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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 …
The Information:
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 …
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.
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 …
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100+ actresses and 25TB+ of pirated content via a torrent tracker  —  A Danish court has handed down a historic verdict, convicting a Reddit moderator in the country's first-ever criminal case for violating copyright's “right of respect”.
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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 …
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Docs: Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses, or ~75% of revenue, that year before turning a profit in 2030  —  Financial documents from both companies show the different approaches they are taking to the AI boom
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.
Miles Kruppa / The Information:
Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds invested ~$3B in a New Mexico-based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl ramps up its AI bet  —  Blue Owl Capital, one of Wall Street's biggest private lenders, is ramping up its big bet on artificial intelligence …
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Search and browser startup Brave's CBO says it passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024  —  Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google's Chrome.
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 …

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The Wrap:
Source: CBS News may cut ties with new contributor Peter Attia, a wellness expert, after emails show Epstein links; Bari Weiss sees this as giving in to the mob

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
ESPN closes the deal to acquire multiple NFL Media assets after receiving US regulatory approval; NFL will get a 10% stake in ESPN as part of the agreement

Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: Disney's board is aligning on promoting theme park division chairman Josh D'Amaro to CEO; Disney says “the board has not yet selected the next CEO”

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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
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Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Meta says it will discontinue Facebook's Like and Share buttons for websites on February 10, 2026, since usage “declined as the digital landscape has evolved”
Farah Stockman / New York Times:
California-based Neros, which makes low-cost, military FPV drones, raised $75M led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $121M, and won a US Army contract
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