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Intel reports Q3 revenue up 3% YoY to $13.7B, vs. $13.2B est., and net income of $4.1B, vs. a net loss of $16.6B in Q3 2024; INTC jumps 5% after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/intel-intc-earnings-report-q3-2025-.html

Intel beats on sales in first earnings report since U.S. government became top shareholder
Intel reported third-quarter results on Thursday in which sales beat analyst estimates, signaling that demand for its core x86 processors for PCs has recovered.

“Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/butt-breathing-might-soon-be-a-real-medical-treatment/

“Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment
Ig Nobel-winning research could one day be used to treat people with blocked airways or clogged lungs.

Hello everyone,
@… and I had the pleasure of talking to four new friends from Palestine (and we were lucky enough to have @… join us for two of the calls) and we’d like to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family.
They…

mood
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/creative-neglect-what-about-the-apps-in-apple/

Creative neglect: What about the apps in Apple?
One of the things that I think about from time to time is Apple’s collection of apps. Some are the crown jewels, like Apple’s pro apps, and others help an everyday consumer to tackle th…

Het vorige kabinet met VVD en BBB faalde op alle fronten mbt stikstof blijkt weer,
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10/24/stiks

Stikstof: veehouders kunnen met miljoenen dieren uitbreiden ­door nieuwe rekengrens
Meer dan de helft van de veehouders in Nederland kan hun bedrijf vergunningsvrij uitbreiden als de stikstofrekenregels versoepeld worden. Een derde van de veehouders kan zelfs verdubbelen of meer in omvang. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van NRC in samenwerking met onderzoeksplatform Follow The Money en Omroep Gelderland.

White House says Trump-Putin meeting 'not completely off the table': https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/23/white-house-says-trumpputin-meeting.html

Idk who needs to hear this, but don't use Google's Chrome browser.
Some easy to use, fast and compatible alternatives are Firefox (cross-platform) or Safari on macOS/iOS.
Also more esoteric browsers based on Firefox like LibreWolf or the Tor Browser; I can't vouch for these as I don't use them personally.
(Whatever you do, don't use Brave, it's made by a bigot homophobe with money from Peter Thiel.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/10/21/phased-out-google-confirms-bad-news-for-all-3-billion-chrome-users/

Warum brauchen die tüchtigen Schwaben 15 Jahre für einen Bahnhof und dann ist der immer noch nicht fertig?

Ein Fall aus Kalifornien zeigt, wie gefährlich der unbedachte Einsatz von KI in juristischen Verfahren sein kann. Ein Anwalt muss nun 10.000 US-Dollar Strafe zahlen - die höchste Summe, die in Kalifornien jemals für ein solches Vergehen gegen einen einzelnen Anwalt verhängt wurde. 💸
Zum Artikel:

The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get.
#NCKF25

"Mercedes unveils car with 20% efficient ultra-thin solar coating’"
#Cars #Vehicles
https://w…

Mercedes unveils car with 20% efficient ultra-thin solar coating
Mercedes-Benz unveiled its first car prototype with a silicon-free, 20%-efficient nanoparticle solar coating that powers the vehicle even when off and uses modules thinner than a human hair.

‼️Die #Petition
"Unbeschränkte Steuerpflicht für deutsche Staatsangehörige mit Wohnsitz im Ausland vom 06.08.2025"
hat bisher 279 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29721 Unterschriften bis zum 23.10.2025.

Tubefilter: sponsored videos on YouTube rose 54% YoY in H1 2025, with Ground News as the biggest sponsor, followed by Squarespace, BetterHelp, and DraftKings (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/youtube-sponsorship-creator-videos

Exclusive: YouTube sponsorships surge 54% as brands bet on creators
New data from Tubefilter's Gospel Stats shows growth in creator ads.

1/2 I was in the garden at night, thought the flowers looked sort of ghostly and dreamy, tried to take a picture with my phone and it came out black. So I tried the Android “Night Vision” thing…
Which was OK. But then I wondered if the first apparently-all-black version had actually captured anything.
So…
#photography

@… *BACK IN MY DAY* 😅😅😅😅

Late-surviving New Mexican #dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw3282 ->
Dinosaurs were thriving until asteroid struck, research suggests: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/23/dinosaurs-asteroid-struck-research - dating of rock formation in New Mexico casts doubt on theory that species was already in decline.

I've seen and lived this pitch before and it is unsustainable for a life worth living: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/21/why-silicon-valley-tech-workers-are-embracing-996/
How to convince young people to be…

Analysis | Why Silicon Valley tech workers are embracing ‘996’
The Washington Post’s essential guide to tech policy news.

