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Nvidia Pledges $250 Million to Boost UK AI Safety Research

Nvidia pledged computing resources valued at $250 million over five years (about $50 million worth of compute access annually) to support agentic AI safety and security research in the UK, according to a Reuters report cited by Investing.com dated October 14.
Partner institutions sharing in the funding include Oxford-led lab BOLD, UCL-led SOFAIR, and Imperial College London. The report does not disclose how the funding will be allocated among the three institutions or specific usage terms.

Published Oct 14Source: Reuters ↗

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Televisa, Fintech to Take on America Movil With $2 Billion Purchase of AT&T's Mexican Unit

Scotiabank analysis cited by Investing.com said the deal's low purchase price and Fintech Holdings' involvement work against America Movil, since the new owners can direct more resources to capital spending; the deal could lift the combined entity's fixed-and-wireless subscriber market share from 8% to 19%.
América Móvil's Telcel still has roughly twice as many base stations and a stronger 5G network, but the new owners could pursue direct-to-cell partnerships with operators like Starlink to compete. AT&T Mexico's 2025 revenue was 85.4 billion pesos (about $4.65 billion) with 14 billion pesos operating profit and roughly 24.7 million subscribers as of December.
Fintech Holdings holds a 22.3% stake in Televisa and will own 50% of the acquiring consortium. The deal is expected to close in Q1 2027 pending Mexican regulatory approval; Televisa is re-entering the mobile market after an earlier attempt from 2012-2014, and Telefónica separately sold its own Mexico unit for $450 million in April.

Published Oct 14Source: Investing.com ↗

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AT&T Sells Mexican Unit to Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2 Billion

AT&T agreed to sell its Mexico operations for $2 billion in cash plus additional contractual and contingent benefits, according to Investing.com. The deal is expected to close in Q1 2027 pending regulatory approval; AT&T will classify the unit as held-for-sale starting with its Q3 2026 earnings report.
Buyers are Grupo Televisa, Mexico's media conglomerate, and Fintech Holdings, an investment firm led by David Martinez, operating the business as a 50-50 joint venture. It is Televisa's second major deal with AT&T after previously acquiring AT&T's stake in satellite-TV operator Sky Mexico; Televisa's US ADRs rose 3.2% in after-hours trading.
AT&T entered Mexico in 2014 by acquiring Iusacell and Nextel Mexico for a combined $4.4 billion and invested over $10 billion in infrastructure, but struggled against América Móvil and spectrum/regulatory friction. AT&T said the sale lets it focus capital on US fiber, 5G, and AI infrastructure; its own shares showed little after-hours movement.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Saudi OpenAI Engineer Arrested by FBI for Planting Covert Recording Device

The FBI arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national and OpenAI engineer who had worked at the company since July 2025, for allegedly planting a covert audio recording device in an executive boardroom at an OpenAI office in San Francisco, according to the US Department of Justice via Investing.com. OpenAI said it has fired him.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Alfozan sought to secretly record sensitive conversations about the company's superintelligence technology. According to the complaint, the device was connected to a USB port behind a TV and concealed inside a tissue box; it was planted around September 28 and discovered by OpenAI on September 30.
OpenAI said it used its own internal AI models to help identify who planted the device. The report separately notes OpenAI fired three researchers in an unrelated matter.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Lawmakers Ask FAA to Pause Use of New AI Tool in DC-Area Flight Management

More than two dozen US lawmakers sent a letter Tuesday, October 13, asking the FAA to pause a new AI tool being piloted to assist air traffic controllers in the Washington, DC area, according to Reuters via Investing.com. The tool's name and specific functions were not detailed in the report.
The lawmakers said they had not seen safety evaluation and testing reports for the tool, nor heard of efforts to train aviation safety personnel on how to use it. Signatories named in the report included Democratic Representatives April Delaney, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Don Beyer.

Published Oct 13Source: Reuters ↗

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Nvidia Invests in Four French Technology Startups, Les Echos Reports

Nvidia invested in four French startups — healthcare firm Doctolib, financial planning software maker Pigment, robotics company Genesis AI, and chemicals firm Entalpic — according to Les Echos via Investing.com. Investment amounts and equity stakes were not disclosed.
CEO Jensen Huang said the investments aim to "launch the artificial intelligence revolution in Europe"; Doctolib said Nvidia's involvement will support development of its AI tools. The announcement was made at a reception at Place Vendome in Paris on Tuesday, October 13.

