Tech

Internal memo: TikTok plans leadership changes, moving two teams under ByteDance veteran Fiona Zhi and undoing earlier efforts to empower Western executives (www.theinformation.com)
2025-10-24

Amazon relaunches its game streaming service Luna, available at no additional cost for Prime subscribers, and adds new beginner-friendly multiplayer games (www.engadget.com)
2025-10-24 Amazon

ChatGPT Atlas hands-on: generally able to interpret instructions and navigate simple menus, but “technical constraints on session length” are a limiting factor (arstechnica.com)
2025-10-23

Sources: Microsoft asks its Xbox unit to hit 30% “accountability margins”, or profit margins, and Xbox canceled products, cut jobs, and raised prices to meet it (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-23 Microsoft Xbox

UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024 (www.axios.com)
2025-10-23 SaaS AI chatbot

Email: Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to resume operations on October 24, following a court-approved restructuring, after hackers stole $230M in July 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2025-10-23 India

Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in its Quark app, powered by Qwen 3, and plans to open pre-sales for its $660 Quark AI Glasses on October 24 (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-23 Alibaba AI chatbot

Chinese state media: China's new five-year development plan aims to achieve tech self-reliance and expand the domestic market, after a four-day CCP conclave (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-23 China

AI creative studio Wonder Studios, backed by OpenAI and Google DeepMind execs, raised a $12M seed led by Atomico and aims to release its first content in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-23 Google AI

Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by UAE-based Stone Venture without disclosing its valuation, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-23 China Hong Kong IPO Startup

Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-23 Europe Startup

Ukraine says it has now deployed 30K free physical security keys, called YubiKeys, including 22K to access battle system Delta, up from ~10K in April 2022 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-23 Ukraine

Apple Readies New Framework To Let iPhone Users Migrate App Data To Android (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-10-23 Android iPhone Apple

OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage Data Centers plan to build a data center in Wisconsin called Lighthouse, costing $15B+ and set to open in 2028, as part of Stargate (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-23 Oracle

Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales agree to a deal to combine their space businesses, promising “significant synergies” in a bid to build a European SpaceX competitor (www.ft.com)
2025-10-23 Europe Airbus SpaceX

How Meesho and the rise of quick commerce companies disrupted Flipkart and Amazon's e-commerce duopoly that had existed in India for over a decade until 2023 (indiadispatch.com)
2025-10-23 India Amazon

Sources: IonQ, Rigetti, D-Wavequantum, and other computing companies are in talks to give the US Commerce Department equity in exchange for $10M+ funding each (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-23 Equity

Lawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents “intentional harassment” (www.ft.com)
2025-10-23

SpaceX Disables 2,500 Starlink Terminals Allegedly Used By Asian Scam Centers (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-23 SpaceX

A look at DeepSeek's rise in Africa, as China's lightweight, low-cost AI models make inroads into the continent via tech infrastructure built by Huawei and ZTE (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-23 China AI Africa

STMicro reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.19B and operating income down 53% YoY to $180M, missing est., and forecasts Q4 revenue of $3.28B, below $3.35B est. (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-23 4Q

The Atlanta Fed estimates delays faced by claimants in COBOL-based unemployment insurance systems cut US GDP by at least $40B between March 13 and year-end 2020 (t.co)
2025-10-23 Unemployment Insurance GDP

Sources: Nexperia's China unit has resumed chip sales to local distributors, with transactions now settled in yuan instead of foreign currencies such as the USD (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-23 China Forex

Top AI researchers and executives in SV are working 80 to 100 hours a week, driven by intense competition, as AI's rapid progress compresses product timelines (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-23 AI

Ofcom: UK traffic to porn sites has fallen by almost a third since introducing new age verification rules in July; Aylo says Pornhub's traffic has fallen by 77% (www.ft.com)
2025-10-23

Starlink VP Lauren Dreyer says the company “proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspected ‘scam centers'” in Myanmar (therecord.media)
2025-10-23

OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey outlines prompt injection mitigations in ChatGPT Atlas, including a “logged out mode” that blocks agent access to user credentials (x.com)
2025-10-23 CISO

A SiriusXM Update Sent Some Audi Screens Into a Forced-Reboot Loop For Months (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-23

Elon Musk says Tesla's AI5 chip will be made by Samsung in Texas and TSMC in Arizona, with the “oversupply” of chips not used by Tesla going to his data centers (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-23 Samsung AI Tesla Elon Musk Texas

Sources: quantum computing companies including IonQ, Rigetti, and D-Wave are in talks to give the US Commerce Dept. equity in exchange for $10M+ each in funding (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-23 Equity Quantum

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