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Apple unveils the A19 chip, with a 6-core CPU and 5-core GPU, the A19 Pro, with a 6-core CPU and 6-core GPU, the N1 networking chip, and the C1X modem (Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Apple debuts A19 and A19 Pro processors for iPhone 17, iPhone Air, and iPhone 17 Pro
New phones, new chips, more cooling.

In the Air - Outside of the Window ✈️ ☁️
在空中 - 窗外 ✈️ ☁️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

When you are an Apple security researcher, Christmas comes early on November 2025:
https://security.apple.com/blog/apple-security-bounty-evolved/

A major evolution of Apple Security Bounty, with the industry's top awards for the most advanced research - Apple Security Research
Today we’re announcing the next major chapter for Apple Security Bounty, featuring the industry’s highest rewards — up to $2 million and a maximum payout in excess of $5 million — expanded research categories, and a flag system for researchers to objectively demonstrate vulnerabilities and obtain accelerated awards.

I see no problem here. https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115006183468266776

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

Exclusive: Global egg industry investigation reveals widespread abuse of caged hens amid bird-flu pandemic
https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20250616-exclusive-global-egg-industry-investigation-reveals-widespread-abuse-of-caged-hens-amid-bird-flu-pandemic

🐛 Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-nanotechnology-crop-munching-pests-beneficial.html

Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
A bane of farmers' existence, it's estimated that plant-eating pests are responsible for the loss of up to 40% of pre-harvest yields globally. But a new generation of crop treatments that target only "bad" bugs could mean big gains for the Canadian agriculture sector, improving pest management tools in an industry that in 2024 generated over $142 billion.

"Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly"
#Food #Climate #ClimateChange

Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly
Expert says non-profit partners provide a ‘fairy dust’ of legitimacy to beef industry.

»The layers of the electronics industry chain are heavily interdependent and long-term strategic advantages can only be achieved when all layers are available and provide state-of-the-art products. Increasing foreign penetration into the European industry chain, accomplished for instance by offering instant profits, decreases its strengths and creates undesirable dependencies.«
–Egon Hörbst, then executive director at Siemens AG Corporate Research, in IEEE Micro, August 1992.

Amkor breaks ground on advanced chip packaging campus in Arizona, with production expected by early 2028; state officials say Amkor's investment could reach $7B (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Amkor breaks ground on Arizona advanced packaging campus, plugging critical gap in US semiconductor supply chain — production expected in 2028, investment could extend to $7 billion with 3,000 jobs in tow
Amkor moves in next door to TSMC as CHIPS Act funding continues to turn the Phoenix metro area into a chips hub.

I would be happy if the AI industry actually had to pay authors for their work in accumulating ideas and knowledge and expressing them via their copyrighted works (registered copyright or not.)
The AI industry is whining "we are so big, we need to violate the law, we need to steal the work of others without even the pretense of compensating them, oh woe are we, oh woe are we".
There is a gap in our laws of copyright. Copyright covers expression, patents cover ideas. B…

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
RUSSIAN ENERGY INDUSTRY CRISIS: DEBTS AND SABOTAGE Vlog 1101: War in #Ukraine
While Russian propaganda paints the country as an "#energy

People CEO Neil Vogel calls Google a "bad actor" for refusing to pay publishers for AI content and says Google Search drives 25%-30% of visits to People sites (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/11/media-in…

Google’s AI is the ‘worst’ for stealing content, says People CEO
But Google-owned YouTube could provide a model for media and AI to coexist and thrive, says internet industry pioneer Bill Gross.

Yah, that is going to go over so well. About half my career is now supporting old stuff where the 'experts' claimed that it will replace programmers. Most of what I work on to be charitable is unmaintainable and inefficient code unless we use the developer package from the vendor. It has the potential to be a good tool that generates parts of the boring code, but needs someone who knows what the hell they are doing to make it secure and efficient! It also needs great (or a least …

AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers "in the low thousands" in 2021 (Stevie Bonifield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ao

AOL discontinues its dial-up internet, and we're just surprised they even offered it in 2025
Dial-up's days are numbered, after 34 years of service.

