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| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
Cloudflare says “a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved”, after a major outage impacted X, ChatGPT, and others from 11:48am UTC — Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline
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X: @patio11, @asvanevik, @packym, @stacey_hauff, @eugenewei, @philipvollet, @typesfast, @zackkorman, @madsposting, @isik5, @letterboxd, @luciascarlet, @emremighty, @mpaepper, @suchnerve, @coder_blvck, @jsrailton, @aaronp613, @amuse, @liron, @netblocks, @fkadev, @tomwarren, @chribjel, and @pzrsaa. Bluesky: @davidgerard.co.uk. Mastodon: @cloudflare@noc.social. Forums: Hacker News
| BBC: |
Sundar Pichai says the AI boom has some “irrationality”, tech's investment cycles can “overshoot”, and “no company is going to be immune” to the bubble bursting — In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an …
More: Axios, BBC, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Gulf News, ITPro, Moneycontrol, Implicator.ai, Agence France-Presse, EasternEye, NDTV Profit, Business Standard, Livemint, PC Gamer, Sherwood News, City A.M., israelhayom.com, Tech Xplore, TipRanks Financial, Yahoo Finance, and Sharecast
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @kenbazinet, @justinhendrix, and @carlquintanilla. Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/wallstreetbets, r/Economics, r/google, r/TrueAnon, r/economicCollapse, r/news, r/ireland, r/technews, r/technology, and Slashdot
| xAI: |
xAI unveils Grok 4.1, saying its hallucination rate is 3x less compared to its previous models and Grok 4.1 Thinking holds the top spot on LMArena's Text Arena — Grok 4.1 is now available to all users on grok.com, 𝕏, and the iOS and Android apps. It is rolling out immediately …
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X: @arena, @elonmusk, @ai_for_success, @nearlydaniel, @miles_brundage, @zeffmax, @yiwenyuan98, @billyuchenlin, @leothecurious, @arena, @xai, @arena, @litianleli, @minimaxir, @chrisparkx, @yuhu_ai_, @mark_k, @scaling01, @adityagupta, @koltregaskes, @thekitze, @flavioad, and @mark_k. Bluesky: @olaindeach.oddling.nl
Forums: Hacker News and r/MyBoyfriendIsAI
| Financial Times: |
CoinGecko: the total market value of 18K+ crypto coins is down 25% since October 6, wiping out ~$1.2T; bitcoin fell 28% to $89.5K, its lowest level since April — Bitcoin drops 28% in six weeks as worries over AI stocks spill into digital assets and high-octane bets backfire
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| Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News: |
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments after his Jeffrey Epstein emails were released; OpenAI still lists Summers as a board member and didn't comment — Sen. Elizabeth Warren had called for institutions affiliated with Summers, who was treasury secretary during the Clinton administration, to sever ties with him.
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X: @r_gov11, @elisaxchen, @tab_delete, @heerjeet, @fahrenthold, @soumitrashukla9, @sndurlauf, @andrewcurran_, @dhruvtkpatel, @mattparlmer, @michael7ucci, @dhruvtkpatel, @thecrimson, @distributionat, @dhruvtkpatel, @dhruvtkpatel, @jerrycap, and @rcobooth. Bluesky: @davidingram. Forums: r/Epstein
| Reuters: |
Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 22.3% YoY to ~$15.9B, below ~$16.4B est., and net profit up 80.9% YoY to ~$1.59B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by AI and EV revenue — China's Xiaomi (1810.HK) reported a 80.9% jump in third-quarter profit on Tuesday as the world's third-largest smartphone maker doubled … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers demonstrated a major WhatsApp flaw that exposed 3.5B users' phone numbers, with 57% also showing a profile photo; Meta fixed the enumeration problem — By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp's contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure … | The Information: |
Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise funds at a $130B+ valuation, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1B Series K at a $100B valuation — Databricks, a database provider whose tools help customers develop and use AI, is in talks to raise money at a valuation of more than $130 billion …
More: Benzinga, TechCrunch, Proactive, Bloomberg, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and The Economic Times. X: @katie_roof
| The Information: |
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5B and is aiming for a valuation of at least $50B — Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence developer co-founded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati …
| Ted Litchfield / PC Gamer: |
Rebecca Heineman, legendary game designer, Interplay co-founder, programmer, and the first formally recognized US Space Invaders champion, died at 62 in October — Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral. — Game developer Rebecca Heineman has died after being diagnosed with cancer last month.
