The SharePoint hacks increase pressure on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company calls an ambitious effort expected to take years to complete (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)

Andrew Martin / Bloomberg:
The SharePoint hacks increase pressure on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company calls an ambitious effort expected to take years to complete  —  Three months ago, Microsoft Corp. issued a progress report on what it described as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history.

Google has defended Search against the first wave of disruption from generative AI, but AI agents and apps that can reduce clicks now threaten its ad business (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Google has defended Search against the first wave of disruption from generative AI, but AI agents and apps that can reduce clicks now threaten its ad business  —  The company has defended search but its dominant position in online advertising may still be up for grabs

Google is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal that lets users create mini web apps using text prompts or remix existing apps, available in the US via Labs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal that lets users create mini web apps using text prompts or remix existing apps, available in the US via Labs  —  AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own.

Public companies are loading up on crypto tokens, including $TRUMP, HYPE, and litecoin, as they expand beyond bitcoin to boost their own share prices (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Public companies are loading up on crypto tokens, including $TRUMP, HYPE, and litecoin, as they expand beyond bitcoin to boost their own share prices  —  Listed firms load up on ether, litecoin and $TRUMP as they bid to emulate Michael Saylor's Strategy  —  Public companies are loading …

Analysis: US and UK entry-level graduate job listings have plunged since 2022, but there's only tentative evidence of AI-related disruption in some occupations (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Analysis: US and UK entry-level graduate job listings have plunged since 2022, but there's only tentative evidence of AI-related disruption in some occupations  —  Tech is blamed for destroying entry-level roles but economic uncertainty and offshoring are playing a part

Pinterest is increasingly filled with AI interior design images, often featuring unrealistic or impossible details, complicating users' search for inspiration (Bethan Staton/Financial Times)

Bethan Staton / Financial Times:
Pinterest is increasingly filled with AI interior design images, often featuring unrealistic or impossible details, complicating users' search for inspiration  —  In a world on high alert for fake news, AI-designed interiors seem small fry.  But they are fuelling the fire of everyday paranoia

At an AI summit, President Trump says he considered breaking up Nvidia before aides told him that doing so was "very hard" and "I learned the facts here" (Annmarie Hordern/Bloomberg)

Annmarie Hordern / Bloomberg:
At an AI summit, President Trump says he considered breaking up Nvidia before aides told him that doing so was “very hard” and “I learned the facts here”  —  President Donald Trump said he considered attempting to break up Nvidia Corp. to increase competition …

Proton launches Lumo, an AI chatbot to summarize documents, generate code, and more and says it will protect users' information via "zero-access" encryption (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Proton launches Lumo, an AI chatbot to summarize documents, generate code, and more and says it will protect users' information via “zero-access” encryption  —  Proton says it protects Lumo's chats with ‘zero-access’ encryption while storing them on users' devices.

The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google "strategic market status" in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds "opportunities for more innovation" (Muvija M/Reuters)

Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google “strategic market status” in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds “opportunities for more innovation”  —  Britain's competition regulator said it plans to designate Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) …

Alibaba releases its new Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 model on Hugging Face, improving on Qwen 3's reasoning, accuracy, and multilingual understanding (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases its new Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 model on Hugging Face, improving on Qwen 3's reasoning, accuracy, and multilingual understanding  —  Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made waves globally in the tech and business communities with its own family of “Qwen” …

US investment firm Carlyle agrees to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra, sources say valuing it at $400M including debt (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)

Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg:
US investment firm Carlyle agrees to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra, sources say valuing it at $400M including debt  —  Carlyle Group Inc. has agreed to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra Group SE.

Seoul-based chip designer FuriosaAI signs a deal with LG to use its AI chip RNGD, its first major contract, after rejecting Meta's $800M buyout offer in March (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Seoul-based chip designer FuriosaAI signs a deal with LG to use its AI chip RNGD, its first major contract, after rejecting Meta's $800M buyout offer in March  —  FuriosaAI Inc., the Seoul-based startup seeking to design chips to compete with Nvidia Corp., has sealed its first major contract months …

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia says CUDA will now be compatible with RISC-V's instruction set architecture, making RISC-V a viable x86 and Arm rival (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia says CUDA will now be compatible with RISC-V's instruction set architecture, making RISC-V a viable x86 and Arm rival  —  Yet another alternative.  —  At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia announced that its CUDA software platform …

Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of next year's launch; sources: Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of next year's launch; sources: Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro  —  When the first foldable iPhone debuts next year, it will be the least Apple-like launch ever.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like "Watch Mode Activation" and "Terminal Restrictions" (Louis Columbus/VentureBeat)

Louis Columbus / VentureBeat:
OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like “Watch Mode Activation” and “Terminal Restrictions”  —  In case you missed it, OpenAI yesterday debuted a powerful new feature for ChatGPT and with it, a host of new security risks and ramifications.