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The Dutch seizing Nexperia from Wingtech is a landmark moment, showing it made a mistake allowing its sale and how ensnared the EU is in the US-China tech war (t.co)
2025-10-15 China Netherlands

Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-15 India Tax iPhone Apple

UK startup Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips for Microsoft in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal (t.co)
2025-10-15 Microsoft Startup Nvidia Texas Portugal

Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London, starting in 2026, its first European launch; human-supervised cars will first collect data (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-15 Europe London

SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the “physical AI” era (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-15 Europe AI Robot

Common Yeast Can Survive Martian Conditions (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-15

Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others (www.motherjones.com)
2025-10-15 Europe Indonesia

The Japanese government says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IPs, such as anime, calling them “irreplaceable treasures” (www.ign.com)
2025-10-15 Japan

How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-15 India Startup AI

SEC filing: Jeff Bezos discloses that he now owns 9% of Amazon's shares, down from 10.1% a year ago, after selling 100M+ shares over the course of the past year (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2025-10-15 Amazon Jeff Bezos

Stripe's stablecoin arm, Bridge, applied for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking federal oversight (decrypt.co)
2025-10-15 Coinbase

ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est., and €2.12B net profit, v. €2.11B est., warning that it expects China sales to decline “significantly” in 2026 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-15 China

ASML reports Q3 net bookings of €5.4B, v. €4.9B est., as the AI spending boom boosts demand for its EUV machines to produce the most sophisticated AI chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-15 AI

YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-15 Mobile YouTube

Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; it currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumers using ChatGPT (www.ft.com)
2025-10-15

'Save Our Signs' Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-15

Reducto, which uses OCR with vision language models to convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z at a $600M valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2025-10-15

Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B post-money (www.theblock.co)
2025-10-15 India Coinbase

Finch, which offers a voice-based AI system to automate administrative tasks done by paralegals, raised a $20M Series A, source says at a $100M valuation (www.forbes.com)
2025-10-15 AI

DOJ Seizes $15 Billion In Bitcoin From Massive 'Pig Butchering' Scam Based In Cambodia (slashdot.org)
2025-10-15 Bitcoin Cambodia

Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (fortune.com)
2025-10-15 Amazon Layoffs

Secure Boot Bypass Risk Threatens Nearly 200,000 Linux Framework Laptops (it.slashdot.org)
2025-10-15 Linux

Spotify's deal to bring video podcasts to Netflix bars shows from airing in full on YouTube; Netflix won't run ad breaks, but Spotify's integrated ads remain (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-15 YouTube Netflix Spotify

NordVPN Embraces Open Source By Releasing Its Linux GUI On GitHub (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-10-15 Linux Open Source GitHub

Hands-on with Nvidia's DGX Spark: trades some performance and bandwidth for 128GB of unified memory, Nvidia's software ecosystem is valuable, and more (www.theregister.com)
2025-10-15 Nvidia

Sources: Apple plans to build its upcoming indoor security camera, home hub, and tabletop robot in Vietnam as part an effort to lessen its dependence on China (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-15 China Apple Robot Vietnam

Google Announces $15 Billion Investment In AI Hub In India (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-15 India Google AI

Are AI Agents Compromised By Design? (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-15 AI

Samsung schedules a “Worlds Wide Open” Galaxy event on October 21 at 10pm ET, where it will provide more information about its Project Moohan headset (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-15 Samsung

Walmart, ChatGPT Team Up For Shopping (slashdot.org)
2025-10-15 Walmart

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