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Chainalysis says Binance hackers used automated money-laundering patterns not seen before; Elliptic: almost all of the $6.3B was taken in the first 30 minutes (Financial Times)

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Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle returned just 9.3% of cash to shareholders in the first three quarters of 2026, a 15-year low amid AI spending (Patturaja Murugaboopathy/Reuters)

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Anthropic renames its $100 per month Max 5x plan as Max and the $200 per month Max 20x plan as Ultra, and removes the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts (Claude/@claudeai)

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Google says its Suncatcher prototype data center satellite is online after an October 1 launch, with Gemma 4 generating a haiku about being in space (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

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Salesforce acquires Rune, which makes AI military logistics software, sources say for $375M in cash and stock; Rune raised $30m from a16z and others (Margaux MacColl/Resilience Media)

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Salesforce agrees to acquire Rune, which raised ~$30M to make AI military logistics software, as it expands its year-old Missionforce defense business (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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London's High Court dismisses Meta, TikTok, and X's challenge to Ofcom's Online Safety Act information requests, rejecting arguments they were disproportionate (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

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Binance says it has reserved $6.34B+ in company funds, including $5B already held in impacted token assets, to deal with the fallout from the $6.3B hack (Rajveer Singh Pardesi/Reuters)

Binance says it has reserved $6.34B+ in company fu...

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FEC data: AI-oriented PACs spent nearly $80M on the 2026 US elections, mostly before the primaries; pro-regulatory PACs outspent Leading the Future's network (Ian Krietzberg/Puck)

FEC data: AI-oriented PACs spent nearly $80M on th...

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CXMT reports Q3 revenue of ~$16.7B, up 613.2% YoY, and a net profit of ~$8.17B, swinging to profitability on the back of rising AI-driven memory chip prices (Reuters)

CXMT reports Q3 revenue of ~$16.7B, up 613.2% YoY,...

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NAND maker Kioxia reports FY Q2 operating profit up 22x YoY to ~$12.7B, in line with est., but forecasts Q3 operating profit of ~$12.7B, below ~$14.9B est. (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

NAND maker Kioxia reports FY Q2 operating profit u...

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The UK CMA opens a probe into whether Meta imposed exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers to use their content to develop its AI and other services (Reuters)

The UK CMA opens a probe into whether Meta imposed...

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Binance reveals that a follow-up investigation has found "additional points of breach" beyond a possibly compromised laptop and says this was a "complex attack" (@binance)

Binance reveals that a follow-up investigation has...

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Dream, which is training AI world models on US building data to automate construction design and engineering, emerges from stealth with a $17M seed led by a16z (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Dream, which is training AI world models on US bui...

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Ravical, whose AI-powered platform helps accounting and tax firms manage their operations, raised a $17M seed led by MMC, bringing its total funding to $25M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Inside Nscale's 2,250-acre, 8GW Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, which has been hit by construction issues, local opposition, and financing risks (Financial Times)

Inside Nscale's 2,250-acre, 8GW Monarch Compute Ca...

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Sources: Spotify aims to launch an AI product in Q1 2027 that lets subscribers create their own remixes and covers for ~$5 per month, pending licensing deals (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Sources: Spotify aims to launch an AI product in Q...

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How a wave of startups are betting on AI to make formal software verification practical and essential, including &Truth, which launches with a $70M seed (Paresh Dave/Wired)

How a wave of startups are betting on AI to make f...

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