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October 28, 2025, 7:55 PM
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Bret Taylor / OpenAI:
OpenAI adopts a new for-profit structure, with a public benefit corporation controlled by the nonprofit, which holds a 26% stake, worth ~$130B, in the company  —  OpenAI has completed its recapitalization, simplifying its corporate structure.  The nonprofit remains in control of the for-profit …
Microsoft:
Microsoft now holds a ~$135B investment in OpenAI Group PBC, or a ~27% stake, down from 32.5%; OpenAI commits to purchase an additional $250B in Azure services  —  Since 2019, Microsoft and OpenAI have shared a vision to advance artificial intelligence responsibly and make its benefits broadly accessible.
Bloomberg:
Microsoft gets access to OpenAI tech through 2032, including models post-AGI but excluding consumer hardware; OpenAI can now develop products with third parties  —  OpenAI is giving its long-time backer Microsoft Corp. a 27% ownership stake as part of a restructuring plan that took nearly …
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. plans to eliminate roughly 14,000 corporate jobs just months after Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy warned that AI will shrink the company's workforce.
Bloomberg:
Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Nokia for a 2.9% stake and announces a partnership to integrate Nvidia tech into Nokia's network products; NOK closes up 22.8%  —  Nvidia Corp. is taking a $1 billion equity stake in Nokia Oyj and plans to supply the telecom company with artificial-intelligence powered computers for wireless networks.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Jensen Huang says its Blackwell GPUs are now in full production in Arizona, after being solely manufactured in Taiwan previously  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the company's GTC conference on Tuesday that its Blackwell graphics processing units — the company's fastest AI chips — are now in full production in Arizona.
Wall Street Journal:
During Nvidia's first ever GTC conference in Washington, DC, Jensen Huang praised Trump's policies and emphasized themes of patriotism and US national interests
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
Nvidia unveils NVQLink, a high-speed interconnect that Jensen Huang says is the “Rosetta Stone connecting quantum and classical supercomputers”
NVIDIA on YouTube:
A recording of Nvidia's GTC October 2025 Keynote with CEO Jensen Huang
Hugh Son / CNBC:
PayPal signs a deal with OpenAI to let PayPal buyers and sellers complete transactions through ChatGPT starting in 2026, using the Agentic Commerce Protocol  —  PayPal has signed a deal with OpenAI to have its digital wallet embedded into ChatGPT so users can pay for items found through …
Bloomberg:
PayPal reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $8.4B, total payment volume up 8% to $458.1B, above $450.3B est., and raises its FY 2025 EPS forecast; PYPL jumps 10%+
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026  —  1X's Neo wants to be your housekeeper.  First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home.  Cool with you?
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Substrate, which aims to challenge TSMC, raised $100M+ from Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and others at a $1B+ valuation as it seeks to boost US chip making  —  Substrate plans to use particle accelerators to lower cost of chip manufacturing  —  Silicon Valley investors …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber plans a fleet of 100,000 autonomous vehicles powered by Nvidia's new Drive AGX Hyperion 10, starting in 2027  —  Uber Technologies Inc. will begin expanding a fleet of 100,000 autonomous vehicles powered by Nvidia Corp. technology starting in 2027, an ambitious move that could help bring …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPad Air with OLED screens; the iPad mini will likely arrive first, as early as 2026  —  Apple Inc. is preparing major changes to its MacBook Air, iPad mini and iPad Air lines, with a plan to give the popular devices higher-end displays.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
xAI's Grokipedia says Grok fact-checked its entries and some “content is adapted from Wikipedia”; some pages, like the PS5's, are almost identical to Wikipedia  —  Some of Grokipedia's pages say that content is ‘adapted’ from Wikipedia.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
At its Adobe Max event, Adobe unveils AI tools for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom, and says Firefly Image 5 can generate images in native 4MP resolution  —  Adobe's Creative Cloud and Firefly apps are adding new ways to do labor-intensive photo and video editing tasks for you.
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
GitHub plans to launch Agent HQ, a hub to let developers access third-party AI coding agents, including Claude and OpenAI's Codex, in the coming months  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — GitHub launches Agent HQ to unite Codex, Claude, and Jules.  — Developers can now manage multiple AI agents side by side.
Steven Adler / New York Times:
An ex-OpenAI staffer of four years says it isn't doing enough to protect users, especially those with mental health issues, and needs to offer more than words  —  I've read more smut at work than you can possibly imagine, all of it while working at OpenAI.  —  Back in the spring of 2021 …
Financial Times:
Truth Social launches Truth Predict, a prediction market platform in partnership with Crypto.com to let users trade on major current events like elections  —  US president's social media platform enters prediction market sector  —  Donald Trump's Truth Social platform is to offer users …
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Western Union plans to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, that is built on the Solana blockchain and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, in H1 2026  —  Company plans to launch its own stablecoin in 2026  —  One of the oldest payments networks is stepping into the digital age.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing “graphic violence” and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods  —  YouTube will age-gate ‘an additional small subset’ of violent content, even if it's from a video game.
Financial Times:
Visible Alpha: Apple's Services unit revenue is set to hit $108.6B in the year to September, its first time above $100B and up 13% YoY, ahead of its Q4 results  —  Tech giant's high-margin unit has doubled in size over the past five years  —  Apple is set to top $100bn in annual revenues …
Anna Lagos / Wired:
China claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind energy and cooled by seawater  —  The $226 million project uses ocean breezes and seawater to stay cool.  —  China has completed the first phase of construction …
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Financial Times:
OpenAI hopes the Disney deal boosts Sora, which has high costs and limited traction; Sensor Tower: users average 13 minutes per day on Sora vs. 90 on TikTok

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