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| Jeff Horwitz / Reuters: |
Docs: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its 2024 revenue, or $16B, came from ads for scams and banned goods, including ~$7B from “higher risk” ads — Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show.
More: Wired, The Information, Mashable, Forbes, Sherwood News, and Ukrainian National News
X: @jason_kint, @ajlamesa, and @jason_kint
Bluesky: @whotargets.me, @heathermoandco, @karlbode.com, @mxbernhard, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @jeffhorwitz, @timkarr, @petertl, and @gottalaff. Threads: @joshpetersel
Forums: r/news and r/technology
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking a government “backstop” for its infrastructure deals, saying her use of the word “muddied the point” — OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said late Wednesday that the artificial intelligence startup is not seeking …
More: Wall Street Journal and ZeroHedge News
X: @buccocapital, @khansaifm, @benbrodydc, @thestalwart, @benbajarin, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, and @openainewsroom. LinkedIn: Sarah Friar
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on the cards right now”, and that OpenAI hopes the US government will “backstop” financing of its data center deals — Sarah Friar says the AI giant could reach break-even quickly and would like government backstop on data-center investments
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Bluesky: @wowbaggert, @mjamurphy, @edzitron.com, @carlquintanilla, @edzitron.com, and @shiraovide. Threads: @carnage4life
Forums: r/Economics, r/OpenAI, and r/StockMarket
| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
More: Fast Company, Analytics India Magazine, and OpenAI
X: @sharongoldman, @fortunemagazine, and @sharongoldman. LinkedIn: Rikki Gorman. Forums: r/artificial
| Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang warns “China is going to win the AI race”, after the US kept a ban on advanced AI chip sales to China, and says the West is held back by “cynicism” — CEO criticises western ‘cynicism’ while Beijing loosens regulations and cuts energy costs for data centres
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Forums: r/BlackboxAI_, r/TrueAnon, and Slashdot
| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman lays out the company's plans to develop AI self-sufficiency from OpenAI, like releasing its own voice, image, and text models — Tech giant forms team led by AI chief Mustafa Suleyman to build top artificial-intelligence systems and distance itself from longtime partner
More: Microsoft AI, The Verge, iTnews, MediaPost, CNBC, Fortune, Implicator.ai, Axios, and WinBuzzer
| Sky News: |
Investigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe right-wing politicians and encourages nationalism — “Elon Musk is a great leader,” says Amy, a British woman outside the Britannia Hotel in London at an anti-immigration rally in August.
More: WinBuzzer. X: @labourlewis, @streettough, @supertanskiii, @peterstefanovi2, @allrightidiots, @globalaffairs, @jonburkeuk, @chrislawsnp, @greenpeteru, @skynews, @elonmusk, @alonso_gd, @narindertweets, and @elonmusk
Bluesky: @jonathancohn, @ottoenglish, @pickardje, @mrjamesob, @felicityhannah, @drjennings, and @iandunt
Mastodon: @ianbetteridge@social … and @pre@boing.world
Forums: r/ukpolitics, r/AskBrits, r/uknews, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is finalizing a deal to pay Google ~$1B per year for a 1.2T-parameter Gemini model to help power the new Siri, which is on track for next spring — Apple Inc. is planning to pay about $1 billion a year for an ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model developed …
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Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com, @timkellogg.me, @mikeelgan, @shiraovide, and @stevekovach. Threads: @szed_ar. Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …
Forums: r/worldnews, r/OpenAI, r/google, r/technology, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The AI boom is driving coordinated innovation in the US: new fabs and power generation capacity could produce lasting infrastructure even if the bubble bursts — It's funny to remember that a decade ago there were enough people convinced we were in a bubble that I felt compelled to write …
More: Financial Times and Reuters
X: @stratechery, @abstractopinion, @jayair, and @benbajarin. LinkedIn: Jerome Kucera. Bluesky: @gilesyb
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley's new startup Hopscotch Labs debuts BeeBot, which combines AI, audio, and location-based social features, on the App Store — BeeBot is an “app for AirPods” that combines AI, audio and location-based social features. — Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley …
More: Dennis Crowley, The Verge, and WeRSM
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Sandbar unveils Stream Ring, a $249+ AI-powered smart ring that transcribes audio notes into its app, available for preorder now and shipping in summer 2026 — A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts.
More: Sandbar, The Verge, GreenBot, TechCrunch, The Decoder, Android Police, Sandbar on YouTube, Gizmodo, Sandbar on YouTube, ZDNET, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, TechEBlog, Mashable, Android Headlines, Fast Company, and CNET
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Bluesky: @neilturkewitz, @ceetar, and @insortediaboli
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Rockstar says it fired dozens of employees last week for “distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum”, disputing union allegations — Rockstar Games terminated more than 30 people last week in an action that a labor group called “union-busting.”
