which helps stop cyberattacks and ransomware from spreading, in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3B (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago Quantum

Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards (www.bbc.com)
15 days ago Microsoft AI

As economic and corporate research shows limited AI efficiency gains, surveys by Workday, Google, MIT, and others detail a human “verification tax” bottleneck (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Google Tax AI

Sources: Tencent is planning a ~$5B bond offering, including $1.5B to $2B in dollar tranches, to fund AI expenditures, with the bulk going toward chip purchases (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago AI Tencent

Digital infrastructure company SWI raised €800M to upgrade its data centers, including some from Genesis Digital, a bitcoin miner snarled in FTX's bankruptcy (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago Bitcoin

Christian leaders are weighing in on AI earlier than they did with other tech, as AI leaders' talk of creating a new consciousness fuels religious concerns (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago AI

US soldiers using AI tech during a July exercise say they encountered issues like drone overheating, highlighting challenges in the Army's modernization effort (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago AI Drone

X has re-found its footing under Elon Musk, as it continues to host more interesting discussions on AI and other fun and smart topics than rival platforms (daringfireball.net)
15 days ago AI Elon Musk

A look at Uber's retreat in Africa, quitting Nigeria and Uganda abruptly after Tanzania and Ivory Coast, as price-sensitive riders pick Bolt, inDrive, and Yango (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Uber Africa Nigeria Uganda

How hacked civilian cameras became war tools, as Israel tapped Iranian traffic cameras before Khamenei's killing and Iran-linked groups hit 250+ Israeli cameras (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago Israel Iran

A look at China's bid to turn excess wind and solar energy into an AI edge via a $3.9T grid buildout through 2049, as ~9% of renewable output was wasted in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago China Energy AI Solar Renewable

How the US Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI (hardware.slashdot.org)
15 days ago AI

Sources: the US restores the UK AISI's access to the latest US models for safety testing, after ordering OpenAI and Anthropic to stop sharing models last month (www.telegraph.co.uk)
15 days ago

An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI “super learner” using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more (www.ft.com)
15 days ago Interview Startup AI Silver

Sources: TSMC execs in charge of overseas operations met Texas officials and started more serious discussions in H1 2026, after talking on and off for 10+ years (www.culpium.com)
15 days ago Texas

Sources: PCB maker Dongshan is eyeing to raise $2B to $3B in a Hong Kong listing as soon as this month; Dongshan is listed in Shenzhen with a $39B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Hong Kong Shenzhen

Let's Encrypt to Cut SSL Certificate Lifetimes to 64 Days in February 2027 (it.slashdot.org)
15 days ago

Hardware wallet maker Ledger says the $86M+ theft from hundreds of its wallets involved devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis and confirms a “hardware implant” (www.theverge.com)
15 days ago

Sources: Bain's Bridge Data Centres is in talks to upsize an existing loan from $2.8B to ~$6.6B, in what would be one of the largest data center deals in Asia (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Asia

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI companies are “starting to do phones” and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by 2028 (sources.news)
15 days ago AI

Anchorage Digital buys B2B payments automation startup Routable for an undisclosed sum; Anchorage CEO calls it its largest acquisition by team size and revenue (www.axios.com)
15 days ago Startup

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