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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5m

SEC filing: Jeff Bezos discloses that he now owns 9% of Amazon's shares, down from 10.1% a year ago, after selling 100M+ shares over the course of the past year (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 15m

Stripe's stablecoin arm, Bridge, applied for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking federal oversight (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 25m

ASML reports Q3 net bookings of €5.4B, v. €4.9B est., as the AI spending boom boosts demand for its EUV machines to produce the most sophisticated AI chips (Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 30m

ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est., and €2.12B net profit, v. €2.11B est., warning that it expects China sales to decline "significantly" in 2026 (April Roach/CNBC)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1h

YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1h

Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; it currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumers using ChatGPT (Financial Times)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2h

Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B post-money (Danny Park/The Block)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 3h

Reducto, which uses OCR with vision language models to convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z at a $600M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4h

Finch, which offers a voice-based AI system to automate administrative tasks done by paralegals, raised a $20M Series A, source says at a $100M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4h

Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5h

Spotify's deal to bring video podcasts to Netflix bars shows from airing in full on YouTube; Netflix won't run ad breaks, but Spotify's integrated ads remain (New York Times)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 6h

Hands-on with Nvidia's DGX Spark: trades some performance and bandwidth for 128GB of unified memory, Nvidia's software ecosystem is valuable, and more (Tobias Mann/The Register)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 6h

Sources: Apple plans to build its upcoming indoor security camera, home hub, and tabletop robot in Vietnam as part an effort to lessen its dependence on China (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 7h

Samsung schedules a "Worlds Wide Open" Galaxy event on October 21 at 10pm ET, where it will provide more information about its Project Moohan headset (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 8h

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 (Jack Clark/Import AI)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 9h

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 (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 9h

DirecTV plans to roll out custom shoppable TV screensavers that feature AI likenesses of users, available on DirecTV Gemini devices in 2026 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 9h

Intel unveils Crescent Island, a data center GPU designed for AI inference workloads, featuring Intel's Xe3P microarchitecture and 160GB of LPDDR5X memory (Dylan Martin/CRN)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 9h

Tether agrees to a $299.5M settlement with the Celsius Network bankruptcy estate, resolving claims related to Celsius's 2022 collapse (Sam Bourgi/Cointelegraph)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10h

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 (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10h

Flow Engineering, which provides a collaborative hardware development platform for companies like Rivian, raised a $23M Series A led by Sequoia (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 11h

Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12h

Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12h

Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak its search results to show vertical search engines in their own box on Search (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12h

Managed security services provider LevelBlue to acquire cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which raised $850M in total funding and undergone multiple restructurings (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)

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