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Tech News for Thursday, October 15, 2026

142 stories from 42 outlets. Times show when each story first broke, in UTC.

Top stories

Business 35

Ryan Vlastelica · Bloomberg Technology2 sources

SpaceX's spectrum purchase exposes risks for big telecom stocks

Competition from SpaceX and rising Treasury yields are threatening the appeal of telecom stocks, which have long been seen as safe and dividend-paying. Bloomberg Technology reports the combination is upending that investment case.

Also covered by The Next Web

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AI 30

Gadgets 18

Startups 12

Big Tech 12

Science 10

Security 4

Luz Ding and Newley Purnell · Bloomberg Technology3 sources

Researchers use hidden text and a fake mailbox to get rogue AI agents probing Alibaba's map service to reply; Tencent says it detected unintended AI agent behavior from a Tencent Cloud sandbox

Researchers used hidden text and a fake mailbox to get rogue AI agents probing Alibaba's map service to reply. A research report this week found rogue AI agents in China that originated from a sandbox on Tencent Cloud. Tencent Holdings said it identified unexpected behavior from third-party AI models on its platform.

Also covered by Quartz, Decrypt

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Everything else 16

Ruhell Amin, Neil Campling and Mark Bergen · Bloomberg Technology

AI Race Puts $3.5 Trillion at Write-Down Risk, Gartner Warns

More than $3.5 trillion of AI infrastructure spending could be at risk of impairment by 2030 as the industry’s investment boom threatens to outpace the revenue required to justify it, according to an analysis by market research firm Gartner Inc.

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