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  1. Oct 20, 2026Bullhorn Cyberattack Disrupts Platform For 10,000+ Recruiters→
  2. Oct 20, 2026Salesforce Buys Braze For $5.66B, A 58% Premium$5.66B Acquisition→
  3. Oct 20, 2026Spotify Launches Podcast Memberships, Creators Keep 90% Revenue→
  4. Oct 19, 2026Tradeweb Buys Trumid For $1.97B In Cash And Stock$1.97B Acquisition→
  5. Oct 19, 2026Amazon's TorchNeuron Targets Nvidia's 85% PyTorch Grip→
  6. Oct 19, 2026Prysmian Completes $3.8B Atkore Acquisition$3.8B Acquisition→
  7. Oct 19, 2026Silence Therapeutics Sells For $1.3B | 130% Premium From Merck KGaA$1.3B Acquisition→
  8. Oct 18, 2026Disney To Pay $60M To Hire Most Of Character.AI's Staff$60M Hiring Deal→
  9. Oct 18, 2026Rivian Pivots To Licensing Its Tech Stack To Other Automakers→
  10. Oct 18, 2026Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale's UK Data Center After Grid Delays→
  11. Oct 17, 2026Meta Pulls Clause Letting It Train AI On Business Customers' Sites→
  12. Oct 17, 2026TikTok Permanently Bans Ads For Elon Musk Documentary→
  13. Oct 17, 2026Cobo Shuts Down Its Consumer Wallet, Will Charge Those Who Don't Withdraw→
  14. Oct 17, 2026Dario Amodei Spends Up To 40% On Culture | Anthropic Eyes $2T IPO$2T IPO Target→
  15. Oct 17, 2026Cybercriminals Target Building HVAC And Door Systems→
  16. Oct 17, 2026Alexandr Wang Steers Meta's $100B-Plus AI Bet With Muse Wonder$100B+ AI Bet→
  17. Oct 17, 2026Alphabet's Porat Pushes Back On Jefferies' AI Warning$195B-$205B Capex→
  18. Oct 17, 2026Mark Wahlberg's $99 Gym Takes On The Longevity Elite→
  19. Oct 16, 2026Meta’s New Terms Let It Scrape Any Business Customer For AI Trainingβ†’
  20. Oct 16, 2026Schwab Locks Out AI Agents, Following JPMorgan's Lead→
  21. Oct 16, 2026SoftBank Weighs $18B Buyout Of Allied Universal$18B (reported deal talks)β†’
  22. Oct 16, 2026Proofpoint Buys Varonis In $6.3B Cybersecurity Deal$6.3B Acquisition→
  23. Oct 16, 2026Tesla's New Roadster Hits 60 MPH In Under A Second→
  24. Oct 15, 2026Amazon's Panos Panay: How A $1B Failure Shaped His Playbook~$1B Write-down→
  25. Oct 15, 2026Dimon Blocks Outside AI Agents From JPMorgan Accounts→
  26. Oct 15, 2026Nvidia Has Poured $8B Into Europe In One Year$8B Europe Investment (1Yr)β†’
  27. Oct 15, 2026Amazon Launches $75 Bee AI Wearable To Remember Everything→
  28. Oct 15, 2026Amazon's Bee Launches AI Wearables Starting At $75$74.99-$99.99β†’
  29. Oct 15, 2026Google Launches Universal Cart For AI Shopping→
  30. Oct 15, 2026Cursor Staff Flagged Data Leaks To SpaceX Before $60B Deal$60B SpaceX-Cursor Deal→
  31. Oct 15, 2026CCC Intelligent Sold For $6.1B | $7.75/Share, 44% Premium$6.1B Take-Private→
  32. Oct 15, 2026Figma Expands Agent Tools With Specs and Code Layers→
  33. Oct 13, 2026Science Corp's Chip Restores Sight In Stargardt Patient→
  34. Oct 13, 2026Applied Materials Opens $5B Chip Lab To Halve R&D Time$5B R&D facility→
  35. Oct 13, 2026OpenAI In Early Talks To Acquire Trail Of Bits→
  36. Oct 13, 2026Bumble Agrees To $1.3B Go-Private Deal With Ithaca$1.3B Acquisition→
  37. Oct 13, 2026Microsoft's New Maia Chip Claims 7x More AI Throughput→
  38. Oct 13, 2026Apple Refreshes Apple TV, HomePod With Siri AI$299 Apple TV 4K→
  39. Oct 13, 2026Amex Builds Guardrails To Stop Rogue AI Agent Purchases→
  40. Oct 13, 2026Rocket Software Buys Geniez AI For Mainframe Agents→

