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AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after a US-EAST-1 outage, first reported on October 20 at 3:11am ET, that affected major services — Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform to let crypto companies quickly raise capital, for ~$375M, marking Coinbase's eighth acquisition in 2025 — Acquisition marks Coinbase's eighth deal this year — Coinbase Global has struck a roughly $375 million deal to acquire Echo …
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Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K+ jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations — Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
iPad Pro (M5, 2025) review: amazing performance, hardware remains unbeaten, and iPadOS is getting more Mac-like, but still too pricey for a secondary computer — What do you get the tablet that has everything? Last year, Apple debuted a massive overhaul to the iPad Pro, with a thin new design …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99 — It's going to cost you more to watch HBO Max, after the streaming platform raised its prices just a year after its last hikes.
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| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Anthropic announces Claude Code on the web and in the Claude iOS app, available in beta as a research preview for Pro and Max users — Today, Anthropic's Claude Code agentic coding tool is moving beyond the terminal and coming to the web and the company's mobile app.
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Apple challenges the DMA in the EU's General Court, saying it “imposes hugely onerous and intrusive burdens” at odds with Apple's rights in the EU marketplace — Apple Inc. lashed out at the European Union's attempts to tame the power of Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge …
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| Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal: |
The US government issues new guidelines on its $100K H-1B visa fee, saying it will apply only to new visa applicants outside the country, not all new applicants — Under new guidance, only applicants living abroad will be subject to the fee — WASHINGTON—President Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee …
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail — The CEO's dealmaking blitz has convinced Silicon Valley's giants to tether their fates to his company, essentially making it too big to fail| Omar El Chmouri / Bloomberg: |
Documents: OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers paid $150 per hour to train its AI to build financial models as part of its secretive Project Mercury — OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers helping train its artificial intelligence on how to build financial models …
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| Adrienne So / Wired: |
Oakley Meta Vanguard review: the smart glasses combine headphones, sunglasses, and a camera, plus Garmin integration, but the camera specs aren't too impressive — Meta's second collaboration with Oakley look good, sound great, and might just replace your action cam. — Rating:
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| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
Threat intel company Dataminr plans to acquire cybersecurity threat intel provider ThreatConnect for $290M; Dataminr raised $85M in convertible funding in March — Learn more. — Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Dario Amodei addresses “inaccurate claims” about Anthropic's policy stances after David Sacks said the “real issue” is “Anthropic's agenda to backdoor Woke AI” — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed “inaccurate claims” about the artificial intelligence … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
ChipAgents, which is developing an agentic AI platform to automate chip design and verification, raised a $21M Series A led by Bessemer — Santa Barbara-based ChipAgents.ai today announced it raised $21M in early funding to fuel growth for its agentic artificial intelligence platform for chip design and verification.| Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT plans a Shanghai IPO as soon as Q1 2026, targeting an up to ~$42B valuation and aiming to raise between ~$2.8B and ~$5.6B — - Firm plans Shanghai IPO in first quarter of 2026 — Aims to raise funding of 20 billion to 40 billion yuan| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Brian Chesky says Airbnb didn't integrate its app with ChatGPT because ChatGPT integrations aren't “quite ready” yet, and he advised Sam Altman on ChatGPT apps — Airbnb Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky said he didn't integrate his company's online travel app …
More: TechCrunch, Futurism, Fast Company, and PCWorld
| Michael Beltran / Rest of World: |
Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models — Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan's convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.
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| Blockworks: |
Galaxy Digital reports Q3 net income of $505M and total assets up 27% QoQ to $11.5B, including $1.9B in cash and stablecoins and $3.2B in equity — Digital asset firm reports record quarterly earnings with $11.5B in assets, boosted by trading, inflows, and Helios expansion
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