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Samsung unveils the Galaxy XR headset, with Android XR, 4K micro-OLED displays, a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip, and an external battery pack, available for $1,800 — The $1,800 headset is a precursor to smart glasses launching “pretty soon.” — A new mixed-reality headset developed …
More: Samsung Newsroom, Macworld, CTech, PCMag, Engadget, SamMobile on YouTube, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Police, Business Standard, Android Central, Android Authority, BonTech Labs, SamMobile, Tom's Guide, HowToMen on YouTube, The Hans India, The Korea Herald, The Ghost Howls, Korea Joongang Daily, Digital Trends, KED Global, Moneycontrol, Sam Lover, FlatpanelsHD, Ubergizmo, Digit, TechEBlog, SammyGuru, Road to VR, The Verge on YouTube, Android Authority, Android Authority on YouTube, CNET on YouTube, CNET, Wired, and PCMag
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More: 9to5Mac, Tech Advisor, Engadget, BGR, Creative Strategies, T3, Tom's Guide, Creative Bloq, Neowin, SamMobile, and Android Authority
X: @caro_milanesi, @legendaryscoop, @mattswider, and @mattswider
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Internal memo and a source: Meta is cutting ~600 jobs out of several thousand within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, to focus on TBD Lab — Meta is cutting several hundred roles from its AI unit even as it continues to hire for its newer TBD Lab, Axios has learned.
More: Reuters, New York Times, CNBC, The Economic Times, The Verge, Implicator.ai, Financial Express, and Dow Jones Newswires
X: @mikeisaac, @mshannahmurphy, @crawf34, @mikeisaac, and @mikeisaac
Bluesky: @prietschka and @karlbode.com
| 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.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI launches its ChatGPT Atlas web browser, available initially for macOS and “coming soon” to Windows, iOS, and Android, with an “Ask ChatGPT” sidebar — OpenAI on Tuesday announced a next-generation web browser, Atlas, as the company seeks to expand from an app into a broader computing platform.
More: Ars Technica, OpenAI on YouTube, OpenAI on YouTube, TechCrunch, BBC, The Information, The Verge, CNBC, Fortune, Metro.co.uk, Implicator.ai, Bloomberg Law, Tom's Hardware, Wired, OpenAI, The Guardian, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, crypto.news, AIN, Business Standard, Implicator.ai, OpenAI, Times of India, Fortune, ZDNET, GeneMunster.com, Gadgets 360, Neowin, Forbes, Every, Implicator.ai, Fidji Simo, TestingCatalog, CNET, and Sherwood News
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More: Axios, Silicon Republic, The Indian Express, and NDTV Profit
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale resigned after the firm refused to discipline partner Shaun Maguire over his comments calling Zohran Mamdani “an Islamist” — Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about New York mayoral candidate
More: Forbes, The Information, and Fortune
Bluesky: @radiobeartime.com, @lopatto, @mmasnick, and @clarajeffery
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is significantly increasing the price of its Xbox Development Kit from $1,500 to $2,000, after hiking Series X prices by $150 in September — Microsoft is raising the price of Xbox dev kits, just a month after tariffs hit Xbox console pricing.
More: The Shortcut, GamesIndustry.biz, WinBuzzer, TechRadar, XboxEra, KitGuru, Pure Xbox, and Windows Central
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Prince Harry and 800+ public figures sign a Future of Life Institute statement urging a ban on AI superintelligence development until it can be deployed safely — The call, signed by Nobel laureates, ex-military leaders and public figures worldwide, seeks a ban on research that could create machines smarter than people.
More: Future of Life Institute, Business Insider, Future of Life Institute, 9to5Mac, Financial Times, Engadget, Associated Press, Fortune, The Guardian, CNBC, Time, Transformer, Bloomberg, Futurism, Axios, Times of India, and WinBuzzer
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| Financial Times: |
Nonprofit Cyber Monitoring Centre estimates that the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack cost the UK economy at least £1.9B and affected over 5,000 UK organizations — Incident was likely ‘the most economically damaging cyber event’ for the country, according to cyber classification group
More: BBC, Reuters, CMC, The Record, Tom's Hardware, The Register, Telegraph, TechRadar, ITPro, The Independent, and GB News
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple cuts iPhone Air orders nearly to “end of production” levels after a lukewarm reception in China, but keeps iPhone 17 lineup forecasts at 85M-90M — TAIPEI — Apple is drastically cutting iPhone Air production orders but boosting those for other iPhone 17 models …
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Benzinga, Tech Advisor, AppleInsider, BGR, ZeroHedge News, iClarified, Cult of Mac, WinBuzzer, Mashable, MacDailyNews, and Bloomberg. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $11.51B, matching est., and an operating margin below est. due to Brazilian tax dispute expense; NFLX drops 8%+ — Shares of Netflix plummeted as much as 7% after the company posted a third-quarter earnings miss after the closing bell Tuesday.
