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Sources: Apple plans to launch a low-cost laptop powered by an iPhone chip in H1 2026 to rival Chromebooks, aimed at students and casual users, codenamed J700 — Apple Inc. is preparing to enter the low-cost laptop market for the first time, developing a budget Mac aimed at luring away customers …
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| CNBC: |
Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of “bullying” after receiving “an aggressive legal threat” demanding Comet not make purchases on users' behalf — Perplexity AI accused Amazon of “bullying” on Tuesday after it received a letter from the e-commerce giant demanding … | Bloomberg: |
Amazon sent a cease-and-desist to Perplexity, demanding it to stop letting Comet make purchases on users' behalf, accusing it of computer fraud — Amazon.com Inc. has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity AI Inc. demanding that the artificial intelligence search startup stop allowing …
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| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
The UK's High Court rules against Getty in its lawsuit against Stability AI over its image generator; the judge calls the ruling “extremely limited in scope” — Getty Images largely lost its landmark lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI over its image generator at London's High Court on Tuesday.
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LinkedIn: Iain Connor and Fernanda Carvalho Dias
| Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others — Editor's note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic's ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Google unveils Project Suncatcher to launch two solar-powered satellites, each with four TPUs, into low Earth orbit in 2027, as it seeks to scale AI compute — The demand for AI data centers has grown so large that there isn't enough energy on earth to power the buildout.
More: Google Research, PCMag, 9to5Google, The Guardian, TipRanks Financial, WinBuzzer, and Analytics India Magazine
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to €4.3B, above €4.23B est., subscribers up 12% YoY to 281M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 713M, and a €582M operating income — Spotify Technology SA reported active users and sales in the third quarter that surpassed analysts' expectations even as ad-supported revenue fell.| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Source: Anthropic projects revenues of up to $70B in 2028, up from ~$5B in 2025, and expects to become cash flow positive as soon as 2027 — Anthropic this summer hiked its most optimistic growth forecasts by roughly 13% to 28% over the next three years and projected generating … | Bloomberg: |
IBM plans to cut “a low single-digit percentage” of its workforce in Q4, affecting thousands of staffers; it employed ~270K workers as of the end of 2024 — International Business Machines Corp. will cut thousands of workers this quarter while it continues to shift the focus … | Xander Elliards / The National: |
Jimmy Wales says Wikipedia's “Gaza genocide” page fails to meet its neutrality standards; the article is listed as “protected” until 21:47 UTC on November 4 — WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales has intervened over the platform's article on Gaza genocide.
More: The Verge, CNN, Townhall, Gizmodo, Semafor, The Times of Israel, and Al Jazeera
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp launches an Apple Watch app that lets users get call notifications, read full messages, and record and send voice messages — WhatsApp announced on Tuesday that it's launching an Apple Watch companion app. For the first time, WhatsApp users will be able to use their Apple Watch …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Amazon rolls out Alexa+ to Amazon Music for iOS and Android, letting Alexa+ Early Access users request obscure information or complex music recommendations — The AI assistant can make nuanced song recommendations and build you a vibe-based playlist.
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Beacon Software, which acquires niche software businesses and transforms them with AI, raised a $250M Series B led by GC, Lightspeed, and D1 at a $1B valuation — - Beacon targets overlooked sectors with AI-driven automations — Beacon's model emphasizes permanent ownership over rapid exits
| Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $13.5B, Gross Bookings up 21% to $49.7B, trips up 22% to 3.5B, and $1.1B operating income, vs. $1.6B est.; UBER drops 5%+ — Ride-hailing company reassures investors that it enters busy festive period with ‘exceptional momentum’
More: Uber, CNBC, Fortune, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, and Benzinga. LinkedIn: Elliot Suiter
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android, including in the US, Canada, and Japan; the app reached 1M+ downloads in the five days after its September iOS launch — Now, more people can create and share AI-generated videos on the app's social feed. … OpenAI has brought its AI video app, Sora, to Android.| netzpolitik.org: |
A joint Databroker Files investigation shows commercially traded mobile phone location data allows the tracking of millions of Europeans, including EU officials — This is a joint investigation with Bayerischer Rundfunk, L'Echo (Belgium), Le Monde (France), BNR (Netherlands). It is part of the “Databroker Files”.
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| Emily Forlini / PCMag: |
AWS says it is developing Fastnet, a subsea cable buried ~1.5m deep and with a capacity over 320Tbps, aiming to debut in 2028 to connect Maryland and Ireland — Amazon Web Services (AWS) will lay a new subsea cable across the ocean floor, connecting Maryland and Ireland.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue up 90% YoY to ~$3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., ~$667M net profit, vs. ~$412M est., and expects 19M Switch 2 sales by March 2026, up from 15M — Nintendo raised its forecast for sales of the Switch 2 console in its current fiscal year as momentum for its new flagship console grows.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sequoia announces that Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will be elevated to firm stewards, succeeding Roelof Botha, who led Sequoia solo since 2022 — Sequoia Capital on Tuesday announced that Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will be elevated to firm stewards, succeeding Roelof Botha.
More: Forbes, TechCrunch, The Information, PitchBook, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
European law enforcement arrests nine suspects involved in an alleged crypto fraud ring that stole €600M+ via fake investment platforms promising high returns — European law enforcement authorities have arrested nine suspected money launderers who set up a cryptocurrency fraud network …
More: The Record, Eurojust, OCCRP, and Bitcoin Magazine
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says Live Translation on AirPods will expand to the EU next month; the first iOS 26.2 beta, seeded to developers on Tuesday, brings the feature to the EU — The upcoming iOS 26.2 update for iPhone makes the Live Translation feature on select AirPods available in the EU, according to Apple.| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics, which is building AI models to enable human-like robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks, raised a $16M seed — Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics AG said Monday it raised $16 million in seed funding from Elaia and Speedinvest to enable robotic hands … | Ryan S. Gladwin / Decrypt: |
DeFi protocol Balancer says an attacker exploited its V2 Composable Stable Pools on November 3, resulting in an estimated ~$128M in losses across blockchains — Some $128 million in crypto was stolen from Balancer liquidity pools on Ethereum and beyond, with Berachain halting its chain as a result.| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple releases version 26.1 of its full family of OSes, adding a “tinted” option for its Liquid Glass design that reduces transparency and increases contrast — Today, Apple released version 26.1 of its full family of OSes. Every platform received attention, including the proverbial …
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