Major US and Japanese animation studios including HBO Max and Amazon unknowingly hired North Korean IT workers, a joint government report has found.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251024-us-japanese-firms-unwittingly-hi…

US, Japanese firms unwittingly hired North Korean animators: report
Major US and Japanese animation studios including HBO Max and Amazon unknowingly hired North Korean IT workers, a joint government report has found.

#juraBubble #fedihilfe Angenommen die Person H hat einerseits eine Anzahl wertvoller Besitztümer (B1, B2, B3, B4) und andererseits sehr hohe finanzielle schulden. Kann H folgendes Testament machen: "Ich vererbe mit folgenden Ausnahmen alles dem Staat. Meine Kinder erhalten jeweils den Pflichtteil. Folgende Personen erhalten aus besonderer Dankbarkeit folgendes: Kind K1 erhält B1, Kind K2 erhält B2, Bekannte P1 erhält B3, Bekannter P2 erhält B4". Der Staat erbt die Schulden, P1 und P2 erhalten B…

"…poll in April showed a majority of Americans suddenly wanted to restrict that presidency in ways they hadn’t before…percentage who said a president has 'too much' power rose from 32% last year (under Biden) all the way up to 54% (under Trump)."
"All of which suggests Americans-or at least a majority of them-see something extraordinary happening right now."
"Republicans…try to diminish… 'No Kings' rallies…something that’s very real to l…

Republicans are ridiculing ‘No Kings.’ A striking new poll shows Americans aren’t laughing
New polling reinforces how much the thrust of the “No Kings” message has resonated with much of the American public.

Literal #enshittification of everything. As far as I can tell, it’s not April 1st today. https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/kohler-toilet-camer…

Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America's Great Lakes #America

Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America's Great Lakes
Fifty years ago, winter didn't just visit the Great Lakes—it took up residence. If you blinked too slowly, your eyelashes froze together. Standing on the ice at the edge of Lake Superior, just after an early January snowstorm, everything was white and still, except for the lake. The wind had swept across it revealing ice cracked along thunderous fractures.

Live Drums, Honey Bees, Recording Studio Music Video #drum #musicvideo https://muz4now.com/2025/live-drums-…

Live Drums, Honey Bees, Recording Studio Music Video
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - @…
"OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released their own browser called Atlas, and it actually is something new: the first browser that actively fights against the web. Let's talk about what that means, and what dangers there are from an anti-web browser made by an AI company — one that probably needs a warning label when you install it.”
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities.
👎 https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-social-media-cognitive-decline-study/

AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities.

Scientists Discover Building Blocks of Life in Ice Around a Forming Star (ST6) in Neighboring Galaxy (Large Magellanic Cloud).
https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/marta-sewilo-discovers-building-blocks-life-ice-around-forming-star…

I really want to go to #39c3 this year!! (So if you’ve got a voucher lying around I would not mind at all using it 😇)
Edit: got one <3 tysm

This is not just some random thing that crossed my TL. I keep boosting these because @… and her sister are conducting personally vetted fundraisers for people they are in touch with. The people are real, the need is real, and you can help. https://techhub.social/@shantini/115424777414791916

It was the fuckaroundiest of times.
It was the findoutiest of times.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115427416994675909

🦠 Turning microalgae into a sustainable high protein food solution
#algae

Turning microalgae into a sustainable high protein food solution
As climate change and a growing global population strains our existing food supply, scientists are looking on land and at sea for innovative solutions.

Trump says he canceled plans for a "surge" of National Guard to San Francisco after speaking to "great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others" (Kate Rogers/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/trump-san-francisco-national…

Trump backs off federal deployment in San Francisco after Huang, Benioff phone calls
Democratic Mayor Daniel Lurie said Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem confirmed that plans for a deployment were called off.

It’s unbelievable how quickly the USA is going down the drain, private friends paying the military, absurd and opening the door for corruption …https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/anonymous-donor-military-pay-shutdown

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Department confirmed on Friday.

⚡️Europe will use Russian assets to support Ukraine! – Zelenskyy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/24/europe-will-use-russian-assets.html

How could this happen in a country that *checks notes* has made itself entirely beholden to US Big Tech and Big Pharma?
#Ireland

'Outrage' as former tech giant lobbyist appointed to Data Protection Commission 
Privacy experts and digital wellbeing activists say appointment 'reflects a concerning level of disregard for EU law

Ad of the German company who made the ladder lift used in the Louvre robbery. Yes, it’s real.

