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Nexos.ai, which helps companies adopt AI tools by acting as a middleman between employees and AI systems, raised a €30M Series A co-led by Index and Evantic (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Analysis: agencies have hired hundreds of thousands of "chatters" to impersonate 4M+ OnlyFans creators, as many Filipino chatters struggle with mental health (Michael Beltran/Nikkei Asia)

Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models (Michael Beltran/Rest of World)

To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins VC firm Benchmark as general partner, following a slew of personnel departures at Benchmark (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

In a letter to two US lawmakers, Ticketmaster says it will ban users from operating multiple accounts and shut down its TradeDesk platform after an FTC lawsuit (Dave Brooks/Billboard)

A look at the social debates in Chile over AI investments, emblematic of clashes happening globally over balancing economic growth with environmental concerns (Paul Mozur/New York Times)

AWS says services have "returned to normal operations" after an outage in its US-EAST-1 region, first reported at 3:11am ET, that took down major websites (CNBC)

Study: brain-computer interface company Science Corp.'s PRIMA device, comprised of a retinal implant and special glasses, restored vision in some blind patients (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)

Reid Hoffman calls Anthropic "one of the good guys" after David Sacks accused the company of running a "regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

OpenAI says it will work with SAG-AFTRA, CAA, UTA, and others to crack down on Sora 2 deepfakes, following concerns from actor Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA (Jaures Yip/CNBC)

Document: Google launched a Trusted Tester program to select 15 of its "Superfans" to test unreleased Pixels, using protective cases to disguise the hardware (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

Anthropic announces Claude Code on the web and in the Claude iOS app, available in beta as a research preview for Pro and Max users (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR, a vision language model designed for efficient vision-text compression, enabling longer contexts with less compute (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)

An interview with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz, who expects a 2025 profit of $170M to $200M, about the company's $300M round that pushed its valuation above Rippling's (Matt Durot/Forbes)

LangChain, whose open-source framework connects AI apps to real-time data, raised a $125M Series B led by IVP at a $1.25B valuation (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

CleanSpark closed up 4.48% after the bitcoin miner said it would expand into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers (David Pan/Bloomberg)

Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Evernorth, a digital asset treasury backed by Ripple, says it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger with a blank check company and expects to raise $1B+ (Reuters)

Q&A with NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on social media, tech leaders, Apple's and Google's "wrong decision" to remove ICE-tracking apps, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)

Oura launches a redesigned app with a new feature showing a weekly overview of stress management and says it's working with the US FDA on a blood pressure study (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Adobe launches AI Foundry, a program that helps enterprise customers create bespoke, commercially safe, Firefly-based generative AI models trained on their IP (Webb Wright/ZDNET)

The UK CMA says Getty Images and Shutterstock's $3.7B merger raises competition concerns and gives the companies until October 27 to make a plan to address them (Ian Walker/Wall Street Journal)

How luxury brands' stiffest competition is coming from secondhand online resellers like The RealReal and Fashionphile, driven by Gen Z and millennial consumers (Carol Ryan/Wall Street Journal)

OpenEvidence, which makes an ad-supported AI chatbot for medical professionals, raised $200M at a $6B valuation, up from $3.5B after a $210M Series B in July (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

Ariel Emanuel's new company MARI acquires NYC- and London-based theater ticketing app TodayTix from PE firm Great Hill; TodayTix sells ~10M tickets per year (Michael Paulson/New York Times)

Q&A with Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz on Facebook, starting Asana, SaaS companies, enterprise AI, the "empty seat problem", AI modesty, AI safety, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

SpaceX launched 56 Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets on October 19, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)

Tech companies' data center building spree is hurting communities globally; Synergy: nearly 60% of the 1,244 largest data centers as of June were outside the US (New York Times)

A lawyer says 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users filed an antitrust complaint in China, alleging Apple abuses its market dominance by restricting app distribution (Reuters)

Nexperia accuses ousted CEO Zhang Xuezheng of spreading "falsehoods" that the chipmaker is now operating independently in China and of "unauthorized actions" (Bloomberg)

How China gained control over global rare earth supply through state support, domestic industry consolidation, acquiring US companies like Magnequench, and more (Jon Emont/Wall Street Journal)

A profile of Katherine Boyle, an a16z general partner and JD Vance's friend, as Silicon Valley increasingly adopts her views, including embracing defense tech (Julia Black/New York Times)

AWS says "the underlying DNS issue" is mitigated and most "operations are succeeding normally" after a huge US-EAST-1 outage; some services are still "impacted" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Blackstone President Jonathan Gray says AI risk is "top of our list" when evaluating deals; sources: the firm backed down from buying companies vulnerable to AI (Financial Times)

A profile of Pure Storage co-founder John Colgrove, as AI-driven demand for data storage pushes the company's stock to record highs, reaching a $30B market cap (Alicia Park/Forbes)

London-based CoMind, which develops a non-invasive brain monitoring device with Lidar-like tech, raised $60M led by Plural, taking its total funding to $102.5M (Financial Times)

Counterpoint: the iPhone 17 series outsold the iPhone 16 by ~14% in the first 10 days of US and China sales; base iPhone 17 sales doubled over the 16 in China (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

Opera Neon hands-on: the $20-per-month agentic AI browser can take over browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI chatbots can be confusing and unreliable (The Verge)

Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20 required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

An interview with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)

X is testing a new way of opening links without fully covering an X post, allowing users to see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

X plans a Handle Marketplace for Premium+ and Business subscribers to search for and request inactive usernames; rare handles can cost from $2,500 to $1M+ (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

A look at the Crylock ransomware scheme, orchestrated by a Russian couple who targeted as many as 400,000 victims and earned €64M+ in bitcoin over eight years (Financial Times)

OpenAI's Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is diversifying its chip suppliers, including Nvidia chips for training and Broadcom chips for inference (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI researchers delete X posts claiming that GPT-5 solved Erdös math problems, after pushback from Demis Hassabis and others; Yann LeCun ridicules OpenAI (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

China says the US NSA has been hacking its National Time Service Center, which provides high precision time services for the government and others, since 2023 (Bloomberg)

Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions to the American Federation of Teachers to build AI training hubs aimed at educating 400,000 teachers (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)

ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

A study of 311 AI-generated eighth-grade civics lesson plans in Massachusetts suggests they fall short of inspiring students or promoting critical thinking (The Conversation)