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An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news (@laurahazardowen / Nieman Lab)

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Microsoft patches a severe flaw in its Android Authenticator app that could let untrusted apps impersonate Microsoft apps and obtain delegated account tokens (Abinaya / Cyber Security News)

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Experts: since June, $100M+ in US data center freight has been stolen; in two successful heists, robbers struck escorts protecting trucks hauling $10M+ in goods (@lcavazuti / NBC News)

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China's Star 50 index of AI and chip leaders is down by 40% in under four months, losing ~$480B in market value; chipmaker CXMT is down ~25% in the past month (Reuters)

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Ahead of US midterms, ChatGPT draws images "depicting election interference or that may discourage voting" in a cartoon style, ignoring photorealism requests (Katelyn Chedraoui / CNET)

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Fitbit Edge review: notable upgrade over the Charge 6 for GPS and heart rate, Google Health app is an improvement, but lacks software polish and NFC payments (@dcrainmakerblog / DC Rainmaker)

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OpenAI announces three breakthroughs in computer science, math, and physics, including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture, is false (OpenAI)

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Broadcom arranges a $63B deal with BofA, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley to finance the purchase of chips for Anthropic via a new special purpose vehicle (@lynnmdoan / Bloomberg)

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Intel agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based quantum computing startup Classiq; Classiq has raised more than $200M in funding and has about 130 employees (@ianmking / Bloomberg)

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Anthropic's IPO outlines an unusual succession plan: confidential, ranked lists of up to ten successors per founder, subject to approval from five cofounders (@annatonger / Forbes)

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Sources: Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments company RedotPay plans a US IPO filing by year-end and is in talks for a pre-IPO round at a $4B to $5B valuation (@olgakharif / Bloomberg)

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Sources: DoorDash is in advanced talks to acquire Instacart, and the deal could be completed as soon as this week (@heatherhaddon / Wall Street Journal)

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Apple releases iOS 27.2, with Siri AI enhancements for recalling past conversations, understanding more personal context, supporting five new languages, more (@julipuli / MacRumors)

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Anthropic's S-1 shows a governance structure that suits a "fun quirky little mission-driven worker cooperative" seeking to raise billions as a public company (@matt_levine / Bloomberg)

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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, touting "fast and capable computer use at scale" and clearer, more natural writing, priced at $1/1M input and $5/1M output tokens (OpenAI)

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Anthropic S-1: it spent just $482M on capex in H1 2026, leasing most of its compute, and its capex is almost entirely outsourced via $782B in lease obligations (@tculpan / Culpium)

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Cohere says during an evaluation Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing (Cohere)

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Apple says it is "aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number" of iPhone Duos and affected users can contact AppleCare for a replacement (@chancehmiller / 9to5Mac)

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S-1: as of September 30, Anthropic had 11,900+ customers spending $100,000+ annually, 1,900+ customers spending $1M+, and ~250 customers spending $10M+ (@rebeccabellan / TechCrunch)

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Microsoft and others push out emergency patches for a critical flaw in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node․js, that could allow remote code execution (@billtoulas / BleepingComputer)

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Few VC firms are mentioned in Anthropic's S-1, except Spark, which invested ~$800M across six rounds and whose GP Yasmin Razavi is the sole VC on its board (@kateclarktweets / Wall Street Journal)

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