More: The Register, Game World Observer, BBC, IGN, Push Square, The Independent, Destructoid, Gameranx, GamingBolt, Game Sandwich, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Game Developer, TheGamer, NDTV Profit, GameSpot, Beebom, TechRadar, Video Games Chronicle, 80 Level, and Screen Rant
Bluesky: @jasonschreier. Forums: r/Games, r/xbox, r/pcgaming, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/rockstar, r/gaming, and r/PS5
| Kirsty Needham / Reuters: |
Sources and documents: Google plans to build an AI data center on Australia's remote Christmas Island, after signing a cloud deal with its DOD earlier in 2025 — - Plans come after Google, Australian Department of Defence sign cloud deal — Christmas Island increasingly featuring in regional war game scenarios| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini Deep Research can now directly draw on information stored in users' Gmail emails, Drive files, and Chat conversations to generate reports — After adding PDF support in May, Gemini Deep Research can now directly tap information stored in your Gmail and Google Chat conversations, as well as Google Drive files.| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Source: Google is in early talks to deepen its strategic investment in Anthropic, which could value the AI startup at $350B+; Google has already invested $3B+ — - The talks come as Anthropic and its main rival, OpenAI, are in a multitrillion-dollar race to dominate AI.
More: Reuters, WinBuzzer, TipRanks Financial, and Benzinga
| CNBC: |
Google says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is more than 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip config — Google is making its most powerful chip yet widely available, the search giant's latest effort to try and win business …
More: SiliconANGLE, The Economic Times, Tom's Hardware, TestingCatalog, Trusted Reviews, and TipRanks Financial
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/singularity
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Duolingo's stock falls 25%+ after the company said it expects bookings to range between $329.5M and $335.5M this quarter, falling short of a $344.3M estimate — Duolingo's stock cratered 27% on lighter-than-expected guidance as the language learning platform zeroed in on user growth in lieu of near-term monetization.| Jaures Yip / CNBC: |
Datadog's stock jumps 15%+ after it reported Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $885.7M, above $852.8M est., and forecasted Q4 revenue at $912M to $916M, above $877M est. — Datadog shares jumped 20% on Thursday after the software company reported third-quarter revenue that topped Wall Street estimates …
More: Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, and Motley Fool
| Julia Fanzeres / Bloomberg: |
Research: US companies announced 153,074 job cuts in October 2025, the most for any October since 2003, as AI reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates — US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries …
More: CNBC, PYMNTS.com, Washington Times, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Reuters, New Jersey Online, Wall Street Journal, Blockchain.News, ZeroHedge News, and NewsMax.com
X: @lisaabramowicz1. Bluesky: @iansociologo. Forums: r/moderatepolitics, r/Economics, r/StockMarket, r/politics, r/Economics, and r/neoliberal
| Bloomberg: |
SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's unpaired AWS-3 licenses for $2.6B in stock, after EchoStar sold AWS-4 and H-block licenses to SpaceX for ~$17B in September — EchoStar Corp. reported a $16.5 billion impairment charge and agreed to sell more spectrum licenses to Elon Musk's SpaceX … | Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: |
Sources, public records, and documents detail TuSimple's downfall, after it transferred autonomous driving IP to Chinese partners despite a 2022 CFIUS agreement — American officials thought they'd secured a deal with TuSimple to protect autonomous-driving technology. It didn't work.| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft releases a simulated marketplace for testing AI agents alongside research showing businesses can manipulate agents into buying their products and more — On Wednesday, researchers at Microsoft released a new simulation environment designed to test AI agents, along with new research showing … | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo Ventures and releases a new Mercury coding model — With so much money flooding into AI startups, it's a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to test out.| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which also gets prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket for future event analysis, first in the US — Deep Search gets you answers to comprehensive questions, while prediction market support will be clutch for future analysis. — •
More: The Verge, The Block, ZDNET, WinBuzzer, BGR, Search Engine Journal, and Crypto Briefing
X: @dozenrose, @dozenrose, and @mansourtarek_
| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
Nexperia says it suspended wafer supplies to its China factory because the local unit refused to make payments and has ignored global management's instructions — Nexperia suspended supplies to its China factory because the local unit refused to make payments, laying bare the internal discord at the heart of a global chip crisis.
More: Nexperia, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, and New York Times
| a16z: |
a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating “impactful content” via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more — A new 8-week program for operators, creators, & storytellers shaping the future of media| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
LA-based Metropolis, which operates parking lots that use AI and computer vision, raised $1.6B, including a $500M Series D led by LionTree at a $5B valuation — Metropolis Technologies, a U.S. operator of parking lots that uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to recognize vehicles …
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
License plate surveillance company Flock Safety faces bipartisan pressure from lawmakers and local organizers over its data handling and cybersecurity practices — Flock Safety—the surveillance company behind the country's largest network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) …
More: Shaw Media Local and Biometric Update
Bluesky: @eff.org and @bennjordan
Forums: r/Apex_NC and Ars OpenForum
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
DualBird, which has created a plug-in for rewritable hardware that accelerates data workloads, raised an $8.5M seed and a $16.5M Series A led by Lightspeed — DualBird, which accelerates data workloads, raised $25 million in a combined seed and Series A, co-founders Gilad Tal and Amir Gilad tell Axios Pro.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley unveil a bipartisan bill that would require companies and US agencies to submit quarterly reports on AI-related job impacts — A new bipartisan bill seeks to provide a “clear picture” of how artificial intelligence is affecting the American workforce.
More: The Verge, Josh Hawley, Federal News Network, PC Gamer, U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner, US Congress, Americans for Responsible …, PYMNTS.com, Axios, Inc.com, PCMag, Nextgov/FCW, FedScoop, and InsideAIPolicy.com
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
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