Tech

Email: Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external, and legal affairs org led by Brad Smith (www.geekwire.com)
2026-9-25 Microsoft

Sources: OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for doctors, raised $250M at a $15B valuation, up from $12B in January; it could be open to selling itself (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-9-25 AI

The Fed unveils stablecoin proposals, including requiring some issuers to fully back tokens with permissible reserve assets, such as short-term Treasury bills (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-25 Asset

New Carbonato malware uses AI agents to hijack exposed Docker hosts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-25 AI

Meta unveils mobile app Horizon Create and web app Horizon Studio for building games with AI prompts; the games will run on Facebook, Instagram, and Horizon (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-25 Facebook Mobile AI Instagram

The US files an application with the EU's General Court in support of X's effort to annul a 2025 €120M DSA fine, arguing the EU engaged in regulatory overreach (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-25

Sources: Jev developer TypeSafe is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $10B+ valuation; last week the startup announced a $40M seed, PitchBook says at a $200M valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-25 Startup

Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-25

Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-25 Sony

Drop monthly subscriptions with a $79.99 lifetime PDF editor for Mac (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-25

In a default judgment, a US federal judge awards Nintendo of America $4.5M in damages in its lawsuit against a Reddit moderator who sold pirated Switch games (aftermath.site)
2026-9-25 U.S. Nintendo Reddit

Exposed GitLab project email addresses let attackers push code (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-25

Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed (www.politico.com)
2026-9-25

Sources: the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year (www.washingtonsun.com)
2026-9-25 AI

Amazon rolls out multichannel tools in Seller Central, letting US sellers manage eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart sales alongside their Amazon businesses (www.geekwire.com)
2026-9-25 Amazon eBay Walmart Shopify

Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-25 Google

New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-25 New York

OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge UN Countries to Cooperate on AI Safety Standards (slashdot.org)
2026-9-25 AI

At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China share the “capability and responsibility” to manage AI for good and calls for healthy competition (www.ft.com)
2026-9-25 China AI

Sources: Gen Digital, created by the 2022 merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, has made a takeover offer for GoDaddy, which has a market cap of $12.2B (www.ft.com)
2026-9-25

Sources: a White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that “built the AI-doom pipeline” and places Dario Amodei at its foundation (www.axios.com)
2026-9-25 AI

OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address (www.transformernews.ai)
2026-9-25 Australia

FedRAMP VDR & VER: Daily Scans Are Only the Beginning (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-25

Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-24 Google SpaceX

Hackers now exploit critical Roundcube flaw in code injection attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-24

Amazon plans to invest $100M to build a robotics manufacturing facility in Indiana, set to open by 2028; its robots at 300+ facilities help with 75% of orders (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-24 Amazon Robot Manufacturing

Sources: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027, and are considering CEOs (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-24 Google AI

Sources: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl to delay payments on the 2.45GW Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico if it fails to launch in 2028 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-24 Mexico Oracle

ASML's European revenue share dropped to 0% in Q1 and Q2 2026, down from 1% in 2025 and 5% in 2024; ASML is urging EU authorities to create demand for EU chips (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-9-24 Europe

Qualcomm says it has extended its global licensing pact with Apple, starting in April 2027; the partnership has been shaped by an April 2019 settlement (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-24 Apple

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