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Block debuts Square Bitcoin, a BTC wallet allowing US-based SMBs to convert up to 50% of daily sales into BTC now and accept BTC payments starting November 10 (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt) - 2025-10-09T23:40:01-04:00

a16z hires ex-VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram as general partner overseeing AI infrastructure and growth investments and as a managing partner, replacing Scott Kupor (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information) - 2025-10-09T22:45:00-04:00

Sources: Apple plans health and fitness teams reorg under Eddy Cue, watchOS under Craig Federighi, and Watch hardware under John Ternus, as Jeff Williams exits (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - 2025-10-09T21:35:01-04:00

Google says Cl0p hackers who exploited vulnerabilities in Oracle's E-Business Suite have stolen data from "dozens" of organizations since at least July 10 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) - 2025-10-09T20:55:01-04:00

EA's Battlefield 6, coming October 10, is a pivotal moment for the series and for EA, set to go private in a $55B deal, as EA competes with Activision and COD (Jay Peters/The Verge) - 2025-10-09T18:55:01-04:00

Sources: Coinbase and Mastercard have each held talks to acquire stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.5B-$2.5B; a deal would be the largest stablecoin acquisition yet (Fortune) - 2025-10-09T18:30:01-04:00

Microsoft and Anthropic appoint former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak as a senior adviser and pledge his role will not include lobbying with the UK government (Financial Times) - 2025-10-09T17:45:00-04:00

Sources: crypto investor Roger Ver, aka "Bitcoin Jesus", has reached a tentative agreement with the US DOJ to pay ~$48M to end a 2024 criminal tax fraud case (New York Times) - 2025-10-09T16:50:34-04:00

YouTube launches a pilot program to give terminated creators a "second chance" by letting them apply to create a new channel (Zach Vallese/CNBC) - 2025-10-09T16:20:35-04:00

Adam Mosseri says Instagram is exploring building a TV app as part of a deeper push into video but isn't interested in licensing live sports or other content (Bloomberg) - 2025-10-09T16:00:45-04:00

Adobe launches AI agents tailored for B2B marketers within its Adobe Experience Platform, after launching AI agents aimed at consumer marketing in September (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) - 2025-10-09T15:20:34-04:00

Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more efficiently via Chrome, raised $22M in seed and Series A led by Accel (Lucinda Shen/Axios) - 2025-10-09T14:35:30-04:00

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology) - 2025-10-09T14:00:01-04:00

A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "backdoor" vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume (Anthropic) - 2025-10-09T13:40:01-04:00

AWS launches Quick Suite, a chatbot and set of AI agents that can analyze sales data, produce reports, and summarize web content, set to replace Q Business (Matt Day/Bloomberg) - 2025-10-09T12:25:02-04:00