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<span class="event"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7731b59645&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;">Fortune Most Powerful Women (day 3)</a>, </span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=24838f9b17&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sam Altman / </span><span class="pub_name">@sama</span>)</span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9c10a69c0c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">They say porn built the internet. Looks like it's going to build consumer AI too</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d42f099ea5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I appreciate this, but I don't understand how OpenAI can claim, “Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools.” How exactly have they mitigated these risks? Where's the updated System Card or independent evaluation? This claim could expose OpenAI to serious legal risk if ChatGPT is ever linked to another mental health or suicide incident.</a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8794ebb003&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@jason:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4e30506dd8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The blackmail is going to be fast and furious... “sent me a bitcoin, or I'm gonna release your late-night ChatGPT sessions!” Assume someone at OpenAI is reading your prompts and sharing them with their friends — because that's what has happened at ever other startup in history</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1c838ecfb9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1273262220&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The rapid rise of transnational fraud has cost American citizens billions of dollars, with life savings wiped out in minutes. Treasury is taking action to protect Americans by cracking down on foreign scammers. Working in close coordination with federal law enforcement and</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=72db2c7c41&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">🧵The seizure of 127,000 bitcoin underscores two urgent priorities for Congress: first, passing clear digital asset market structure legislation to ensure law enforcement can act decisively against bad actors while protecting innovation.</a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=53b83f1b68&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@ryanwatkins_:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=209e0b64a6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Honestly if the U.S. government just builds the strategic Bitcoin reserve by seizing coins from criminals that's alright by me. Not the buying some may want, but does lock up more supply that otherwise would've been sold. Bullish.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9089a5d9a3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">If Amazon takes this leap they can swallow the ENTIRE ecommerce market. Because they can power the BEST fulfillment experience. (fastest and cheapest). It is the only moat left when OpenAI swallows the internet and the vast majority of discovery happens this way. It would</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ed7fa90753&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=90fe934f2e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nexperia says China has banned it from exporting China-made products, as Beijing retaliates after the Dutch government took over the Wingtech-owned chipmaker</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Jacob / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=52a67472bf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers used $800 of off-the-shelf hardware to collect data sent by satellites unencrypted, like T-Mobile users' calls and texts and some US military comms</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=643ae97125&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew Cunningham / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</span>)</span>
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Artificial Intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6bed79af68&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Salesforce expands its OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships to embed their LLMs into Agentforce 360, letting users access Agentforce 360 apps in ChatGPT, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Larry Dignan / </span><span class="pub_name">Constellation Research</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=94c4c084ad&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brody Ford / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1c9b3bad77&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI forms the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, with eight experts to help guide OpenAI's work on ChatGPT and Sora</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ashley Capoot / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cc97591804&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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+</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matt Levine / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e4f197f659&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jack Clark / </span><span class="pub_name">Import AI</span>)</span>
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AI Processors
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=caec289866&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Intel unveils Crescent Island, a data center GPU designed for AI inference workloads, featuring Intel's Xe3P microarchitecture and 160GB of LPDDR5X memory</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dylan Martin / </span><span class="pub_name">CRN</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2ba8b768e0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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Data Centers
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=35838daa96&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jagmeet Singh / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d06c0f149e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kimberley Kao / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8667f7cc3e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia says it is donating its Vera Rubin NVL144 server rack architecture to the Open Compute Project and working with 70+ partners on “gigawatt AI factories”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mike Wheatley / </span><span class="pub_name">SiliconANGLE</span>)</span>
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Regulation
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=73c59961ec&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 771, which would've fined social media companies up to $1M if their algorithms promoted violent or extremist content</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tyler Katzenberger / </span><span class="pub_name">Politico</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fb8f064edd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Bank of England officials are holding up Revolut's full UK license over concerns about whether its risk controls can keep pace with its global growth</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dc6a925600&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak its search results to show vertical search engines in their own box on Search</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Foo Yun Chee / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c7893c0891&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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M&A
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1b3f7ce5f5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Managed security services provider LevelBlue to acquire cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which raised $850M in total funding and undergone multiple restructurings</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Greg Otto / </span><span class="pub_name">CyberScoop</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f058d7f411&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Milana Vinn / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7496f1b191&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Tata Electronics bought the Indian unit of Justech Precision, a China-based Apple supplier that provides gear to Foxconn, for close to $100M in August</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Anniek Bao / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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infosec
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dc2bfdbc6a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dan Goodin / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=abae760108&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 “nationally significant” cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, with “highly significant” cyberattacks up 50% YoY</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Joe Tidy / </span><span class="pub_name">BBC</span>)</span>
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cryptocurrency
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ab8a015d1e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Weiss / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4ff40c43c8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tether agrees to a $299.5M settlement with the Celsius Network bankruptcy estate, resolving claims related to Celsius's 2022 collapse</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sam Bourgi / </span><span class="pub_name">Cointelegraph</span>)</span>
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funding deals
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c737167dba&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ivan Mehta / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fdcc1014a2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
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