Published Oct 13Source: Les Echos ↗

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Netflix Double Downgraded at Huber Research Amid Engagement, Pricing Concerns

Huber Research downgraded Netflix two notches to Underweight from Overweight, cutting its 12-month price target to $70 from $85, judging the stock has reached fair value, according to Investing.com. The report, dated Tuesday, October 13, cited engagement and pricing concerns.
Global viewing hours rose 2% to 97 billion in H1 2026, but Huber estimated per-subscriber viewing fell about 5%; it viewed negatively Netflix's mid-July decision to cut its engagement report frequency from twice to once a year starting Q1 2027. On pricing, the firm said Netflix will need to be more cautious on further US price increases after hikes in 2025 and early 2026, leaning more on international markets.
Huber also flagged reported plans for a 5% workforce reduction, Netflix's attempted acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business about 10 months ago (with management reportedly still open to such deals), and the need for continued content investment amid competition from YouTube, Disney+ and Amazon Prime.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Software Stocks: Box and Navan Lead After Citi Investor Meetings

Citi analyst Steven Enders named Box (buy, $40 price target) and Navan (buy/high-risk, $28 price target) as top application-software picks following investor meetings during Citi's software bus tour, according to Investing.com. Box's Enterprise Advanced upgrade pricing has reached the upper end of a 30-40% range, with about a third of upgrades including added seats; growing CISO involvement is strengthening the security pitch, and net revenue retention is improving faster than expected. Consumption-based revenue from agentic AI adoption is about 5% of total revenue with a path to 10%, with implementation (not model performance) cited as the main adoption hurdle.
Navan CFO Aurelien Nolf said second-quarter bookings hit an all-time high, about 30% above the prior record, with the largest customer contract signed after quarter-end. Trailing-12-month new gross bookings value reached $4 billion, up 60% year-over-year, though large-customer deployments take 7-8 months to fully show in results. Navan's AI agent Ava now handles about 60% of customer support interactions, up from about 40% a year earlier, with room to improve gross margins; the company also sees monetization opportunities beyond travel through payments and its BoomPop acquisition.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Dating App Bumble Bought for $1.3 Billion

Ithaca Holdings confirmed it is acquiring Bumble for $1.3 billion, with the company's directors Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman set to become co-CEOs, according to the BBC. Bumble shares, which had already surged on Monday's reports of advanced takeover talks, rose more than 50% as the deal was confirmed, pushing the company's valuation above $580 million — still far below the over $14 billion valuation it reached after its 2021 Nasdaq listing.
Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who also co-founded Tinder, will step down as CEO but said she will remain "actively involved with Bumble" and work closely with the new co-CEOs; her exact future role was not specified. Ithaca Holdings said it aims "to apply frontier technology to renew and accelerate businesses... in a world transformed by AI." Bumble, launched in 2014 around a "women-first" chat rule that it dropped in August this year, has reported a pre-tax profit only once since going public.

Published Oct 13Source: BBC ↗

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Apple Unveils New Smart Home Products, Showcasing Updated Siri AI

Apple unveiled HomeView, a 7-inch wall-mountable or tabletop smart home device with facial recognition that controls doorbells, thermostats and smart locks, showcasing its AI-upgraded Siri (improved this summer with Google's assistance), according to Investing.com. HomePod speakers and Apple TV also received updates.
LG and Schneider Electric contributed Apple-assisted doorbells, cameras and thermostats, and other manufacturers' cameras and doorbells were introduced to connect to Apple's home ecosystem. HomeView starts at $299 and ships next month, but will not be sold in the EU due to regulations preventing Siri AI use there. The announcement, made Tuesday, October 13, comes as Apple seeks hardware revenue growth amid competition from Amazon, Google and OpenAI; analysts flagged third-party device compatibility and Siri's limited response capabilities as key challenges.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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SpaceX D2C Aggression Triggers Piper Sandler Downgrade of AST SpaceMobile

Piper Sandler analyst Alexander Potter downgraded AST SpaceMobile to Neutral from Overweight and cut the price target to $54 from $98, according to Investing.com. Shares fell about 5% in premarket trading Tuesday, October 13.
The downgrade cites SpaceX's decision to spend about $8 billion securing mobile spectrum, raising concerns that SpaceX could disadvantage mobile network operator (MNO) partners and limit launch opportunities for MNO-aligned players like AST SpaceMobile, pressure pricing power through competitive cellular services or proprietary hardware, and reduce confidence in the pace of AST's planned 2026-2027 commercial satellite launches.
Piper Sandler said near-term financial model risk has eased somewhat but remained positive on AST's longer-term outlook beyond 2027, forecasting that SpaceX's aggressive moves will increase major carriers' incentive to partner with independent service providers like AST SpaceMobile.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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SentinelOne Shares Fall 7% Following $1.25 Billion Convertible Debt Offering

Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne priced $1.25 billion of convertible senior notes due 2031 in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers, according to Investing.com. The notes carry no regular coupon interest, and the company can settle conversions in cash, Class A common stock, or a combination.
Proceeds will fund capped call transactions to reduce potential dilution from conversion, up to $150 million in Class A share buybacks, and general corporate purposes including working capital, capital expenditures and strategic acquisitions. Underwriters hold a 13-day option to buy an additional $187.5 million of notes. Separately, the company is negotiating a $400 million revolving credit facility unrelated to this offering. Shares fell about 7% following the announcement, made Tuesday, October 13.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Scaleway to Build AMD-Powered AI Supercomputer in Sweden

French cloud provider Scaleway announced at its annual AI conference in Paris that it will build an AI supercomputer in Sweden powered by AMD Instinct MI355X chips — AMD's answer to Nvidia's Blackwell line — which the company said will be Europe's first commercial AMD-based AI supercomputer, aimed at startups, AI firms and enterprise customers, according to Investing.com. The announcement did not disclose compute capacity, chip count or investment figures.
AMD's open-source ROCm software ecosystem will be included. Scaleway cited Sweden's high share of low-carbon power and developed AI industry as reasons for the location; the company entered the Swedish market in May via a partnership with telecom operator Tele2. Other partners include Bull (assembly and maintenance), Giga Computing (servers), HPE (networking), VAST Data (storage) and Motul (liquid cooling).

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Broadcom CEO Sees Capital as Hurdle to AI Growth, Calls Some AI Investing a 'Casino'

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said at a panel discussion in Singapore that capital, rather than wafer or memory shortages, will become the company's biggest constraint as AI development continues, according to Investing.com. The remarks were made Monday, October 12.
Tan said leading AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI have shown their latest models can generate substantial revenue in the AI personal-assistant space. Asked about the impact of cheaper AI models, he compared some AI investment flows to "casino gambling," saying many investors set excessively high expectations without understanding what they were investing in, and later realize they were effectively gambling: "A lot of investors have no clue what they're investing in."

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Nokia Shares Fall on Agreement to Sell Campus Edge to Aurelius

Nokia signed a definitive agreement to sell its Enterprise Campus Edge business to Aurelius, with the deal expected to close in the first half of 2027 subject to customary closing conditions, according to Investing.com. Nokia shares fell about 4% following the announcement, made Tuesday, October 13. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Nokia said the sale is part of a strategy to streamline its portfolio and focus resources where it sees the greatest long-term value, and that the business would be able to pursue an independent strategic focus under Aurelius.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy, Agrees to Sell Some Assets to Disney for $20 Million

AI chatbot company Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US and agreed to sell some of its assets to Walt Disney for $20 million, according to Investing.com. The announcement was made Monday, October 12.
The company said it plans to keep operating its service while the sale is finalized. The report did not specify which assets are being sold or the reasons behind the bankruptcy filing.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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SoftBank Shares Fall 8% as Chip Selloff Compounds With Report of Lower OpenAI Revenue

SoftBank Group shares fell about 8% to 5,337 yen in Tuesday Tokyo trading, according to Investing.com, as a broader Asian chip-sector selloff (Nikkei 225 down more than 1,900 points intraday, KOSPI sharply lower on the China memory-chip competition concerns) combined with company-specific pressure.
SoftBank holds roughly 87% of Arm and has invested a cumulative $64.6 billion in OpenAI for about a 13% stake. Reports that OpenAI's annual revenue is around $50 billion — lower than the previously reported roughly $70 billion — raised questions about whether investment returns can cover SoftBank's high-interest debt load, with the company's credit default swap premiums rising to multi-year highs. The article noted the OpenAI revenue figure is itself an unconfirmed media report.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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NTT Data in Final Talks to Build Anthropic's First Data Centre in Japan, Nikkei Reports

NTT Data Group is in final-stage talks with Anthropic to build the AI company's first dedicated data center in Japan, located in Osaka in western Japan, with power capacity of up to 500 megawatts, according to Nikkei via Reuters.
Construction costs could reach up to 1 trillion yen (about $6.3 billion), with some capacity expected to come online as early as 2028; the two companies aim to finalize a contract by the end of fiscal year 2026 (March 31, 2027). The report is based on anonymous sources and the contract is not yet finalized; NTT declined to comment.

Published Oct 13Source: Reuters (Nikkei) ↗

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Nvidia's China AI-Chip Share Falls as Huawei Closes Gap, IDC Report Finds

Nvidia held 34% of China's data-center AI chip market in the first half of 2026, with shipments falling 44% year-over-year to 678,000 units, while Huawei's share reached 28% as its shipments rose from over 300,000 to 572,000 units, according to an IDC report obtained by Reuters.
The report did not disclose each company's prior-period market share, so the size of Nvidia's decline could not be confirmed. The Reuters report was dated Beijing, October 13.

