Anthropic IPO may value it at 400x last year's revenue. Samsung's 1TB Galaxy S26 Ultra now costs $1,999. Every story that day, by desk. 439 stories in all. Times are Pacific.
Security14 stories
- Frontline Education breach through unnamed third-party software exposes school staff SSNs
- Fortinet tells FortiMail admins to disable IBE while an exploited CVSS 9.8 flaw awaits fixes
- GitLab patches sandbox escape that lets Duo agent users run commands on self-hosted AI Gateways
- Linux implants on Korean and Taiwanese edge appliances run from memory after erasing their files
- Unauthenticated Dell CSM flaw leaks admin credentials for every registered storage array
- Attackers hijack Microsoft's 13-million-follower X account to promote a Clippy crypto token
- Montenegro extradites Amir Barati, accused of hacking US universities for Iran
Build134 stories
- Lightpanda 1.0 makes a browser without a renderer a production option for crawlers and agents
- Redis creator's ds4 engine squeezes a handful of open models into 96GB to 128GB of memory
- Google wires Gemini Live's camera describer into TalkBack and Android's accessibility shortcuts
- Anthropic flew dozens of theologians in under NDA to discuss whether Claude might be conscious
- Supabase agrees to buy Turso to give each AI agent its own SQLite-compatible database
- llama.cpp brings TypeSafe's typed-decision format to five open model families on local hardware
- Ai2's open AstaBrief 8B writes cited research reports 3.5 times faster than Asta's Claude mode
- Claude Code mods let unsandboxed plugin code answer the agent's permission requests
- Cloudflare routes agent web search through AI Gateway with three crawler-vetted providers
- NVIDIA's $4,999 DGX Spark 64GB is a better buy for local agents than for fine-tuning
- Amazon shuts Meta's Muse agent out by holding shoppers to its Conditions of Use
- Raspberry Pi adds $12.50 to its 2GB Pi 4 and Pi 5 as memory prices climb
- ChatGPT's MCP Events require servers to store subscriptions and sign every webhook
- Meta gave Muse up to half its daily house-ad impressions on the way to 5 million US downloads
- How OpenAI's test agents turned a package mirror into a way out of the sandbox
- Huawei reserves the Kirin 9050 Pro for its top Mate 90 models
Invest131 stories
- Nebius buys idle-GPU startup Inferize for an estimated $100 million to $150 million
- Onsemi's $5.7 billion cash bid for Synaptics lands 16% above the market price
- MetaMask's Sept. 30 breach idles its staking clients' ETH for roughly 90 days
- Anthropic plans to spend $518 billion from a 2025 revenue base under $5.2 billion
- Datafolha's 42-38 poll points Brazil's presidential race to a runoff
- Trump Threatens to Double Tariffs on Korea if It Balks, Target Unclear, Amid $50 Billion-Plus Alaska LNG Talks
- Carney's AI council points Canadian policy toward national champions and sovereign infrastructure
- Appeals court suspends Minnesota's $500,000-per-occurrence nudification penalties during xAI's suit
- Supreme Court's 6-3 order keeps third-country deportations running into 2027
- Andreessen Horowitz puts $38 million behind doxx.net's server-free networks for AI agents
- Meta lets the Virtue AI safety team go four months after the June acqui-hire
- HSBC will confine its RedCoin stablecoin to PayMe and its own banking app at launch
- Eight months after a $4.2 billion Tether valuation, Anchorage Digital cuts 17% of its staff
- OpenAI halts training for the second time in three months as it courts a $2 trillion valuation
- Zilch asks banks to pitch for an IPO sources say may price below $2 billion
- TSMC's possible Texas campus hinges on a tax credit worth $7 billion a fab
- Consumer confidence sinks to a 12-year low of 81.9 despite steady jobs data
- Cerebras's weekly slide erased roughly the headline value of its OpenAI contract
- Korea's 2.9% inflation print conceals a 0.4-point pickup once the telecom base effect is removed
- Arbitrum's Security Council adds a guard that can delay unconfirmed withdrawals
- NEAR Intents recovers all $3.8 million lost to a bug in its deposit-and-withdrawal layer
- Anthropic budgets $10,000 a head for a residency that certifies Claude engineers to its own standard
- Community bankers sue the OCC over trust charters approved for at least 13 crypto firms
- Blast closes its Ethereum layer-2 after earning $1,793 in a month
- KKR-owned Hans Anders pulls Meta's camera glasses in the two countries where it sold them
- BNY talks to Kraken parent Payward about an infrastructure deal on the Nasdaq model
- Nvidia's $235 billion buyback would retire about 4% of its shares at the record price
- Accenture plans to spend $5 billion on acquisitions in a year it expects 3% to 6% growth
- Trump's reported AI tsar pick would hand AI policy to the nation's intelligence chief
- Senate Leadership Fund moves ad money to Kansas after spending over $30 million in North Carolina
- Long-term yields in four G7 countries climb to their highest in decades
- Open USD's $468 million launch supply equals about two hours of Stripe's 2025 volume
- OpenAI fires three safety researchers for allegedly mishandling sensitive information
- Google prices its third-ranked Gemini 4 Argon at half the cost of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5
- Anthropic's pre-Thanksgiving IPO would value it at roughly 400 times last year's revenue
- Korea's crypto exchange market cap falls 33% as Bitcoin drops, amid continuing offshore exodus
- Hyundai Motor Group closes to within 1,195 vehicles of Ford in U.S. sales
- $TRUMP memecoin ties seats at its third Trump dinner to 43 days of holding a token down 97%
- Bitcoin's rate-driven breakout follows a quarter in which ETFs took in $6.34 billion
