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October 31, 2025, 4:20 PM

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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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” …
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
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.
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.
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.
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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 …
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
Kif Leswing / CNBC:

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