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent
Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism.
🕵️

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

I've been having more and more conversations with fellow tech workers about wanting to quit and work in something completely different.
Feels like the only thing stopping so many (including me) is that no other industry really feels stable or secure enough to be that much better at the moment.
Love for tech that these people used to feel, that I used to feel too, is gone. Extinguished. Drowned in schemes and forced adoption and normalized deceptive business practices.
https://mastodon.social/@alicetragedy/115009847096488775

The comments point to the racism Substack supports and recommend against it. 👍
Substack Offers Craft Businesses More Than Just a Newsletter - Craft Industry Alliance
https://craftindustryalliance.org/substack-offers-craft-businesses-more-than-just-a-newsletter/

How AI is upending the music industry in Latin America, as artists push back against a flood of AI-generated music on Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube Music (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-music-spotify-deezer-latin-america/

Latin American musicians say AI is stealing their streams
Musicians from Chile to Mexico say bots are stealing streams, siphoning income, and shortening the lifespan of songs. Even Bad Bunny isn’t safe.

The Terribly Tragic, Totally Avoidable, Absolute Collapse Of The Gaming Industry
Acerola
#gaming

How AI is upending the music industry in Latin America, as artists push back against a flood of AI-generated music on Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube Music (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-music-spotify-deezer-latin-america/

Latin American musicians say AI is stealing their streams
Musicians from Chile to Mexico say bots are stealing streams, siphoning income, and shortening the lifespan of songs. Even Bad Bunny isn’t safe.

"More than 200 lobbyists at UN’s plastic treaty talks will limit progress, campaigners warn"
#UN #UnitedNations #Plastic

To all professionals & retirees in the VFX industry, join the #vfxPeopleChallenge to post a photo of yourself at work. Just share a picture along with a brief description. The goal is to demonstrate that people are working on movies & shows that are supposed to have no CGI!
Thanks for your participation and boots on this project!

💥 Trump’s EPA Hid Risks at the Steel Plant That Just Exploded
#workers

Trump’s EPA Hid Risks at the Steel Plant That Just Exploded
The US Steel plant where two workers were killed and ten injured in an explosion on Monday had a history of chemical accidents. It was one of hundreds of chemical facilities whose risks were hidden from the public after lobbying by the chemical industry.

Apple says the iPhone 17 lineup and iPhone Air come with Memory Integrity Enforcement, which provides "industry-first, always-on memory safety protection" (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775234/iphone-17-air-…

Apple says the iPhone 17 comes with a massive security upgrade
Apple explains iPhone 17 Memory Integrity Enforcement and Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension security updates.

This variety of catastrophe why I disagree with the default policy to be to download the latest version. Newer is not always better, especially in an industry rife with scammers.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115169390397282254

Off Duty Actors
Imagine this: you're having a bloody great yap about the acting industry with your mate...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/off-duty-actors/

This is another #Reddit discovery I wanted to share, a Norwegian-style syndicalist flag.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

The whole domain registration industry is a cesspit of rentier crooks working for the benefit of rentier crooks. Including ICANN.
It was a mistake to end the InterNIC.
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115167305897549859

Apple announces a "major evolution" of its Security Bounty program, doubling the top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware attacks (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-announces-2-million-bug-bounty-reward/

Apple Announces $2 Million Bug Bounty Reward for the Most Dangerous Exploits
With the mercenary spyware industry booming, Apple VP Ivan Krstić tells WIRED that the company is also offering bonuses that could bring the max total reward for iPhone exploits to $5 million.

Virtual power plants offer a way forward for reliable and cost-effective power by combining rooftop solar and batteries. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

As rooftop solar gets hammered, virtual power plants offer a way forward
VPPs built out of home solar and battery systems could bolster the overtaxed power grid, lower energy costs for consumers, and help invigorate a…

Git, JSON and Markdown walk into bar
— by @…
🧑‍💻 https://www.grumpygamer.com/git_json_markdown/

Git, JSON and Markdown walk into bar
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry

Two tech groups are backing Anthropic's appeal of a court ruling allowing a copyright class action, saying potential big settlements could chill AI investment (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

More than 200 lobbyists at UN’s plastic treaty talks will limit progress, campaigners warn https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/07/more-than-200-lobbyists-at-uns-plastic-treaty-talks-will-limit…

Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing 62% of the overall sales (Varun Mishra/Counterpoint Research)
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/en/in…

Studio Rúcach @… in collaboration with CREW are excited to announce a two-part masterclass exploring co-operative models for game dev.
Part 1: Navigating Co-Op Mode (Online)
Hear from co-ops creating equitable workplaces in the games industry.

