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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.; NVDA jumps 5%+ — Nvidia reported fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street expectations on Wednesday and provided stronger …
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Forums: r/technology, r/hardware, and r/NVDA_Stock
| 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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| Tina Nguyen / The Verge: |
A draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal 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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Forums: r/fednews, r/politics, and r/politics
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
| Louis Ashworth / Financial Times: |
As OpenAI commits to spending $1.4T, creating a mesh of complicated deals, the startup does not disclose its auditor, and there is little information online — OpenAI is committed to spending about $1.4 trillion on data centres over the next decade or so. — It accounts for about two-thirds … | 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 agrees to buy 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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LinkedIn: Martin Mao, Pramod Gosavi, Meerah Rajavel, Rob Skillington, and Sam Rubin. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: key White House officials are pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to keep AI chip export restrictions to China out of the annual defense policy bill — Key White House officials are pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to keep AI chip export restrictions to China out of the annual defense policy bill …
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| Kieran Smith / Financial Times: |
Nokia plans to split its AI operations into a separate unit from its telecom business, weeks after Nvidia invested $1B in Nokia; Nokia's stock closed down 6.98% — Split from telecoms operations comes as Finnish group pushes for growth from new technology — Nokia has unveiled plans … | 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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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, saying it is “significantly better” at “long-horizon reasoning” and is the first model it has trained for Windows environments — ZDNET's key takeaways — Codex Max processes massive workloads through improved context handling.
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LinkedIn: David Wiesen and Alexander Embiricos
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and r/codex
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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LinkedIn: Jason Wilmot, Arielle Yael Mokhtarzadeh, Chris Lehane, Lauren Haber Jonas, Ray Fleming, and Debbie Mesloh
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The US, the UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting provider Media Land, which provided services to cybercrime marketplaces and ransomware groups — Today, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia announced sanctions targeting Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) …
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Investors pulled $523M from BlackRock's IBIT bitcoin ETF on November 18, its largest single-day outflow ever; bitcoin fell ~30% from its October all-time high — Investors pulled more than half a billion dollars from BlackRock Inc.'s iShares Bitcoin Trust, the largest single-day outflow since …
More: Bloomberg, CoinDesk, The Block, Reuters, Coinspeaker, Yahoo Finance, Bitcoin Magazine, The Coin Republic, and Decrypt. Forums: r/Buttcoin
| The Information: |
Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February 2026 — Salesforce's Slack has told customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts …
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block expects gross profit to increase in the mid-teens YoY through 2028, reaching ~$15.8B, with adjusted operating income growing ~30% YoY; XYZ closed up 7.56% — Block said Wednesday that it expects gross profit to increase in the mid-teens annually for the next three years, reaching about $15.8 billion in 2028.| Miles J. Herszenhorn / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, a co-founder of 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 …
More: The Rage, Decrypt, Bitcoin News, The Block, CoinDesk, and Crypto Briefing
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Function Health, a health tracking tech company, raised a $298M Series B led by Redpoint Ventures at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $350M — From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly.| P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal: |
Lenovo reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $20.45B, above $20B est., net profit down 5% to $340M, below $382M est., but adjusted net profit up 25% to $512M — Revenue for the three months ended Sept. 30 increased 15% — Lenovo Group's revenue rose sharply in the second quarter …
More: Dow Jones Newswires, Lenovo, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| 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 … | Will Knight / Wired: |
Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini to become 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.| Edward White / Financial Times: |
China's transport, logistics, and ride-hailing sectors are accelerating the mass adoption of autonomous vehicles, threatening the jobs of millions of drivers — Concern grows that autonomous vehicles could replace human roles, with no guarantee of social safety net| George Steer / Financial Times: |
Gloo, which develops AI tools for Christian churches and counts Pat Gelsinger as executive chair, closed up 1% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $73M in its IPO — Shares in company backed by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger waver after scaled-back IPO — Shares in a company developing …
More: Reuters
| Benedict Evans: |
An overview of macro tech trends for 2026, as “AI eats the world”: bubbles, the AI platform shift, Big Tech 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 …
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Humain partners with Adobe and Qualcomm to develop AI tools for Arabic content, using Adobe's Firefly Foundry to build AI models and Qualcomm chips to run them — Adobe (ADBE.O) and Qualcomm (QCOM.O) said on Wednesday they are partnering with Humain, the artificial intelligence firm backed …
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