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| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
AI coding startup Cursor raised a $2.3B Series D co-led by Accel and Coatue at a $29.3B valuation, after raising a $900M Series C at a $9.9B valuation in June — Cursor, which was founded by four MIT graduates who are still in their mid-20s, raised $2.3 billion in its third funding round this year
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Leaker Evan Blass details Samsung's upcoming trifold phone: named “Galaxy Z TriFold”, it has a 6.5" cover display, a 10" total display, and a 200MP main camera — The Galaxy Z TriFold could launch on December 5th. … Reputable gadget leaker Evan Blass has taken to X with … | Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for AGI, Copilot, Microsoft AI, the hyperscale business, the OpenAI partnership, capex, sovereign AI efforts, and more — As part of this interview, Satya Nadella gave Dylan Patel (founder of SemiAnalysis) and me an exclusive first-look at their brand-new Fairwater 2 datacenter.
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| SemiAnalysis: |
A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy: its OpenAI deal, data center investments, neocloud renting, GitHub Copilot, its MAI models, its Maia chip, and more — “The Big Pause”, AI Tokens Factory Economics Stack, OpenAI, Neocloud Renting, GitHub Copilot, MAI and Maia
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Google DeepMind unveils SIMA 2, a video-game-playing agent built on Gemini to navigate and solve problems in 3D virtual worlds like Goat Simulator 3 — Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in a wide range of 3D virtual worlds.
More: Google DeepMind, TechCrunch, The Verge, WinBuzzer, and The Decoder
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| Pei Li / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tencent and Apple signed a deal to let Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps, after over a year of talks — Tencent Holdings Ltd. has agreed a deal with Apple Inc. that will see the iPhone maker handle payments and take a 15% cut …
More: Apple Developer, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Information, PYMNTS.com, AppleInsider, Capital Brief, CNBC, Caixin Global, and Reuters. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$27B, above ~$26.6B est., net profit up 19% YoY to ~$8.9B, above ~$8B est., and domestic game revenue up 15% YoY — The tech giant delivered a 19% increase in third-quarter net profit — Tencent Holdings reported double-digit growth on its top and bottom lines …
More: Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, CNBC, IG, Caixin Global, Nikkei Asia, Tencent, Blockonomi, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, and South China Morning Post. X: @economyapp
| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google says it will allow “experienced users” to install Android apps made by unverified developers, following backlash against new sideloading restrictions — Google will allow ‘experienced users’ to install Android apps made by unverified developers. — • — TL;DR| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Google launches AI-powered shopping features in the US, including conversational search, side-by-side item comparisons, price tracking, and an agentic checkout — There have never been more options for things to buy. Google is betting AI is how shoppers will make decisions.
More: The Keyword, Android Police, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Engadget, Axios, Search Engine Land, CNET, MediaPost, Android Central, Digital Trends, PhoneArena, TipRanks Financial, WinBuzzer, Android Authority, Business Insider, BGR, Sourcing Journal, Glossy, and Search Engine Journal. Bluesky: @miasato
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol, Eurojust, and others dismantle 1,025 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infostealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet, in the latest Operation Endgame phase — Law enforcement authorities from nine countries have taken down over 1,000 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infolstealer …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn rolls out AI-powered people search to premium users in the US, with plans to expand it to other countries in the coming months — For the last two years, LinkedIn has tried to infuse AI into different parts of its platforms, including ad copies, content creation, personalized digests …
More: The Verge and Fast Company
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve says the company is “no longer manufacturing” its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, released in 2019 for $999, after unveiling the Steam Frame — While showing its new Frame VR headset to The Verge, Valve confirmed that it's moving on from its previous one.| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Sources: xAI raised $15B, adding $5B to the $10B it reportedly raised in September at a $200B valuation; Elon Musk replies “false” to an X post about the report — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has raised $15 billion from investors, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC's David Faber.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Verizon plans to cut ~15,000 jobs, its largest workforce reduction ever, and transition ~200 stores into franchised operations, seeking to cut costs — The telecommunications company is looking to reduce costs as it works to stem customer losses — Verizon Communications is planning …
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| Neil Vigdor / New York Times: |
AIDOL, one of the first anthropomorphic robots in Russia, face-planted at a demo in Moscow; organizers dragged the robot away and covered it with a black drape — The robot, known as AIDOL, staggered onstage during a technology showcase in Moscow. Organizers blamed the mishap on calibration and lighting issues.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU opens a DMA investigation into Google for allegedly demoting news outlets with content from commercial partners, which Google says is an anti-spam policy — Google is under investigation by European Union antitrust watchdogs over concerns it unfairly demotes some news results in a probe … | Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic says China's state-sponsored hackers used its tools to automate 80% to 90% of a September hacking campaign that targeted corporations and governments — The use of AI automation in hacks is a growing trend that gives hackers additional scale and speed
Bluesky: @carlquintanilla
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
OnePlus debuts the $900+ OnePlus 15, with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 7,300mah battery, and a 6.78" 165Hz screen; the US government shutdown delays a US debut — The OnePlus 15 has top-tier gaming performance and can control TVs as a universal remote. — The US federal government shutdown …
More: 9to5Google, Forbes, Android Police, Android Headlines, Android Central, Droid Life, and Pocket-lint. X: @imparkerburton
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Salesforce buys Doti AI for $100M; the Israeli startup raised $7M and its Work AI tool lets enterprises securely access and use internal knowledge in real time — The young Israeli company, founded by former Wix engineers, will bring agentic knowledge discovery tools into Slack.