„Den grünen Realpolitikern geht es unter anderem um Vermögensaufbau durch Leistung.“
(Da geht's um die Frage, wie die junge Grüne erreichen können und jetzt hätte ich mich fast verschluckt.)
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/de…

A blog with AI slop is called a slog

"Keir Starmer will attend Cop30 in Brazil, No 10 confirms"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #COP30

@… 2GB hard drive *feels* huge still

Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine's October 2024 lawsuit and alleges that WP Engine has been abusing the WordPress trademark (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/automa…

Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine in WordPress lawsuit, alleging trademark misuse | TechCrunch
Automattic has filed counterclaims against WP Engine, alleging that the company — backed by private equity firm Silver Lake — misused WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks, misled users, and undermined the open source community.

Warum wollen Menschen, die der Kirche H nicht angehören oder diese sogar ablehnen oder hassen, für die Kirche H arbeiten? Warum wollen Menschen, die der Kirche H nicht angehören oder diese sogar ablehnen oder hassen, dass andere Menschen, die der Kirche H nicht angehören oder diese sogar ablehnen oder hassen, für die Kirche H arbeiten?

Hacking Lab Boss Charged with Seeking to Sell Secrets in Russia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/hacking-lab-b…

well-designed digital ID offers us an opportunity to take... privacy back by minimising the need to share too much information, and by clearly specifying our rights — including the right to know which information has been accessed, by whom and why
In defence of digital ID https://on.ft.com/4o5UZ7Q

»Zenit erreicht — Social-Media-Konsum nimmt weltweit ab:
Immer weniger Personen geben an, soziale Medien für den Austausch mit anderen zu nutzen«
Dies teile ich euch nun im Social-Media mit aber in der kann Mensch noch real Reagieren auf chronologische so wie menschliche Posts. Abgesehen davon, so wichtig sind die nicht ausser eben für Propaganda.
🤷

Zenit erreicht: Social Media-Konsum nimmt weltweit ab
Immer weniger Personen geben an, soziale Medien für den Austausch mit anderen Menschen zu nutzen

#DaylightSavingTime & Health - A Systematic Review of Beneficial & Adverse Effects: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.17.25324086v2 -> "The apparent benefits of DST during summer months on mortality, DST-Offset on sleep duration and mortality, and Standard Time during winter months on sleep duration argue in favour of keeping transitions. If kept, adverse effects of transitions should be mitigated in individuals susceptible to myocardial infarction or exacerbations of disease" -> Zu Sinn und Unsinn - Uhrenumstellungen aus der Sicht der Chronobiologie und Epidemiologie: https://idw-online.de/de/news860363

BREAKING: Paul goes for another round of “Wait, wasn’t I already following them?!”

Three small announcements:
1. RFC 9839, a guide to which Unicode characters you should never use: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9839.html
2. Blog piece with background and context, “RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode”:

Anthropic and Google officially announce their cloud partnership worth tens of billions, giving Anthropic access to 1M TPUs and 1 GW of capacity in 2026 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/anthropic-google-cloud-deal-tpu.html

Google and Anthropic announce cloud deal worth tens of billions of dollars
While Google is powering Anthropic's next phase of compute expansion, Amazon remains its most deeply embedded partner.

Trump DESTROYS Russian economy – Unexpected move by the US| Weekly Wrap-Up: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/24/trump-destroys-russian-economy-unexpected.html

Big business is legalised crime.

microblog (🎤⁠:neocat_thief:⁠🪵)

Sources: JPMorgan plans to allow institutional clients globally to use their holdings of bitcoin and ether as collateral for loans by end of year (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/jpmor…

JPMorgan to Allow Bitcoin, Ether as Collateral in Crypto Push
JPMorgan Chase & Co. plans to allow institutional clients to use their holdings of Bitcoin and Ether as collateral for loans by the end of the year in a significant deepening of Wall Street’s crypto integration.

"Do you want to polish slides no one will remember, or tackle the problems no one can forget?"

