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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Anthropic and Google announce their cloud partnership worth tens of billions of dollars, giving Anthropic access to 1M TPUs and 1GW of capacity in 2026 — Anthropic and Google officially announced their cloud partnership Thursday, a deal that gives the artificial intelligence company access …
More: Anthropic, eeNews Europe, Bloomberg, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, Capacity, MarketWatch, Proactive, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Analytics India Magazine, Neowin, Yahoo Finance, Financial Times, Maginative, The Register, South China Morning Post, Associated Press, The Information, The Economic Times, Android Headlines, Thurrott, Constellation Research, Google Cloud, Verdict, and Benzinga
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LinkedIn: Krishna Rao and MacKenzie Sigalos
Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial — Pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company — President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao …
More: The Block, TechCrunch, DL News, CNBC, The Record, New York Times, CNN, BeInCrypto, CoinGape, Raw Story, Cointelegraph, NBC News, Tech Times, NewsBTC, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bitcoin Insider, The Verge, The Crypto Basic, Proactive, Cryptonews, crypto.news, Associated Press, Reuters, Cointelegraph, The Merkle News, Crikey, Arabian Business, Capital Brief, Daily Kos, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, Decrypt, and Daily Mail
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| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
More: U.S. House Committee …, CNN, Axios, Axios, Bitcoinist.com, Raw Story, France 24, The Crypto Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptonews, BeInCrypto, Politico, al.com, and Yahoo Finance. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon blames a rare software bug and “faulty automation” for this week's massive AWS glitch, and says it has turned off the flawed automation worldwide — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.
More: Amazon Web Services, The Guardian, The Verge, and BBC
LinkedIn: Sharique Kamal, Miguel Angel Muñoz Sanchez, C.K. Tse, Dhaval Nagar, and Markus Ostertag
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Mastodon: @mikeolson@mastodon.social and @ewenmcneill@cloudisland.nz
Forums: Hacker News and r/programming
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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Mastodon: @ZDL@mstdn.social and @josephcox@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/hardware, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Mico, a new character for Copilot's voice mode that responds with real-time expressions and is enabled by default, available in the US — Copilot now has its own virtual character for its voice mode. … It's been nearly 30 years since Microsoft's Office assistant …
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LinkedIn: Rob Elsinga, Catrin Hinkel, Janny Woo, Aishwarya Nagarajan, and Peter Hames
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q3 revenue up 3% YoY to $13.7B, vs. $13.2B est., and net income of $4.1B, vs. a net loss of $16.6B in Q3 2024; INTC jumps 7%+ after hours — Intel reported better-than-expected revenue on Thursday, signaling that demand for its core x86 processors for PCs has recovered.
More: Intel, Forbes Middle East, Tom's Hardware, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Verdict, Nikkei Asia, Intel, Quartz, Shacknews, FX Empire, The Verge, and TipRanks Financial
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Forums: r/TechHardware and r/intel
| Brooke Singman / Fox Business: |
Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute — Apple's Houston manufacturing facility is operating ahead of schedule — EXCLUSIVE: Apple is now building and shipping American …
More: MacRumors, CNN, Fortune, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, Reuters, The Wrap, The Verge, Benzinga, iClarified, CNBC, MacTech.com, BonTech Labs, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Mastodon: @caseyliss@mastodon.social and @ry@duck.haus
Forums: r/USNEWS, r/Boise, r/DemocraticSocialism, r/uspolitics, r/economy, r/anticapitalism, and MacRumors Forums
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, which is building an AI-powered user interface for macOS and raised $6.5M from Sam Altman and others — OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Inc., a startup building an AI-powered user interface for Mac desktops …
More: OpenAI, MacStories, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, The Economic Times, 9to5Mac, CNBC, SiliconANGLE, The Indian Express, Digit, PYMNTS.com, Unite.AI, Ars Technica, The Information, Wccftech, Engadget, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada, Implicator.ai, and MacDailyNews
| Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: |
EU accuses Meta under DSA of failing to give users easy ways to flag illegal content and adequate tools to appeal moderation decisions, in preliminary findings — Allegations against Facebook and Instagram owner risk ire of Trump administration — BRUSSELS—The European Union charged Meta Platforms …
More: Bloomberg, The Guardian, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, European Commission, and RTÉ
X: @brusselsmatters, @firstsquawk, and @hennavirkkunen
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
EA and Stability AI announce a partnership to build game developer tools, including “smarter paintbrushes” to quickly generate high-quality 2D textures — Video game giant Electronic Arts has struck a new partnership with generative tech company Stability AI … | Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: |
A US judge says Meta lawyers told staff to block or remove parts of internal teen mental health research to limit liability; Meta says no findings were removed — Meta Platforms Inc.'s lawyers advised employees to block or remove portions of internal research on teen mental health harm … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft won't provide erotica AI services and that “other companies will build that”, after Sam Altman said ChatGPT would offer erotica — Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said the software giant won't build artificial intelligence services that provide …
More: Moneycontrol, Wired, WinBuzzer, and Digit
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M — The market for digital items in the popular video-game Counter—Strike fell 25% overnight, following an update by the title's developer Valve Corp.
More: Polygon.com, Forbes, Eurogamer.net, GamesRadar, PC Gamer, and Kotaku
X: @cecianasta, @ralseii, @traghazl, @basket_4naggets, @dexiecs, @sughcs, @kinda_cs2, @cs2_coco, @cioudedfilms, @dinglecs2, @boldleonidas, @vqltuk, @ne0kai, @thewarowl, @matthewfoxaf, @fwiz, @indexcs, @csunfortunate, @lvscars, and @cecianasta. Forums: Hacker News
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple may turn off App Tracking Transparency in Europe due to “intense lobbying efforts” in Germany and other countries over alleged anticompetitive conduct — In a statement to the German Press Agency, Apple claimed that it may have to turn off App Tracking Transparency in Europe as a result of “intense lobbying efforts”.
More: Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Moneycontrol, BGR, Tech Times, EPIC, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
| Kate Rogers / CNBC: |
Trump says he canceled plans for a “surge” of National Guard to San Francisco after speaking to “great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others” — President Donald Trump said in a post on Thursday that the federal government was preparing to “surge” … | Alex Heath / Sources: |
Sources: Snap is in talks with investors, including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, to raise at least $1B for its AR glasses division — New details on Evan Spiegel's quest to win the AR race. Also: this week on ACCESS. — ∙ Paid — Snap is in talks to raise at least …
X: @alexeheath
| Nick Turner / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its global workforce and expects the layoffs to cost $160M to $180M; it had 36,100 employees as of the end of July — Applied Materials Inc., the largest US producer of chipmaking equipment, plans to cut 4% of its global workforce as it copes with a sales slowdown and trade turmoil.
More: Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, and CNBC
| Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: |
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