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Federal immigration agents filmed making airport arrests as Trump calls in ICE to ease security line delays: The Trump administration has deployed ICE agents to over a dozen U.S. airports amid an ongoing federal shutdown that's causing long wait times. Eyewitnesses have already recorded at least one arrest in San Francisco's airport. Read More

Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI's Kimi: Building on top of a Chinese model feels particularly fraught right now. Read More

Elon Musk unveils chip manufacturing plans for SpaceX and Tesla: Elon Musk recently outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration Tesla and SpaceX — but he has a history of overpromising. Read More

Disrupt 2026: Where deals and ideas ignite

Oct 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, 10,000 founders, investors, and operators gather for high-signal insights, curated connections, and real momentum.

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UK Quantum – Optimising energy networks

By delivering greater computational speed, UK quantum can support complex optimisation of renewable energy planning, determining which plants run and when. The result is the potential for lower system costs, higher efficiency, and improved balancing of supply and demand.

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The SEC drops its four-year-old investigation into EV startup Faraday Future: After four years, and multiple subpoenas and depositions, the beleaguered startup has dodged yet another bullet. Read More

Delve accused of misleading customers with 'fake compliance': An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of "falsely" convincing "hundreds of customers they were compliant" with privacy and security regulations. Read More

An exclusive tour of Amazon's Trainium lab, the chip that's won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple : Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal. Read More

Why Wall Street wasn't won over by Nvidia's big conference: Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility. Read More

Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business?: Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a straightforward win. Read More

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Agentic security for AI-powered software

AI-native applications are dynamic, unpredictable, and moving at machine speed. Evo by Snyk introduces a new era of "agentic security"—using specialized AI agents to discover, test, and protect your AI ecosystem.

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Last but Not Least

Do you want to build a robot snowman?: On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang's GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia's future. Read More