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- Bitget halts withdrawals after detecting unauthorized transfers from some hot and warm wallets, affecting ~$351.6M; CEO Gracy Chen says "user funds are safe" (Matthew Brockett/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: Anthropic asks shareholders to approve a Palantir-style structure granting its seven co-founders 50.1% of voting power if three retain minimum stakes (The Information) [2d]
- Documents: Jeff Bezos has invested $30B in Blue Origin since 2000, including $2B in its first outside funding round, which has raised $10B at a $140B valuation (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Anthropic commits to spending $11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters) [2d]
- At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China have "the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good" as "leading nations" in AI (Mallory Wilson/The Hill) [2d]
- Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers (Emma Roth/The Verge) [2d]
- Email: Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external, and legal affairs org led by Brad Smith (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) [2d]
- Sources: OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for doctors, raised $250M at a $15B valuation, up from $12B in January; it could be open to selling itself (Katie Roof/Business Insider) [2d]
- The Fed unveils stablecoin proposals, including requiring some issuers to fully back tokens with permissible reserve assets, such as short-term Treasury bills (Megan Howard/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Meta unveils mobile app Horizon Create and web app Horizon Studio for building games with AI prompts; the games will run on Facebook, Instagram, and Horizon (Jay Peters/The Verge) [2d]
- The US files an application with the EU's General Court in support of X's effort to annul a 2025 €120M DSA fine, arguing the EU engaged in regulatory overreach (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: Jev developer TypeSafe is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $10B+ valuation; last week the startup announced a $40M seed, PitchBook says at a $200M valuation (The Information) [2d]
- Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ (New York Times) [2d]
- In a default judgment, a US federal judge awards Nintendo of America $4.5M in damages in its lawsuit against a Reddit moderator who sold pirated Switch games (Nicole Carpenter/Aftermath) [2d]
- Sources: the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year (Jeff Stein/The Washington Sun) [2d]
- Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed (Politico) [2d]
- Amazon rolls out multichannel tools in Seller Central, letting US sellers manage eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart sales alongside their Amazon businesses (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) [2d]
- Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [2d]
- New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China share the "capability and responsibility" to manage AI for good and calls for healthy competition (Financial Times) [2d]
- Sources: Gen Digital, created by the 2022 merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, has made a takeover offer for GoDaddy, which has a market cap of $12.2B (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times) [2d]
- Sources: a White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that "built the AI-doom pipeline" and places Dario Amodei at its foundation (Axios) [2d]
- OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer) [2d]
- Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year (New York Times) [2d]
- Amazon plans to invest $100M to build a robotics manufacturing facility in Indiana, set to open by 2028; its robots at 300+ facilities help with 75% of orders (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Sources: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027, and are considering CEOs (The Information) [2d]
- Sources: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl to delay payments on the 2.45GW Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico if it fails to launch in 2028 (Bloomberg) [3d]
- ASML's European revenue share dropped to 0% in Q1 and Q2 2026, down from 1% in 2025 and 5% in 2024; ASML is urging EU authorities to create demand for EU chips (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware) [3d]
- Qualcomm says it has extended its global licensing pact with Apple, starting in April 2027; the partnership has been shaped by an April 2019 settlement (Akash Sriram/Reuters) [3d]