Published Oct 13Source: Reuters ↗

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Tencent Sells Dollar, Dim Sum Bonds Amid AI Spending Spree

Tencent is seeking to raise at least $4.5 billion through dollar bonds (10-year and 20-year tranches) and dim sum bonds, or offshore yuan debt (10-year and 30-year tranches), according to Investing.com. Initial price guidance was about 115 basis points over Treasuries for the 10-year dollar notes and about 140bp for the 20-year notes, with the 10-year yuan notes guided around 2.90% and the 30-year around 3.50%.
Dollar bond orders exceeded $2 billion and yuan bond orders topped 35 billion yuan (about $5.2 billion). Moody's and S&P are expected to rate the notes A1 and A+ respectively, with Fitch at A; proceeds are for general corporate purposes.
Tencent's first-half 2026 capital expenditure reached 96.3 billion yuan, more than double the 45.9 billion yuan a year earlier, driven by computing equipment, software and data centers. The company raised about $4.66 billion via dollar and yuan bonds in June. Tencent shares fell 1.3% on the announcement day and are down roughly 30% year-to-date.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Anthropic Says New Safeguards Sharply Reduce AI Distillation Attacks

Anthropic said new safeguards restricting access to Claude's reasoning process and making it harder to repeatedly probe its protected reasoning through proxy networks have sharply reduced "AI distillation" attacks, in which rivals mass-query a model to harvest its outputs and reproduce its capabilities faster and more cheaply, according to Reuters. The company said the detection system has a false-positive rate below 0.1%.
Anthropic said the safeguards cut data harvested through distillation attempts by roughly 90-99% and reduced extracted reasoning tokens by 10-100x, and it blocked tens of thousands of accounts linked to distillation campaigns. The company cited Chinese AI startup Z.ai (Zhipu) as an example, alleging the firm attempted to distill Claude's capabilities while developing its GLM-5.3 model; Z.ai did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Published Oct 13Source: Reuters ↗

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NYT, Economist Among Publishers Joining Coalition to Curb Unpaid AI Use

The New York Times, France's AFP, The Economist, The Atlantic, and Brazil's National Association of Newspapers joined SPUR (Standards for Publisher Usage Rights), a publisher coalition launched in February that now counts about 80 member organizations across 20-plus countries, funded entirely by members, according to Investing.com. Founding members include the Financial Times, BBC, and Associated Press.
SPUR aims to stop AI companies from using or monetizing publisher content without permission, developing industry-wide standards and technical systems to help publishers track AI usage of their content and strike licensing deals; it recently introduced a "Content Telemetry Standard" for AI agents to log and report their media usage.
The move comes as publishers escalate legal action over unauthorized use of their content in training large language models — USA Today and affiliated papers sued OpenAI for copyright infringement this month, while OpenAI and backer Microsoft face similar suits from the Times and others. A Reuters Institute report found Google search referrals to over 2,500 websites fell 33% globally between November 2024 and November 2025. NYT strategic partnerships head Rebecca Grossman-Cohen said "intellectual property protection and technological advancement can and must co-exist"; neither OpenAI nor Microsoft commented in the report.

Published Oct 12Source: Investing.com ↗

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Google Launches Project Suncatcher Satellite Into Orbit

Google launched a prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher, a long-term research effort exploring whether space can host scalable machine learning infrastructure, according to Investing.com. The satellite reached orbit via SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission, built in partnership with Planet; Google confirmed contact with the satellite and said it is operating normally.
The mission will collect in-orbit data on how Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) withstand the physical stresses of spaceflight, radiation, and extreme temperature swings, with the data intended to inform future hardware designs.

Published Oct 12Source: Investing.com ↗

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Epic Games Delays Disney Title as Studio Shifts to AI-First Model, Bloomberg Reports

Epic Games has delayed its joint multiplayer shooter with Disney featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters, originally planned for a March launch, with no new release date set, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter. Development reportedly slowed as Epic underestimated the staffing and time required for the crossover title.
Internal communications reportedly directed developers to rely primarily on AI tools to complete the game, generating code and art through an AI-first workflow with tools such as Anthropic's Claude handling core development work while humans oversee the output. Epic executives expressed optimism that AI-accelerated development would empower creative leads, but staff reportedly voiced skepticism about the technology's readiness on a recent internal call.
The delay follows a March restructuring in which Epic cut roughly 1,000 jobs citing slowing sales growth. Disney made a $1.5 billion equity investment in Epic in 2024 as part of a broader multi-game strategic partnership; neither company has officially confirmed the report.

