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President Trump says he and Xi Jinping discussed Nvidia and other chipmakers' access to China, and that they didn't discuss approving sales of Blackwell chips — US President Donald Trump said he didn't discuss approving sales of Nvidia Corp.'s Blackwell chips to China with his counterpart Xi Jinping …
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| New York Times: |
President Trump and Xi Jinping agree a yearlong truce that rolls back many contentious tariffs and retaliatory measures; the current deal expired on November 10 — China agreed to suspend for a year some of its limits on exports of rare earth metals, while the U.S. halved its fentanyl-related tariffs.
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| Mark Anderson / Bloomberg: |
China's Commerce Ministry says it will work with the US to resolve issues related to TikTok, stopping short of saying it agreed to a deal touted by Trump — Beijing pledged to work with Washington to resolve the fate of TikTok's US business, stopping short of saying it's agreed to a deal touted … | Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
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| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI is preparing for a US IPO that could value it at ~$1T and has explored raising $60B+, filing as soon as H2 2026, and listing in 2027 — OpenAI is laying the groundwork for an initial public offering that could value the company at up to around $1 trillion …
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| Financial Times: |
Google, Meta, and Microsoft collectively spent nearly $80B on AI infrastructure in Q3, dividing the market on whether they can translate huge capex into income — Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft divide the market over whether they can translate huge capital expenditure into income| Meta: |
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $51.2B, vs. $49.4B est., net income down 83% YoY to $2.7B, and family DAP up 8% to 3.54B for September; META drops 9%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2025.
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| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Milan-based Bending Spoons, which buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, raised $710M led by T. Rowe Price at an $11B pre-money valuation — Bending Spoons, an Italian holding company that buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, on Thursday announced a $710 million equity raise …
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| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered autonomous cybersecurity research agent that can identify and help patch vulnerabilities, in private beta — ZDNET's key takeaways — OpenAI has launched Aardvark, a cybersecurity researcher agent. — Aardvark is powered by GPT-5 and is in private beta.| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q3 revenue up 8.85% YoY to ~$60.5B, vs. ~$60.4B est., and operating profit up 32.9% YoY to ~$8.57B, vs. ~$7.9B est., more than doubling from Q2 — Samsung Electronics reported a rebound in earnings on Thursday, with operating profit more than doubling from the previous quarter …
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Sources: the US Commerce Department proposed banning TP-Link Systems' networking devices due to TP-Link's China ties, gaining support from 6+ federal agencies — The Commerce Department has proposed barring sales of TP-Link products, citing a national security risk from ties to China, people familiar with the matter said.| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
Google updates Play Store policy in the US to let developers link to external app stores and payment options, following the Epic v. Google injunction — Android users in the US are finally getting real app store freedom. — • — TL;DR — Google is opening up the Play Store in the US … | Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: |
UMG partners with AI music generator Udio to launch a subscription service for creating music with licensed songs in 2026, in part to settle a copyright lawsuit — Udio agrees to launch a new subscription service for fans to create music based on licensed songs| Will Knight / Wired: |
Scale AI and CAIS' Remote Labor Index benchmark, which tests AI agents on freelance tasks, finds the best AI could perform just <3% of the work, earning $1,810 — A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Nothing's new Lock Glimpse feature on the Phone (3a) Lite shows a rotating selection of wallpapers that link to clickbait articles from a company called Vilykke — Nothing's new “Lock Glimpse” feature delivers a rotating selection of wallpapers on the lock screen of the Phone (3a) Lite … | New York Times: |
Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on surveillance, AI, the future of war, data, privacy, the US military, ImmigrationOS, the DHS, ICE, the UK's IDs, and more — The tech company's C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war. — Few companies in Silicon Valley inspire as much paranoia as Palantir.
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| Kendra Barnett / Adweek: |
Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says “AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth” and AI Mode has 75M DAUs — Google surged past Wall Street's Q3 estimates, with shares up over 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday. — The numbers| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail how Binance boosted the Trump family's World Liberty Financial by facilitating a $2B purchase of USD1 and building its tech ahead of CZ's pardon — Giant crypto exchange facilitated $2 billion purchase of World Liberty's stablecoin and built its technology; clemency for Changpeng Zhao surprised some in administration| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google partners with Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to Jio 5G users in India for 18 months; Perplexity has a similar deal with Bharti Airtel — In a push to expand its AI footprint in emerging markets, Google has partnered with billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries to bundle … | Will Knight / Wired: |
Extropic, which says its chips using probabilistic bits can be 10,000x more energy efficient than current AI chips, shares its first chip with some AI labs — A startup hopes to challenge Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with a chip that wrangles probabilities rather than 1s and 0s.
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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to $102.35B, vs. $99.89B est., Cloud revenue up 34% to $15.16B, and net income up 33% to $34.98B; GOOG jumps 5%+ — Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including “character cameos” to create AI deepfakes of pets, illustrations, and more, clip stitching, and leaderboards — Users can now create character cameos and combine clips together to make longer multi-scene videos.
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| @appliedcompute: |
Applied Compute, which wants to create custom AI agents trained on latent company knowledge, raised $80M from Benchmark, Sequoia, Elad Gil, and others — Generalists are useful, but it's not enough to be smart. Advances come from specialists, whether human or machine. To have an edge, agents need specific expertise, within specific companies, built on models trained on specific data. We call this Specific Intelligence. It's [image]
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Palantir sues two ex-employees now working at Percepta, an “AI transformation company” launched by General Catalyst, and alleges deception and stolen documents — Palantir on Thursday sued two former employees who now work at Percepta, an “AI transformation company” … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 48% YoY to $1.36B, DAUs up 70% YoY to 151.5M, above 132.3M est., bookings up 70% YoY to $1.9B, above $1.7B est.; RBLX drops 10%+ — Roblox Corp. reported its best quarter ever with daily active users beating analysts' expectations on the heels of three hit games.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Canva launches a foundational design model that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity free for all users, and more — Creative suite company Canva launched its own design model on Thursday that understands different layers and formats today to power its features.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta has received record orders of about $125B for a corporate bond sale expected to be at least $25B in size — Meta Platforms Inc. has received orders of about $125 billion for a corporate bond sale, according to people with knowledge of the matter, the most ever for such an offering.
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| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Corporate travel and expense management software maker Navan and its shareholders raised $923.1M in a US IPO priced at $25/share, giving it a $6.2B market cap — Navan Inc., a business travel and expense management software maker, and some of its shareholders raised $923.1 million … Sponsor Posts
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