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Forums: r/StockMarket and r/wallstreetbets
| Brave: |
Researchers detail systemic vulnerabilities in AI agentic browsers, including Perplexity's Comet and Fellou, related to indirect prompt injection attacks — Building on our previous disclosure of the Perplexity Comet vulnerability, we've continued our security research across the agentic browser landscape.
More: Spyglass, Livemint, 9to5Mac, The Cyber Express, Hindustan Times, The Hans India, Forbes, and Digit
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| Olivia Le Poidevin / Reuters: |
EBU/BBC study: 45% of responses from top AI assistants misrepresented news content with at least one significant issue and 31% showed serious sourcing problems — - Research finds AI assistants make errors reporting news — Public trust could be eroded, EBU official says
More: BBC, Implicator.ai, Forbes, NPR, and Al Jazeera
| Bloomberg: |
Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China — Apple Inc.'s new Vision Pro headset doesn't offer much in the way of fresh features, but the company made a notable change to its production.
More: MacRumors, iClarified, BonTech Labs, Apple Must, AppleInsider, TechRadar, and The Independent
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic is in discussions with Google about a deal that would provide Anthropic with computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars — Anthropic PBC is in discussions with Alphabet Inc.'s Google about a deal that would provide the artificial intelligence company …
More: DatacenterDynamics, Call Centre Helper, International Business Times, The Information, Watcher Guru, and Investing.com
X: @benbajarin, @zephyr_z9, and @zerohedge
Forums: r/ValueInvesting, r/amzn, and r/wallstreetbets
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto trading firm FalconX agrees to acquire 21shares, one of the main crypto ETF managers, for an undisclosed sum; 21shares had $11B+ in assets in September — FalconX considers IPO as cryptocurrency deals boom — FalconX, a crypto-trading firm, agreed to acquire 21shares …
More: Decrypt, Reuters, CoinDesk, The Block, Bloomberg, CryptoPotato, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, and Crypto Briefing
LinkedIn: Ben Sebley and Samia Bayou
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Dune: Polymarket and Kalshi had $2B+ in notional trading volume in the week ending October 19, exceeding the previous peak during the 2024 presidential election — The trading volume on the leading prediction markets platforms, Polymarket and Kalshi, has hit a new record high …
More: BeInCrypto
| Reuters: |
Meta forms a JV with Blue Owl to fund the $27B, 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, its largest ever private capital deal; Meta will retain a ~20% equity — Meta (META.O) has struck a $27 billion financing deal with Blue Owl Capital to fund its biggest data center project globally …
More: Wall Street Journal, DatacenterDynamics, Blockonomi, BonTech Labs, CNBC, Capacity, Verdict, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, and Meta Newsroom
X: @stockmktnewz and @evankirstel
Bluesky: @kostyack and @justinhendrix
| Adam Leventhal / The Athletic: |
UEFA joins the MPA-led anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the first sports governing body to join the group, which has 50+ members — UEFA has become the first sports governing body to join the world's largest anti-piracy coalition, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE).| Financial Times: |
Electricity demand from data centers powering the AI boom has caused a gas turbine supply crunch, as the US becomes the epicenter of new gas-fired power plants — A supply crunch in giant turbines for gas-powered plants threatens environmental and geopolitical consequences| Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
Palworld developer Pocketpair says its new publishing division won't fund games that use generative AI, saying it “doesn't believe” in the tech — Pocketpair communications director and publishing manager John Buckley explains how AI can harm even its most vocal detractors.| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Starbridge, which helps businesses monitor public sector opportunities by consolidating fragmented data, raised a $42M Series A led by David Sacks' Craft — Justin Wenig remembers his days at Y Combinator in 2019. — Back then, he was working with his first startup, Coursedog … | Financial Times: |
The UK CMA says it will label Apple and Google as having “strategic market status”, imposing stricter rules on how they run their platforms to boost competition — Competition regulator designates the Big Tech groups with special status under strict new digital laws
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