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Thu, Oct 8, 8:03 PM ET
Trump administration suspends Microsoft, Adobe from green card program over alleged fraud
The White House is blocking Microsoft, Adobe and several IT firms from sponsoring foreign workers for permanent residency, citing alleged fraud and multiple fed
Gizmodo · +14 outlets
OpenAI reported annualized revenue $20B below prior signals, at about $50B, hitting AI stocks
A report that OpenAI's annualized revenue was roughly $50 billion, far lower than the $70 billion previously signaled, triggered a selloff in Nvidia, Oracle, Co
CNBC · +13 outlets
Apple set to debut touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro and OLED iPad mini on or around October 27
Bloomberg reports Apple will launch its first touchscreen MacBook Pro alongside a new iPad mini, M6 MacBook Pro and M6 iMac within weeks of its October 13 event
MacRumors · +14 outlets
Google launches Gemini agentic AI for the workplace that can write code and run tasks
Google is turning Gemini into an enterprise AI agent that plans and executes tasks across business apps, delegates to subagents and gets its own workplace ident
The Register · +14 outlets
OpenAI release stuns mathematics community with flood of new proofs
Mathematicians described shock and concern after OpenAI released results, while researchers said the proofs deviated from standards set by consulted mathematici
The New York Times · +3 outlets
SpaceX acquires nationwide spectrum licenses to become a major mobile carrier
The deal paves the way for Starlink Mobile to compete with US carriers and hit shares of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.
The Verge · +13 outlets
Trump awards highest US science medals to Elon Musk and other tech executives
The awardees have collectively donated billions to efforts tied to Trump, and the ceremony followed disclosures of the president's trades in SpaceX and Meta.
TechCrunch · +14 outlets
Anthropic updates usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference
Anthropic's revised policy bars sustained cruel or abusive behavior toward Claude and tightens election rules ahead of the midterms, while ordinary criticism re
TechCrunch · +13 outlets
Margaret Hamilton, who wrote the software that helped astronauts reach the moon, dies at 90
Hamilton led development of the Apollo guidance software and later coined the term software engineering.
The Washington Post · +14 outlets
Vance and Trump administration suspend visa program for tech firms including Microsoft
Vice President JD Vance announced the suspension as part of a widening foreign worker crackdown; the same period saw Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella honored at the
WSJ · +14 outlets
Google releases Gemini 4 Argon and other new frontier AI models
Google, Anthropic and Mistral unveiled new models including Gemini 4 Argon, Claude Haiku 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5, and Mistral Large 4.
CNET · +14 outlets
Nvidia, Google and others pledge $2.4B in AI tools and compute to federal science
Five US technology companies are contributing AI credits to federal research, with Nvidia giving $1B and Google the smallest share at $150M.
The Next Web · +6 outlets
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims and warn of chilling effect
Three former OpenAI safety researchers published an open letter contesting allegations of mishandling sensitive information and warning of damage to the company
TechCrunch · +1 outlets
TSMC taps GlobalFoundries for $2B US silicon interposer production deal
GlobalFoundries joins TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging supply chain in the US to support domestic production of AI and HPC accelerators.
The Register · +2 outlets
Worldwide PC shipments fell 20 percent in Q3 as Mac shipments dropped 11 percent
IDC data shows a steep market decline, though Apple's share rose from 8.5 percent to 9.5 percent despite lower Mac shipments.
Engadget · +8 outlets
Lawmakers raise alarm at Google plan to acquire Spirit Airlines data for AI models
Lawmakers have expressed concern about the plan to feed airline data into Google's AI models.
Reuters · +10 outlets
ICE emails discuss using Palantir-supported tool to investigate voter fraud
Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool normally used to identify deportation targets.
WIRED · +1 outlets
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as seven governments warn of PRC cyberespionage
The FBI intervened to disrupt malware that had infected devices since 2021, amid coordinated warnings about Chinese state-linked data theft.
The Register · +1 outlets

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