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Meta adds group chats to Threads, allowing users to add up to 50 people who follow their Threads account, rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

US cybersecurity company F5 discloses a cyberattack in August by suspected nation-state hackers that stole undisclosed BIG-IP vulnerabilities and source code (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

AppLovin shut down Array last quarter, calling it "a test product" that wasn't "economically viable", after allegations it led to unwanted Android app installs (Bloomberg)

A survey of 28K+ adults in 25 countries on AI: 81% have heard a lot or a little, 34% are more concerned than excited, and 42% are equally concerned and excited (Pew Research Center)

Apple to start selling Vision Pro-compatible PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers for $250 on November 11 and the $130 Logitech Muse digital pen on October 22 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Apple debuts its M5 chip, with a 10-core GPU, a Neural Accelerator in each core, offering 4x+ the performance of M4, and a 10-core CPU with six efficiency cores (Apple)

CoreWeave and AI coding startup Poolside plan a 500-acre, natural gas-powered data center on a Texas ranch; sources: Poolside is raising $2B at a $14B valuation (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)

ROG Xbox Ally X review: solid performance, the best grips, silent cooling, and a good 120Hz display, but Windows needs more optimizing and battery life is poor (Rebecca Spear/Windows Central)

ROG Xbox Ally review: great grips, good speakers, and Windows is easier to control with joysticks, but worse performance than the Steam Deck and a half-baked UI (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Apple Unveils M5 Chip With Next-Generation GPU (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Apple upgrades its Vision Pro with an M5 chip for rendering 10% more pixels and a Dual Knit Band for a more comfortable fit, available on October 22 for $3,499+ (Apple)

Apple updates its iPad Pro with an M5 chip, its new C1X modem, and an N1 chip, priced at $999+ for the 11" and $1,299+ for the 13", shipping from October 22 (David Pierce/The Verge)

Apple refreshes its 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip, offering up to 3.5x more AI performance and faster storage, for the same $1,599+, shipping October 22 (Apple)

China's Industry Ministry says that during a visit, Tim Cook pledged to boost Apple's investment in China, but offers no details, amid the US-China trade war (Reuters)

An investment consortium that includes BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft says it will acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie in a $40B deal (Financial Times)

US DHS: Chinese criminals made $1B+ in the past three years via scam texts; Proofpoint: Americans reported a record 330K toll-scam texts in one day in September (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online (Washington Post)

ASML CFO Roger Dassen says the company is "well prepared" for China's curbs on exports of rare earth minerals; source: ASML may face weeks-long shipment delays (Bloomberg)

The Dutch seizing Nexperia from Wingtech is a landmark moment, showing it made a mistake allowing its sale and how ensnared the EU is in the US-China tech war (Financial Times)

Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers (Reuters)

Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London, starting in 2026, its first European launch; human-supervised cars will first collect data (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

UK startup Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips for Microsoft in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the "physical AI" era (Chris Bryant/Bloomberg)

Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others (Mother Jones)

How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs (Reuters)

The Japanese government says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IPs, such as anime, calling them "irreplaceable treasures" (Verity Townsend/IGN)

SEC filing: Jeff Bezos discloses that he now owns 9% of Amazon's shares, down from 10.1% a year ago, after selling 100M+ shares over the course of the past year (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Stripe's stablecoin arm Bridge applies for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking US federal oversight (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)

ASML reports Q3 net bookings of €5.4B, v. €4.9B est., as the AI spending boom boosts demand for its EUV machines to produce the most sophisticated AI chips (Bloomberg)

ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est., and €2.12B net profit, v. €2.11B est., warning that it expects China sales to decline "significantly" in 2026 (April Roach/CNBC)

YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; OpenAI currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumer ChatGPT use (Financial Times)

Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B post-money (Danny Park/The Block)

Reducto, which uses OCR with vision language models to convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z at a $600M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Finch, which offers a voice-based AI system to automate administrative tasks done by paralegals, raised a $20M Series A, source says at a $100M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)

Spotify's deal to bring video podcasts to Netflix bars shows from airing in full on YouTube; Netflix won't run ad breaks, but Spotify's integrated ads remain (New York Times)

Hands-on with Nvidia's DGX Spark: trades some performance and bandwidth for 128GB of unified memory, Nvidia's software ecosystem is valuable, and more (Tobias Mann/The Register)

Sources: Apple plans to build its upcoming indoor security camera, home hub, and tabletop robot in Vietnam as part an effort to lessen its dependence on China (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Samsung schedules a "Worlds Wide Open" Galaxy event on October 21 at 10pm ET, where it will provide more information about its Project Moohan headset (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Anthropic's Jack Clark argues that, while he is optimistic about AI's progress, the industry must do a better job of listening to people's concerns about it (Jack Clark/Import AI)

Crypto investor Roger Ver, aka "Bitcoin Jesus", reaches a deferred prosecution agreement with the US DOJ and pays ~$50M to resolve a tax evasion indictment (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

DirecTV plans to roll out custom shoppable TV screensavers that feature AI likenesses of users, available on DirecTV Gemini devices in 2026 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Intel unveils Crescent Island, a data center GPU designed for AI inference workloads, featuring Intel's Xe3P microarchitecture and 160GB of LPDDR5X memory (Dylan Martin/CRN)

Tether agrees to a $299.5M settlement with the Celsius Network bankruptcy estate, resolving claims related to Celsius' 2022 collapse (Sam Bourgi/Cointelegraph)

Microsoft officially ends support for Windows 10, which runs on ~40% of Windows PCs per Statcounter; users can enroll in an Extended Security Updates program (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

Flow Engineering, which provides a collaborative hardware development platform for companies like Rivian, raised a $23M Series A led by Sequoia (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak its search results to show vertical search engines in their own box on Search (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)