TSMC posted record Q3 revenue of $46.36B and $23.7B net income, underscoring sustained AI-chip demand.
Jenny Lee / CNBC : TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 50.9% YoY to $46.36B, net income up 68.7% to $23.7B, both above est., marking a sixth straight quarterly profit record on AI demand — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday reported a record third-quarter profit that beat estimates, powered by an unrelenting global appetite for AI chips.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B model designed for fast on-device agent workloads.
Bloomberg is rolling out its ASKB conversational AI interface to all Terminal users with private-content integration.
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal : Bloomberg is making its ASKB conversational AI interface available to all Terminal users, letting them integrate their own content with existing financial data — Allowing users to add their own information to the company's generative AI-based ASKB interface will feed the system with a new level of context
Chainalysis reports Base agentic-commerce transactions rose from 1,500 in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026.
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune : Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026; 87%+ of the payments were for less than 10 cents — The field of agentic commerce, which describes the use of AI agents to carry out internet transactions, is rapidly maturing, and crypto is fueling the boom.
Figma introduced Specs and a Markdown design-language editor to govern how AI agents work on its platform.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Figma announces new features to define how AI agents work on its platform, including Figma Specs, a Markdown editor that lets users define their design language — Design platform Figma announced a new Markdown-based editor to help define a company's design, bring in design and code libraries …
ASML's strong orders eased fears that the AI infrastructure spending boom is losing momentum.
AI-funding worries and rate fears triggered sharp Asian chip-stock declines, including 10%+ falls for SK Hynix.
CNBC : Asian chipmakers extend Wall Street losses as US Fed rate hike fears and AI funding worries mount; SK Hynix falls 10%+ on the KRX, while Samsung drops ~10% — Nvidia, Micron and AMD were all down in premarket trading on Thursday, as AI stocks across the globe continued a plummet that's seen …
TSMC says it is discussing Elon Musk's Texas Terafab project but insists any participating fab must be TSMC-run.
Debby Wu / Bloomberg : TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is in talks over Elon Musk's Texas-based Terafab project, but stresses that any participating fab “has got to be run by TSMC” — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is in discussions about collaborating with Elon Musk's Terafab project …
TSMC plans another 3nm fab in Tainan for H1 2028 production, expanding leading-edge capacity.
Qianer Liu / The Information : TSMC says it plans to build an additional 3nm fab in Tainan, Taiwan, set for production in H1 2028, alongside its 3nm capacity in Arizona and Japan's Kumamoto — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Thursday it will build another 3-nanometer chip factory in the Taiwanese city of Tainan …
ASML expects China to supply about 20% of 2026 sales after a 109% QoQ surge in Q3 China sales.
Xiaofei Xu / South China Morning Post : ASML expects China to account for ~20% of total sales in 2026, after Q3 sales there surged 109% QoQ, lifting China's share of machine sales from 14% to 23% — Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML expects China to account for about 20 per cent of its total sales this year …
LWN examines Linus Torvalds's first patch series assisted by an LLM.
404 Media examines Character.ai bankruptcy documents and the company’s underlying AI economics.
Cloudflare data shows malicious bots rerouted rather than disappearing during the Yandex outage.
pg_vectorsearch introduces a PostgreSQL vector index claiming better performance than pgvector IVFFlat and HNSW.
Go 1.27 improves HTTP/1 connection reuse, reducing unnecessary connection churn.
L-Acoustics is applying machine learning to isolate performers’ voices from live-concert noise.
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg : A look at L-Acoustics, whose audio platform uses machine learning to help artists like Céline Dion isolate their voices and cut through noise at live concerts — New software from L-Acoustics helps isolate a singer's voice to cut through concert noise
A developer documents AI-driven game decompilation and its implications for preservation and IP.
This technical investigation asks why image-generation LLM pelicans exhibit recurring malformed visual traits.
Switzerland proposed banning profiling-based advertising targeted at minors.
Lawfare traces how US policy choices sold off, rather than simply lost, domestic rare-earth capacity.
APNIC assesses submarine-cable resilience, a critical dependency for global internet infrastructure.
Oxide Labs details how it emulates a full Oxide rack through its Virtual Oxide Labs environment.
A download attempt led to a kernel exploit; this post walks through the vulnerability research chain.
QA Wolf describes running Windows desktop tests from Linux using disposable virtual machines.
A practical deep dive into the double-headed stack allocator and its memory-management tradeoffs.
An examination of why real-world C implementations and extensions diverge from standard C.
Neckbeard offers a DevOps, platform, and SRE plugin layer for coding agents.
Aidlc proposes adaptive workflow-steering rules for AI coding agents.
Flipflop is an open-source Iroh-powered system for persistent file-sharing tunnels.
Petal releases an open-source, free alternative to CoScreen and ScreenHero for collaborative screen sharing.
Pew Research Center : Survey: nearly 40% of US adults, and ~50% of those aged 18 to 29, participate in an online community; social media is the primary venue for online communities — Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. adults - including about half of those 18 to 29 - are part of an online community
Emmy Martin / New York Times : Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked at Meta and gained US residency in 2020, advised Saudi organizations and is listed as a venture partner at Riyadh-based RAED — The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife, and a family member booked one-way tickets from the US to Saudi Arabia for October 12; the FBI arrested him on October 9 — The OpenAI employee who was arrested and charged with allegedly using a hidden recording device in one of the ChatGPT maker's …
New York Times : Q&A with MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, who has been studying relationships between humans and machines since the 1970s, on her new book, AI chatbots, and more — This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts.
Financial Times : A look at Yoti, a digital ID verification app downloaded by 23M people; its revenue grew from £6.2M in 2022 to £32M+ in 2025, with the UK as its biggest market — UK-based tech company is growing quickly but has encountered regulatory obstacles in Spain
IDC : Global smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY to 255.3M in Q3, a record quarterly drop, as Samsung and Apple gained while Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo saw deeper declines — Apple and Samsung continue to benefit from a strong premium portfolio to gain share — The global smartphone market shrank 22.0% year …