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Bullhorn Cyberattack Disrupts Platform For 10,000+ Recruiters

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Bullhorn Cyberattack Disrupts Platform For 10,000+ Recruiters

Recruitment software provider Bullhorn took its platform offline after detecting a cyberattack on October 17, disrupting services for more than 10,000 customers for several days before a partial recovery this week.

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Salesforce Buys Braze For $5.66B, A 58% Premium

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BIG TECH$5.66B Acquisition

Salesforce Buys Braze For $5.66B, A 58% Premium

Salesforce agreed to acquire customer-engagement platform Braze for about $5.66 billion, paying $47.50 per share in cash -- a roughly 58% premium -- to add Braze's real-time messaging tools to its stack.

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Spotify Launches Podcast Memberships, Creators Keep 90% Revenue

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Spotify Launches Podcast Memberships, Creators Keep 90% Revenue

Spotify launched paid podcast memberships in 34 markets on October 20, letting podcasters sell bonus content and perks directly to fans while keeping 90% of the revenue.

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Tradeweb Buys Trumid For $1.97B In Cash And Stock

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BIG TECH$1.97B Acquisition

Tradeweb Buys Trumid For $1.97B In Cash And Stock

Tradeweb Markets agreed to buy fixed-income trading platform Trumid for about $1.97 billion -- roughly $1.89 billion in cash plus $82 million in equity -- expanding into corporate-bond trading earlier in the credit lifecycle.

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Amazon's TorchNeuron Targets Nvidia's 85% PyTorch Grip

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Amazon's TorchNeuron Targets Nvidia's 85% PyTorch Grip

Amazon released TorchNeuron, letting existing PyTorch AI applications move onto its Trainium chips with one configuration change, aiming at the software lock-in that has kept Nvidia GPUs the default choice for most AI developers.

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Prysmian Completes $3.8B Atkore Acquisition

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Prysmian Completes $3.8B Atkore Acquisition

Italian cable giant Prysmian has closed its roughly $3.8 billion acquisition of U.S. electrical-infrastructure maker Atkore, paying $95 per share in cash and delisting Atkore from the NYSE.

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Silence Therapeutics Sells For $1.3B | 130% Premium From Merck KGaA

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BIG TECH$1.3B Acquisition

Silence Therapeutics Sells For $1.3B | 130% Premium From Merck KGaA

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany agreed to acquire Silence Therapeutics in an all-cash deal worth about $1.3 billion in equity value, paying $20.00 per ADS -- a 130% premium to Friday's close -- to get full control of its lead siRNA drug Divesiran.

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Disney To Pay $60M To Hire Most Of Character.AI's Staff

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BIG TECH$60M Hiring Deal

Disney To Pay $60M To Hire Most Of Character.AI's Staff

Disney agreed to pay an estimated $60 million a year to hire at least 60 Character.AI employees, a stalking-horse bid following the startup's bankruptcy and an earlier $20 million asset sale.

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Rivian Pivots To Licensing Its Tech Stack To Other Automakers

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Rivian Pivots To Licensing Its Tech Stack To Other Automakers

Rivian is repositioning itself as a technology supplier, aiming to license its electric vehicle architecture, software and autonomy stack to other automakers rather than selling only its own cars.

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Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale's UK Data Center After Grid Delays

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Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale's UK Data Center After Grid Delays

Microsoft has stepped back from Nscale's planned UK data center project after grid-connection delays pushed the facility's opening years behind schedule.

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Meta Pulls Clause Letting It Train AI On Business Customers' Sites

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Meta Pulls Clause Letting It Train AI On Business Customers' Sites

Meta quietly added language letting it train AI on any business account's website, then pulled the clause after legal experts warned it amounted to a blanket scraping right over publishers.

