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Google's September 2026 spam update has finished rolling out
Google's status dashboard shows the September 2026 spam update finished on October 8, with a final phase felt around October 4-6. Site owner reports are mixed.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readAMD lifts its Taiwan supply-chain investment
Lisa Su is in Taiwan for the second time in five months. AMD will expand the $10 billion-plus investment it announced in May, aiming to lock in packaging and substrate capacity.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readDayOne files for a Nasdaq IPO at a $20 billion target
Singapore-based data center developer DayOne filed for an IPO aiming to raise about $5 billion. First-half revenue hit $512 million, but two-thirds comes from one customer.
Read News · Funding 3 min readDeepSeek nears at least $12 billion before its IPO
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is raising at least 80 billion yuan in a round led by Tencent and CATL. Demand beat its target and the total could approach 100 billion yuan.
Read News · Policy 3 min readAI-assisted hacks hit seven South Korean financial firms
About 66,000 people's data was exposed. President Lee said there are signs AI was used, and police set up a 28-person investigation team.
Read News · Payments 3 min readTurkey's central bank: payments are heading toward AI agents
Deputy Governor Hatice Karahan told Istanbul Fintech Week that payments are becoming smart after fast and secure, as AI agents begin to pay on users' behalf.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readAI's memory appetite is killing the sub-$100 phone
Memory makers shifted capacity to AI data centers. Shipments of phones under $100 fell almost 60% in the second quarter, hitting developing markets hardest.
Read News · Finance 3 min readBIST 100 opens the week up 1.42%
Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 closed at 12,443.92 on October 5, led by banks and telecoms, with eyes on this week's inflation data.
Read News · Finance 3 min readWeak US jobs data shifts rate bets, bitcoin back above $86,000
The US added 29,000 jobs in September against 90,000 expected. As rate-hike bets faded, bitcoin rose 2.1% back above $86,000.
Read News · Ads 3 min readChatGPT adds visual ads alongside image generation
OpenAI is adding an image-based ad format to ChatGPT. The first test runs while users generate images, starting in the US later in October with a group of advertisers.
Read News · Funding 3 min readChip startup Etched draws offers at $40-50 billion
Etched, which builds chips that only run transformer models, raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation in September. Weeks later, offers value it at more than double that.
Read News · Models 3 min readHackerRank's AI interviewer Chakra is now generally available
After a six-month beta and more than 500,000 interviews, Chakra merges screening, take-home and engineer rounds into one session, with 70-80% fewer suspicious-activity flags.
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