Reuters : How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs — - India bets AI will create enough new opportunities to offset job losses — AI tools supplant jobs built on routine tasks in call centers, customer service
Verity Townsend / IGN : The Japanese government says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IPs, such as anime, calling them “irreplaceable treasures” — “We are a country that has captivated the world with the creative power of anime, games, and music.”
The 2025 EAT-Lancet report warns food systems now breach planetary limits. As finance lags, the world’s most vital asset is becoming its biggest systemic risk.
Adani Enterprises—controlled by port-to-power billionaire Gautam Adani—said it and Alphabet’s Google will invest $15 billion over the next five years to develop a gigawatt-scale data center hub in the southeastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : SEC filing: Jeff Bezos discloses that he now owns 9% of Amazon's shares, down from 10.1% a year ago, after selling 100M+ shares over the course of the past year — The Amazon founder has been selling off his shares at a regular cadence since stepping aside as CEO four years ago.
Apple today announced the next-generation iPad Pro , featuring the custom-designed M5, C1X, and N1 chips. The M5 chip has up to a 10-core CPU, with four performance cores and six efficiency cores. It features a next-generation GPU with Neural Accelerator in each core, allowing the new iPad Pro to deliver up to 3.5x the AI performance than the previous model, and a third-generation ray-tracing engine. A faster 16-core Neural Engine also delivers more energy-efficient performance. Apple says that performance gains and breakthrough improvements over iPads with the M1 chip are "staggering". In addition to the M5 chip, the cellular versions of the new iPad Pro feature Apple's custom-designed C1X modem, which allows up to 50% faster cellular data performance than its predecessor, with much greater efficiency. It also features the N1 chip, a new Apple-designed wireless networking chip that enables Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread. Apple says the N1 brings better performance when connected to 5GHz networks, and improves the overall performance and reliability of features like Personal Hotspot and AirDrop. The new iPad Pro features over 150GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, which is almost a 30% increase compared to the previous generation. It also offers up to 2x faster storage read and write speeds, and the 256GB and 512GB models start with 12GB of unified memory. The new iPad Pro adds the ability to drive external displays at up to 120Hz and now supports Adaptive Sync, which provides the lowest possible latency in external display performance. Fast charging is now supported, allowing the new iPad Pro to charge up to 50% in around 30 minutes with a 40W adapter or higher. The new iPad Pro is available to pre-order starting today, and will be available in stores on Wednesday, October 22. Related Roundup: iPad Pro Tags: C1 , M5 , N1 Chip Buyer's Guide: iPad Pro (Buy Now) This article, " Apple Debuts New iPad Pro With M5, Faster Charging, and More " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a critical security flaw impacting ICTBroadcast, an autodialer software from ICT Innovations, has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-2611 (CVSS score: 9.3), relates to improper input validation that can result in unauthenticated remote code execution due to the fact that the call center
Apple today updated its Vision Pro headset with its next-generation M5 chip and a more comfortable Dual Knit Band. The updated Vision Pro is available to pre-order starting today, and it will begin arriving to customers and launch in stores on Wednesday, October 22. More details to follow. Related Roundup: Apple Vision Pro Buyer's Guide: Vision Pro (Don't Buy) Related Forum: Apple Vision Pro This article, " Apple Updates Vision Pro With M5 Chip and Dual Knit Band " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
Vince Dioquino / Decrypt : Stripe's stablecoin arm, Bridge, applied for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking federal oversight — Bridge, Stripe's stablecoin arm, has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank, joining four others vying for federal approval. — In brief
Apple today introduced a new 14-inch MacBook Pro base model with an M5 chip. The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 chip is available to pre-order starting today, and it will begin arriving to customers and launch in stores on Wednesday, October 22. In the U.S., pricing starts at $1,599, for a configuration with 512GB of storage and 16GB of RAM. Today's announcement does not include higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, which are expected to launch in early 2026. More details to follow. Related Roundup: MacBook Pro Buyer's Guide: MacBook Pro (Don't Buy) Related Forum: MacBook Pro This article, " Apple Announces New 14-Inch MacBook Pro With M5 Chip and More " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
Apple today announced the M5 chip, its next-generation chip for the MacBook Pro , iPad Pro , and Vision Pro. From Apple's press release: Built using third-generation 3-nanometer technology, M5 introduces a next-generation 10-core GPU architecture with a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling GPU-based AI workloads to run dramatically faster. The GPU also offers enhanced graphics capabilities and third-generation ray tracing that combined deliver a graphics performance that is up to 45 percent higher than M4. M5 features the world's fastest performance core, with up to a 10-core CPU made up of six efficiency cores and up to four performance cores. Together, they deliver up to 15 percent faster multithreaded performance over M4. M5 also features an improved 16-core Neural Engine, a powerful media engine, and a nearly 30 percent increase in unified memory bandwidth to 153GB/s. More to follow... Tags: Apple Silicon , M5 This article, " Apple Unveils M5 Chip With Next-Generation GPU " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
Bloomberg : ASML reports Q3 net bookings of €5.4B, v. €4.9B est., as the AI spending boom boosts demand for its EUV machines to produce the most sophisticated AI chips — ASML Holding NV's orders beat analyst expectations in the third quarter, as demand for its chip-making machines was fueled …
April Roach / CNBC : ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est., and €2.12B net profit, v. €2.11B est., warning that it expects China sales to decline “significantly” in 2026 — Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML on Wednesday looked to calm concerns over 2026 growth …
SAP has rolled out security fixes for 13 new security issues, including additional hardening for a maximum-severity bug in SAP NetWeaver AS Java that could result in arbitrary command execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-42944, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It has been described as a case of insecure deserialization. "Due to a deserialization vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver, an
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Jay Peters / The Verge : YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally — The ‘cleaner’ look is rolling out across mobile, web, and TV. … YouTube is updating the look of the video player to be …
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