Published Oct 12Source: Bloomberg ↗

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Nvidia Pledges $250 Million to Boost UK AI Safety Research

Nvidia pledged computing resources valued at $250 million over five years (about $50 million worth of compute access annually) to support agentic AI safety and security research in the UK, according to a Reuters report cited by Investing.com dated October 14.
Partner institutions sharing in the funding include Oxford-led lab BOLD, UCL-led SOFAIR, and Imperial College London. The report does not disclose how the funding will be allocated among the three institutions or specific usage terms.

Published Oct 14Source: Reuters ↗

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Televisa, Fintech to Take on America Movil With $2 Billion Purchase of AT&T's Mexican Unit

Scotiabank analysis cited by Investing.com said the deal's low purchase price and Fintech Holdings' involvement work against America Movil, since the new owners can direct more resources to capital spending; the deal could lift the combined entity's fixed-and-wireless subscriber market share from 8% to 19%.
América Móvil's Telcel still has roughly twice as many base stations and a stronger 5G network, but the new owners could pursue direct-to-cell partnerships with operators like Starlink to compete. AT&T Mexico's 2025 revenue was 85.4 billion pesos (about $4.65 billion) with 14 billion pesos operating profit and roughly 24.7 million subscribers as of December.
Fintech Holdings holds a 22.3% stake in Televisa and will own 50% of the acquiring consortium. The deal is expected to close in Q1 2027 pending Mexican regulatory approval; Televisa is re-entering the mobile market after an earlier attempt from 2012-2014, and Telefónica separately sold its own Mexico unit for $450 million in April.

Published Oct 14Source: Investing.com ↗

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AT&T Sells Mexican Unit to Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2 Billion

AT&T agreed to sell its Mexico operations for $2 billion in cash plus additional contractual and contingent benefits, according to Investing.com. The deal is expected to close in Q1 2027 pending regulatory approval; AT&T will classify the unit as held-for-sale starting with its Q3 2026 earnings report.
Buyers are Grupo Televisa, Mexico's media conglomerate, and Fintech Holdings, an investment firm led by David Martinez, operating the business as a 50-50 joint venture. It is Televisa's second major deal with AT&T after previously acquiring AT&T's stake in satellite-TV operator Sky Mexico; Televisa's US ADRs rose 3.2% in after-hours trading.
AT&T entered Mexico in 2014 by acquiring Iusacell and Nextel Mexico for a combined $4.4 billion and invested over $10 billion in infrastructure, but struggled against América Móvil and spectrum/regulatory friction. AT&T said the sale lets it focus capital on US fiber, 5G, and AI infrastructure; its own shares showed little after-hours movement.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Saudi OpenAI Engineer Arrested by FBI for Planting Covert Recording Device

The FBI arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national and OpenAI engineer who had worked at the company since July 2025, for allegedly planting a covert audio recording device in an executive boardroom at an OpenAI office in San Francisco, according to the US Department of Justice via Investing.com. OpenAI said it has fired him.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Alfozan sought to secretly record sensitive conversations about the company's superintelligence technology. According to the complaint, the device was connected to a USB port behind a TV and concealed inside a tissue box; it was planted around September 28 and discovered by OpenAI on September 30.
OpenAI said it used its own internal AI models to help identify who planted the device. The report separately notes OpenAI fired three researchers in an unrelated matter.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Lawmakers Ask FAA to Pause Use of New AI Tool in DC-Area Flight Management

More than two dozen US lawmakers sent a letter Tuesday, October 13, asking the FAA to pause a new AI tool being piloted to assist air traffic controllers in the Washington, DC area, according to Reuters via Investing.com. The tool's name and specific functions were not detailed in the report.
The lawmakers said they had not seen safety evaluation and testing reports for the tool, nor heard of efforts to train aviation safety personnel on how to use it. Signatories named in the report included Democratic Representatives April Delaney, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Don Beyer.

Published Oct 13Source: Reuters ↗

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Nvidia Invests in Four French Technology Startups, Les Echos Reports

Nvidia invested in four French startups — healthcare firm Doctolib, financial planning software maker Pigment, robotics company Genesis AI, and chemicals firm Entalpic — according to Les Echos via Investing.com. Investment amounts and equity stakes were not disclosed.
CEO Jensen Huang said the investments aim to "launch the artificial intelligence revolution in Europe"; Doctolib said Nvidia's involvement will support development of its AI tools. The announcement was made at a reception at Place Vendome in Paris on Tuesday, October 13.

