Masayoshi Son, whose SoftBank is projected to commit $65 billion to OpenAI, is now voicing concern about AI safety risks, according to Bloomberg. Holders now have to judge whether the warning changes the money, since the stock has so far traded on what the labs say.
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Apple's first touchscreen, tandem-OLED MacBook Pro is due by the end of November with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. For fleet buyers, the decision depends on who carries the laptop every day and whose work can wait for the next chip generation.
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Apple CEO John Ternus works hands-on in the design studio several times a week, Bloomberg reports, against Tim Cook's roughly monthly visits. With no chief design officer search underway, Apple's former hardware chief now has the final say on its software interfaces too.
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Apple's J450 home sensors would report what happens in a room as text, with no video, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Because the sensors also recognize faces, the privacy question moves from stored footage to a written log of who was home and when.
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Chinese models handled 50% to 67% of OpenRouter's token traffic by mid-2026, with DeepSeek's V4-Pro priced near $3.96 per million output tokens. The premium US labs can still defend has narrowed to complex reasoning and cyber tasks, where they keep a measurable lead.
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Friedrich Merz will meet Klaas Knot and Pablo Hernandez de Cos, the two frontrunners to succeed Christine Lagarde, as three ECB posts fall vacant. People familiar said Berlin has dropped Joachim Nagel and is weighing the chief economist and markets seats instead.
Publishers:finance.yahoo.com · theedgemalaysia.com Reality
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Anthropic could start marketing its IPO the week of Nov. 9 at a valuation of $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion, Bloomberg reported. How much money it draws from other AI stocks before Thanksgiving depends on a share count the reports have not disclosed.
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Apple's next entry-level iPad will skip the A18 and use the A19 chip, according to a leak from MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. Anyone ordering base iPads for a team now has to decide whether the A16 model on sale is worth buying before its successor lands.
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Apple plans three smart home devices for October, all built around Siri AI, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. That puts a Siri that BGR says needed Google's Gemini models to ship between every household and the home integrations it uses.
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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos calls growth too slow with engagement up 2%, while about $1 billion of a $20 billion content budget goes to live shows. He says that money is for winning and keeping subscribers and selling ads, so hours watched is the wrong test of it.
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Semi-Tech Leasing Group, a state-backed Chinese lessor, financed 32 Asus servers with restricted Nvidia B300 chips for Hongjing Technology, Bloomberg reports. Hongjing's filings confirm the Semi-Tech leases, so a lender sits on the path from manufacturer to operator.
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Anthropic could start marketing its IPO the week of Nov. 9, a month later than planned, at a value investors put at $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion. Companies that build on its models would then rely on a supplier whose losses and price are debated in public.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple's smart home hub has a square 6-inch display, no battery and no buttons, in countertop and wall-mounted versions. HomeKit teams should plan for a shared screen that stays at its outlet and serves whoever walks up.
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Blockchain.com is seeking about $500 million from a US listing at a $4 billion to $6 billion valuation, below the $7 billion its 2023 round set. The range opens at roughly the $4 billion that secondary trades already imply, so tokenized stocks and prediction markets have to justify every dollar above it.
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SpaceXAI is weighing a four-tier X and Grok subscription, from free to a $100-a-month Ultra plan, according to a company document Bloomberg viewed. The draft prices X by how much Grok you use and keeps the checkmark at today's cost.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple's first touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro could arrive as early as October. The laptop reportedly keeps Apple's existing M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, so for teams buying Macs this fall, waiting is a decision about the display.
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Apple's smart home hub, reportedly due October 13, may come in Silver, Space Gray, Starlight or Rose Pink, according to the leaker pdfu. Accessory makers can plan around its looks from the leaks so far, but what it will control has not been reported.
Reality
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Apple CEO John Ternus wants to launch products outside its two usual windows, spring and fall, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Accessory makers and other partners who plan production around those seasons would have to work without a known date.
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Amazon aims to put photo-taking smart glasses on 5,000 delivery drivers by the end of 2026 and more than 20,000 by the end of 2027, Bloomberg reported. The people in the photos hold none of the privacy controls the company has described; those sit with Amazon or the driver.
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US initial jobless claims fell to 197,000 last week, below the 200,000 forecast, as employers kept holding off on layoffs. That leaves an October Fed hike turning on inflation, where August's 3.4% PCE reading came in under the 3.7% forecast.
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