Veal-Fattening Pen:
Small, cramped office workstations built of
fabric-covered disassemblable wall partitions and inhabited by junior
staff members. Named after the small preslaughter cubicles used by
the cattle industry.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"

"‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows"
#Plastic #Plastics #Recycling

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows
Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

Story on oil companies withholding revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from in #NorthDakota (h/t Charles Ornstein on bsky) | ProPublica. 1/2
https://www.propublica.org/ar…

“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say
Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action.

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Highly recommended reading. Europe's automotive industry was already in transition before electrification emerged, but it missed the boat when it arrived. However, it [industry & workforce] still has plenty of opportunities, particularly in the mass market.
https://www.

Europe’s Car Industry in Transition: Stuck in Neutral or Shifting into Gear?
Europe’s automotive industry is entering a decisive decade but lacks a clear map for navigating it. While global competitors accelerate their shift toward electric vehicles, Europe’s strategic focus remains clouded by fragmented interests, path dependencies, and short-term pressures.

> As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
I haven't even read the article but (considering how strongly I agree with the premises here) I'm mostly just sad about how clearly this highlights the financial capture of the DNC
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Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry - The American Prospect

Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.

The tourism industry in Iceland has failed to impress upon visitors that this country can be deadly.
You need to respect it, not in a quasi-spiritual way, but rather by understanding that scenery is impressive because it has been shaped by powerful forces that could easily kill you.
#Iceland

So now Trump also actively supports the faster destruction of our planet. It will also worsen living conditions in the US. #coal #trump #climate

Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal
The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.

How Larry Ellison, briefly the world's richest man, and Oracle CEO Safra Catz capitalized on the AI boom and vaulted Oracle into contention with industry giants (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dfb2b9b7-b229-4f65-9611-2d879bd326b9

On the Men's Long Hair Hyperboard, Jesus met Anthony and discussed shipbuilding!!
http://www.mlhh.org/

"Right now, a lot of condos [are] coming online that people don't really want to live in."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/unsold-condos-metro-vancouver-bc-2025-1.7647776

Friday Links 25-18
Quick selection.
This week I liked the podcast with the whaler, and the Chinese cycling industry.
#engineering

Friday Links 25-18
Quick selection. This week I liked the podcast with the whaler, and the Chinese cycling industry.   Leadership  Rate My Manager  - Oh, no! I...

ASML's €1.3B investment in Mistral gives the French startup capital and credibility, but it must prove it can survive in a US- and China-dominated AI industry (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-09/mis…

Major outlets have cut or reassigned cultural criticism roles, amid industry contraction and the difficulty of stand-alone reviews generating traffic (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/do-media-organiza…

Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?
Do reviews draw readers? Boost subscriptions? Sell ads? And if the answer is ‘no,’ what then? Charlotte Klein explores the precarious state of cultural criticism.

Coding bootcamps, a Silicon Valley mainstay for over a decade, are facing decline as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles for which they trained people (Anna Tong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/bootcamp-bust-how-…

🐓 Online cockfighting thrives in Philippines despite ban and murders
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/15/asia-pacific/crime-legal/philippines-online-cockfighting-gambling/
🆓

Online cockfighting thrives in Philippines despite ban and murders
Authorities estimate cockfight bettors are fueling an industry that generates millions of dollars in revenue each week.

"Banking industry’s net zero alliance shuts down amid faltering climate commitments"
#NetZero #Finance #Banking

Two tech groups are backing Anthropic's appeal of a court ruling allowing a copyright class action, saying potential big settlements could chill AI investment (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

European tech breakthrough: Syensqo and cylib recover battery-grade lithium from spent cells, supporting sustainable practices in the battery industry and the transition to a greener energy sector. #climatechange #climatesolutions

European tech recovers EV battery-grade lithium from spent cells
European companies team up to recover lithium from different types of EV batteries on a single operating line with unmatched purity.

