Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
Sources: companies like Palo Alto Networks and Sophos see increased demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals  —  With ransomware attacks on the rise, businesses are calling on a new class of security expert to help with high-stakes talks

Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Netflix debuts VOID, a vision-language model that can erase objects from a scene and simulate how remaining objects would behave without them  —  Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene  —  A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies.

Reuters:
Indian IT giant Wipro agrees to buy Mindsprint, the IT services arm of Singapore-based Olam, for $375M, and strikes an eight-year, $1B contract with Olam  —  Shares of Wipro (WIPR.NS) rose as much as 3.2% on Monday after the Indian IT services firm agreed to buy the IT services business …

Wall Street Journal:
Documents: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of revenue  —  Silicon Valley's hottest startups have the same challenge: funding giant computing costs  —  OpenAI and Anthropic …

Kunal Khullar / Tom's Hardware:
Microsoft is updating devices from Windows 11 24H2 to version 25H2 with no way to fully opt out, and says an “intelligent” ML-based system handles the rollout  —  Microsoft forces 25H2 rollout ahead of 24H2 end-of-support … With support for version 24H2 officially ending on October 13 …