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• Meta says hackers stole code and data on 1,500 people, SecurityWeek reports

  17-10-2026 11:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  “This was not a vulnerability in any Meta product, and Meta’s internal systems were not breached,” a Meta spokesperson told SecurityWeek. Hackers got into some of Meta’s GitHub repositories and took personal data on about 1,500 people. Most of them are Meta employees in the US, and Meta is now notifying them. Eduard Kovacs reported […]
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• Robots and AI could reach 80% of work but rarely cheaply, Anthropic says

  17-10-2026 20:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Robots and AI models together could take on about 80% of the work Americans do, Anthropic says. But robots are cheaper than people for just 0.3% of tasks today. The findings come from Anthropic’s new robotics study, which Business Insider picked up this week. It extends the company’s earlier research on how AI chatbots affect jobs. Different jobs […]
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• Musk tells Isaacson only AI and robots can fix US debt, Axios reports

  17-10-2026 20:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk says his time running DOGE showed the US government cannot fix its deficit from the inside. Only AI and robots can, he told biographer Walter Isaacson. Musk made the comments on Isaacson’s new podcast, The Builders, Axios reported in an exclusive on Friday. The show premieres on Tuesday. “The only way we’re going to solve […]
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• TSMC posts a sixth straight record profit but turns cautious on 2027

  17-10-2026 20:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  TSMC made a record net profit of NT$763.1bn ($23.59bn) in the third quarter, up 69% on a year earlier. That beat the NT$746.3bn LSEG SmartEstimate, Reuters reported. Revenue rose 51% to NT$1.49tn, or 41.2% to $46.72bn in US dollar terms, according to TSMC’s results. Its operating margin was 58.7%. High-performance computing made up 68% of […]
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• FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents

  17-10-2026 19:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about the safety incidents involving their AI models. The demands went out on Wednesday, Axios first reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the subpoenas to CBS News and declined to comment further. OpenAI […]
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• Netflix names ex-Disney TV boss Peter Rice content chief as Bajaria leaves

  17-10-2026 19:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Netflix has named Peter Rice, the former chairman of Walt Disney Television, as its chief content officer. The company announced the move on Thursday. Rice will run its global content organisation, from scripted and unscripted series to film and live events. Bela Bajaria, who has held the role since January 2023, is leaving after nearly […]
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• EU cloud sovereignty law could cost Europe €115bn, US tech lobby study says

  17-10-2026 19:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The EU’s proposed cloud sovereignty law, the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), could cost Europe €115bn over ten years. That is the central estimate in a study by the Brussels think tank ECIPE. CCIA Europe, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, paid for it. Matthias Bauer, the author, calls the […]
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• OpenAI’s London staff averaged £2.3m each in 2025, Guardian reports

  17-10-2026 18:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI’s 110 staff in London received an average of about £2.3m each in 2025, counting salaries and shares. The figures come from the accounts of OpenAI UK Ltd, as Robert Booth reported for The Guardian. The staff shared £87m in salaries and £168m in shares, the Guardian said. TNW has not independently verified the figures. […]
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• Berkshire Hathaway puts another $330m into Bending Spoons

  17-10-2026 18:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Berkshire Hathaway is buying 10 million new Bending Spoons shares at $33 each. The Milan-based company announced the deal on 14 October. The $330m private placement adds to the $600m Berkshire invested at Bending Spoons’ Nasdaq listing in July. The two investments give Berkshire a 4% stake, Bending Spoons said. Its businesses include AOL, Vimeo, […]
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• Anduril opens a $1.3bn employee tender at a $90bn valuation

  17-10-2026 18:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anduril is letting current and former employees sell shares in a tender offer that values the defence tech company at about $90bn. The shares are priced at $94.80 each, and the offer is capped at about $1.3bn, according to Bloomberg’s sources. Rebecca Torrence, Edward Ludlow, Natasha Mascarenhas and Katrina Manson first reported the tender for […]
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• Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children

  17-10-2026 17:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October. Each claims ChatGPT has hurt young users and that the company misled the public about its safety. Reuters, which first reported the suits, called them the most significant coordinated state action yet against an […]
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• Ukraine’s drones still lose Starshield above 161 km/h, Zelenskyy says

  17-10-2026 17:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  “We lose Starlink and lose the interceptor,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on 17 October, Bloomberg reported. Zelenskyy said speed limits on Starshield, SpaceX’s military satellite network, remained in place across Ukraine. Ukraine’s interceptor drones lose the link above 161 km/h (100 mph), he said in audio messages on WhatsApp. The Russian jet-powered drones […]
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• Jury finds Arm breached its Qualcomm licence, then awards Qualcomm $2

  17-10-2026 16:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  “The jury’s verdict confirms that Arm operated in good faith under its technology license agreement and its award of only two dollars confirms the merit of Arm’s arguments in the case,” Arm said in a statement. A federal jury in Delaware found on 13 October that Arm breached its licensing agreement with Qualcomm. It also […]
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• Japan puts up to $21bn into two GlobalFoundries chip fabs in New York

  17-10-2026 15:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Right now, the whole industry is in short supply,” GlobalFoundries CEO Tim Breen told Bloomberg. Japan will put up to $21bn into two new chip factories at GlobalFoundries’ site in Malta, New York, the company announced on 14 October. GlobalFoundries (GF) will run both plants as technology provider and operator. The money comes from Japan’s […]
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• XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days

