Topic: #technology
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AMD CEO Lisa Su returns to South Korea for HBM4 talks with Samsung chip chief
AMD CEO Lisa Su was scheduled to visit South Korea on October 6-7 to meet Samsung chip chief Jun Young-hyun, with HBM4 memory at the center of the talks, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Black Hills plans $1.8 billion in gas generation for Google's Cheyenne data center
Black Hills Corp. said it signed power service agreements with Google for a Cheyenne, Wyoming data center and plans to spend $1.8 billion on new natural gas generation between 2027 and 2029, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Boston Dynamics names former Amazon Alexa leader Rohit Prasad as CEO
Boston Dynamics named Rohit Prasad, who led Alexa development at Amazon for over 12 years, as CEO effective October 7, Crypto Briefing reported. He takes over a role that's been filled on an interim basis since February.
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Nvidia joins Reactor's Series A as world model startup's funding hits $74 million
Nvidia and Sapphire Ventures joined the Series A of Reactor, a San Francisco world model infrastructure startup, bringing its total funding to $74 million, up from $59 million in May.
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Ghost exits stealth with $11M a16z-led seed round for $3,499 personal AI computer
San Francisco startup Ghost came out of stealth on Monday with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, unveiling Core, a $3,499 personal AI computer it says runs models locally and is expected to ship October 31, 2026.
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AMD warrants could give OpenAI and Meta up to 320 million shares at one cent
AMD's warrants let OpenAI and Meta buy up to 320 million shares at $0.01 each, tied to 6-gigawatt GPU commitments and stock targets up to $600. None had vested as of mid-2026 filings.
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Foxconn Q3 revenue hits NT$3.03 trillion, up 47% on AI server demand
Foxconn reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of NT$3.03 trillion (about US$95.4 billion), up 47% year-on-year and ahead of estimates, as AI servers kept driving its cloud and networking segment.
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Plume launches nBND vault backed by Fidelity Total Bond ETF (FBND), report says
Plume has launched nBND, a vault on its Nest protocol backed by Fidelity's Total Bond ETF (FBND) and aimed at institutions seeking tokenized exposure to actively managed bonds, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Microsoft AI CEO Suleyman says frontier training runs could hit $100 billion
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said in an interview reported by Crypto Briefing that a single frontier AI training run could cost up to $100 billion within the next couple of years.
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Finland probes Google-owned firm over 300+ hectares of forest cleared for data center
Finnish authorities are investigating Tuike Finland Oy, a Google-owned project company, over more than 300 hectares of forest cleared in Muhos for a planned data center, according to Crypto Briefing.
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Intel shares up about 223% in 2026 as AI data center revenue climbs
Intel shares rose from $36.90 to about $119.33 by October 2, a roughly 223% gain this year, after Q2 revenue rose 25% and AI and data center sales climbed 59%, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Google pauses open source bug bounty submissions as AI-generated reports pile up
Google stopped taking new product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program on October 1, 2026, citing a flood of low-quality, AI-generated bug reports, Crypto Briefing reported.
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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son voices concern over AI safety risks, Bloomberg reports
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has voiced concern about AI safety risks as machines grow more capable, Bloomberg reported via Crypto Briefing; LeoDex News couldn't independently verify the report.
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Cerebras' 5nm wafer-scale chips skirt HBM and CoWoS supply bottlenecks, analysis says
Cerebras' WSE-3 chips skip HBM, CoWoS packaging and 3nm capacity, according to a Crypto Briefing analysis, which also flags execution risk on the company's $25.4 billion backlog.
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VIS weighs second Singapore fab as AI demand books out its first plant
Vanguard International Semiconductor is evaluating a second Singapore wafer fab through VSMC, its joint venture with NXP, after demand fully booked the first plant's initial capacity before production, Crypto Briefing reported.
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US Super Intelligence Force given 120 days to report on AI risks
A US Super Intelligence Force has 120 days to report on AI risks, Crypto Briefing said, citing Bloomberg. The deadline follows an executive order renaming AI and a voluntary accord signed by six tech firms.
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PewDiePie says OpenAI suspended him twice while he built his Ajax AI model
Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, released his Ajax AI model and says OpenAI suspended his account twice over alleged distillation during development, according to Crypto Briefing. OpenAI's side isn't reported.
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Meta's Muse AI shopping agent adds Walmart, Gap, Sephora, Wayfair, Best Buy
Meta announced retail partnerships for Muse, its standalone AI agent app, with Walmart, Gap, Sephora, Wayfair and Best Buy on September 23, about two weeks after launch, according to Crypto Briefing.
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Arbitrum Security Council pauses new Stylus activations, citing AI-assisted attacks
Arbitrum's Security Council blocked new Stylus activations on Arbitrum One and Nova on October 2, citing AI-assisted attack risks. Live Stylus apps and Solidity contracts are unaffected.
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Apple tightens Mac Full Disk Access prompts for AI tools amid Meta Muse dispute
Apple announced macOS updates on October 2, 2026 that make AI requests for Mac data more visible and require explicit user action for Full Disk Access, after complaints about Meta's Muse agent that Meta disputes.
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SpaceXAI plans to switch on about 420,000 Nvidia GPUs in November, report says
SpaceXAI plans to activate about 420,000 Nvidia GPUs at its Colossus cluster in November, Crypto Briefing reported, as it also leases capacity to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth up to $84.5 billion by 2029.
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DeepSeek releases Harness v0.2 desktop app for work and coding tasks
DeepSeek released Harness v0.2 on September 29, 2026, an MIT-licensed desktop app for work and coding tasks that runs locally but still routes model calls through DeepSeek's services, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple and Meta carried S&P 500 through Q3 as 311 stocks fell
The S&P 500 rose about 2% in Q3 2026, but Crypto Briefing's analysis shows Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple and Meta added about 300 points while the rest of the index subtracted roughly 150.
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Oracle reportedly agrees $7 billion, five-year AI chip lease with Tencent
Oracle has reportedly agreed to a five-year, roughly $7 billion lease giving Tencent access to about 100,000 AI chips in Southeast Asia, per FT and Reuters reports; neither company has confirmed it.