How our brightest minds get trapped in the City - https://on.ft.com/48L7oJD via @FT

I made a few small changes to the Eleventy Supporters facepile https://www.zachleat.com/web/permanent-eleventy-facepile/

Undoubtedly true, since positive numbers are greater than negative numbers. https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/115423729179547670

The US and EU strike at Putin's oil! Is this the end of the Kremlin's "energy weapon"?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/23/the-us-and-eu-strike.html

Meanwhile, in extinction-stage capitalism… https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/115430539119947586

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ (@cryptadamist@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image new startup idea from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's a16z¹: a tool to let you control thousands of #socialmedia accounts that look "as human as possible" ¹ Owners of large stakes in #Substack, The Privatized Public Square (AKA “X” AKA “The Everything App”), and (soon) #TikTok #DoubleSpeed #AI #grok #psyop #a16z #MarcAndreessen #SlugsOfA16z #uspol #disinformation #BenHorowitz #nerdreich #broligarchy #broligarchs #X

HP plans to build millions of computers in Saudi Arabia by 2030, primarily for export to MENA, as part of the kingdom's plans to boost manufacturing and exports (Matthew Martin/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/24/2025/hp-plans-to-bui…

HP plans to build millions of computers in Saudi
The computer manufacturer has made Riyadh a hub, a win for the kingdom’s strategy to boost non-oil exports.

Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you.

Do we have to see the consequences before we start believing them? Torben RŸjle Christensen is talking about #Arctic methane but it could be almost anything #Climate. ("Fossil fuels: the mother of all problems")
#NCKF25

Rival rallies mark start of Hungary’s election season as Orban faces his strongest challenger yet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/24/rival-rallies-mark-start-of.html

Microsoft plans to bring its Halo franchise to the PlayStation for the first time with the launch of a 25th‑anniversary remake of Halo: Combat Evolved in 2026 (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/arts/halo-playstation-microsoft-xbox.h…

With Halo: Campaign Evolved, Microsoft Brings Prized Xbox Game to PlayStation
As part of a strategic shift away from exclusivity, Microsoft is bringing Halo to Sony’s competing console for the first time.

Folks, @… is also running a donation campaign to get the families they’re helping out of the danger zone in the North and to relative safety in the South.
Her amazing work with Keep Hope Alive: A Gaza Giving Circle has been a huge inspiration for Gaza Verified.
Please follow, help, and share if you can.
Thank you!
💕

The ace Sofia Ribeiro on lessons from Holocene climate for the Arctic in the future
We also cited her paper in our recent #Greenlandification article because we can learn so much about the coming Antarctic too.
#NCKF25

Analysis: After two oil refinery blasts, Russian propaganda reports a fake one — then blames Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/24/analysis-after-two-oil-refinery.html

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright urges FERC to limit the process for connecting data centers to power grids to 60 days, a process that typically takes years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/trump-a…

❗️The more Putin loses, the fewer attacks he will be able to carry out! – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/24/the-more-putin-loses-the.html

This was a really cool session, started with palaeoproxies, ice sheet dynamics, detoured into extreme value statistics and isostatic rebound and ended with concrete and steel and community engagement.
Just like every grant ever says it will..
#NCKF25
#NCKF25 symposium and the plenary is all about the #SeaLevelRise.
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...

The reason we keep building the Torment Nexus is because all we have are Torment Nexus factories in a system designed by and for Torment Nexus factory owners.
#capitalism

Chinese state media: China's new five-year development plan aims to achieve tech self-reliance and expand the domestic market, after a four-day CCP conclave (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/…

A concrete case study from Svendborg Kommune is fascinating to follow.
It's crucial to be open and honest about what we do and don't know. Use lots of different ways to talk to and connect with different groups.

#NCKF25

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company expects to earn close to $15B in profit in 2025, up from around $13B in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/stablecoin-leader-tether-expect…

If you are planning anything in Denmark that is more long term than about 5 years, then you should definitely be using the Climate Atlas to check your climate adaptation impacts...
I wrote about it last year:
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/09/06/a-climate-atlas-is-discovered/
#NCKF25

OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, which is building an AI-powered user interface for macOS and raised $6.5M from Sam Altman and others (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10…

My colleague Lea Poropat is talking about how we integrate this data into the Danish climate atlas...
How do we get to #ClimateServices in the atlas, from IPCC CMIP6 via, local observations and process understanding and with a current focus on storm surges.. #NCKF25

Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its global workforce and expects the layoffs to cost $160M to $180M; it had 36,100 employees as of the end of July (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

2nd day of the #NCKF25 symposium and the plenary is all about the #SeaLevelRise.
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...

