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DoorDash pulls support for a GOP bill that would have limited DC's ability to write its own tax laws after widespread calls for locals to boycott the service (www.washingtonsun.com)
2026-10-2 Tax Republican

Anthropic urges Australia to consider “conditional approval” for Big Tech to train models on copyrighted works, giving copyright holders a choice to opt out (www.theguardian.com)
2026-10-2 Australia

SoftBank made the final $10B investment in its $30B pledge to OpenAI's last funding round; source: Nvidia also made its final $10B investment in the round (www.theinformation.com)
2026-10-2 Nvidia

Pentagon Creates 'Autowarcom' to Expand AI and Drone Capabilities (news.slashdot.org)
2026-10-2 AI Drone Pentagon

Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot To Get Into Locked Phones (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-10-2 iPhone

A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-2 Google AI

Encrypt files in seconds with this lifetime subscription, just $40 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-2

Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base (venturebeat.com)
2026-10-2 Alibaba

Sources: Tencent signed a ~$7B, five-year lease with Oracle in 2026 for access to ~100K advanced AI chips unavailable in China via Southeast Asian data centers (www.ft.com)
2026-10-2 China AI Tencent Oracle Southeast Asia

PS5 Emulation Is Suddenly Making Big Strides On PC (games.slashdot.org)
2026-10-2

HP's Answer to the MacBook Neo Is Thinner, Lighter, and Comes With OLED (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-10-2 MacBook

FTC Is Investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and Other AI Companies Over Product Risks (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-10-2 AI

Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for its IPO as soon as the week of November 9, putting it in line to begin trading before Thanksgiving (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-2 IPO

Gavin Newsom vetoes a CA bill banning secret recording with smart glasses in private places, saying its definition of wearable recording devices was too broad (apnews.com)
2026-10-2

Sony launches Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” for the standard PS5 developed in collaboration with AMD (www.theverge.com)
2026-10-2 AI Sony AMD

OpenAI says it “parted ways” with three staffers for violating its policies on “handling sensitive” info; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization (www.wsj.com)
2026-10-2 AI

Memo: Ryan Roslansky, previously LinkedIn CEO who became Office and Teams head in 2025, is leaving after ~18 years at Microsoft, triggering an exec reshuffle (www.theverge.com)
2026-10-2 Microsoft LinkedIn

Grindr agrees to acquire PurposeMed, which owns HIV-prevention telehealth provider Freddie, for $250M, its first major acquisition as becomes a gay superapp (www.wsj.com)
2026-10-2 HIV

Putin's Valdai keynote: Russian president addresses renowned forum (www.rt.com)
2026-10-2 Russia Putin

Volantis, which aims to use vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, used in the iPhone's Face ID, to transmit data between AI and memory chips, raised $88M (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-2 iPhone AI Face ID

Sources: Anthropic has taken the unusual step of ending customers' discounts, which typically reach ~15%, once they hit the usage limits, forcing renegotiations (www.theinformation.com)
2026-10-2

Western F-16s promised safe skies over Kiev: Why could they all go MIA soon? (www.rt.com)
2026-10-2

Close ally of Zimbabwean president killed in helicopter crash (www.rt.com)
2026-10-2

EU escalates ‘neo-colonial' cocaine-linked African sanctions (www.rt.com)
2026-10-2 Europe Africa

In a Q&A, Trump discusses Dario Amodei's views differing greatly from “what is portrayed in the media”, meetings with AI leaders, “Super Intelligence”, and more (time.com)
2026-10-2 Trump AI Intelligence

Miami-based Doxx.net, whose platform enables serverless P2P calling, messaging, and file transfers for humans and AI agents, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (www.axios.com)
2026-10-2 AI P2P

Sailors fight for survival after sperm whale sinks their yacht in the South Pacific (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-10-2

Russian official warns country will eventually 'go nuclear' and there will be 'little left' of some European countries if they continue to back Ukraine in latest WW3 threat (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-10-2 Russia Europe Ukraine

Moment flydubai hero punches the air and tells cheering passengers 'we won' after 'hijack pilot' was overpowered (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-10-2

Police dismantle KillSec ransomware gang allegedly led by 16-year-old (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-2

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