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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI and AWS sign a seven-year deal in which OpenAI will pay $38B for AI compute, including training its models using Amazon's data centers and using its CPUs — Companies' first computing partnership is part of Amazon's efforts to grow its cloud business
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
As part of its AWS deal, OpenAI says it will immediately begin running workloads on AWS infrastructure, tapping hundreds of thousands of Nvidia's GPUs in the US — OpenAI has signed a deal to buy $38 billion worth of capacity from Amazon Web Services, its first contract with the leader …
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| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
US federal prosecutors allege that three cybersecurity professionals carried out ransomware attacks on at least five US companies in 2023 using ALPHV ransomware — The alleged cybersecurity turncoats attacked at least five U.S. companies while working for their respective employers, officials said.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple refreshes the web version of the App Store, letting users view and search for apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, TV, Watch, and Vision — Apple has launched a dramatic new web interface for the App Store. You can now get the full App Store experience right in your browser …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Microsoft says the US now lets it ship the latest Nvidia chips to the UAE, the first company to get a license; Trump made a deal with UAE President MBZ in May — Commerce department approval paves way for huge new investment in AI and cloud infrastructure in Middle East
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to spend $7.9B+ on data centers, cloud, and employees in the UAE over the next four years, taking its UAE investment to $15.2B from 2023 to 2029 — Microsoft Corp. said it will spend more than $7.9 billion on data centers, cloud-computing and employees in the United Arab Emirates …
More: Microsoft, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Windows Report, and The Register
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft signs a five-year, ~$9.7B deal to buy AI compute capacity from Sydney-based IREN, giving Microsoft access to Nvidia's GB300 in IREN's Texas facility — Microsoft Corp. has signed a roughly $9.7 billion deal to buy artificial intelligence computing capacity from IREN Ltd., becoming the Australian company's largest customer.
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| Vince Dioquino / Decrypt: |
When asked on 60 Minutes about his pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao, President Trump said “I don't know who he is” and “I heard it was a Biden witch hunt” — In a rare interview, Trump said he was told Changpeng Zhao was the victim of the Biden administration's “witch hunt” against crypto.
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| Ryan S. Gladwin / Decrypt: |
DeFi protocol Balancer says its V2 Composable Stable Pools suffered an exploit, which security experts estimate resulted in total losses worth about $128M — Some $128 million in crypto was stolen from Balancer liquidity pools on Ethereum and beyond, with Berachain halting its chain as a result.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump decided not to discuss Nvidia's AI chip exports to China during his October 30 meeting with Xi Jinping following opposition from his top advisers — The president decided against discussing the matter with Chinese leader Xi Jinping after top aides opposed it| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple releases version 26.1 of its full family of OSes, including a “tinted” option for the Liquid Glass design to reduce transparency and increase contrast — Today, Apple released version 26.1 of its full family of OSes. Every platform received attention, including the proverbial …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria is stepping down after 11 years, replaced by Cloudflare President of Product & Engineering Chirantan Desai, effective November 10 — Database software maker MongoDB said on Monday that CEO Dev Ittycheria is stepping down from the top job after an 11-year run.
More: CRN, The Stack, Yahoo Finance, and MongoDB
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| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads — ‘Holidays Are Coming’ faster and cheaper for the soda giant, which caught heat last year for its AI-generated ads| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 63% YoY to $1.18B, vs. $1.09B est., US government revenue up 52% to $486M, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates — Palantir reported quarterly results that topped analysts' estimates and issued better-than-expected guidance for the fourth quarter … | Liz Alderman / New York Times: |
France threatens to ban Shein and refers it to Paris prosecutor after an investigation found that sex dolls “resembling children” were being sold on the site — The controversy adds to a growing backlash in France against the giant Chinese online retailer as it prepares to open …
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| Michael Roddan / The Information: |
Deel names ex-Credit Karma CEO Joe Kauffman as CFO ahead of a potential IPO; Philippe Bouaziz, Deel's ex-CFO and CEO Alex's father, becomes executive chair — Global payroll startup Deel has hired a new chief financial officer, former Credit Karma boss Joe Kauffman, as the company continues …
| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
How Facebook Dating, launched in 2019, has become a surprise hit with 21M+ daily users, vs. Hinge's ~15M, a sign of how Facebook has been reinventing itself — Facebook's free dating service has 21 million users, more than the popular dating app Hinge, as the social network reinvents itself.| Financial Times: |
Sources: China offers to cut data center power bills by up to 50% to Alibaba and others, if they use local chips like Huawei's over foreign ones like Nvidia's — Beijing introduces grants that slash power bills by up to half for some of the country's largest data centres| Bloomberg: |
Sources: WeRide is set to raise ~$308M in its Hong Kong listing, planning to price shares at ~$3.48, representing a ~4% discount to its Monday Nasdaq close — WeRide Inc. is set to raise HK$2.39 billion ($308 million) from its Hong Kong share sale, according to people familiar with the matter …
More: Reuters
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic announces a deal with Cognizant, under which Cognizant will deploy Claude to its 350,000 employees and co-sell Claude models to its business customers — The professional-services firm becomes one of the AI startup's three largest customers, and will soon roll out Anthropic's Claude model to its 350,000 employees| Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu says it will go public in the US and Canada via a SPAC, in a deal that values the combined business at ~$3.6B — Toronto-based quantum computing firm Xanadu has struck a deal to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp.
More: Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp., Benzinga, Bloomberg, The Logic, Globe and Mail, and Reuters. X: @xanaduai
| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Japanese trade association CODA, representing Studio Ghibli, Square Enix and others, demands that OpenAI stop using their copyrighted content to train Sora 2 — Japanese trade association CODA says Sora 2's opt-out policy may have violated copyright law.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok announces its first ever TikTok Awards show in the US; the live event will take place on December 18 and will be streamed on the TikTok app and on Tubi — TikTok announced on Monday that it's launching its first-ever TikTok Awards show in the U.S. The awards will include …
More: TikTok, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Push Square, Social Media Today, and Billboard
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Augmented Intelligence, which is building neuro-symbolic AI models, raised $20M in a bridge SAFE round at a $750M valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$60M — The buzzed-about but still stealthy New York City startup Augmented Intelligence Inc (AUI), which seeks to go beyond the popular …
More: AUI
| Reuters: |
The UK CMA says it will open an in-depth investigation into Getty and Shutterstock's proposed merger after their offered remedies did not fully address concerns — - Getty disappointed by CMA's decision, offered remedies to avoid Phase 2 review — Getty and Shutterstock committed to merger despite CMA's concernsSponsor Posts
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