Tracxn: funding for Indian digital lending startups fell to $462M between January and August 2025 from $1.1B a year earlier, after RBI tightened lending norms (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Clock’s ticking for digital lenders as VC funding plunges 50% in 2025
Funding into digital lending startups slumped to $462 million between January and August 2025 from $1.1 billion a year earlier, according to data from market intelligence platform Tracxn. Only around 50 of the 154 fintech deals reported this year involved digital lenders, the data showed.

2nd day of the #NCKF25 symposium and the plenary is all about the #SeaLevelRise.
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...

Vertical streaming apps charging $20/week are beating Netflix and other SVOD platforms in user growth with their mini-dramas optimized for mobile viewing (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/23/vertical-s…

Spicy and pricey vertical mini-dramas are taking over streaming
Streaming apps that charge $20 a week for absurd, 60-second soap operas are winning audiences that rival Hulu and Paramount+.

Grindr board members Ray Zage and James Lu, part of an investor group that owns more than 60%, offer to take Grindr private for ~$3.46B; GRND closes up 18.63% (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/grindr-shareholders-offer-take-dating-app-p…

Sources and docs: the US DOJ charges Peter Williams, ex-director of zero-day vendor L3Harris' Trenchant, with stealing trade secrets to sell to a Russian buyer (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-2…

Sources: banks are preparing to launch a $38B debt sale to fund Oracle data centers, including $23.25B for a Texas data center and $14.75B for a Wisconsin site (Jeannine Amodeo/Bloomberg)

Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (Brooke Singman/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple…

Apple building American-made AI servers ahead of schedule in new Houston facility, answering Trump call
EXCLUSIVE: Apple is now building and shipping American-made artificial intelligence servers in the United States — a move that has the technology giant answering President Donald Trump’s call to on shore manufacturing.

The EU accuses Meta and TikTok of violating their obligations to give researchers adequate access to public data on their platforms under the DSA (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-accuses-meta-tiktok-of-breaching-digital-rules/

EU accuses Meta, TikTok of breaching digital rules
Move comes as EU faces pressure over enforcing its tech lawbooks.

EU accuses Meta under DSA of failing to give users easy ways to flag illegal content and adequate tools to appeal moderation decisions, in preliminary findings (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-charged-by-eu-over-handling-o…

IBM says it was able to run a key quantum computing algorithm in real-time on commonly available field programmable gate array chips made by AMD (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ibm-says-key-quantum…

UK prosecutors say the ringleader of a 2024 arson attack on Ukraine-linked businesses in London discussed kidnapping Revolut's Russia-born CEO Nikolay Storonsky (Michael Holden/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/r

Crypto.com follows Circle, BitGo, and others in applying for a US bank charter, as it seeks to further its custody-service business for products such as ETFs (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

New York-based Valthos, which is developing AI tools to detect and prevent AI-enabled bioweapon attacks, raised $30M from OpenAI, Founders Fund, and Lux Capital (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Report: China's market regulator drafts rules to curb "coercive competition" in the online food delivery market, spurring a rally in Meituan and JD.com's shares (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The US CFTC staff describe chaos, cutbacks, and an atmosphere of resentment and paranoia as the agency prepares to take on new crypto regulatory duties (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-21/as-crypto-duti…

Appfigures: dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have yet to gain traction, with Instance: AI App Builder, the largest such app, seeing just 16,000 downloads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/dedicated-mob…

Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch
An analysis of mobile apps offering vibe coding tools shows few have found traction.

Google announces Play Games Sidekick for Android, an in-game overlay that provides access to Gemini Live while playing games downloaded from the Play Store (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/09/23/play-games-sidekick-gemini-live/

Play Games Sidekick is Gemini Live for Android games 
Google is bringing Gemini Live to gaming on Android with Play Games Sidekick. Like a coach, it’s meant to be...

A journalist recounts shipping code as a vibe coding engineer during a two-day stint at Notion, working alongside engineers using AI tools like Cursor (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/why-did-a-10-billion-dollar…

Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?
I spent two days at Notion and saw an industry in upheaval. I also shipped some actual code.

Taiwan curbs chip exports to South Africa over national security concerns, the first time it has used its chip industry as a weapon against a China ally (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-23/taiwan-c…

Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares hit a nearly four-year high after CEO Eddie Wu announces plans to increase AI spending beyond the $53B target over three years (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-2…

Sources: Flipkart is investing $30M in its fintech unit Supermoney, after a $20M 2024 spin-off round; Supermoney disbursed $700M in loans via lending partners (Alex Gabriel Simon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A look at some uncertainties surrounding Nvidia's proposed $100B investment in OpenAI, including concerns about the agreement's circular structure (Financial Times)