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November 11, 2025, 7:40 AM

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Sources: Apple is delaying the next generation iPhone Air's release date, originally planned for fall 2026, after the first model sold below expectations  —  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 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, Hannah Murphy and Stephen Morris in San Francisco
Vogue:
Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150 iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, its first fashion collaboration 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% to ~$2.02B, 3.9M PS5 units sold, and raises 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 …
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 …
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.
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
Sources: the EU plans to designate WhatsApp's Channels as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, meaning it must meet moderation and transparency standards  —  Meta Platforms Inc.'s messaging service WhatsApp will face stricter rules under the European Union's content moderation rulebook …
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Nebius signs a ~$3B, five-year deal to provide Meta with AI infrastructure and reports a $100M+ loss in Q3, up from a $39.7M loss in Q3 2024  —  Nebius Group (NBIS.O) has signed a deal worth about $3 billion with Meta to provide the Facebook owner with AI infrastructure over a five-year period …
More: Bloomberg
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.

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