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Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times:
Democrat James Talarico defeats Ken Paxton to win Texas's first Democratic Senate seat in 30+ years; Elon Musk spent $47M backing Paxton and attacked Talarico  —  Billionaire had ploughed $47mn into bankrolling Republican Ken Paxton's campaign while fuelling conspiracy theories about his opponent
Bloomberg:
Democratic gubernatorial wins in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania may expose 50% of proposed US AI data center additions to greater scrutiny and pushback  —  Data center developers seeking to build dozens of sprawling artificial intelligence campuses across Texas were already dealing …
New York Times:
Google says AI tools for K-12 students will be off by default in 2027; schools that block AI entirely will lose Search, as “Search and AI are deeply integrated”  —  Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students.  But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google's search engine.
Isabel O'Brien / CNBC:
Following backlash against its education updates, Google says schools can choose to enable Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Search individually
Apple Developer:
Apple opens Siri AI to all developers, letting any app on iOS 27.3 beta and other 27.3 OS betas bring its content and actions into Siri AI by using App Intents  —  Starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas, a new Developer Preview enables any developer …
Bloomberg:
Apple launches iOS 27.3 beta, adding Apple Intelligence in China with an Alibaba-powered content filter, and watchOS 27.3 beta, with Siri Recap and Live Rewind  —  Apple Inc. rolled out the first developer beta versions of iOS 27.3 and watchOS 27.3 on Tuesday, putting new features …
Katie Tarasov / CNBC:
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 45% YoY to $13.38B, above $13.09B est., Data Center revenue up 97% to $8.5B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+  —  Advanced Micro Devices reported third-quarter earnings on Tuesday that beat Wall Street's expectations, with revenue jump 45% …
David Swan / The Age:
Canva says it is restructuring, impacting 1,271 jobs, or 22% of its staff, across layoffs and relocations, as it merges its product, growth, and platform teams  —  Canva will cut more than 1000 jobs in a major restructure in response to slowing growth at the design giant.
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Binance says North Korean hackers stole $6.3B through a months-long scheme with fake LinkedIn job interviews and an ad campaign to deliver malicious software  —  Binance on Tuesday disclosed that North Korean hackers used a mix of social engineering and malicious software to pull off …
Anthropic:
Anthropic releases FlashProve, an open-source prototype that cryptographically verifies an AI response came from a given model, not one that a router swapped in  —  Roy Rinberg (Anthropic), Alex Allain (Anthropic); Alessandro Chiesa (EPFL, StarkWare), Miranda Christ (MIT, RESI), Rahul Dalal …
Tobias Mann / The Register:
Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs by ~90% in less than a year by making self-hosted GLM models its default over commercial tools like Claude Code  —  Revolut says that in less than a year it's managed to slash its AI coding inference costs by roughly 90 percent by making self-hosted models …
Stephen Council / Business Insider:
Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, says she has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure on October 24  —  - Cat Wu, who helped scale Claude Code into one of tech's most important products, has left Anthropic.
Bloomberg:
Meta raised $15B in a US dollar bond sale; sources: the offering drew as much as $58B in orders and is the biggest portion of a $20B+ cross-border bond offering  —  Meta Platforms Inc. raised $15 billion from a US dollar bond sale, drawing solid demand as it became the latest Big Tech company …
Mike Allen / Axios:
OpenAI hires Jill Hazelbaker, Uber's president and chief corporate affairs officer, as its new chief corporate affairs officer, reporting to Greg Brockman  —  Jill Hazelbaker, Uber's president and chief corporate affairs officer, is moving to OpenAI in the new role of chief corporate affairs officer …
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Ubisoft and at least two other gaming companies offered to acquire Arkane Studios from Microsoft, which is exploring options before a December deadline  —  Microsoft's gaming unit is looking to divest the French company behind ‘Dishonored’ and 'Marvel's Blade'
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
California accepts $1.42B in US federal broadband funding, but challenges the Trump administration's demand that it stop enforcing state net neutrality rules  —  California is accepting $1.42 billion in broadband grant funding from the Trump administration, but the state is not accepting …
Katie Drummond / Wired:
Q&A with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on new municipal AI policy measures, like an AI ban for some students, support for a one-year data center pause, and more  —  Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City's mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.
Mario Gabriele / The Generalist:
Q&A with Simile CEO Joon Sung Park on claims that its digital twins predict human behavior with 85%+ accuracy, its goal of simulating all 8B people, and more  —  Inside Simile with Joon Sung Park. … Before Joon Sung Park and I had ever met, he simulated the conversation.

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Angela Fu / Poynter:
A look at what a Democratic-controlled Congress could focus on to protect press freedom, including investigating the FCC and reforming transparency laws

Linda Hourani / The Kyiv Independent:
How Russia is bringing young foreign influencers to occupied Ukraine, curating their experiences, and encouraging them to share them to whitewash Russia's image

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Earlier Picks

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg:
AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3B led by Bessemer at a $16B valuation, up from $8B in April; source: Fal hit $800M in annualized revenue earlier in 2026
Lance Whitney / ZDNET:
Microsoft updates Windows 11 to make PCs with 8GB of RAM up to 20% more responsive and multitasking up to 40% faster in lab tests, utilizing memory compression
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Rockstar plans to let users preload GTA VI on November 10, ahead of its November 19 launch, and says the preload requires up to 212GB “depending on your device”
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
ChatGPT Consumer Product Lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M over the past two months, and its search volume is now ~20% of Google's
David Pierce / The Verge:
iPad mini (2026) review: great OLED display, it's waterproof and dustproof, and the A20 Pro is fast, but it's expensive, has no 120Hz display, and lacks Face ID
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