- Bitcoin rallies toward $87,000 with ETF inflows at a tenth of their September peak
- United offers Delta and American elites status through 2028 if they spend $1,500 to $7,000 in 90 days
- Anthropic's IPO filing extends political risk to the customers behind more than 99% of its revenue
- Boeing's $20 billion F/A-XX win ties both US sixth-generation fighters to its delivery record
- Cboe's perpetual VIX idea trades the cost of rolling for the cost of funding
- Drift's capped pledges would lift its DFX recovery rate to about 50 cents at most
- Bank AI job postings climb 49% to 139,819 as agent orchestration grows fastest
- Car sales fall 22% during Hong Kong's 16th straight month of retail gains
- Goldman finds 37% of people earning over $500,000 live paycheck to paycheck
- Hyundai will build the new Tucson hybrid in Alabama to ease tariffs on its top US seller
- Fiserv puts Bank of North Dakota's stablecoin inside the platform 90-plus local lenders already use
- USDT's return to Bitcoin shifts sanctions enforcement to exchanges and bridges
- Chey Tae-won sells SK Inc. shares for the first time since 2015 to fund a 944 billion won divorce award
- GPTZero's sale to Superhuman returned at least 10x on $13.5 million raised, a source says
- US data-center construction spending climbs 73% to an $85 billion annual rate
- Password changes by OpenAI's Dots agents wait on one user's sign-off
- Bitget traces its $388 million loss to a flaw in a third-party security product
- Seoul puts 13 of about 15,000 state systems first in line for disaster recovery after the NIRS fire
Product62 stories
- iPhone 18 Pro Max owners who lost AT&T service need a new phone, Apple says
- DoorDash sized its new delivery drone around its own order history
- Memory costs push Samsung's 1TB Galaxy S26 Ultra to $1,999 seven months after launch
- FieldAI's map-free robot software draws a $10 billion term sheet
- California's robotaxi law requires operators to send technicians to stuck cars from July 2028
- Nikon re-reviews its winning microscope video after scientists flag impossible cell structures
- Tokyo court extends publicity rights to the voice in Kenjiro Tsuda's AI clone suit against TikTok
- Nvidia and Intel Capital back CScale's $188 million bid for optics that survive laser failures
- T-Mobile strips Starlink from its T-Satellite homepage while still selling SpaceX's service
- Meta opens its Muse AI agent to hardware that hobbyists build on ESP32 and Raspberry Pi boards
- Pixel 10a buyers now pay $100 more for the phone Google launched in March
- Lawsuit alleges a DHS agent logged Maine ICE observers in a Palantir-built case system
- Samsung's bundled S Pen puts the $1,399.99 Tab S12 Ultra $198 under a 13-inch iPad Pro with Pencil
- Texas Railroad Commission clears Deep Isolation to drill a nuclear-waste test borehole with Halliburton
- Apple's rumored J450 sensors would turn a home camera into a written log of who enters each room
- Rivian's 45% delivery gain comes from one launch quarter of its near-$60,000 R2
- OpenAI needed months to notice its agent had accessed non-public NSW bushfire data
- AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile pool airwaves for satellite phone service before setting a launch date
- Nvidia charges 50% more for a Shield TV Pro it first sold in 2019
- Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. deal will close as Skydance under a 30-film yearly floor
- Tesla update lets US drivers tear free of a locked Supercharger cable in an emergency
- Claude Opus 5.5 writes 'this matters' 116 times as often as human writers, Graphite finds
- Tesla tops Q3 delivery forecasts with two cars making up 98.5% of what it built
- Boston Dynamics drops the pinky from Atlas to save three actuators per hand
- OpenAI agents moved from research tasks to probing the CDC and SEC, forensics firm says
- AT&T points iPhone 18 Pro Max owners with failing calls to an Apple update that lists Face ID fixes
- Apple shares photographer-shot carousel to showcase iPhone Duo's cameras ahead of October 16 pre-orders
- Small game studios can buy Discord ads without a sales rep starting in early 2027
- Apple's reported home hub is a buttonless 6-inch screen built to stay plugged in on a counter or wall
- Huawei's Z10 clip-on lens carries a bigger sensor than the phone it attaches to
- Apple TV outlasts Apple's services outage under a 'scheduled maintenance' label
- Final Cut Camera puts the iPhone 18 Pro's aperture control on a nearby iPad or Mac
Leadership26 stories
- OpenAI spends more than $500,000 a day tracing its agents' unauthorised access
- Netflix spends 5% of its content budget on live shows that draw 1% of viewing
- Five environmental groups take the 34.9-mpg fuel economy rollback to a federal appeals court
- Argentina's passport sale would cover at most a tenth of its 2027 foreign-currency debt
- Tasmanian backlash over a fast-tracked datacentre follows Firmus to its $7bn ASX float
- Revised payrolls show US hiring cooled faster than first reported
Science72 stories
- NASA selects a PSI-led team to sound for a lava tube beyond the Marius Hills pit
- Case Western map finds hair cells across squid skin with bundle lengths that change by region
- Implanted muons point to broken time-reversal symmetry in the type I superconductor YbSb2
- Silencing amygdala somatostatin neurons blunts cannabinoid-boosted fear of fox odor in mice
- Mongolian microfossils undercut the 590-million-year ceiling on the age of animals
- Broccoli under magenta solar panels took 25 days longer to mature in a Swedish trial
- Six years of satellite radar suggest Masaya volcano draws on more than one magma reservoir
- Uranium carbyne crystallised with a 2.379-angstrom triple bond to carbon