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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
ChatGPT Atlas will feature an agent mode to let ChatGPT take actions; clicking a search link will show a split-screen with the webpage and a ChatGPT transcript — ChatGPT is the “beating heart of Atlas,” according to employees on the livestream. … OpenAI's next move in its battle against Google is an AI-powered web browser.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas' opt-in browser memories feature can remember key details from users' web browsing to improve chat responses and offer suggestions — The browser with ChatGPT built in. — Today we're introducing ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core.
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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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| New York Times: |
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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google Fi plans an AI call quality feature to filter out background sounds like wind next month, and will bring full RCS support on the web in December — Google's Fi cellular service is getting an upgrade, and since this is 2025, there's plenty of AI involved.
More: The Keyword, Engadget, The Verge, Thurrott, TechCrunch, Droid Life, and Pocket-lint
| 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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| 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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| 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: Forbes, Observer, The Decoder, and Entrepreneur
| 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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| CNBC: |
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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| 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.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's foldable iPad with an 18" screen faces engineering challenges tied to weight, features, and display tech, pushing its debut to 2029 or later — Apple Inc.'s effort to reinvent the iPad by adding a giant foldable screen has hit development hurdles, potentially delaying the planned launch.| Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar: |
Apple Vision Pro M5 review: everything looks sharper, especially virtual desktop mode, and the Dual Knit band is comfortable, but the headset still costs $3,500 — New Apple silicon and a new headband level up the experience — TechRadar Verdict … Why you can trust TechRadar …
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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.| 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: Engadget, Law360, and Bloomberg Law
| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
TikTok quietly changed its policies to make it easier to share user data with government and regulatory authorities, and weakened promises to inform users — A set of changes to TikTok's law enforcement policy make it easier for the company to share users' personal information with government and “regulatory authorities.”
Bluesky: @ebakerwhite
| 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
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| 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| 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.
Bluesky: @taumuyi, @davelee.me, and @caseynewton
| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: |
Google launches new features for its Google AI Studio developer platform, including a revamped “Build” tab to vibe code AI apps — Google debuts a revamped AI Studio “Build” interface that cuts technical barriers for AI app prototyping with one-click Cloud Run publishing.
More: VentureBeat, The Keyword, and WinBuzzer
| 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 … | 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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