Tech

Data integration startup Fivetran and data management startup dbt Labs announce a merger in an all-stock deal; Fivetran CEO will be CEO of the combined company (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-14 Startup

China Is Shipping More Open AI Models Than US Rivals as Tech Competition Shifts (slashdot.org)
2025-10-14 China AI

Sources: Raymond Zage and James Lu, who control most of Grindr, are in talks to take it private after a Temasek unit sold shares pledged for personal loans (www.semafor.com)
2025-10-14

Three New California Laws Target Tech Companies' Interactions with Children (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-14 California

Apple says iPhone Air will go on sale in China on October 22, after initially delaying the launch due to regulatory issues with the device's eSIM-only design (9to5mac.com)
2025-10-14 China iPhone Apple

Harvard investigating breach linked to Oracle zero-day exploit (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-14 Oracle

The $380 refurbished Surface Laptop 3 with i7 performance and 16GB RAM (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-14

Meet Varonis Interceptor: AI-Native Email Security (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-14 AI

Microsoft: Windows 11 Media Creation Tool broken on Windows 10 PCs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-14 Microsoft

Microsoft investigates outage affecting Microsoft 365 apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-14 Microsoft

Oracle releases emergency patch for new E-Business Suite flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-14 Oracle

SonicWall VPN accounts breached using stolen creds in widespread attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-14 VPN

Does the Internet Have a Philly Accent? Why Too Much Time Online Can Make You 'Culturally Philadelphian.' (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-14

Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with “a vibrant new identity” (www.macrumors.com)
2025-10-14 Apple

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, which mandates safety protocols for AI chatbot companions, the first state law to regulate such AI chatbots (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-14 AI chatbot California

Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 1043, which requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google, Meta, and OpenAI supported the bill (www.politico.com)
2025-10-14 Google

Earth's Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a 'New Reality' (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-14 Climate

Anduril plans to make 100 units of its AI-powered EagleEye helmet and eyewear for the US Army by Q2 2026, replacing Microsoft's IVAS; Meta provided some tech (defensescoop.com)
2025-10-14 Microsoft AI

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 56, which requires social media companies to add warning labels on mental health risks for users under 18 in the state (www.politico.com)
2025-10-14 California

OpenAI, Broadcom Forge Multibillion-Dollar Chip-Development Deal (slashdot.org)
2025-10-14

The Pope Urges Vigilance About Who Controls AI (slashdot.org)
2025-10-14 AI

Salesforce plans to invest $15B in San Francisco over the next five years, including funding an AI Incubator Hub and workforce programs; CRM is down 25% in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-14 AI Salesforce San Francisco CRM

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveils Agentforce 360, a unified agentic AI stack to connect humans, AI agents, and more, and positions Slack as an “agentic OS” (www.constellationr.com)
2025-10-14 AI Salesforce Slack Qihoo

Sources: the Trump administration cut 176 CISA jobs last week as part of laying off 4,000+ US federal workers, and is likely to make further mass CISA layoffs (www.metacurity.com)
2025-10-14 Trump Layoffs

OpenAI agrees to acquire 10GW of chips from Broadcom and co-design custom GPUs with Broadcom to run its AI models; sources: the deal is worth multiple billions (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-14 AI

Amazon plans to hire 250K workers for the 2025 holiday season, the same as in 2023 and 2024, including full-time and part-time, and will pay $19/hour on average (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-13 Amazon

Slack is testing an AI-based version of Slackbot that acts as a personalized assistant, operating via AWS' virtual private cloud, rolling out by the end of 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-13 AI Slack

New York- and London-based ClaimSorted, which uses AI to help speed up insurance claims and works with 20+ insurers, raised a $13.3M seed led by Atomico (www.forbes.com)
2025-10-13 AI Insurance New York London

Sources: London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve is in early stage talks with Microsoft and SoftBank to raise between $1B and $2B, valuing it at ~$8B (t.co)
2025-10-13 Microsoft Startup London

CoinGecko: crypto's combined market cap rises 6% to hit $4T, recovering from a brutal weekend selloff as President Trump tries to calm US-China trade war fears (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-13 Trump China

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