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TikTok Permanently Bans Ads For Elon Musk Documentary

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TikTok Permanently Bans Ads For Elon Musk Documentary

TikTok permanently suspended the ad account for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary over its political content, the latest platform to restrict marketing for the film ahead of its theatrical rollout.

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Cobo Shuts Down Its Consumer Wallet, Will Charge Those Who Don't Withdraw

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Cobo Shuts Down Its Consumer Wallet, Will Charge Those Who Don't Withdraw

Crypto custody firm Cobo will shut down its consumer wallet app on Dec. 1, 2026, and charge anyone who leaves assets behind 2% of their holdings every month starting in January.

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Dario Amodei Spends Up To 40% On Culture | Anthropic Eyes $2T IPO

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BIG TECH$2T IPO Target

Dario Amodei Spends Up To 40% On Culture | Anthropic Eyes $2T IPO

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he spends up to 40% of his time on company culture as the AI lab prepares for an IPO that could value it near $2 trillion.

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Cybercriminals Target Building HVAC And Door Systems

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Cybercriminals Target Building HVAC And Door Systems

Security researchers say attacks on building automation systems -- HVAC, door access, fire alarms -- are rising fast, with 73% of affected organizations' systems carrying known exploited vulnerabilities.

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Alexandr Wang Steers Meta's $100B-Plus AI Bet With Muse Wonder

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BIG TECH$100B+ AI Bet

Alexandr Wang Steers Meta's $100B-Plus AI Bet With Muse Wonder

Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang helped seal Mark Zuckerberg's $100 billion-plus commitment to frontier AI, culminating in Muse Wonder, Meta Superintelligence Labs' first flagship model.

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Alphabet's Porat Pushes Back On Jefferies' AI Warning

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BIG TECH$195B-$205B Capex

Alphabet's Porat Pushes Back On Jefferies' AI Warning

Alphabet president and chief investment officer Ruth Porat rejected Jefferies strategist Chris Wood's warning that the AI boom will end in large-scale U.S. capital destruction, saying the buildout remains undervalued even as capex guidance tops $200 billion.

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Mark Wahlberg's $99 Gym Takes On The Longevity Elite

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Mark Wahlberg's $99 Gym Takes On The Longevity Elite

Mark Wahlberg is opening a 32,000-square-foot longevity gym outside Las Vegas priced far below rivals like Fountain Life and Equinox, betting volume beats exclusivity in the booming longevity-club market.

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Meta’s New Terms Let It Scrape Any Business Customer For AI Training

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Meta’s New Terms Let It Scrape Any Business Customer For AI Training

Meta's revised terms of service, effective Oct. 30, let it scrape any business customer on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for AI training -- anyone running ads, managing a Page or Group, or using its business tools. More than a million businesses already use Meta's AI agents on WhatsApp and Messenger alone. The terms are drawing accusations of coercion from publishers and a law professor.

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Schwab Locks Out AI Agents, Following JPMorgan's Lead

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Schwab Locks Out AI Agents, Following JPMorgan's Lead

Charles Schwab is blocking outside AI agents that use client logins or browser automation to move money, pointing users instead to its own assistant, Charley.

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SoftBank Weighs $18B Buyout Of Allied Universal

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SoftBank Weighs $18B Buyout Of Allied Universal

SoftBank is weighing an $18 billion acquisition of security staffing giant Allied Universal, Bloomberg reported, extending Masayoshi Son's AI robotics push into physical labor.

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Proofpoint Buys Varonis In $6.3B Cybersecurity Deal

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BIG TECH$6.3B Acquisition

Proofpoint Buys Varonis In $6.3B Cybersecurity Deal

Thoma Bravo's Proofpoint agreed to buy Varonis for $6.3 billion in cash, calling the combined company the largest data-and-AI cybersecurity business, with close expected in H1 2027.

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Tesla's New Roadster Hits 60 MPH In Under A Second

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Tesla's New Roadster Hits 60 MPH In Under A Second

Tesla finally staged its delayed Roadster demo outside Waco, Texas, showing a car with 10 SpaceX-style cold-gas thrusters that drove up a vertical ramp, hovered over other vehicles, and hit 60 mph in under one second.