Spotify enters into a direct music publishing agreement with BMG, following deals in 2025 with UMG, Sony Music, Warner Chappell, and Kobalt (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-industry-news/s…

Spotify Signs Licensing Publishing Deal with BMG
"Working directly with Spotify helps us reinforce our mission to ensure songwriters are fairly represented and rewarded for their work," BMG CEO Thomas Coesfeld said.

☕ A better brew: How regenerative coffee could root out exploitation
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/a-better-brew-how-regenerative-coffee-could-root-out-exploitation/

A better brew: How regenerative coffee could root out exploitation
The coffee industry faces many problems, from being the sixth-largest driver of deforestation worldwide to being rife with human rights abuses, including slavery and child labor. But coffee can be made sustainable and ethical, Etelle Higonnet, founder of the NGO Coffee Watch, said in an episode of Mongabay Newscast in June. “To the best of my […]

"Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells"
#US #USA #America

Texas Says It’s Strict on Oil Field Emissions. New Data Shows It’s Not.
The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.

Action Alert! Stop the egg industry from starving hens #AnimalRights

Stop The Egg Industry From Starving Hens
After more than a year of laying, her body is exhausted. The industry’s response? Starving her of food and water to shock her into producing more eggs.

Industry Inner Join
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Facts look different in different contexts...
Nigeria, Libya, Caspian Sea, and other oil patches in impoverished places are effectively without the concept of environmental regulation. They flare whatever wherever they want. In Nigeria the rampant theft of unrefined oil and "fire pit refining" is beyond anything done by regulated refiners in TX.
Not that we want to emulate Nigeria or Azerbaijan or Libya...

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-on-ecd

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's Labor Implications, Investment Frenzy
What's going wrong in the AI enterprise rollout, and what fundamentals are needed to make it work, according to the Google Cloud chief.

MrBeast, who earned an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it "scary times" for the industry (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/mrbe

MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry | TechCrunch
As Sora tops the App Store, MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' ability to make money.

The German government scales back financial aid for its semiconductor industry, cutting €3B from its previously planned €15B chip subsidies to fund road repairs (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The Ethereum Foundation announces the "Privacy cluster", a team of 47 blockchain industry experts developing protocol-level privacy features for the network (Vince Quill/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-foundation-privacy-cluster-team…

📈 Cutting the fat: Oat oil breakthrough paves way for industry growth
#food

Cutting the fat: Oat oil breakthrough paves way for industry growth
New University of South Australia research is providing evidence of biological triggers of oil production in oats, a discovery that will help processing and potentially drive further demand for Australian-grown oats.

"Corporate ‘middlemen’ mask who really profits from Australian fossil fuel projects, report warns"
#Australia #FossilFuels #Energy

Paramount CEO David Ellison outlines the new company's plans, including a reorganization into three business units: Studios, Direct-to-Consumer, and TV Media (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/david-ellison-first-look-new-paramount-1236…

David Ellison Offers First Look At Plans For New Paramount
David Ellison formally introduced himself to the industry and Wall Street as chairman CEO of the new Paramount in a letter posted as the deal closed.

President Trump orders regulators to investigate banks for "politicized or unlawful debanking", echoing allegations from conservatives and the crypto industry (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-orders-crackdow…

Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’
In a new executive order, the US president has called on federal regulators to investigate and punish banks for alleged discrimination against conservatives and certain types of business.

Open letter: 40 European companies oppose the EU's "Chat Control" proposal, which forces services to scan messages for CSAM, fearing it would mandate backdoors (CryptPad Blog)
https://blog.cryptpad.org/2025/10/07/open-letter-against-chat-control/

Europe's future is at stake: Open letter against Chat Control
European SMEs have united to direct a strong open letter to urge ministers of EU member states to oppose Chat Control and to defend privacy and a strong European tech industry.

