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Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk”, saying its guardrails fall short of OpenAI's promises and it continues to do kids' homework (www.theverge.com)
21 days ago

Spotify expands audiobooks to 180+ markets, bringing its catalog to 750M+ users, and adds 350K+ titles in 120+ languages in partnership with 300+ publishers (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago Spotify

Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy (hardware.slashdot.org)
21 days ago Google Energy

Turba Labs, which develops tech for optimizing AI infrastructure by creating digital twins of data centers, emerges from stealth with $52M seed and Series A (www.wsj.com)
21 days ago AI

GoTo and Grab face pressure to offer drivers better deals; GoTo's share price has fallen 90% from its 2022 peak, while Grab's has fallen 50% in the past year (www.ft.com)
21 days ago

Sources: Singapore distances itself from regulating Hyperliquid, citing its “decentralized nature”, even as the crypto futures DEX confirms it is based there (www.ft.com)
21 days ago Singapore Decentralize

Sources: the European Commission considers taxing big US tech companies through a broad levy on large corporations to avoid singling out individual companies (www.ft.com)
21 days ago Europe Tax

Filing: China-based Transsion, which commands 53% of Africa's mobile phone market by unit sales, is seeking to raise as much as ~$428M in a Hong Kong share sale (www.bloomberg.com)
21 days ago China Hong Kong Mobile Africa

South Korea Says AI Agents May Have Been Used to Hack the Country's Banks (news.slashdot.org)
21 days ago Korea AI

AI startup acquisitions by other AI startups hit 195 through Sept. 29, up 14% from all of 2025, but number of buyers grew just 2%; OpenAI was the most active (news.crunchbase.com)
21 days ago Startup AI

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus is partnering with 17 companies, including US-based Synopsys, to help customers design chips; Rapidus has $15B+ in state funding (www.reuters.com)
21 days ago Japan

A September 24 cyberattack on Arizona's court system stole PII for 1.3M people, including 30K orders of protection and 150K reports from a foster care board (apnews.com)
21 days ago

A US federal court sentences Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to using bots to stream AI-generated songs, making $8M+ in royalties, to 18 months in prison (www.billboard.com)
21 days ago AI

Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who spent 12 years helping build and expand Alexa, as its CEO (www.bloomberg.com)
21 days ago Amazon Boston Dynamics

GLM-5.3's open release has yet to produce major attacks despite Anthropic's warnings about its Mythos-level cyber risk, undercutting calls to ban open models (www.interconnects.ai)
21 days ago Ban

New York-based Melius, which provides AI tools for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, raised $25M, including a $20M Series A and a $5M seed (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago AI New York

OpenAI says its internal model produced 372 math results, nearly all from a single prompt handed to a single AI agent; some might have taken multiple attempts (www.scientificamerican.com)
21 days ago AI Mathematics

Sources: SpaceX is seeking to raise $40B, including ~$10B in bank loans and ~$30B in investment-grade debt, to purchase Nvidia chips, in a deal led by Apollo (www.ft.com)
21 days ago Nvidia SpaceX

Google releases Nano Banana 2.1, based on Gemini 3.6 Flash, saying it improves on previous versions “across the board”; pricing is ~50% lower vs. Nano Banana 2 (the-decoder.com)
21 days ago Google

Canadian Analysis: Permanent Daylight Saving Harms Sleep and Mental Health (science.slashdot.org)
21 days ago Canada

OpenAI releases a range of new mathematical results produced by an internal model, with details like estimations of compute spent in terms of ChatGPT Pro usage (openai.com)
21 days ago

Sources: Xbox has secured exclusive game streaming rights for Grand Theft Auto VI; it is not clear how long the agreement will be in place (www.theverge.com)
21 days ago Xbox

Sources: Singapore-based data center operator DayOne seeks to raise up to $5B in a US IPO and plans to list its American depositary shares by the end of 2026 (www.wsj.com)
21 days ago U.S. IPO Singapore

Gurman: Apple's upcoming smart home products co-developed with LG are “at least a few more months” away; LG is handling manufacturing and product support (9to5mac.com)
21 days ago Apple Manufacturing

10 Unexpected Objects People Have Treated as Sacred (listverse.com)
21 days ago

10 Mass Animal Die-Offs That Looked Like the Apocalypse (listverse.com)
21 days ago

Ninja Forms plugin flaw exploited to hack WordPress sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
21 days ago WordPress

Sources: Apple's push into smart home devices includes a doorbell, thermostat, and other accessories developed with LG; the products will carry the LG brand (www.bloomberg.com)
21 days ago Apple

Artificial Analysis says Mistral Large 4 is the most intelligent model from outside the US and China, achieving results comparable to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) (artificialanalysis.ai)
21 days ago China

Alexa Can't Control the AUX Input On Amazon Echo Speakers Anymore (entertainment.slashdot.org)
21 days ago Amazon

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