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OpenAI and AMD announce a deal as part of which OpenAI could take a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs over multiple years; AMD jumps 20%+ (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-6 AMD

Sources: Oaktree, EQT, DWS, and other private capital groups are seeking to cash in on the US-driven AI boom, launching €17B of European data center sales (t.co)
2025-10-6 Europe AI

Source: xAI is set to spend $18B+ to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; Elon Musk said in July it would have 550K chips (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-6 Elon Musk Nvidia

Asahi restarted production at six Japanese breweries on October 2 after a cyberattack forced it to halt production and shipments for days, and is investigating (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-6 Japan

Tech companies in the UK, Canada, and elsewhere seek talent amid the US H-1B clampdown, though some skeptics doubt Trump's policies will spur a tech boom abroad (t.co)
2025-10-6 Trump Canada H1B

US federal contracting records suggest US ICE is planning to hire ~30 contractors to monitor social media content, seeking leads for enforcement operations (www.wired.com)
2025-10-6

Steve Jobs Remembered on 14th Anniversary of His Death (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6

A look at major UK businesses hit by cyberattacks in 2025; a government survey estimates 43% of businesses and 30% of charities were hit in the past 12 months (www.bbc.com)
2025-10-6

The European Securities and Markets Authority plans to centralize the regulation of stock exchanges, crypto companies, and clearing houses at an EU level (www.ft.com)
2025-10-6 Europe

A look at OpenAI's search for the sites of its Stargate data centers in the US; OpenAI has received 800+ applications since January and has 20 finalist sites (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-6

A book excerpt details the “enshittification” of Amazon, and how its “flywheel” technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants (www.theguardian.com)
2025-10-6 Amazon

A look at cost and viability concerns over small nuclear reactors in the US, as the government, tech companies, and investors bet on SMRs to power the AI boom (t.co)
2025-10-6 AI

A profile of Riley Walz, whose tech-related pranks in San Francisco blend technical skill with social commentary, including a viral site to track parking police (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-6 San Francisco

What Happens When AI Directs Tourists to Places That Don't Exist? (slashdot.org)
2025-10-6 AI

A basket tracking stocks of 10 European data center operators and infrastructure providers surged 23% in 2025, topping the Nasdaq 100, driven by the AI boom (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-6 Europe AI

Melbourne-based Heidi Health, which is developing AI agents to assist doctors, raised a $65M Series B led by Point72, taking its total raised to $96.6M (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-6 AI Melbourne

Sources: Monzo is considering a new application for a US banking license, hoping for approval amid Trump's deregulation push, after dropping a 2021 attempt (t.co)
2025-10-6 Trump

Oracle patches EBS zero-day exploited in Clop data theft attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-6 Oracle

A profile of EA CEO Andrew Wilson, who is expected to stay in the role, as Silver Lake's Egon Durban hails him for building EA's “crown jewel” sports business (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-6 Silver

Removing 50 Objects from Orbit Would Cut Danger From Space Junk in Half (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6

Sources: Veeam, which offers data backup and disaster recovery tools, is in advanced talks to acquire data privacy management software maker Securiti for ~$1.8B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-6

Are Software Registries Inherently Insecure? (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6

SoftBank Group consolidates 13 robotics-related companies from its main group and 7 from Vision Fund 2 into a new holding company called SoftBank Robotics Group (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-6 Robot

Fake AI-Generated Actress Gets Agent - and a Very Angry Reaction from (Human) Actors Union (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6 AI

A big portion of EA's cash flow will go toward servicing the $20B debt from the $55B sale, which even the most bullish analysts expect will lead to big layoffs (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-6 Layoffs

PitchBook: US VCs have invested ~$14.2B in European AI startups so far in 2025, with founders saying US investors better fit the sector's high upfront costs (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-6 Europe Startup AI

Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for athletes and coaches, raised $40M led by Bluestone Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $51M (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-6 Equity

Mouse Sensors Can Pick Up Speech From Surface Vibrations, Researchers Show (it.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6

California's Uber and Lyft Drivers Get Union Rights (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6 Uber California

Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular open-source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-6 Startup

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