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OpenAI's massive deals show Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product and achieving it via world-changing financial engineering to raise $1T+ (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

OpenAI's massive deals show Sam Altman is selling ...

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TiVo confirms that it exited the hardware business on October 1 when it stopped selling DVRs, but says it will continue to offer support for the products (Michael Schneider/Variety)

TiVo confirms that it exited the hardware business...

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A new study of 6,554 children aged 9 to 10 found that social media users scored lower on reading, vocabulary, and memory tests two years later than non-users (Rhitu Chatterjee/NPR)

A new study of 6,554 children aged 9 to 10 found t...

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A look at quick commerce in India and China: India's ecosystem is evolving into a retail-media play, while China's is being used as a weapon in platform wars. (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)

A look at quick commerce in India and China: India...

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Dealroom: 230+ European defense tech startups have launched since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with VC funding reaching $1.5B this year, mostly for drone tech (Sylvia Pfeifer/Financial Times)

Dealroom: 230+ European defense tech startups have...

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Nvidia says it is donating the Vera Rubin NVL144 server rack architecture to the Open Compute Project and outlines its vision for "gigawatt AI factories" (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Nvidia says it is donating the Vera Rubin NVL144 s...

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Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compile a vast collection of private data, including T-Mobile users' calls and texts, sent by satellites unencrypted (Wired)

Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compil...

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Sources: Tata Electronics bought the Indian unit of Justech Precision, a China-based Apple supplier that provides CNC machines to Foxconn, for ~$100M in August (Anniek Bao/CNBC)

Sources: Tata Electronics bought the Indian unit o...

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Bhutan announces that it is migrating its national ID system for roughly 800,000 residents from Polygon to Ethereum, with completion expected by Q1 2026 (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)

Bhutan announces that it is migrating its national...

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Indian officials say that over the past year, all 1.2M email addresses of Central Government employees migrated to a platform developed by Chennai-based Zoho (The Hindu)

Indian officials say that over the past year, all ...

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Mumbai-based wealth management startup Dezerv raised a ~$40M Series C co-led by Premji Invest and Accel's Global Growth Fund, taking its total funding to ~$100M (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)

Mumbai-based wealth management startup Dezerv rais...

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Researchers detail "Pixnapping", a new covert attack to steal 2FA codes and other private data on Android; Google's September patch only partially mitigates it (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Researchers detail "Pixnapping", a new covert atta...

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The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 "nationally significant" cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, and "highly significant" cyberattacks rose by 50% (Joe Tidy/BBC)

The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 "nationally ...

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 771, which would've fined social media companies if their algorithms intentionally promoted violent or extremist content (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 771, which ...

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Nvidia says it will begin selling the DGX Spark mini PC for AI developers on October 15 on Nvidia.com and select third-party retailers for $3,999 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Nvidia says it will begin selling the DGX Spark mi...

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Samsung projects Q3 operating profit up 32% YoY to ~$8.47B vs. ~$6.8B est., its biggest quarterly profit in more than three years, as AI development accelerates (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Samsung projects Q3 operating profit up 32% YoY to...

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Microsoft unveils MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image AI model developed in house, and says it excels at photorealistic imagery, like lighting and landscapes (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Microsoft unveils MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-i...

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Sources: OpenAI is working with Arm to develop a CPU designed to work with the AI chip OpenAI is developing with Broadcom, which will be manufactured by TSMC (The Information)

Sources: OpenAI is working with Arm to develop a C...

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