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Amazon's Panos Panay: How A $1B Failure Shaped His Playbook

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BIG TECH~$1B Write-down

Amazon's Panos Panay: How A $1B Failure Shaped His Playbook

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay told TechCrunch Disrupt that founders should extract lessons from failure, citing the roughly $1B Surface RT write-down from his Microsoft tenure as his clearest example.

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Dimon Blocks Outside AI Agents From JPMorgan Accounts

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Dimon Blocks Outside AI Agents From JPMorgan Accounts

At JPMorgan's third-quarter earnings call Tuesday, CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank won't let outside AI agents, including ones like Meta's Muse, access or act on customer accounts, citing the risk of 'rogue agents.'

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Nvidia Has Poured $8B Into Europe In One Year

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BIG TECH$8B Europe Investment (1Yr)

Nvidia Has Poured $8B Into Europe In One Year

Nvidia has invested roughly $8 billion across Europe over the past year and plans another $2 billion in deals within a week, as CEO Jensen Huang positions the company as the default supplier for Europe's 'sovereign AI' push.

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Amazon Launches $75 Bee AI Wearable To Remember Everything

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Amazon Launches $75 Bee AI Wearable To Remember Everything

Amazon launched two new Bee wearables, the $74.99 Frontier and $99.99 Eclipse, that listen to conversations and turn them into AI-generated summaries and to-dos.

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Amazon's Bee Launches AI Wearables Starting At $75

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BIG TECH$74.99-$99.99

Amazon's Bee Launches AI Wearables Starting At $75

Amazon's Bee unit launched two AI wearables, the $74.99 Bee Frontier and $99.99 Bee Eclipse, undercutting rival AI recorders as Amazon pushes deeper into always-on personal AI.

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Google Launches Universal Cart For AI Shopping

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Google Launches Universal Cart For AI Shopping

Google rolled out Universal Cart, letting shoppers save and track products across retailers inside Search and Gemini, as Amazon and OpenAI race to build their own AI shopping agents.

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Cursor Staff Flagged Data Leaks To SpaceX Before $60B Deal

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BIG TECH$60B SpaceX-Cursor Deal

Cursor Staff Flagged Data Leaks To SpaceX Before $60B Deal

Cursor engineers investigated in July 2026 whether an internal tool called Sand routed confidential client data into SpaceX's AI systems while testing Grok, weeks before SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of the company closed.

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CCC Intelligent Sold For $6.1B | $7.75/Share, 44% Premium

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BIG TECH$6.1B Take-Private

CCC Intelligent Sold For $6.1B | $7.75/Share, 44% Premium

GTCR and Elliott Investment Management will take CCC Intelligent Solutions private for $7.75 a share, a 44% premium that still values the insurance-claims software firm below its 2021 SPAC debut.

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Figma Expands Agent Tools With Specs and Code Layers

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Figma Expands Agent Tools With Specs and Code Layers

Figma used its Config event in India to launch Specs, expand code layers to public beta and add deeper MCP support, saying its platform now produces 17 times more code than before but only 1.3 times more releases.

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Science Corp's Chip Restores Sight In Stargardt Patient

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Science Corp's Chip Restores Sight In Stargardt Patient

Science Corporation, founded by Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak, implanted its PRIMA vision chip in its first Stargardt disease patient, who read a word just two sessions after the procedure.

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Applied Materials Opens $5B Chip Lab To Halve R&D Time

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Applied Materials Opens $5B Chip Lab To Halve R&D Time

Applied Materials unveiled its $5 billion EPIC semiconductor research facility in Sunnyvale, aiming to cut chip development from 10-12 years to as little as six, with Intel, TSMC, Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung working on site as partners, Fortune reported.

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OpenAI In Early Talks To Acquire Trail Of Bits

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OpenAI In Early Talks To Acquire Trail Of Bits

OpenAI is in early talks to acquire security research firm Trail of Bits in a deal The Information reports could boost OpenAI's cybersecurity business, though no terms, price or timeline have been disclosed.