  17-10-2026 15:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Pre-LLMs a Chrome full chain would take a team of four around 6-9 months to be produced, our first submission took 2 months. The awarded one? six days,” XBOW researcher Brendan Dolan-Gavitt wrote in a technical write-up. Security company XBOW has won $250,000 from Google’s Chrome bug bounty programme, XBOW said on 13 October. It […]
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• EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports

  17-10-2026 15:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent Requests for Information addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and monitoring how models are used,” EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said in a speech in Dublin on 14 October. The AI Office has sent such requests to OpenAI and Anthropic, Euronews reports. The Commission […]
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• Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk

  17-10-2026 14:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  “All of them want to be the full-stack. They can’t all be,” Gartner analyst Will Sommer told Bloomberg. More than $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending faces possible impairment by the end of 2030, Gartner said on 14 October. That would happen if AI providers keep spending at their current pace. Companies must write down impaired […]
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• OpenAI in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, The Information reports

  17-10-2026 14:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Trail of Bits has committed their entire security research organization,” OpenAI wrote in June, when the two companies launched a joint project to fix open-source software. OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, a firm that finds and fixes security flaws in open-source software. Valida Pau and Amir Efrati reported the talks […]
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• Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack

  17-10-2026 14:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  “We’ve now crossed the 4,000 CVE mark with two months left to go,” Satnam Narang of Tenable told Brian Krebs. Microsoft has fixed more than 1,400 security flaws in one month, the largest Microsoft Patch Tuesday on record. The updates came out on 13 October, Krebs reported on Krebs on Security. They beat September’s record […]
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• Why carriers block legitimate business texts and what works instead

  17-10-2026 11:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  When a legitimate business text fails to arrive, the sender usually blames the carrier. The carrier usually has a reason. In practice, carrier filtering responds to recognizable risks: high spam volume, rising complaint rates, and messages that do not match the brand or campaign described during registration. That scrutiny increased across several categories of US […]
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• RapidCanvas raises $29M to build and run AI apps for enterprises

  16-10-2026 20:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  RapidCanvas, which pairs an AI agent platform with its own engineers to build business apps for companies, raised a $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, with Hitachi Ventures joining. It will hire in the US, Brazil, and India. Total funding now stands at $52.5M. Austin-based RapidCanvas has raised $29M in Series […]
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• Kroger will cut 37% of its corporate workforce as it leans on technology

  16-10-2026 19:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Our company has more layers, more handoffs and more overhead than we need, so we are addressing this issue.” Kroger chief executive Greg Foran wrote this in a memo to staff on Monday, 12 October. The US supermarket chain will cut about 3,000 corporate roles over the next three years. It is leaning on technology […]
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• China’s CXMT swings to a nearly $20B profit as memory prices soar

  16-10-2026 19:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT expects a net profit of 131B to 132.5B yuan ($19.6B to $19.8B) for January to September, compared with a 5.3B yuan loss a year earlier. Revenue jumped to 265B to 270B yuan as AI demand caused memory shortages. Its chairman also proposed a share buyback of up to 2B yuan. Chinese […]
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• Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag

  16-10-2026 19:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?” Linus Torvalds wrote this on the Linux kernel mailing list on 13 October. He was replying to a developer who wants contributors to keep declaring when they use AI tools. The Register first reported the exchange. The rule in question is the […]
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• MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come

  16-10-2026 19:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.” Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s London headquarters. In the same speech, he announced a new […]
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• Trump’s AI task force starts work and tells labs to report rogue behaviour

  16-10-2026 18:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Our message to all SI companies is clear: delayed notification, inadequate corrective action, and a failure to take responsibility will not be tolerated,” the task force’s leaders said. Jay Clayton, Andrew Ferguson, Scott Kupor and Emil Michael lead Donald Trump’s Super Intelligence Force. They sent that warning to AI companies this week. On Thursday, the […]
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• MapQuest now shows Flock and other surveillance cameras on its map

  16-10-2026 18:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  MapQuest has added a surveillance layer to its app that shows known outdoor cameras and licence plate readers, including those made by Flock Safety. Users can switch it on in Map Options, next to the traffic and incidents layers. The update follows a surge in MapQuest downloads in September. MapQuest has added a layer to […]
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• Ramp passes $2bn in revenue as its Europe chief confirms the $60bn round

  16-10-2026 18:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Today, Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation,” Eric Oancea, who leads Ramp in Europe, wrote on LinkedIn. His post confirms the round that Bloomberg reported on 10 October. Ramp’s co-founders, Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh, marked the new valuation with a blog post on 15 October, titled “Ramp at $60B: The End of the […]
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• Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports

  16-10-2026 18:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Providing a WBS and obtaining a license does not guarantee indefinite or ongoing access to Claude.” Accenture gave its staff that warning in an internal announcement about Claude, Anthropic’s AI model. The consulting firm now pays only $29 a month per person for Claude use, Joseph Cox reported for 404 Media on 15 October. Some […]
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• Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’

  16-10-2026 17:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher.” Epic Games opened its launcher announcement with those lines on 14 October. Epic says the rebuilt app is faster than the old one and has a new look. It is out in Preview for Windows, macOS and, for the […]
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