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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
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.
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
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 …
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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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Satya Nadella says that Microsoft has access to “all” of OpenAI's custom AI chip work with Broadcom and plans to use it to help develop its own in-house chip
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 …
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 …
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
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …

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New York Times:
Sources: WaPo's layoffs may narrow its scope to topics of expertise and reader interest based on digital traffic, with politics and video becoming more central

Roushni Nair / Reuters:
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