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Bumble Agrees To $1.3B Go-Private Deal With Ithaca

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BIG TECH$1.3B Acquisition

Bumble Agrees To $1.3B Go-Private Deal With Ithaca

Bumble has agreed to a $1.3 billion deal to go private with Ithaca Holdings, the venture founded by ex-Sequoia partner Ravi Gupta, five years after the dating app's 2021 IPO valued it near $14 billion.

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Microsoft's New Maia Chip Claims 7x More AI Throughput

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Microsoft's New Maia Chip Claims 7x More AI Throughput

Microsoft detailed its Maia 300 AI chip, claiming up to seven times the rack-scale throughput of its predecessor and 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems, with multi-gigawatt deployment planned for 2027.

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Apple Refreshes Apple TV, HomePod With Siri AI

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BIG TECH$299 Apple TV 4K

Apple Refreshes Apple TV, HomePod With Siri AI

Apple unveiled a $299 Apple TV 4K and a $149 HomePod mini with hands-free Siri AI at its October 13 'Welcome Home' event, its first major refresh of either product since 2022.

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Amex Builds Guardrails To Stop Rogue AI Agent Purchases

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Amex Builds Guardrails To Stop Rogue AI Agent Purchases

American Express unveiled its Intent Intelligence Framework, which verifies what a customer told an AI shopping agent to buy before the agent can complete a purchase, aiming to prevent unauthorized transactions as agentic commerce scales.

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Rocket Software Buys Geniez AI For Mainframe Agents

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Rocket Software Buys Geniez AI For Mainframe Agents

Rocket Software acquired Geniez AI on Oct. 13, folding its mainframe-native AI agents into Rocket's agentic platform, Rocket EVA; deal terms were not disclosed.

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Symbotic Buys Germany's cellumation In Its Third 2026 Deal

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Symbotic Buys Germany's cellumation In Its Third 2026 Deal

Nasdaq-listed Symbotic agreed to acquire Bremen-based cellumation, maker of the celluveyor modular sortation system, marking its third acquisition of 2026 as it expands in Europe.

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Alphabet's Porat Defends $200B AI Spending Spree

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BIG TECH$200B 2026 Capex

Alphabet's Porat Defends $200B AI Spending Spree

Alphabet president and chief investment officer Ruth Porat said the company's roughly $200 billion in 2026 AI capital spending will rise again next year, pushing back on warnings from Jefferies strategist Chris Wood that the AI boom could end in major capital destruction.

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Google's New Fitbit Edge Bets On Gemini, Not Just Hardware

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BIG TECH$179.99 Base Price

Google's New Fitbit Edge Bets On Gemini, Not Just Hardware

Google introduced the Fitbit Edge at $179.99, a slim-band wearable pairing Fitbit Air's design with an OLED display, gated behind a Gemini-powered Health Coach that requires a paid subscription.

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IonQ Acquires Elisity For Up To $1.3 Billion

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BIG TECH$1.3B All-Stock Deal

IonQ Acquires Elisity For Up To $1.3 Billion

IonQ agreed to buy Zero Trust security startup Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion, including a $150 million earnout, expected to close in the fourth quarter.

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Amazon In Talks To Buy Decart For $7B

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BIG TECH~$7B (Reported Talks)

Amazon In Talks To Buy Decart For $7B

Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire AI inference startup Decart for about $7 billion, months after Anthropic walked away from a similar deal.

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Apple Licenses Huxe Tech, Offers Jobs To Its Team

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Apple Licenses Huxe Tech, Offers Jobs To Its Team

Apple disclosed in an EU filing that it will license technology and offer jobs to staff from Huxe, the personalized AI podcast startup that shut down in May, in a structure known as a reverse acqui-hire.

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Cloudflare Buys Deno, Pulling Node.js Creator Into Its Orbit

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Cloudflare Buys Deno, Pulling Node.js Creator Into Its Orbit

Cloudflare is acquiring Deno, the JavaScript runtime co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, folding its open-source Workers-compatible runtime directly into Cloudflare's platform.

