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November 11, 2025, 9:00 AM
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Sources: Apple delays the next iPhone Air, originally set for fall 2026, after the first model sold below expectations and a portion of inventory remains unsold  —  Apple is delaying the release of next year's version of the iPhone Air, its thinnest smartphone, after the first model sold below expectations …
David Keohane / Financial Times:
SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake, or ~32M shares, in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B, above est.  —  Net profit doubles to $16bn on gains from OpenAI and PayPay holdings  —  Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group has sold its entire stake …
Financial Times:
Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds  —  Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push  —  Melissa Heikkilä in London …
Vogue:
Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150+ iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, in Apple's first fashion deal since Hermès' in 2015  —  It's no secret that Steve Jobs's favorite fashion designer was Issey Miyake.  The former Apple CEO adopted …
Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal:
Sony reports Q2 revenue up 4.6% YoY to ~$20.3B, net profit up 6.7% YoY to ~$2.02B, 3.9M PS5s sold, and raises its FY operating profit forecast by 7.5% to ~$9.3B  —  Sony 6758 5.51%increase; green up pointing triangle Group raised its earnings forecasts after a stronger-than-expected second quarter …
Reuters:
A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal  —  A German court on Tuesday sided with the country's music rights society GEMA in a closely watched copyright case against U.S.-based artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Financial documents: Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses that year before turning a profit in 2030  —  Financial documents from both companies show the different approaches they are taking to the AI boom  —  The finances of Silicon Valley's …
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to $50.6M, above $46.2M est., and net loss up 77% YoY to $159.5M, below est.; GEMI drops 5%+  —  Gemini Space Station Inc., the crypto exchange founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, reported a steeper loss than analysts anticipated …
CRN:
Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti says he is leaving the company after four years to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts  —  Intel CEO made Katti the company's chief technology and artificial intelligence officer in April.
Tasmin Lockwood / CNBC:
Oura CEO Tom Hale says the Finnish company expects “maybe close” to $2B in sales in 2026, up from $1B in 2025, and there is “no news on an IPO”  —  The chief executive of Finland's Oura told CNBC on Tuesday that he expects the wearable tech company to generate close to $2 billion in sales next year.
Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal:
An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028  —  If completed as envisioned by its backers, the data center is set to cost as much as $35 billion and pack up to 3 gigawatts of power

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From Mediagazer

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

More News

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, a suite of AI models providing automatic speech recognition capabilities for more than 1,600 languages
Sander Lutz / Decrypt:
The US Treasury and IRS issue guidance allowing crypto products to offer staking rewards under a new safe harbor

Earlier Picks

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
CoreWeave reports Q3 revenue up 134% YoY to $1.36B, above $1.29B est., a $110M net loss, and forecasts FY revenue below estimates; CRWV drops 5%+
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Meta plans to discontinue Facebook's Like and Share buttons for external sites in February 2026 as usage “naturally declined as the digital landscape evolved”
Farah Stockman / New York Times:
Neros, which makes low-cost, military FPV drones in the US, raised $75M led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $121M, and won a US Army contract
Josh Scott / BetaKit:
Canada-based legaltech company Clio raised a $500M Series G at a $5B valuation, along with $350M in debt, and says it has completed its $1B vLex acquisition
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