Published Oct 13Source: Les Echos ↗

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Netflix Double Downgraded at Huber Research Amid Engagement, Pricing Concerns

Huber Research downgraded Netflix two notches to Underweight from Overweight, cutting its 12-month price target to $70 from $85, judging the stock has reached fair value, according to Investing.com. The report, dated Tuesday, October 13, cited engagement and pricing concerns.
Global viewing hours rose 2% to 97 billion in H1 2026, but Huber estimated per-subscriber viewing fell about 5%; it viewed negatively Netflix's mid-July decision to cut its engagement report frequency from twice to once a year starting Q1 2027. On pricing, the firm said Netflix will need to be more cautious on further US price increases after hikes in 2025 and early 2026, leaning more on international markets.
Huber also flagged reported plans for a 5% workforce reduction, Netflix's attempted acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business about 10 months ago (with management reportedly still open to such deals), and the need for continued content investment amid competition from YouTube, Disney+ and Amazon Prime.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Software Stocks: Box and Navan Lead After Citi Investor Meetings

Citi analyst Steven Enders named Box (buy, $40 price target) and Navan (buy/high-risk, $28 price target) as top application-software picks following investor meetings during Citi's software bus tour, according to Investing.com. Box's Enterprise Advanced upgrade pricing has reached the upper end of a 30-40% range, with about a third of upgrades including added seats; growing CISO involvement is strengthening the security pitch, and net revenue retention is improving faster than expected. Consumption-based revenue from agentic AI adoption is about 5% of total revenue with a path to 10%, with implementation (not model performance) cited as the main adoption hurdle.
Navan CFO Aurelien Nolf said second-quarter bookings hit an all-time high, about 30% above the prior record, with the largest customer contract signed after quarter-end. Trailing-12-month new gross bookings value reached $4 billion, up 60% year-over-year, though large-customer deployments take 7-8 months to fully show in results. Navan's AI agent Ava now handles about 60% of customer support interactions, up from about 40% a year earlier, with room to improve gross margins; the company also sees monetization opportunities beyond travel through payments and its BoomPop acquisition.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Dating App Bumble Bought for $1.3 Billion

Ithaca Holdings confirmed it is acquiring Bumble for $1.3 billion, with the company's directors Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman set to become co-CEOs, according to the BBC. Bumble shares, which had already surged on Monday's reports of advanced takeover talks, rose more than 50% as the deal was confirmed, pushing the company's valuation above $580 million — still far below the over $14 billion valuation it reached after its 2021 Nasdaq listing.
Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who also co-founded Tinder, will step down as CEO but said she will remain "actively involved with Bumble" and work closely with the new co-CEOs; her exact future role was not specified. Ithaca Holdings said it aims "to apply frontier technology to renew and accelerate businesses... in a world transformed by AI." Bumble, launched in 2014 around a "women-first" chat rule that it dropped in August this year, has reported a pre-tax profit only once since going public.

Published Oct 13Source: BBC ↗

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Apple Unveils New Smart Home Products, Showcasing Updated Siri AI

Apple unveiled HomeView, a 7-inch wall-mountable or tabletop smart home device with facial recognition that controls doorbells, thermostats and smart locks, showcasing its AI-upgraded Siri (improved this summer with Google's assistance), according to Investing.com. HomePod speakers and Apple TV also received updates.
LG and Schneider Electric contributed Apple-assisted doorbells, cameras and thermostats, and other manufacturers' cameras and doorbells were introduced to connect to Apple's home ecosystem. HomeView starts at $299 and ships next month, but will not be sold in the EU due to regulations preventing Siri AI use there. The announcement, made Tuesday, October 13, comes as Apple seeks hardware revenue growth amid competition from Amazon, Google and OpenAI; analysts flagged third-party device compatibility and Siri's limited response capabilities as key challenges.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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SpaceX D2C Aggression Triggers Piper Sandler Downgrade of AST SpaceMobile

Piper Sandler analyst Alexander Potter downgraded AST SpaceMobile to Neutral from Overweight and cut the price target to $54 from $98, according to Investing.com. Shares fell about 5% in premarket trading Tuesday, October 13.
The downgrade cites SpaceX's decision to spend about $8 billion securing mobile spectrum, raising concerns that SpaceX could disadvantage mobile network operator (MNO) partners and limit launch opportunities for MNO-aligned players like AST SpaceMobile, pressure pricing power through competitive cellular services or proprietary hardware, and reduce confidence in the pace of AST's planned 2026-2027 commercial satellite launches.
Piper Sandler said near-term financial model risk has eased somewhat but remained positive on AST's longer-term outlook beyond 2027, forecasting that SpaceX's aggressive moves will increase major carriers' incentive to partner with independent service providers like AST SpaceMobile.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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SentinelOne Shares Fall 7% Following $1.25 Billion Convertible Debt Offering

Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne priced $1.25 billion of convertible senior notes due 2031 in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers, according to Investing.com. The notes carry no regular coupon interest, and the company can settle conversions in cash, Class A common stock, or a combination.
Proceeds will fund capped call transactions to reduce potential dilution from conversion, up to $150 million in Class A share buybacks, and general corporate purposes including working capital, capital expenditures and strategic acquisitions. Underwriters hold a 13-day option to buy an additional $187.5 million of notes. Separately, the company is negotiating a $400 million revolving credit facility unrelated to this offering. Shares fell about 7% following the announcement, made Tuesday, October 13.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Scaleway to Build AMD-Powered AI Supercomputer in Sweden

French cloud provider Scaleway announced at its annual AI conference in Paris that it will build an AI supercomputer in Sweden powered by AMD Instinct MI355X chips — AMD's answer to Nvidia's Blackwell line — which the company said will be Europe's first commercial AMD-based AI supercomputer, aimed at startups, AI firms and enterprise customers, according to Investing.com. The announcement did not disclose compute capacity, chip count or investment figures.
AMD's open-source ROCm software ecosystem will be included. Scaleway cited Sweden's high share of low-carbon power and developed AI industry as reasons for the location; the company entered the Swedish market in May via a partnership with telecom operator Tele2. Other partners include Bull (assembly and maintenance), Giga Computing (servers), HPE (networking), VAST Data (storage) and Motul (liquid cooling).

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Broadcom CEO Sees Capital as Hurdle to AI Growth, Calls Some AI Investing a 'Casino'

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said at a panel discussion in Singapore that capital, rather than wafer or memory shortages, will become the company's biggest constraint as AI development continues, according to Investing.com. The remarks were made Monday, October 12.
Tan said leading AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI have shown their latest models can generate substantial revenue in the AI personal-assistant space. Asked about the impact of cheaper AI models, he compared some AI investment flows to "casino gambling," saying many investors set excessively high expectations without understanding what they were investing in, and later realize they were effectively gambling: "A lot of investors have no clue what they're investing in."

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Nokia Shares Fall on Agreement to Sell Campus Edge to Aurelius

Nokia signed a definitive agreement to sell its Enterprise Campus Edge business to Aurelius, with the deal expected to close in the first half of 2027 subject to customary closing conditions, according to Investing.com. Nokia shares fell about 4% following the announcement, made Tuesday, October 13. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Nokia said the sale is part of a strategy to streamline its portfolio and focus resources where it sees the greatest long-term value, and that the business would be able to pursue an independent strategic focus under Aurelius.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy, Agrees to Sell Some Assets to Disney for $20 Million

AI chatbot company Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US and agreed to sell some of its assets to Walt Disney for $20 million, according to Investing.com. The announcement was made Monday, October 12.
The company said it plans to keep operating its service while the sale is finalized. The report did not specify which assets are being sold or the reasons behind the bankruptcy filing.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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SoftBank Shares Fall 8% as Chip Selloff Compounds With Report of Lower OpenAI Revenue

SoftBank Group shares fell about 8% to 5,337 yen in Tuesday Tokyo trading, according to Investing.com, as a broader Asian chip-sector selloff (Nikkei 225 down more than 1,900 points intraday, KOSPI sharply lower on the China memory-chip competition concerns) combined with company-specific pressure.
SoftBank holds roughly 87% of Arm and has invested a cumulative $64.6 billion in OpenAI for about a 13% stake. Reports that OpenAI's annual revenue is around $50 billion — lower than the previously reported roughly $70 billion — raised questions about whether investment returns can cover SoftBank's high-interest debt load, with the company's credit default swap premiums rising to multi-year highs. The article noted the OpenAI revenue figure is itself an unconfirmed media report.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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NTT Data in Final Talks to Build Anthropic's First Data Centre in Japan, Nikkei Reports

NTT Data Group is in final-stage talks with Anthropic to build the AI company's first dedicated data center in Japan, located in Osaka in western Japan, with power capacity of up to 500 megawatts, according to Nikkei via Reuters.
Construction costs could reach up to 1 trillion yen (about $6.3 billion), with some capacity expected to come online as early as 2028; the two companies aim to finalize a contract by the end of fiscal year 2026 (March 31, 2027). The report is based on anonymous sources and the contract is not yet finalized; NTT declined to comment.

Published Oct 13Source: Reuters (Nikkei) ↗

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Nvidia's China AI-Chip Share Falls as Huawei Closes Gap, IDC Report Finds

Nvidia held 34% of China's data-center AI chip market in the first half of 2026, with shipments falling 44% year-over-year to 678,000 units, while Huawei's share reached 28% as its shipments rose from over 300,000 to 572,000 units, according to an IDC report obtained by Reuters.
The report did not disclose each company's prior-period market share, so the size of Nvidia's decline could not be confirmed. The Reuters report was dated Beijing, October 13.

