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October 28, 2025, 6:15 AM

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Washington Post:
Grokipedia, a Grok-based encyclopedia, launches with 885K+ articles, drawing from Wikipedia content; Elon Musk called it “a massive improvement” over Wikipedia  —  The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative, but it went down after about an hour.
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon says it will cut ~14,000 jobs from its corporate workforce, after cutting 27,000 across 2022 and 2023; the company had 1.55M employees globally in June  —  Amazon.com Inc. said it was cutting about 14,000 jobs in a major restructuring.  —  The positions will be eliminated across …
OpenAI:
OpenAI estimates ~0.07% of ChatGPT's weekly active users “indicate possible signs of mental health emergencies” like mania, and details its safety improvements  —  We worked with more than 170 mental health experts to help ChatGPT more reliably recognize signs of distress …
Vallari Srivastava / Reuters:
NextEra Energy and Google sign a 25-year power supply deal, which includes restarting the 615MW Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa, shut down in 2020  —  U.S. utility NextEra Energy (NEE.N) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google have singed a power supply deal, which would help restart the Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Anthropic's success in corporate AI, which makes up ~80% of its revenue; a July report put its enterprise API market share at 32%, above OpenAI's 25%  —  Anthropic, backed by Amazon and Google, is focusing on corporate customers rather than the mass market
Webb Wright / ZDNET:
Anthropic expands Claude for Financial Services with a beta Claude for Excel integration, additional data connectors, and new pre-built Agent Skills  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Anthropic's Claude chatbot just got a suite of finance updates.  — Claude can draft financial reports, access new data, and more.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
OpenAI offers its cheaper ChatGPT Go plan for free for one year to users in India starting November 4, but did not say how long the offer would remain available  —  OpenAI is offering its ChatGPT Go plan available free of charge for one year to users in India who sign up during …
Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg:
Stablecoin startup ZAR raised $12.9M led by a16z to test USD-backed coins for Pakistan, which the World Bank estimates has the third-largest unbanked population  —  Andreessen Horowitz is leading funding for a year-old startup that seeks to popularize the use of stablecoins through neighborhood stores …
Agence France-Presse:
Meta and TikTok say they will comply with Australia's under-16 social media ban, taking effect on December 10, but warn the landmark law may be hard to enforce  —  Tech giants Meta and TikTok said Tuesday they will obey Australia's under-16 social media ban but warned the landmark laws could prove difficult to enforce.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Qualcomm unveils two AI inference chips, the AI200, set for 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, and says Humain is the first customer; QCOM closed up 11%  —  Qualcomm announced Monday that it will release new artificial intelligence accelerator chips, marking new competition for Nvidia …

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