Sources: Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paired with Mac and a lighter UI with iPhone; Apple may unveil M5 iPad, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro this week (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paired with Mac and a lighter UI with iPhone; Apple may unveil M5 iPad, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro this week  —  After spending a week with Meta's new display-embedded smart glasses, I'm convinced that Apple made the right call pivoting from the so-called Vision Air to spectacles.

How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women (Zilan Qian/ChinaTalk)

Zilan Qian / ChinaTalk:
How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women  —  and what it all means  —  Zilan Qian is a fellow at the Oxford China Policy Lab and an MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute.

An index of Chinese chip stocks is outperforming global peers, surging 50% since the end of June, amid raising investor caution about soaring valuations (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)

Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg:
An index of Chinese chip stocks is outperforming global peers, surging 50% since the end of June, amid raising investor caution about soaring valuations  —  China's chip stocks have staged a world-beating rally in the past few months on the nation's self-sufficiency push …

Thoughts on The Curve conference, where prominent figures debated about AI progress, and why automating research engineers is plausible within years (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects)

Nathan Lambert / Interconnects:
Thoughts on The Curve conference, where prominent figures debated about AI progress, and why automating research engineers is plausible within years  —  The conference and the trajectory.  —  ARTICLE VOICEOVER … Audio playback is not supported on your browser.  Please upgrade.

Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables browser notifications from websites users haven't interacted with recently, on Android and desktop (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables browser notifications from websites users haven't interacted with recently, on Android and desktop  —  Google's Chrome web browser is about to become much less noisy.  —  On Friday, the technology giant announced a new feature …

Google is the first company to be designated with special status in the UK under new digital laws; the designation does not introduce any immediate requirements (Reuters)

Reuters:
Google is the first company to be designated with special status in the UK under new digital laws; the designation does not introduce any immediate requirements  —  Britain on Friday designated Google with “strategic market status” in online search, the first time it has deployed new powers …

The UK CMA designates Google with "strategic market status" in online search, but excludes Gemini; Google warns such oversight could slow product launches (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
The UK CMA designates Google with “strategic market status” in online search, but excludes Gemini; Google warns such oversight could slow product launches  —  Big Tech company becomes the first to be designated with special status under strict new digital laws

Logitech tells users that it will end support for its Pop smart home switches, launched in August 2016, on October 15, as it moves on from its smart home plans (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Logitech tells users that it will end support for its Pop smart home switches, launched in August 2016, on October 15, as it moves on from its smart home plans  —  In another loss for early smart home adopters, Logitech has announced that it will brick all Pop switches on October 15.

Microsoft delays Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hikes for existing subscribers in Germany, Ireland, South Korea, India, and others, after announcing a 50% hike (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft delays Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hikes for existing subscribers in Germany, Ireland, South Korea, India, and others, after announcing a 50% hike  —  Current subscribers in some European countries won't be affected by Microsoft's Game Pass price hikes just yet.

A look at the OpenAI-AMD partnership, which added ~$78B to AMD's market cap and shows OpenAI is good at deals; OpenAI deals also boosted Shopify and Etsy stocks (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
A look at the OpenAI-AMD partnership, which added ~$78B to AMD's market cap and shows OpenAI is good at deals; OpenAI deals also boosted Shopify and Etsy stocks  —  OpenAI/AMD, Antifraud Co., M&A scoops, World Cup tickets, Gary Gensler's cell phone and Citadel Insecurities.  —  OpenAI/AMD

OpenAI and AMD announce a deal as part of which OpenAI could take a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs over multiple years; AMD jumps 20%+ (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
OpenAI and AMD announce a deal as part of which OpenAI could take a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs over multiple years; AMD jumps 20%+  —  - OpenAI and AMD have reached a deal that could see Sam Altman's company take a 10% stake in the chipmaker

Source: xAI is set to spend $18B+ to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; Elon Musk said in July it would have 550K chips (Alexander Saeedy/Wall Street Journal)

Alexander Saeedy / Wall Street Journal:
Source: xAI is set to spend $18B+ to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; Elon Musk said in July it would have 550K chips  —  xAI aims to win tech arms race with ‘Colossus’ data centers, thrown up at lightning speed; city divided over massive power and water demands

Asahi restarted production at six Japanese breweries on October 2 after a cyberattack forced it to halt production and shipments for days, and is investigating (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Asahi restarted production at six Japanese breweries on October 2 after a cyberattack forced it to halt production and shipments for days, and is investigating  —  Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. restarted six of its breweries in Japan on Oct. 2 after a cyberattack forced the beer maker to halt production and shipments for several days.

Another look at Apple's executive succession, as it increases the spotlight on hardware chief John Ternus; sources: Apple weighed hiring a senior Meta AI exec (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Another look at Apple's executive succession, as it increases the spotlight on hardware chief John Ternus; sources: Apple weighed hiring a senior Meta AI exec  —  Apple is intensifying the spotlight on hardware chief John Ternus as executive succession looms.

How video games are shaping a generation of boys, as a survey says US males aged 15 to 24 now spend ~10 hrs/week on average on games, over 2x the time from 2010 (New York Times)

New York Times:
How video games are shaping a generation of boys, as a survey says US males aged 15 to 24 now spend ~10 hrs/week on average on games, over 2x the time from 2010  —  They've become an important way to spend time with peers.  But they've also become more addictive.