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November 9, 2025, 11:10 PM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's plans to enhance satellite connectivity in its products, Siri's Gemini upgrade, new 2026 Macs, a Health+ service, and the future of Fitness+  —  Apple is planning a series of upgrades to its satellite features for the iPhone and its smartwatches.
Fast Company:
Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sector  —  Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.
Wall Street Journal:
Selloff in bitcoin and ether is tanking shares of crypto‑treasury companies like Strategy and BitMine; Strategy's valuation is down from ~$128B in July to ~$70B  —  Selloff in bitcoin and other digital tokens hits crypto-treasury companies  —  The hottest crypto trade has turned cold.
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors  —  The changes would make it easier for American firms to obtain key minerals, delivering on what the White House said the two countries had agreed to at last month's summit.
Magdalena Petrova / CNBC:
Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout  —  Over 95% of international data and voice call traffic travels through nearly a million miles of underwater communication cables.
Janne Knodler / Bloomberg:
As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm  —  As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.
Sebastian Pellejero / Reuters:
The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679  —  Turn an artificial-intelligence bot into a trader and it acts all too human.  Over a two-week span, six frontier models were seeded …

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