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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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| 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.| 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.
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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, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro — 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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| 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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| 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.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China offers to cut data center power bills by up to 50% for Alibaba, ByteDance, and others if they use domestic chips like Huawei's over foreign ones — Beijing introduces grants that slash power bills by up to half for some of the country's largest data centres| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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’| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Coca-Cola releases new AI-generated ads for the 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
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| Sofia Horta e Costa / Bloomberg: |
How Portugal is investing ~4.6% of its GDP around the port of Sines, seeking to transform it from a tourism-reliant economy into a tech and industrial hub — Investment around the town of Sines totals almost 5% of GDP as the country seeks to retool its economy for the 21st century.| David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: |
Goldman Sachs: just 33 US counties accounted for ~72% of all US data center capacity as of July; buildouts like AWS' in Oregon have transformed tiny communities — Residents, politicians and local agencies are making the most of the tech boom, but prosperity comes with costs; 'What's going to happen once they stop building?'| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Tel Aviv-based Daylight, whose AI-native platform autonomously identifies and contains cyber threats, raised a $33M Series A, bringing its total funding to $40M — Backed by Craft Ventures and top Israeli founders, the Tel Aviv-based company is building an AI-driven security platform to modernize detection and response.
More: The Times of Israel, Business Insider, and Tech Funding News
| 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
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