More: Engadget, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, IGN, GamesBeat, and Eurogamer.net
Forums: Hacker News, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/retrogaming, and r/pcgaming
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko steps down from the decentralized social network as part of its transition to a nonprofit structure governed by a board — Mastodon's creator, Eugen Rochko, is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X rival … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Larry Ellison is overhauling a £10B science initiative in Oxford after clashing with President John Bell, who left in September, and COO Lisa Flashner — Trump-supporting billionaire narrows EIT's ambitions by cutting initiatives and tightening control| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU Commission opens an investigation into AWS and Azure to determine whether they should fall under the DMA and says they “occupy very strong positions” — Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corp.'s Azure are under investigation by the European Union to determine whether …
More: The Register, European Commission, Associated Press, Windows Report, Seeking Alpha, Euractiv, and Dow Jones Newswires
X: @hennavirkkunen and @eu_competition
Bluesky: @coricrider.com and @gateklons
| @artificialanlys: |
Artificial Analysis announces AA-Omniscience, a benchmark for knowledge and hallucination across 40+ topics; Claude 4.1 Opus takes first place in its key metric — Announcing AA-Omniscience, our new benchmark for knowledge and hallucination across >40 topics, where all but three models are more likely to hallucinate than give a correct answer Embedded knowledge in language models is important for many real world use cases. Without [image]| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
GlobalFoundries acquires Advanced Micro Foundry, a Singapore-based silicon photonics foundry, for an undisclosed sum, and plans a new R&D center in Singapore — Chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries (GFS.O) said on Monday it has acquired Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), a Singapore-based chipmaker …
More: Tom's Hardware, Pulse 2.0, DigiTimes, GlobalFoundries, The Business Times, and The Straits Times. X: @globalfoundries
| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
Filing: the US FTC ends its review of SoftBank's $6.5B acquisition of chip designer Ampere, granting an early termination; SoftBank announced the deal in March — The US Federal Trade Commission has ended its review of SoftBank Group Corp.'s acquisition of semiconductor designer Ampere Computing LLC … | Bloomberg: |
PDD, which owns Pinduoduo and Temu, reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$15.2B, above ~$15.1B est., and net income up 17% YoY to ~$4.1B, as it weathers US tariffs — PDD Holdings Inc. warned of a slowdown in an intensively competitive Chinese consumption environment, reflecting an escalating battle … | Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI and Intuit sign a multiyear deal, set to generate $100M+ in OpenAI revenue, in which Intuit will deepen its use of OpenAI models and launch ChatGPT apps — Intuit sees the opportunity to expose its products, such as TurboxTax and QuickBooks, to a broader range of potential users on ChatGPT
More: Financial Times, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Axios, CNBC, Blockonomi, and Intuit Inc.. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Klarna reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $903M, above $882M est., a $95M net loss, and expects $1B+ revenue in Q4, in its first post-IPO earnings release — Klarna topped Wall Street third-quarter revenue expectations in its first earnings report after debuting on the New York Stock Exchange in September.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu reports Q3 revenue down 7% YoY to ~$4.4B, its biggest quarterly revenue decline ever, and a ~$1.5B net loss, as the search giant battles falling usership — Baidu Inc. posted its biggest quarterly revenue slide on record, highlighting a weakening advertising business while it tries to keep up in the artificial intelligence race.| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Lambda, which rents access to AI chips, raised a $1.5B Series E led by TWG Global, after raising $500M in April 2024, taking its total funding to $2.3B — The fundraise will help the startup build its own data centers as the AI infrastructure boom shows no signs of letting up| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
The UK CMA opens probes into StubHub, Viagogo, and others over allegedly deceptive online pricing practices; the UK plans to ban above face value ticket resales — CMA opens investigations into eight companies including ticketing websites StubHub and Viagogo| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Peec AI, which helps brands manage visibility in AI-powered search results, raised a $21M Series A led by Singular at a $100M+ valuation — With consumers increasingly asking questions of ChatGPT — not Google — product discovery is changing.
More: Tech.eu, EU-Startups, Sifted, and Tech Funding News
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox plans to require all users to undergo an age estimation process to access chat features, starting January 2026, in an effort to enhance child safety — After scrutiny over its ability to protect children on the platform, Roblox is making a big change.
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