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Google's Suncatcher Puts 4 AI Chips Into Orbit

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Google's Suncatcher Puts 4 AI Chips Into Orbit

Google launched a test satellite carrying four TPU chips on a SpaceX rocket on Oct. 1, the first real test of its bid to run AI data centers in orbit alongside rival plans from SpaceX, Blue Origin and Starcloud.

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Google Sends 4 AI Chips Into Orbit With Project Suncatcher

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Google Sends 4 AI Chips Into Orbit With Project Suncatcher

Google launched a satellite carrying four TPU chips to test whether AI data centers can eventually run in orbit, where solar power is constant and there is no water, land or grid constraint.

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Big Tech's $700B AI Bet Now Targets Healthcare

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BIG TECH$700B 2026 AI Capex

Big Tech's $700B AI Bet Now Targets Healthcare

Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon are on pace to spend over $700 billion combined on AI infrastructure in 2026, and healthcare -- a $5.3 trillion U.S. market -- is emerging as the test of whether that spending pays off.

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Eliyan Draws Takeover Interest, Held Talks With Arm

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Eliyan Draws Takeover Interest, Held Talks With Arm

Eliyan, the AI chip-interconnect startup last valued above $1 billion, has drawn takeover interest and held early talks with Arm, The Information reported, though no deal terms or price have been disclosed.

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AI's Real Arms Race Is Financing, Not Chips

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AI's Real Arms Race Is Financing, Not Chips

Broadcom is reportedly in talks to raise about $30 billion in debt to help fund OpenAI's chip purchases, part of a wider pattern of chipmakers financing the AI buildouts they also sell into.

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SpaceX's Shotwell Pledges $325M In Stock To Kids' Trump Accounts

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BIG TECH$325M in stock

SpaceX's Shotwell Pledges $325M In Stock To Kids' Trump Accounts

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell and her husband pledged shares worth $325 million to more than 2 million American kids through the new Trump Accounts program, using a stock-donation structure tax advisers say could reshape how founders give away equity.

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Flock Safety To Cut 270 Jobs Amid Surveillance Backlash

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Flock Safety To Cut 270 Jobs Amid Surveillance Backlash

Flock Safety plans to cut about 270 jobs, roughly 18% of its workforce, following a voluntary buyout program amid backlash over its surveillance camera network.

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OpenAI's Revenue Run-Rate Is $20B Below Earlier Claims

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BIG TECH$50B annualized revenue

OpenAI's Revenue Run-Rate Is $20B Below Earlier Claims

OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50B, about $20B below the nearly-$70B figure reported in September, as its IPO timeline slips toward early 2027.

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Natura's $99 Ring Wants To Be Your AI Agent's Button

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BIG TECH$99 hardware

Natura's $99 Ring Wants To Be Your AI Agent's Button

Natura launched a $99 smart ring called Interface that summons AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT and Instinct with a finger press, undercutting health-focused rivals Oura and Ultrahuman on price while skipping their core subscription pitch.

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Amazon Ditches Fire OS, Puts Google Play On New Tablets

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Amazon Ditches Fire OS, Puts Google Play On New Tablets

Amazon's new Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, 11 and 8 run Android with built-in Google Play Store access, abandoning the Fire OS app-store lock-in that defined its tablet line for over a decade.

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Uber And Pony.ai Add London To Robotaxi Push

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Uber And Pony.ai Add London To Robotaxi Push

Uber and Pony.ai will begin testing Gen-7 robotaxis in London within weeks, extending a Europe expansion that started in Zagreb in August and still has no named fleet operator for the UK.

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Meta Exec Predicts Solo Founders Will Build $1B Companies

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Meta Exec Predicts Solo Founders Will Build $1B Companies

Meta VP Derya Matras argues agentic AI is now capable enough to produce single-person billion-dollar companies, citing more than a million businesses already running Meta's AI agents on WhatsApp and Messenger.

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Musk Blames 'Oligarchs' For India Blocking Starlink

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Musk Blames 'Oligarchs' For India Blocking Starlink

Elon Musk accused unnamed 'oligarchs' of blocking Starlink's long-delayed India launch, and India's government called its satellite licensing process fair and non-discriminatory hours later.

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