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November 3, 2026, 6:00 AM
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Apple:
Apple reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $114.48B, above $113.39B est., China revenue up 21% to $17.5B, below $18.9B est., in John Ternus' first earnings report  —  September quarter records for total company revenue, iPhone revenue, and EPS Services revenue reaches new all-time high CUPERTINO …
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Apple expects Q1 revenue to rise 7%-10% YoY, above 6% est., and gross margins of 45%-46%, below 47% est., as John Ternus says memory costs are “unprecedented”  —  Hardware giant predicts robust sales in the holiday season but services outlook disappoints
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
S-1: Anthropic says it may “imminently meet” its RSI threshold and may fail to identify “significant acceleration” in its development until after it's occurred  —  While much attention has focused on the updated financials Anthropic revealed in its revised S-1A on Monday …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Amended S-1: Anthropic says it has purchased commitments and lease agreements of $895.4B, “substantially all of which is related to compute and infrastructure”
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
S-1 update: Anthropic reports Q3 revenue up 12x YoY to nearly $17B, a $23.3B net loss, up from $12.1B in Q3 2025, and operating expenses up 292% YoY to $17.5B
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google severs ties with and bans Android TV box maker Videostrong after discovering it intentionally preloaded a malware backdoor to control the XCPE botnet  —  Google has confirmed that an Android TV device maker snuck a backdoor for malware onto certified devices, which is leading …
Rikiya Takehi:
Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math  —  TL;DR … If you were asked to handcraft a neural network that plays Go, what would you do?  If you were handed raw neural network weights …
Financial Times:
Sources: Nvidia verbally told cloud compute clients to sell 51%+ of their services to non-Chinese companies, imposing new limits on China's access to AI chips  —  Nvidia is ordering its data centre partners to reduce exposure to Chinese customers in a move that further restrains China's ability …
OpenAI:
OpenAI partners with Cathedral to test its security defenses and revamps its Security Bug Bounty program, including quadrupling rewards for critical findings  —  We're planning our next internal security sprint at OpenAI, bringing new researchers and security partners together with our own teams …
Jason Shubnell / The Block:
Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin halts withdrawals after a breach involving $46M+ in assets, per Arkham; Tether froze 4.5M+ USDT in response  —  The exchange paused deposits and withdrawals after the incident, while Tether froze more than 4.5 million USDT linked to the attacker.
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 96% YoY to $2.31B, above $2.18B est., US commercial revenue up 148% YoY to $984M, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance to ~$8.53B  —  Palantir beat Wall Street's third-quarter estimates after the bell on Monday, with U.S. commercial revenue topping government …
Bruno Ferreira / Tom's Hardware:
Anthropic confirms new Claude Code limits “to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game”, saying IP infringement is against its usage policy  —  Meanwhile, we now have direct reports of reverse engineering efforts being blocked, while online complaints grow.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Trajectory, which is developing AI model post-training tools for nontechnical customers, raised a $45M Series A led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation  —  Whether developed by OpenAI, Anthropic, or built on open-source alternatives, current AI models share a critical limitation …

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From Mediagazer

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Skydance reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $7B, net income of $73M, and adjusted EBITDA of $1B, excluding WBD, in its first earnings since closing the WBD deal

Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz expands in the US, more than doubling the size of its bureau to target liberal North American Jews, as Israel moves rightward

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
As student journalists report more local news, journalism school professors charged with editing their work on top of a full teaching load risk burnout

More News

John Werner / Forbes:
Tutor Intelligence, which trains robot foundation models and builds AI warehouse robots, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z, taking its total funding to $117M

Earlier Picks

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:
Filings: Oracle is selling $10B in common stock and $10B in bonds, as it rushes to get financing for its data center buildout and chip purchases; ORCL falls 9%
Aaron Tilley / The Information:
Sources: Apple is developing a tabletop robot with a 9" screen and a swiveling arm, set for release in 2027 or 2028 for ~$1,000, as John Ternus pushes robotics
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Email: OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs on desktop for select users before rolling it out widely; Codex “will remain a separate experience”
Siladitya Ray / Forbes:
Elon Musk says the cost of serving Grok Bot was “unsustainably high relative to revenue”, in response to subscribers complaining about SpaceX's usage limits
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters:
Marvell agrees to acquire optical components maker Lumentum in a $115B all-stock deal, as it aims to rival Broadcom; Nvidia invested $2B in each company in 2026
Bloomberg:
Supermarkets in Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia report fridge and freezer temperature spikes due to suspected hacks, echoing attacks in France
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