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October 24, 2025, 6:45 AM

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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 …
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 …
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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.
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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 …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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” …
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