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| Tina Nguyen / The Verge: |
Draft executive order: President Trump plans to grant the US government sole power to regulate AI and create an “AI Litigation Task Force” overseen by the US AG — Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations
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| Joe Miller / Financial Times: |
Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and other Republicans publicly oppose President Trump's proposal to restrict US states from regulating AI — US president endorses move to restrict regulation by states after lobbying from Silicon Valley — A plan backed by Donald Trump …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app — Google is following Tuesday's launch of Gemini 3 Pro with Nano Banana Pro. The image generation and editing model …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google says the Gemini app is now able to detect images created or edited by Google AI, and that it plans to roll out verification of video and audio “soon” — The Gemini app will soon be able to detect images made by Google AI. … Google is making it easier … | Louis Ashworth / Financial Times: |
As OpenAI committed to spending ~$1.4T on data centers, it hasn't disclosed its auditor nor used an independent accountant to compile its financial statements — OpenAI is committed to spending about $1.4 trillion on data centres over the next decade or so.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, above $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66% YoY, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. — Nvidia reported fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street expectations on Wednesday and provided stronger-than-expected sales guidance for the fourth quarter.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Qualcomm release Windows updates to improve gaming on ARM, including a refreshed Xbox app; Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Control Panel optimizes games — Microsoft and Qualcomm have made important improvements to compatibility and performance for games on Snapdragon CPUs.
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| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000+ employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs — New CEO launches company's largest-ever round of cuts and says Verizon must reorient around ‘delighting’ customers
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| Jason Parham / Wired: |
Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging that they adopt device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes — The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn … | New York Times: |
Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pushes AI data centers, including by pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are profiting from them — Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.| Bloomberg: |
Yann LeCun says he is leaving Meta at the end of 2025 to build a new startup and continue his “Advanced Machine Intelligence research”, with Meta as a partner — Yann LeCun, an artificial intelligence pioneer who runs a research lab at Meta Platforms Inc., told employees …
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| Miles J. Herszenhorn / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, who co-founded crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M+ in illegal transactions — One of the rare cryptocurrency prosecutions under the Trump administration led to a four-year prison term for a bitcoin wallet operator accused … | Benedict Evans: |
An overview of macro tech trends for 2026, as “AI eats the world”: bubbles, the AI platform shift, Big Tech has FOMO, capex, Nvidia, US power backlogs, and more — What happens in a platform shift? The New Thing! All tech innovation, investment and company creation switches …
| Financial Times: |
How the AI Act became a case study for critics who say the EU puts regulation ahead of innovation, as the European Commission postpones a key part of the law — The birth of the Artificial Intelligence Act was a drawn-out, exasperating affair. — In December 2023, European officials laboured …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.47B, vs. $2.46B est., forecasts Q2 revenue in line with est., and acquires Chronosphere for $3.35B — Palo Alto Networks beat Wall Street's fiscal first-quarter estimates after the bell on Wednesday and announced plans …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading a dishwasher, and plans to launch in beta in 2026 — Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised $25M, after raising a $30M Series A in June, taking its total funding to $81M — Voice AI company Wispr's dictation app, Wispr Flow, is seeing great traction. The startup said that, after three months of usage, an average user writes more than 50% of their characters through the app.| Reuters: |
A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations — - Court says Meta breached EU data protection regulations — Compensation to be paid to 87 digital media outlets| Don Clark / New York Times: |
The US DOE accelerates its approach to equipping national labs with AI supercomputers by working with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, which will pay some of the costs — A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia to speed up.| Charlie Fink / Forbes: |
Stuut, which connects to CRM and other systems to automate management of accounts receivable, raised a $29.5M Series A led by a16z — A former tech executive covering AI, XR and The Metaverse for Forbes. — Stuut Technologies today announced a $29.5 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz …
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Cornell University researchers: Grokipedia cites sources deemed “generally unreliable” or “blacklisted” by Wikipedia, like neo-Nazi sites Stormfront and VDare — An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
Bluesky: @robertscotthorton, @nrvscrcts, and @carnage4life
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam and r/KnowledgeFight
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini becoming a sort of robot OS — DeepMind's chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.| Emily Mullin / Wired: |
Paradromics says it received FDA approval for a human trial of its Connexus brain implant, aimed at restoring speech to those with severe motor impairments — The Austin-based startup will test its high-bandwidth device to help restore speech in people with extremely limited movement.
More: MassDevice
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber plans to launch sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe via a partnership with Starship, starting in UK cities Leeds and Sheffield in December — Uber Technologies Inc. will offer sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe for the first time through a new partnership with Starship Technologies Inc. …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers — Microsoft's warning on Tuesday that an experimental AI agent integrated into Windows can infect devices and pilfer sensitive user data … | Bloomberg: |
How AI is pressuring Poland's economy, Europe's top location for global business services, as companies lay off staff in Kraków, the country's hub for BPO jobs — Krakow became a hub for business services jobs, driving salaries to the highest in Poland. Now the city is learning to live with artificial intelligence.| Letterboxd: |
Letterboxd says it will launch rental platform Letterboxd Video Store, curated with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in early December — Coming in early December: Letterboxd Video Store, our latest feature to get you adding films to your watchlist and, crucially, checking them off.
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Forums: r/oscarsdeathrace, r/Fauxmoi, r/oscarrace, and r/blankies
| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Circana: EA's Battlefield 6 became 2025's best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut; Pokémon is 2025's fastest-selling physical game — Electronic Arts Inc.'s Battlefield 6 needed less than a month to become this year's best-selling game in the US …
More: Game World Observer, IGN, TheGamer, and GameSpot
| Mike Cherney / Wall Street Journal: |
How scientists are exploring the use of quantum sensors, developed by startups like Q-CTRL, as a secure GPS alternative, with military and civilian applications — New devices navigate without satellites or risk of enemy jamming signals — GRIFFITH, Australia—At a tiny airport …
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