- Durabook launches a workstation laptop with three real screens - Z14I-DX3 is a rugged mobile device featuring a trio of 14-inch full HD displays with an optional Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada GPU for command posts and drone teams [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, September 25 (game #1705) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, September 25 (game #1202) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, September 25 (game #936) [2d]
- Incredible oscilloscope packs an Nvidia T1000 GPU, 12-core AMD EPYC CPU, 96GB RAM, and 1.6TB NVMe SSD — the 38Kg Tektronix DPO can run Windows 10 and features a 15.6-inch Full HD display [2d]
- Rainbow Six Tactics game director says players can't repeatedly play their favorite Operators because of the game's fatigue and injury system — 'It's a way to push players to use their tools and shuffle their roster' [2d]
- A EV truck with a TV built into a front trunk for tailgating? Ford wants to patent the idea [2d]
- Could this be the most powerful mini PC ever? FEVM mini PC pairs Ryzen 9 9950X3D with 24GB RTX5090 GPU and should beat Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio in gaming [2d]
- Samsung Galaxy S26 FE review: false economy [2d]
- Bentley's debut EV is a £173k luxury missile in SUV form that can out-accelerate supercars [2d]
- 'It almost started a war': US Army nearly boarded a Chinese ship after receiving an "entirely false" AI-hallucinated intelligence report saying it had nuclear arms on board [2d]
- Save $250 on the Bambu Lab H2D AMS Combo dual-nozzle 3D printer [2d]
- As RAM prices soar, this fast 32GB TeamGroup DDR5-6400 kit is $50 off [2d]
- Save $40 on CyberLink Director Suite for video, photo and audio editing [2d]
- 'It's like a ground drone': I tested a cute little robot called Beni that follows and films you [2d]
- Most Americans now oppose data centers in some way as tide continues to turn on AI technology [2d]
- Netflix faces backlash for using AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in Wonka reality show [2d]
- FiiO's new CD player features direct USB ripping — and sales of the physical format are on the rise [2d]
- The next Division 2 expansion, Echoes of Central Park, will be twice the size of Battle for Brooklyn, feature a brand-new endgame, and is the game's 'darkest, most harrowing chapter' yet, according to Ubisoft [2d]
- Cloud and AI bills looking a bit high? Your AI agents may have been let loose and run up huge spending costs [2d]
- How to watch Netherlands vs Germany live streams. [2d]
- How to watch Kosovo vs Ireland: FREE streams, TV channels for Nations League clash [2d]
- GTA 6 gets a 'Vice City Collection' box set — but it's $399 and doesn't even come with the game [2d]
- How to watch Serbia vs Greece: FREE streams, TV channels for Nations League 2026/27 [2d]
- How to watch Portugal vs Wales live streams. [2d]
- Norway vs Denmark Free Streams: TV Channels, Live Streams & Kick-Off Time for Nations League 2026/27 Opener [2d]
- Smart glasses were being used to secretly film women 12 years ago [2d]
- Adobe made Premiere entirely free on Android to compete with Canva — and it's a smart way to evade its hefty subscription fees [2d]
- OpenAI admits ChatGPT in Siri was ‘dramatically underperforming’ [2d]
- We are telling AI chatbots our biggest secrets, but Proton warns our privacy is at huge risk [2d]
- Hackers are targeting a critical WordPress flaw, so be on your guard [2d]
- Forget to turn on your VPN? Opera's free browser VPN now does it for you on public Wi-Fi [2d]
- Meta Ray-Ban Gen 3 vs Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2: should you upgrade? [2d]
- How to watch Marble Hall Murders online from anywhere – it's *FREE* [2d]
- Microsoft is reportedly no longer censoring 'Microslop' posts on Discord [2d]
- As GPU prices rise, modders bring new features to older Nvidia hardware [2d]
- How small businesses can use NodeJS to save time and money [2d]
- Massive Chinese hack uses AI agents to steal over 600,000 credit cards and hit hundreds of sites with malware [2d]
- How to watch Presidents Cup 2026: Live Stream Team USA vs Team International, TV Channels, Full Preview [2d]
- Rainbow Six Tactics game director says the XCOM-style turn-based genre felt like a 'natural fit' for the spin-off — 'When you look at Rainbow Six, its DNA is tactical, it's just that it's first-person' [3d]
- Diablo 4 game director says ‘it’s about damn time’ it came to Nintendo Switch 2 — and the ‘concessions we had to make are barely noticeable’ [3d]
- Argos stuns us with the best value Nintendo Switch 2 deal yet — save £65 and get Pokémon Pokopia for £20 in this Black Friday-beating bundle [3d]
- Microsoft admits it broke a Windows 11 backup feature — but it's now fixed [3d]
- The Meta Ray-Ban Lisa smart glasses are the best designed yet [3d]
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