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Managed security services provider LevelBlue to acquire cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which raised $850M in total funding and undergone multiple restructurings (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)

AG Pam Bondi says Meta complied with the DOJ's request to take down a Facebook Page that the agency said was being used to harass ICE agents in Chicago (James Oliphant/Reuters)

OpenAI forms the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, with eight experts to help guide OpenAI's work on ChatGPT and Sora (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Glue, a Slack competitor co-founded last year by David Sacks and designed around threads over channels, raised a $20M Series A and says it has refocused on MCP (Dan Primack/Axios)

Sam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a "personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o" and will add "erotica for verified adults" (Sam Altman/@sama)

Handshake, which connects experts with AI labs to help train LLMs, says it hit $100M in annualized run rate in eight months after a "refounding" to focus on AI (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

Assassin's Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté departs Ubisoft, two weeks after Ubisoft moved the game under its new Vantage Studios unit; Côté joined in 2005 (Tom Phillips/IGN)

The US DOJ seizes ~$15B in bitcoin held in wallets owned by a man who oversaw a "pig butchering" operation in Cambodia, in the DOJ's largest ever forfeiture (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous warehouse robots, raised a $165M Series C, split $100M equity and $65M debt, after raising an $80M Series B in 2024 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)

Sources: Tokyo-based Renesas is exploring a sale, valued at close to $2B, of its timing unit that supplies timing components for data centers and 5G networks (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

Walmart partners with OpenAI to let shoppers browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, including apparel, entertainment, packaged food, and third-party goods (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)

Salesforce expands its OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships to embed their LLMs into Agentforce 360, letting users access Agentforce 360 apps in ChatGPT, and more (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Sources: the EU is considering forcing Chinese companies seeking access to key markets to hand over tech to European companies if they want to operate locally (Bloomberg)

Google plans to invest $15B in India through 2030 to set up a 1GW data center and AI hub in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh; Google employs 14K in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Oracle plans to deploy 50K AMD Instinct MI450 chips, announced in June, starting in H2 2026; the Instinct MI450 is AMD's first AI chip for rack-sized systems (CNBC)

Instagram overhauls Teen Accounts to align with PG-13 movie rating standards, block them from seeing accounts that share sexualized content, and more (David Ingram/NBC News)

Oura raised $900M led by Fidelity at an "approximately" $11B valuation, up from $5.2B after raising $200M in December, and says it has sold 5.5M+ smart rings (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Court filings: the Dutch government seized Nexperia after the US said it would remain on its export control list if Chinese CEO Zhang Xuezheng stayed in charge (Financial Times)

Nexperia says China has banned it from exporting China-made products, as Beijing retaliates after the Dutch government took over the Wingtech-owned chipmaker (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)

Google says it will invest $9B in South Carolina through 2027 to scale up its Berkeley County data center campus and help build two sites in Dorchester County (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)

Online loans marketplace LendingTree says CEO and Chairman Doug Lebda died at 55 in an ATV accident on his family's farm; Lebda founded LendingTree in 1996 (Ryan Mac/New York Times)

Internal memo: in a first, Samsung plans to award shares and bonuses based on stock price to employees and will let staff get up to 50% of their payout in stock (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Sources: Bank of England officials are holding up Revolut's full UK licence over concerns about whether its risk controls can keep pace with its global growth (Financial Times)

OpenAI's massive deals show that Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product and using world-changing financial engineering to try to raise $1T+ (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

TiVo confirms that it exited the hardware business on October 1 when it stopped selling DVRs, but says it will continue to offer support for the products (Michael Schneider/Variety)

A new study of 6,554 children aged 9 to 10 found that social media users scored lower on reading, vocabulary, and memory tests two years later than non-users (Rhitu Chatterjee/NPR)

A look at quick commerce in India and China: India's ecosystem is evolving into a retail-media play, while China's is being used as a weapon in platform wars (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)

Dealroom: 230+ European defense tech startups have launched since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, driven by interest in drones, as investors foresee a shake-out (Sylvia Pfeifer/Financial Times)

Nvidia says it is donating the Vera Rubin NVL144 server rack architecture to the Open Compute Project and outlines its vision for "gigawatt AI factories" (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compile a vast collection of private data, including T-Mobile users' calls and texts, sent by satellites unencrypted (Wired)

Sources: Tata Electronics bought the Indian unit of Justech Precision, a China-based Apple supplier that provides CNC machines to Foxconn, for ~$100M in August (Anniek Bao/CNBC)

Bhutan announces that it is migrating its national ID system for roughly 800,000 residents from Polygon to Ethereum, with completion expected by Q1 2026 (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)

Indian officials say that over the past year, all 1.2M email addresses of Central Government employees migrated to a platform developed by Chennai-based Zoho (The Hindu)

Mumbai-based wealth management startup Dezerv raised a ~$40M Series C co-led by Premji Invest and Accel's Global Growth Fund, taking its total funding to ~$100M (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)

Researchers detail "Pixnapping", a new covert attack to steal 2FA codes and other private data on Android; Google's September patch only partially mitigates it (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 "nationally significant" cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, and "highly significant" cyberattacks rose by 50% (Joe Tidy/BBC)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 771, which would've fined social media companies if their algorithms intentionally promoted violent or extremist content (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)

Nvidia says it will begin selling the DGX Spark mini PC for AI developers on October 15 on Nvidia.com and select third-party retailers for $3,999 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Samsung projects Q3 operating profit up 32% YoY to ~$8.47B, vs. ~$6.8B est., its biggest quarterly profit in over three years, as AI development accelerates (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Microsoft unveils MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image AI model developed in house, and says it excels at photorealistic imagery, like lighting and landscapes (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Sources: OpenAI is working with Arm to develop a CPU designed to work with the AI chip OpenAI is developing with Broadcom; TSMC will manufacture the AI chip (The Information)

Charlie Kawwas, president of Broadcom's semiconductor group, says OpenAI is not the $10B customer the company announced during its earnings call in September (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Meta brings back job listings on Facebook, available for mobile users in the US via a dedicated Jobs tab in Marketplace, and across Groups and Pages (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire multi-stage investment firm Industry Ventures, which has $7B AUM, for $665M in cash and equity plus $300M tied to performance (Saeed Azhar/Reuters)

Broadcom closes up 9.88% following the announcement of its custom chip deal with OpenAI; its stock is up over 50% in 2025 after more than doubling in 2024 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger "Sponsored" label at the top and a hide button at the bottom (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Quantum computing stocks jumped after JPMorgan announced a $10B strategic tech investment; Arqit, D-Wave, Rigetti, and IonQ each rose about 20% (Jaures Yip/CNBC)

JPMorgan Chase launches a decade-long plan to invest $10B in industries critical for national security, including "frontier" tech like AI and quantum computing (Hugh Son/CNBC)

Google updates NotebookLM's Video Overviews, adding six new Nano Banana-powered visual styles and a new "Brief" format for quick insights (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Data integration startup Fivetran and data management startup dbt Labs announce a merger in an all-stock deal; Fivetran CEO will be CEO of the combined company (Krystal Hu/Reuters)