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Sources: an EU investigation is set to find that Azure and AWS meet DMA thresholds, as the EU strengthens its regulatory scrutiny of the cloud sector (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: an EU investigation is set to find that Azure and AWS meet DMA thresholds, as the EU strengthens its regulatory scrutiny of the...

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Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices with optional background music using scripts or prompts, in public beta, as its music product faces lawsuits (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices with optional background music using scripts or prompts, in public be...

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AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon form a JV that aims to expand US satellite coverage and eliminate dead zones, appointing industry veteran Paul Roth as interim CEO (David Shepardson/Reuters)

David Shepardson / Reuters: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon form a JV that aims to expand US satellite coverage and eliminate dead zones, appointing...

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OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack on Australia's federal government (Henry Belot/The Guardian)

Henry Belot / The Guardian: OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar...

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Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its da...

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Tether's USDT stablecoin is set to return to the Bitcoin network through Tether-backed Utexo, which will keep most transaction data off Bitcoin's public ledger (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk: Tether's USDT stablecoin is set to return to the Bitcoin network through Tether-backed Utexo, which will keep most transaction data off Bi...

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Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial work, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M (Wen Shao/Fortune)

Wen Shao / Fortune: Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial work, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing...

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US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 (Michael Shepard/Bloomberg)

Michael Shepard / Bloomberg: US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via M...

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A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions (Vanity Fair)

Vanity Fair: A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for Da...

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Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later (MBI Deep Dives)

MBI Deep Dives: Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through mer...

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Sources: Amazon has held talks with investors about a deal to spin off $8B of Grace Blackwell chips into an SPV, then lease them back for its US data centers (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Amazon has held talks with investors about a deal to spin off $8B of Grace Blackwell chips into an SPV, then lease them ba...

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ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024 (Kat Boboris/arXiv)

Kat Boboris / arXiv: ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2...

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Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly...

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Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)

Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faste...

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OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity invol...

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