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November 11, 2025, 9:15 PM
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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 …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average more than 35% and AI data center revenue growth will average 80% over the next three to five years  —  Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Nvidia Corp.'s nearest rival in AI chips, predicted accelerating sales growth over the next five years …
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 …
Robert Hart / The Verge:
Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a “secure, fortified space” to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute  —  Google says Private AI Compute maintains privacy while tapping cloud resources.
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET:
Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a “help me edit” feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Photos has added several new AI-powered editing and search tools.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google unveils new features for Pixel phones, including AI-powered notification summaries, notification prioritization, and AI photo edits in Messages  —  Google announced its November software update for Pixel phones, called Pixel Drop — a quarterly feature release that brings new capabilities …
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Sony says PlayStation 5 has sold a total of 84.2M units since launch, including 3.9M units sold in Q2, up from 3.8M a year ago
Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal:
Sony reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$20.3B, net profit up 7% to ~$2.02B, above est., raises FY operating profit forecast by 8% to ~$9.3B; shares close up 4.2%
James Hunt / The Block:
SoFi launches SoFi Crypto, saying it's the first nationally chartered bank in the US to offer crypto trading to consumers  —  - SoFi has launched SoFi Crypto to offer crypto trading for consumers, the first directly integrated crypto offering under its national bank charter.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Threads adds new features for podcasters, as it tries to become the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators  —  Threads, Meta's competitor to X, will now begin targeting a specific type of creator: podcasters.  The company said on Tuesday that Threads will focus …
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Coinbase confirms that it has called off acquisition talks with stablecoin infra startup BVNK; reports previously put the acquisition price around $2B  —  Brian Armstrong, cofounder and CEO of Coinbase.  —  One of the largest deals ever for a stablecoin startup has fallen through.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ElevenLabs launches Iconic Voice Marketplace for licensing AI versions of famous voices, including Michael Caine's; Matthew McConaughey invests in the company  —  McConaughey also invests in audio research and product company  —  Actors Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have teamed …
Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
A UK judge sentences a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a $5.6B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K BTC  —  A Chinese woman described as a “super villain” who orchestrated a multibillion dollar investment fraud to buy Bitcoin was sentenced …
The Information:
Sources: Apple may add a second camera to the next iPhone Air, possibly set for spring 2027 alongside the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e, to address user complaints  —  Apple is delaying the release of the second-generation iPhone Air to work on a redesign of the device and make it more appealing to consumers …
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.

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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

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Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
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Henrique Almeida / Bloomberg:
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Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more
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