Published Oct 13Source: Reuters ↗

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Tencent Sells Dollar, Dim Sum Bonds Amid AI Spending Spree

Tencent is seeking to raise at least $4.5 billion through dollar bonds (10-year and 20-year tranches) and dim sum bonds, or offshore yuan debt (10-year and 30-year tranches), according to Investing.com. Initial price guidance was about 115 basis points over Treasuries for the 10-year dollar notes and about 140bp for the 20-year notes, with the 10-year yuan notes guided around 2.90% and the 30-year around 3.50%.
Dollar bond orders exceeded $2 billion and yuan bond orders topped 35 billion yuan (about $5.2 billion). Moody's and S&P are expected to rate the notes A1 and A+ respectively, with Fitch at A; proceeds are for general corporate purposes.
Tencent's first-half 2026 capital expenditure reached 96.3 billion yuan, more than double the 45.9 billion yuan a year earlier, driven by computing equipment, software and data centers. The company raised about $4.66 billion via dollar and yuan bonds in June. Tencent shares fell 1.3% on the announcement day and are down roughly 30% year-to-date.

Published Oct 13Source: Investing.com ↗

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Anthropic Says New Safeguards Sharply Reduce AI Distillation Attacks

Anthropic said new safeguards restricting access to Claude's reasoning process and making it harder to repeatedly probe its protected reasoning through proxy networks have sharply reduced "AI distillation" attacks, in which rivals mass-query a model to harvest its outputs and reproduce its capabilities faster and more cheaply, according to Reuters. The company said the detection system has a false-positive rate below 0.1%.
Anthropic said the safeguards cut data harvested through distillation attempts by roughly 90-99% and reduced extracted reasoning tokens by 10-100x, and it blocked tens of thousands of accounts linked to distillation campaigns. The company cited Chinese AI startup Z.ai (Zhipu) as an example, alleging the firm attempted to distill Claude's capabilities while developing its GLM-5.3 model; Z.ai did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Published Oct 13Source: Reuters ↗

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NYT, Economist Among Publishers Joining Coalition to Curb Unpaid AI Use

The New York Times, France's AFP, The Economist, The Atlantic, and Brazil's National Association of Newspapers joined SPUR (Standards for Publisher Usage Rights), a publisher coalition launched in February that now counts about 80 member organizations across 20-plus countries, funded entirely by members, according to Investing.com. Founding members include the Financial Times, BBC, and Associated Press.
SPUR aims to stop AI companies from using or monetizing publisher content without permission, developing industry-wide standards and technical systems to help publishers track AI usage of their content and strike licensing deals; it recently introduced a "Content Telemetry Standard" for AI agents to log and report their media usage.
The move comes as publishers escalate legal action over unauthorized use of their content in training large language models — USA Today and affiliated papers sued OpenAI for copyright infringement this month, while OpenAI and backer Microsoft face similar suits from the Times and others. A Reuters Institute report found Google search referrals to over 2,500 websites fell 33% globally between November 2024 and November 2025. NYT strategic partnerships head Rebecca Grossman-Cohen said "intellectual property protection and technological advancement can and must co-exist"; neither OpenAI nor Microsoft commented in the report.

Published Oct 12Source: Investing.com ↗

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Google Launches Project Suncatcher Satellite Into Orbit

Google launched a prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher, a long-term research effort exploring whether space can host scalable machine learning infrastructure, according to Investing.com. The satellite reached orbit via SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission, built in partnership with Planet; Google confirmed contact with the satellite and said it is operating normally.
The mission will collect in-orbit data on how Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) withstand the physical stresses of spaceflight, radiation, and extreme temperature swings, with the data intended to inform future hardware designs.

Published Oct 12Source: Investing.com ↗

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Epic Games Delays Disney Title as Studio Shifts to AI-First Model, Bloomberg Reports

Epic Games has delayed its joint multiplayer shooter with Disney featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters, originally planned for a March launch, with no new release date set, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter. Development reportedly slowed as Epic underestimated the staffing and time required for the crossover title.
Internal communications reportedly directed developers to rely primarily on AI tools to complete the game, generating code and art through an AI-first workflow with tools such as Anthropic's Claude handling core development work while humans oversee the output. Epic executives expressed optimism that AI-accelerated development would empower creative leads, but staff reportedly voiced skepticism about the technology's readiness on a recent internal call.
The delay follows a March restructuring in which Epic cut roughly 1,000 jobs citing slowing sales growth. Disney made a $1.5 billion equity investment in Epic in 2024 as part of a broader multi-game strategic partnership; neither company has officially confirmed the report.

Published Oct 12Source: Bloomberg ↗