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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Google and Epic Games settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with Android and Google Play changes to expand competition and choice, pending a US judge's approval  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday it has reached a comprehensive U.S. court settlement with “Fortnite” …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
In its Epic settlement, Google proposes lowering app store fees globally, a program to let alternative app stores become first-class Android citizens, and more  —  Instead of breaking Google's app store, Google will let them in. … He issued a permanent injunction that will force Google …
Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times:
Barclays: hyperscalers have announced a total of 46 GW of AI data center capacity, which at full utilization will consume as much energy as ~44.2M US households  —  The financing package stitched together for Meta's humongous Hyperion data centre campus in Louisiana made Alphaville curious …
Nikou Asgari / Financial Times:
Stablecoin operator Ripple raised $500M from Citadel, Fortress, and others at a $40B valuation and says payments made on its platform passed $95B so far in 2025  —  $500mn investment round underlines appetite for stablecoin payments sector  —  Ripple has raised $500mn from investors including …
Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Sony rolls out PlayStation Portal cloud streaming, letting PlayStation Premium Plus members stream select titles without a PS5 connection, in testing since 2024  —  Cloud streaming PS5 games to your PlayStation Portal is out of beta, and includes streaming for some games you own.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail Elon Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw racy chatbot Ani's design, unwound by playing Diablo, tended to his children, and more  —  Focus on winning tech arms race leads to long hours at xAI; employees turned over biometric data to develop controversial avatars
Lee Ying Shan / CNBC:
Samsung, TSMC, SoftBank, SK Hynix, and others closed as much as 10% down, matching their US peers, as investors worry over stretched AI and tech valuations  —  Shares in Japan's SoftBank Group closed 10% lower on Wednesday, amid a broader drop in AI-linked companies as investors turned wary …
Bloomberg:
Bitcoin dropped as much as 7.4% on November 4, below $100K for the first time since June; ether fell as much as 15%, and many altcoins are down 50%+ in 2025
Reuters:
Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically made AI chips  —  - Order likely to affect U.S. chipmakers Nvidia, AMD, Intel  — Beijing trying to cultivate domestic AI chipmakers like Huawei
The Intercept:
YouTube confirms it removed 700+ videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions  —  A documentary featuring mothers surviving Israel's genocide in Gaza.  A video investigation uncovering Israel's role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist.
CNBC:
Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of “bullying” via an “aggressive legal threat” that demands it stop Comet Assistant purchases for users, who “love this experience”  —  Perplexity AI accused Amazon of “bullying” on Tuesday after it received a letter …
Bloomberg:
Amazon sues Perplexity, accusing it of computer fraud, after sending a cease-and-desist letter demanding it stop letting Comet make purchases on users' behalf
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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 …
Boaz Barak / Windows On Theory:
Research: AI's ability to complete long and complex software engineering tasks doubles every 6-7 months, but there is a “messiness tax” for real-world tasks  —  METR has had a very influential work by Kwa and West et al on measuring AI's ability to complete long tasks.
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Motorola Edge 70 review: the new £699 ultra-thin device has a silicone back and great battery life, but the OS is full of ads; the phone won't launch in the US  —  I've been as much of a thin phone skeptic as anyone.  Why would I give up on camera specs and battery life just to shave …
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:
Reevo, which aims to use AI to help bring products to market, raised $80M, split across a $10M seed and $70M Series A led by Kleiner, at a $500M valuation  —  Artificial intelligence startup Reevo Inc. has raised $80 million from investors including Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins …
Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal:
XPeng says it plans to launch three self-developed robotaxis in 2026, the first Chinese EV maker to do so, using in-house chips and its own software system  —  The Nasdaq-listed Chinese EV maker sees high potential in overseas markets  —  XPeng is set to become the first Chinese carmaker …
Beatrice Nolan / Fortune:
Giga, which develops voice-based AI agents for customer support, raised a $61M Series A led by Redpoint with participation from Y Combinator and Nexus  —  Giga raises $61 million to expand enterprise voice AI.  —  Giga, a San Francisco-based startup that builds voice-based AI agents …

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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
USA Today names Jamie Stockwell, a former editor at WaPo and NYT, as its next top editor; she is the third person named to the job in the past three years

Free Press Action Fund Feed:
A coalition of 41 press freedom groups writes an open letter condemning the arrest of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez by ICE and urging her release

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A US judge orders states to negotiate a potential resolution with Live Nation and declines to rule on the request for a mistrial after the DOJ settled

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Earlier Picks

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M+ in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical advisor
Clare Armstrong / ABC:
Australia adds Reddit and Kick to its under-16s social media ban effective December 10, on top of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and YouTube
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, below $6.09B est., net income down 60% YoY to $168M, and forecasts Q2 profit well below est.; SMCI drops 5%+
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple says AirPods' Live Translation will come to the EU in December; the first iOS 26.2 beta, seeded to developers on November 4, brings the feature to the EU
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