More: Globes and Salesforce Ben
| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
Baidu unveils two AI chips: the M100 for efficient MoE inference, coming in early 2026, and the M300 for training super-large multimodal models, coming in 2027 — The M100 and M300 provide ‘powerful, low-cost and controllable AI computing power’ to support the nation's self-reliance push, the firm says
More: TrendForce, WinBuzzer, Blockonomi, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.1 Instant, which is “warmer by default”, and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which is “easier to understand and faster”, starting with paid subscribers — We're upgrading GPT‑5 while making it easier to customize ChatGPT. Starting to roll out today to everyone, beginning with paid users.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/BeyondThePromptAI, r/ClaudeCode, r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, and Slashdot
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches Bulletin board, which lets brands and creators share public, one-to-many messages to their followers, similar to Instagram's broadcast channels — TikTok announced on Thursday that it's launching “bulletin board,” a new feature that lets brands and creators share public, one-to-many messages to their followers.
More: TikTok
| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
Google says all NotebookLM users will get access to Deep Research in the service within a week; users get to choose between two research styles: fast or deep — Google is adding Deep Research and more file types to NotebookLM. … Google is pairing up two of its research products …
More: XDA Developers, 9to5Google, Engadget, TechCrunch, ZDNET, CNET, Tom's Guide, BGR, and The Keyword
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta overhauls Facebook Marketplace, adding new collaborative tools, expanded social features, an improved checkout experience, and Meta AI integrations — Meta is overhauling Facebook Marketplace with new collaborative tools, social features, an improved checkout experience, and Meta AI integrations, the company announced Thursday.
More: Engadget, Meta Newsroom, PhoneArena, and Business Insider
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon renames Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo, a nod to “low Earth orbit”; so far, Amazon has launched 150+ satellites as part of a 3,200 planned constellation — Amazon is rebranding its ambitious effort to expand global access to high-speed internet: Project Kuiper will now be known as Amazon Leo.
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| Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
Exowatt, which aims to use concentrated solar power to generate 1¢ per kWh electricity for data centers, raised a $120M Series A from a16z, Sam Altman, and more — When Hannan Happi started thinking about how to solve the AI power crisis, he kept one figure in mind: one cent per kilowatt-hour.
More: FinSMEs
| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
Spotify starts rolling out Recaps, a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what users have listened to so far, in beta on iOS — The Recap button will show up automatically on some English-language audiobooks in the iOS app. … Spotify is launching a new AI feature …
More: Thurrott, Spotify, CNET, T3, Engadget, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, Mashable, Good e-Reader, and Trusted Reviews
| Denitsa Tsekova / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, first with select users, and says the exchange is fully functional with some users betting on real contracts — Polymarket has begun live testing its US exchange by quietly opening up to some users and matching trades ahead of its planned relaunch in the American betting market.| Financial Times: |
A look at Indian messaging app Arattai, which officials are backing as a domestic WhatsApp alternative; Arattai maker Zoho says it had 350K sign-ups in October — Top officials promote domestic messaging platform as Narendra Modi pushes self-reliance in face of US tariffs
More: Moneycontrol and The Hans India
| Financial Times: |
European carmaker officials say they face “devastating” chip shortages after the Netherlands' Nexperia takeover and are scrambling to find alternative sources — Executives warn production lines could stop within weeks as the Dutch chipmaker is not sending products to China unit| Colin Campbell / Axios: |
Fabric8Labs, which uses electrochemical additive manufacturing to create chip-cooling plates for data centers, raised $50M led by NEA and Intel Capital — Fabric8Labs, a San Diego-based electrochemical additive manufacturing startup, raised $50 million led by NEA and Intel Capital, CEO Jeff Herman tells Axios Pro exclusively.Sponsor Posts
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