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Sources: Singapore distances itself from regulating Hyperliquid, citing its "decentralized nature", even as the crypto futures DEX confirms it is based there (Owen Walker/Financial Times)

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Filing: China-based Transsion, which commands 53% of Africa's mobile phone market by unit sales, is seeking to raise as much as ~$428M in a Hong Kong share sale (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

Filing: China-based Transsion, which commands 53% ...

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Sources: the European Commission considers taxing big US tech companies through a broad levy on large corporations to avoid singling out individual companies (Financial Times)

Sources: the European Commission considers taxing ...

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AI startup acquisitions by other AI startups hit 195 through Sept. 29, up 14% from all of 2025, but number of buyers grew just 2%; OpenAI was the most active (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

AI startup acquisitions by other AI startups hit 1...

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Japanese chipmaker Rapidus is partnering with 17 companies, including US-based Synopsys, to help customers design chips; Rapidus has $15B+ in state funding (Reuters)

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus is partnering with 17 c...

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A September 24 cyberattack on Arizona's court system stole PII for 1.3M people, including 30K orders of protection and 150K reports from a foster care board (Associated Press)

A September 24 cyberattack on Arizona's court syst...

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A US federal court sentences Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to using bots to stream AI-generated songs, making $8M+ in royalties, to 18 months in prison (Bill Donahue/Billboard)

A US federal court sentences Michael Smith, who pl...

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Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who spent 12 years helping build and expand Alexa, as its CEO (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon executive R...

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GLM-5.3's open release has yet to produce major attacks despite Anthropic's warnings about its Mythos-level cyber risk, undercutting calls to ban open models (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)

GLM-5.3's open release has yet to produce major at...

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New York-based Melius, which provides AI tools for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, raised $25M, including a $20M Series A and a $5M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

New York-based Melius, which provides AI tools for...

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OpenAI says its internal model produced 372 math results, nearly all from a single prompt handed to a single AI agent; some might have taken multiple attempts (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)

OpenAI says its internal model produced 372 math r...

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Google releases Nano Banana 2.1, based on Gemini 3.6 Flash, saying it improves on previous versions "across the board"; pricing is ~50% lower vs. Nano Banana 2 (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Google releases Nano Banana 2.1, based on Gemini 3...

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Sources: SpaceX is seeking to raise $40B, including ~$10B in bank loans and ~$30B in investment-grade debt, to purchase Nvidia chips, in a deal led by Apollo (Financial Times)

Sources: SpaceX is seeking to raise $40B, includin...

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Sources: Xbox has secured exclusive game streaming rights for Grand Theft Auto VI; it is not clear how long the agreement will be in place (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Sources: Xbox has secured exclusive game streaming...

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OpenAI releases a range of new mathematical results produced by an internal model, with details like estimations of compute spent in terms of ChatGPT Pro usage (OpenAI)

OpenAI releases a range of new mathematical result...

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Gurman: Apple's upcoming smart home products co-developed with LG are "at least a few more months" away; LG is handling manufacturing and product support (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Gurman: Apple's upcoming smart home products co-de...

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Sources: Singapore-based data center operator DayOne seeks to raise up to $5B in a US IPO and plans to list its American depositary shares by the end of 2026 (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Singapore-based data center operator DayO...

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Sources: Apple's push into smart home devices incl...

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