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Nvidia says it will supply 260K+ of its most advanced AI chips to the South Korean government and major companies, including Samsung, Naver, and SK Group — U.S. semiconductor leader Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Friday said it will supply more than 260,000 of its most advanced AI chips …
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China says it will allow some Nexperia semiconductor chip exports to resume to ease critical supply shortages impacting global auto production — Dispute over Netherlands-based chipmaker has threatened to disrupt global auto supply chains — China has said it will allow some Nexperia chips … | Bloomberg: |
Brian Armstrong ended Coinbase's Q3 earnings call by saying certain words that Kalshi and Polymarket users had wagered would be mentioned during the call — When Coinbase Global Inc.'s quarterly earnings call wrapped up Thursday, its chief executive, Brian Armstrong, didn't finish with profit guidance or statements of confidence.
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Despite the hype around large AI models, many companies like Meta are using small models for routine tasks, finding them more practical and cost-effective — For many tasks in corporate America, it's not the biggest and smartest AI models, but the smaller, more simplistic ones that are winning the day| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, letting them keep the debt off their balance sheets — Just this month, Meta Platforms Inc. has secured about $60 billion in capital to build data centers, part of its spending to get ahead in the artificial intelligence race.
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X: @arroyonieto. Bluesky: @mattzollerseitz, @datadrivenmd.social, @meigloo, @ivanthek, @lmnisop, and @tumescentnumpty. Forums: r/artificial
| Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: |
Vista Equity Partners buys a majority stake in Nexthink, which uses AI to let businesses track employees' device and app performance, valuing Nexthink at $3B — Vista Equity Partners snapped up a majority stake in Nexthink SA, valuing the Swiss-American software company at $3 billion, the firm said in a statement.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch “dislikes” in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings — Social network Bluesky, which on Friday announced a new milestone of 40 million users, will soon start testing “dislikes” as a way to improve personalization on its main Discover feed and others.
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Forums: r/BlueskySocial and Slashdot
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Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin infra startup BVNK in a ~$2B deal; Coinbase expects to close the deal later this year or early 2026 — Leading US crypto exchange Coinbase Global Inc. is in late-stage talks to acquire stablecoin infrastructure startup BVNK …
More: Coinpedia Fintech News, Blockonomi, CoinGape, The Daily Hodl, CoinDesk, and Fast Company
| Yamini Kalia / Reuters: |
Vodafone agrees to acquire Skaylink, a German company specializing in managing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure and AWS, for €175M from PE firm Waterland — Britain's Vodafone (VOD.L) on Thursday said it will acquire German cloud and digital transformation firm Skaylink for 175 million euros …
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| Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg: |
NEC to buy US-listed CSG, a SaaS provider of customer care and billing services for telcos and other companies, for ~$2.9B in a deal expected to close in 2026 — Japan's NEC Corp. is buying CSG Systems International Inc., a US supplier of customer care and billing services for telecom companies …
More: Reuters, CSG Systems, Inc., CSG Systems, Inc., and NEC
| Shashwat Chauhan / Reuters: |
Shares of Seagate and Western Digital have sharply outperformed the broader market in 2025, surging ~200% on AI-related infrastructure demand for hard drives — - Seagate, Western Digital up more than 200% in 2025 — S&P 1500 tech hardware index hits record high
More: Blocks and Files, Investor's Business Daily, Morningstar, and Reuters
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In its Q3 earnings, Alphabet said the profit included “net gains on equity securities of $10.7B,” in part from a private company, which sources say is Anthropic — Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. were rewarded by investors for reporting better-than-expected third-quarter profits.| 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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Bluesky: @jwmason, @akelacooper, @davekartunen, @jillybobww, and @edzitron.com. Threads: @carnage4life. Forums: r/OpenAI
| 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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