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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
In their latest earnings reports, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have announced plans to increase their AI spending in 2026 to a combined $400B — Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon will increase spending in 2026; ‘Are we in a bubble?’ — Silicon Valley's biggest companies …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $33B, vs. $32.42B est., and AWS operating income up 9.5% YoY to $11.4B — Amazon said Thursday that revenue in its cloud computing business increased 20% in the third quarter, exceeding analysts' estimates. — Revenue at Amazon Web Services for the third quarter totaled $33 billion.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to “culture” and “removing layers” from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company's latest big round of layoffs — about 14,000 corporate jobs … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| Matt Rosoff / The Register: |
Microsoft's Q1 earnings, showing that it had a $3.1B net loss from its OpenAI stake, imply OpenAI lost $11.5B during the quarter based on Microsoft's 27% stake — Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised — Microsoft reported earnings for the quarter ended Sept. 30 …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Samsung says it's partnering with Nvidia to build an “AI Megafactory” and deploy over 50K of Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to embed AI in its chipmaking process — Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. said today it's partnering with Nvidia Corp. to build an “AI Megafactory” …
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| Claudie Moreau / Euractiv: |
Denmark says it will withdraw the EU “Chat Control” proposal, which would force tech companies to scan messages for CSAM, and instead support voluntary scanning — The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries — Instead of searching for a string of keywords, Perplexity's new tool allows you to use natural language to look for patents.
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LinkedIn: Uday Kiran, Masaki Kataoka, and Neha Agrawal
| RT Watson / The Block: |
Tether reports that it has generated profits of over $10B during the first three quarters of 2025 and it has issued an additional $17B in USDT during Q3 — - The world's largest stablecoin issuer reported that it has generated profits of over $10 billion during the first three quarters of this year.
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| Elaine Pofeldt / Forbes: |
Lettuce Financial, which offers an accounting, payroll, benefits, and tax compliance service for one-person businesses, raised $28M led by Zeev — How to break $1M in revenue in a business staffed only by the owners — Lettuce Financial, a San Francisco-based fintech platform for solopreneurs … | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Archy, which offers AI-powered dental practice management software, raised a $20M Series B led by TCV, bringing its total funding to $47M — It was 2021 and Jonathan Rat was tired of seeing his wife, a dentist, struggle to maintain the tech stack at her practice.
More: WebWire
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Human Interest, a 401(k) platform for SMBs that aims to cut down on administrative work, raised $100M+ at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.3B in 2024 — Human Interest, a San Francisco-based 401(k) platform, tells Axios that it's raised over $100 million at a $3 billion post-money valuation.| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Sources: ex-xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B at a $5B valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that is better at collaborating with humans — Humans& is building models that are better at interacting with humans, sources told Forbes.
Bluesky: @seldo.com, @rashis, and @iainmartin
| Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools — Getty Images (GETY.N) and Perplexity signed a global multi-year licensing agreement on Friday, allowing the AI startup to display …
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| Pritam Biswas / Reuters: |
Filing: Gloo, a developer of AI tools for Christian churches with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as its head of technology, seeks an $873.4M valuation in its US IPO — Gloo Holdings, a religious-oriented technology firm, is seeking a valuation of up to $873.4 million in its U.S. initial public offering …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple expects Q1 revenue to grow 10% to 12% YoY, with iPhone sales up by double digits, and reports Q4 China revenue down 4% YoY to $14.5B, vs. $16.24B est. — - Apple's fiscal first quarter revenue sales forecast above expecations — Supply constraints and China delays impact fiscal fourth quarter
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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