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A power failure at Google’s London data center took down Lloyds, HSBC and Revolut, Salesforce agreed to buy Braze for $5.66 billion, and SpaceX’s AI unit outsold Starlink.

A hacker pointed AI agents at 1,200 shopping sites and reached sites at more than 100 companies. Musk promised every American kid a SpaceX share, and Apple set October 28 for its next Mac event.

Chipmakers lose an eighth straight session, Microsoft reportedly exits an Essex data center deal, and MapQuest now shows license plate readers.

Anthropic tells investors Q3 revenue hit $16.8 billion, Citizen Lab says online ads delivered spyware, and Tesla’s new Roadster flips mid-air with no price.

Ukraine says a Starshield speed limit disrupted its drones, CoreWeave’s bonds drag AI cloud stocks down, and Google Play now installs apps you build yourself.

Apple launches the $299 HomeView, Microsoft ships a record 1,400-plus security fixes, and Character.AI files for bankruptcy.

Microsoft unveils the Maia 300, a cyberattack switches off refrigeration across hundreds of French supermarkets, and Google retires the Fitbit Charge.

Nadella says treat every AI model as an insider risk, Nvidia circles Reflection AI, and Japan's networks are called a state of emergency.

Drones knock out two Yandex data centers, PC shipments fall 20.1%, and Samsung guides to a record quarter.

ChatGPT's GPT-6 update goes visual, Anthropic cuts small-model prices about 75%, and Microsoft prices its Nvidia Surface PCs.

Google buys 3.6 GW from Constellation, Mistral previews a trillion-parameter open model, and Waymo's first loan grows to $5 billion.

OpenAI apologizes to Australia's parliament, Schneider Electric buys PTC for $22.6 billion, and ChatGPT gets image ads.