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Interviews with Panos Panay and other Amazon execs about Alexa+, recruiting old Microsoft colleagues, merging hardware and software teams like Apple, more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-1 Amazon Microsoft Apple

Google's Ad Transparency tool no longer shows any political ads, past or present, from any EU countries ahead of new EU ad transparency regulations (www.404media.co)
2025-10-1 Google

OpenAI releases an invitation-only Sora app on iOS, powered by Sora 2, to let people create and share AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends (www.axios.com)
2025-10-1 IOS AI

OpenAI launches Sora 2, which it says may be the “GPT‑3.5 moment for video” with the ability to follow intricate instructions spanning multiple shots (openai.com)
2025-10-1

Amazon partners with FanDuel to allow viewers to track their NBA bets in real-time during NBA games on Prime Video and adds shoppable NBA merch to the games (www.geekwire.com)
2025-10-1 Amazon

Sources: Silver Lake told investors in its latest buyout fund that it was going back to its strategy of making big bets on technology companies (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-1 Silver

Stripe launches Open Issuance, a Bridge-powered platform that lets companies create its own stablecoins, used by crypto wallet Phantom to issue its CASH token (www.coindesk.com)
2025-10-1

Sora 2 is available for free with usage limits for users with an invite code, while ChatGPT Pro subscribers have access to the higher-quality Sora 2 Pro model (venturebeat.com)
2025-10-1

Disney sent a cease-and-desist to Character.AI for misusing its characters in harmful ways, including sexual exploitation; the startup removed Disney characters (www.axios.com)
2025-10-1 Startup AI

President Trump signs an executive order directing his administration to invest $50M in AI-driven pediatric cancer research (www.axios.com)
2025-10-1 Trump AI

The FTC sues Zillow and Redfin, alleging they violated antitrust laws when Zillow paid Redfin $100M to stop competing against it in online rental listings (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-1

Anthropic's System Card: Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to recognize many alignment evaluation environments as tests and would modify its behavior accordingly (www.transformernews.ai)
2025-10-1

The White House withdraws Brian Quintenz's nomination to lead the CFTC; the Winklevoss twins pressured Trump in July to reconsider his nomination (www.politico.com)
2025-10-1 Trump CFTC

OpenAI says Sora has guardrails intended to block depictions of public figures and to ensure that a user's likeness is used only with their consent, via cameos (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-1

US chipmaker Wolfspeed's shares close up 29.41% after the company emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and achieved its goal of reducing overall debt by ~70% (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-1

Taiwan's vice premier, who is leading US negotiations, says Taiwan would not agree to a 50-50 split in chip production, adding no such condition was discussed (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-1 Taiwan

Fermi, a data center real estate investment trust co-founded by former US Energy Secretary Rick Perry, raised $682.5M in its US IPO, valuing Fermi at $12.46B (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-1 IPO Energy

Interviews with 50+ people detail how the Trump administration seized control of Biden's $7.4B Natcast chips initiative, a move that many consider shortsighted (www.politico.com)
2025-10-1 Trump

Assort Health, which is developing voice AI agents for healthcare, raised a $76M Series B led by Lightspeed, bringing its total funding to $102M (fortune.com)
2025-10-1 AI

A California jury finds Uber not liable for a woman's alleged sexual assault by her driver, in the first trial out of 500+ consolidated lawsuits in the state (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-1 Uber California

Source: Meta is acquiring AI chip startup Rivos, as it seeks to reduce reliance on Nvidia; Rivos was reportedly seeking new funding at a $2B valuation in August (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-1 Startup AI Nvidia

The Gold Rush of 2025: Where Do We Go from Here? (dailyreckoning.com)
2025-10-1

What Researchers Suspect May Be Fueling Cancer Among Millennials (science.slashdot.org)
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A Russian YouTuber posts an unboxing of the alleged M5 iPad Pro, which looks identical to the M4 model; the same YouTuber leaked the M4 MacBook Pro in 2024 (9to5mac.com)
2025-10-1 Russia MacBook YouTuber iPad

Imgur blocks UK access after the ICO notified it of a possible fine over its handling of kids' data; the ICO calls Imgur's move a “commercial decision” (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-1 ICO

African nation's leader dissolves government after ‘Gen Z' protests (www.rt.com)
2025-10-1 Africa

US lawmaker warns of ‘powerful people' trying to silence her over Epstein (www.rt.com)
2025-10-1

Boeing Has Started Working on a 737 MAX Replacement (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-1 Boeing

Kindle Scribe Redesign Adds Color Model and AI-powered Notebook Features (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-1 AI

Vercel, which offers cloud tools to make web and AI apps, raised $300M led by Accel and Singapore's GIC at a $9.3B valuation and considers a ~$300M tender offer (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-1 AI Singapore

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