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November 2, 2025, 1:00 AM

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@bg2pod:
Q&A with Sam Altman and Satya Nadella about the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, OpenAI's restructuring and $100B revenue target for 2027, $3T AI buildout, more  —  BG2. All things AI w @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥@bg2pod @altcap — (00:00) Intro (02:28) Microsoft's Investment in OpenAI (03:19) The Nonprofit Structure and Its Impact (05:46) Health, AI Security, and Resilience (07:50) Models, Exclusivity, and [video]
Financial Times:
Anatoly Kurmanaev / New York Times:
How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto  —  President Nicolás Maduro's opponents hope a new period of economic pain will finally topple his government.
David Jeans / Reuters:
Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unmanned drone, flying it “semi-autonomously”, as the US Air Force plans swarms of unmanned jet drones  —  Anduril's jet-powered drone flew for the first time on Friday, the company and the U.S. Air Force said …
Austin Carr / Bloomberg:
Microsoft's AI tools still lag behind OpenAI's, as Microsoft struggles to create a cohesive AI experience and add new features by integrating OpenAI models  —  Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world.
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake  —  Mercor founders (left to right): Adarsh Hiremath, Brendan Foody and Surya Midha.  —  ULY INC. FOR MERCOR
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