"Global electricity demand to rise in 2026 as renewables lead, says IEA"
#Renewables #Energy

Global electricity demand to rise in 2026 as renewables lead, says IEA
Global electricity demand is set to rise more than 3% per year through 2026, driven by growth in Asia and greater use across industry, data centers, and transport, with renewables, gas, and nuclear meeting most of the increase, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Resilience Media, which aims to be the defense tech industry's "publication of record", adds several ex-TechCrunch staff, including Ingrid Lunden and Matt Burns (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Former Techcrunch staff join rapidly expanding defence technology title
Veteran Techcrunch staffers are leading Resilience Media for the defence tech industry which has expanded due to seed fundraising.

A profile of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, as the gaming hardware giant readies AI tools for game development and to help players sharpen their skills (John Kang/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkang/2025/09/…

This Singapore Gaming Billionaire Is Betting AI Will Upend The Entire Industry
Razer, founded and run by Min-Liang Tan for two decades, is prepping to release cutting-edge AI tools to help game developers produce games faster and cheaper and to coach players to sharpen their skills.

🧋 Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
#co2

Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
The world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming, according to a new study that challenges long-held industry claims about the practice.

"The beauty industry loves argan oil but Morocco’s trees are under pressure from drought and demand"
#Morocco #Trees #Environment

The world loves argan oil but Morocco’s trees are paying the price
The hidden cost of argan oil's beauty boom is drought, deforestation and disappearing traditions.

How Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-cul…

US House lawmakers release a report criticizing ASML, Tokyo Electron, and other equipment makers for helping build China's chip industry; ASML fell more than 7% (Dasha Afanasieva/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Some ad industry executives express anger and disappointment at the US v. Google ruling, and say it will do little to alter Google's dominance of the ad market (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media-buying/angry

Angry and disappointed, if not surprised: The ad industry reacts to the Google search remedies ruling 
The industry reacts to the ruling that Google will not have to divest Android or Chrome in latest antitrust development

FurtherAI, which uses AI to automate insurance tasks such as claims processing, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $30M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10…

Exclusive: FurtherAI raises $25 million to automate insurance tasks
The a16z-led Series A comes as the insurance industry is moving fast to adopt AI.

SiPearl unveils Athena1, Europe's first high-performance CPU with up to 80 cores designed for civilian and military use, slated for commercial launch in H2 2027 (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.…

SiPearl unveils Europe's first dual-use sovereign processor with 80 cores — expected in 2027 for government, aerospace, and defense applications
Rhea with advanced security and cryptography and without HBM2E.

SK Hynix and ASML say they assembled the industry's first Twinscan NXE:5200B High-NA EUV lithography system at SK's M16 fab, initially to test next-gen tech (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshard…

ASML and SK hynix assemble industry-first 'commercial' High-NA EUV system at fab in South Korea
Initially for R&D use, until later this decade where it will transition to production

US tech industry's eight companies valued at $1T gained a combined $420B in market cap this week, lifting their total value to $21T, led by a Google rally (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/tech-megacaps-worth-market-cap.html

Google leads monster week for tech, pushing megacaps to combined $21 trillion in market cap
Tech's megacaps got bigger this week, and the eight trillion-dollar companies now make up a combined 36% of the S&P 500.

How Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-cul…

As part of the OpenAI-AMD deal, OpenAI will receive the first GW worth of AMD's Instinct MI450 chip in H2 2026, when the new chip is scheduled for deployment (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/amd-

AMD to supply 6GW of compute capacity to OpenAI in chip deal worth tens of billions | TechCrunch
AMD has signed a multi-year chip supply deal with OpenAI that could generate tens of billions in revenue for the chipmaker, helping accelerate its momentum in the AI industry. 

A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut (Jessica Roy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/beehiiv-next-billion-doll…

Is Beehiiv the Next Billion-Dollar Newsletter Startup?
Last August, when CNN’s Oliver Darcy decided he wanted to leave the network and launchStatus, an email newsletter focused on the media industry, he cast about for a platform that would allow him to customize the look and feel of his new venture so it didn’t resemble every other media newsletter. ...

