Proofpoint says it has "high confidence" that hackers are working with organized crime groups to infiltrate trucking and freight companies to steal cargo (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
A look at Palantir's four-month "Meritocracy Fellowship" for high school graduates, which offers a path to a job at Palantir without a university degree (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/palantir-thinks-college-might-be-a-waste-so-its-hiring-high-school-grads-aed267d5?st=gaTU1P
Microsoft's Q1 earnings, showing that it had a $3.1B net loss from its OpenAI stake, imply OpenAI lost $11.5B during the quarter based on Microsoft's 27% stake (Matt Rosoff/The Register)
Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined in January, has left; X's CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki left in early October after less than a year in the role (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
Sources: Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale resigned after the firm refused to discipline partner Shaun Maguire over his comments calling Zohran Mamdani "an Islamist" (Financial Times)
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials in a mass doxxing event (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and other corporate donors to the $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-invites-ballroom-donors-to-glitzy-white-house-dinner-ccba9448?st=6LVKyp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Paxos says it "mistakenly minted" $300T worth of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday and "burned" the tokens a little over 20 minutes later (Ryan S. Gladwin/Decrypt)
OpenAI's massive deals show Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product and achieving it via world-changing financial engineering to raise $1T+ (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)