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A man US authorities called a "fixer", who was charged alongside Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw with smuggling restricted chips to China, pleaded guilty (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

A man US authorities called a "fixer", who was cha...

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Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event (Maria Curi/Axios)

Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and other...

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Sources: as Google prepares to roll out its Gemini 4 Argon, staff are testing a new version internally named Carbon; one staffer says it "feels like Opus 5.5" (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)

Sources: as Google prepares to roll out its Gemini...

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Sources: Ramp raised about $1.85B led by Dragoneer and Thrive Capital at a $60B pre-money valuation, up from $44B in June, when it raised $750M (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Sources: Ramp raised about $1.85B led by Dragoneer...

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Verizon closed down 8.75%, its worst day since 2002, while T-Mobile fell 13.27% and AT&T 9.81% after SpaceX announced a nationwide spectrum deal on Thursday (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

Verizon closed down 8.75%, its worst day since 200...

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Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18 (6abc)

Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on...

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A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beating 2021's 34; PitchBook: the average time to hit $10B dropped to 5.5 years in 2025 vs. 9.4 in 2020 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 20...

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Vesta, which uses AI agents to automate much of the loan origination process, raised $30M led by Conversion, bringing its total funding to $85M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Vesta, which uses AI agents to automate much of th...

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Blockchain.com seeks CFTC approval to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives in the US; it already offers some prediction markets internationally (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)

Blockchain.com seeks CFTC approval to offer event ...

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Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe after pushback from Germany, whose transport minister will now back its EU-wide approval (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted ...

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Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a $12M seed and a $50M Series A, and expands its deal with Physical Intelligence to supply AI software for its robots (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a $12M see...

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NY AG announces an up-to-$35M settlement with ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky that permanently bars him from the securities, commodities, and crypto industries (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

NY AG announces an up-to-$35M settlement with ex-C...

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Sabi, which is building a baseball cap that uses 100K non-contact neuro-sensors to convert neural signals into text prompts for AI systems, raised a $50M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

Sabi, which is building a baseball cap that uses 1...

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Analysis of 857 releases from nine Chinese AI labs between 2021 and September 2026: just 3.6% disclosed safety results, and only 1.1% did so at launch (SemiAnalysis)

Analysis of 857 releases from nine Chinese AI labs...

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Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised ~$870M led by a16z at a $7.5B valuation with Sequoia and others participating (Bloomberg)

Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised ~$870M led by a16...

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The UK plans to curb non-compete rules that force employees to wait before moving jobs or starting companies, an issue that has drawn complaints from startups (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)

The UK plans to curb non-compete rules that force ...

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The Chinese developer of ARTEX says it has converted the AI agent into a closed-source project after CrowdStrike said it was used to hack South Korean banks (Brenda Goh/Reuters)

The Chinese developer of ARTEX says it has convert...

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Meanwhile, a Sam Altman-backed bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $37.5M led by Bain Capital, sources say at a $350M valuation, up from $190M in April 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Meanwhile, a Sam Altman-backed bitcoin life insura...

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