A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut (Jessica Roy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/beehiiv-next-billion-doll…

Is Beehiiv the Next Billion-Dollar Newsletter Startup?
Last August, when CNN’s Oliver Darcy decided he wanted to leave the network and launchStatus, an email newsletter focused on the media industry, he cast about for a platform that would allow him to customize the look and feel of his new venture so it didn’t resemble every other media newsletter. ...

Indian quick commerce companies like Swiggy, Zepto and Flipkart are slowing down dark store expansion to rein in cash burn after an aggressive year of growth (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiat…

Quick commerce companies slow dark stores buildout to control cash burn
Quick commerce firms are hitting pause on expansion of dark stores to keep cash burn in check. Industry executives said companies are renegotiating their lease agreements for these mini-warehouses. An exception is Blinkit, which is backed by parent Eternal’s $2 billion war chest and plans to expand its network to 3,000 stores from 1,544 dark stores as of June 30.

A new policy document authored by seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030 (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-is-getting-serious-about-brain-compute…

China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry
A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses.

Philippines government data: online gambling revenue in the country overtook traditional casinos in H1 2025, generating ~$2B, or 53% of the industry's total (Ramon Royandoyan/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/marke

Rise of online gambling reshapes Philippine stock market, but risks emerge
Regulatory concerns bring volatility to internet casino operator DigiPlus

InstaLILY, whose industry-specific AI agents called InstaWorkers integrate with legacy systems, raised $25M from Insight Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/27/instalily-gets-25m-accelerate-industr…

InstaLILY gets $25M to accelerate industry automation with agentic AI teammates - SiliconANGLE
InstaLILY gets $25M to accelerate industry automation with agentic AI teammates - SiliconANGLE

The US-China trade war has spurred demand for Vietnamese companies that produce chip components like wafers, as Vietnam scales up its semiconductor ambitions (Lam Le/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/vietnam-chip-industry-us-china-trade-war/

The surprise winner in the U.S.-China tech war? Vietnam’s chip industry
Vietnamese chip component suppliers are responding to growing market demands for products with no Chinese link. 

Games industry trade organizations and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns that have forced Steam and Itch.io to mass deindex NSFW content (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-ab…

Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back
As industry groups decry censorship, players are flooding Visa and Mastercard with complaints and sharing the titles of delisted NSFW games to support developers.

Research and 25 experts, victims, and execs: North Korean hackers are saturating the crypto industry with credible-seeming job offers in a bid to steal crypto (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/its-scary-crypt…

KKR invests in Infobric, a Stirling Square-backed Swedish company that offers software to the construction industry, sources say at a ~€600M valuation (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-2…

PitchBook: VCs have invested $192.7B in AI startups so far this year, putting 2025 on track to be the first year when 50% of VC funding goes to the AI industry (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Filings: crypto industry donated $26M to Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., in H1, including $5M from Blockchain.com; Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz gave $3M each (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/01/trump-crypto-donors-maga-super-pac

Crypto donations flood Trump's super PAC
The Trump family is deep in everything from stablecoins, meme coins and NFTs to Bitcoin mining.

Source: GPT-5 improvements won't be comparable to the leaps in performance of earlier models, such as between GPT-3 in 2020 and GPT-4 in 2023 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-openais-rocky-path-gpt-5

Inside OpenAI’s Rocky Path to GPT-5
OpenAI made waves across the industry in December when it published the results from its tests of artificial intelligence that performs better on tasks when it gets more time and computing power to process them. The results implied ChatGPT customers were about to be blown away by what the new AI ...

Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire a stake in Chicago-based capital markets industry SaaS provider Trading Technologies, sources say in a deal valued at over $1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-30/thoma-brav…

How live sports betting has exploded in popularity in the US, accounting for more than half of the money wagered on FanDuel and DraftKings in recent quarters (Jenny Vrentas/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/busin…

In-Game Sports Betting Is Growing. So Are the Concerns.
In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion by the end of the decade. It’s a huge part of the sports gambling industry. Public health officials worry that it could be increasing the risks for gamblers.

Internal documents and sources detail how Cambodia's Huione Group supercharged the growth of Asia's cyberscam industry into a multi-billion dollar behemoth (Kai Schultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20