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OpenAI launches its ChatGPT Atlas web browser, available initially for macOS, and “coming soon” to Windows, iOS, and Android — OpenAI on Tuesday announced a next-generation Web browser, Atlas, as the company seeks to expand from simply being a popular app into a broader computing platform.
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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 — Earlier this month, I went to Louisiana to tour Amazon's most advanced warehouse. It was unlike any I had visited in my seven years covering the company →
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 …
More: The Decoder, Entrepreneur, and Sherwood News
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
A US judge orders Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, and Adam Mosseri to testify in the “first bellwether trial” over child social media safety, set for January — Meta Platforms' CEO Mark Zuckerberg will need to testify at the first trial over the adverse effects of social media on younger users …
More: Law360 and Bloomberg Law
| 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 …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
| Artie Beaty / ZDNET: |
Samsung rolls out a Perplexity TV app, which works alongside Samsung's Vision AI Companion, on its 2025 TVs; 2023 and 2024 TV models will get it later this year — ZDNET's key takeaways — Samsung is introducing a new Perplexity TV app. — 2025 models get the app now, 2024 and 2023 models later this year.
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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
More: Spyglass, Fortune, and The Information
| Rose Henderson / Bloomberg: |
OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair says the platform has paid out $25B to creators since its founding in 2016; OnlyFans takes a 20% fee on subscriptions and content sales — OnlyFans Chief Executive Officer Keily Blair said that the company has paid out $25 billion to creators since it was founded in 2016.
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches its likeness detection tech, letting eligible creators in its Partner Program request the removal of AI-generated content with their likeness — YouTube revealed on Tuesday that its likeness detection technology has officially rolled out to eligible creators in the YouTube Partner Program, following a pilot phase.| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Serval, which uses agentic AI models to automate IT service management for clients like Perplexity and Mercor, raised a $47M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures — Some startups pride themselves on having prestigious financial backers — but just as important is having prestigious customers.| 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| 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 … | 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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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Apple MacBook Pro 14 (M5) review: feels the same as M4 with a speed upgrade and still good value for money with great battery life, but only a modest update — Last year's entry-level MacBook Pro was an impressive return to form for Apple's Pro laptop. Between the M4 chip, increased RAM … | 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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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Insight Partners-owned Veeam agrees to acquire Securiti AI, which makes data security tools, for ~$1.73B in cash and stock, set to close first week of December — Veeam Software, owned by private equity firm Insight Partners, agreed to buy Securiti AI for about $1.73 billion in cash and stock …
More: Blocks and Files, CyberScoop, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Reuters, Business Wire, Help Net Security, and Pulse 2.0
| Bloomberg: |
Lagos-founded payments startup Moniepoint raised $90M at a $1B+ valuation, after raising $110M in October 2024, and says it processes $250B+ yearly transactions — Visa Inc.-backed fintech Moniepoint has raised an additional $90 million in investment to accelerate the startup's African expansion plans …
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