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Democratic gubernatorial wins in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are set to expose 50% of proposed AI data center additions to more scrutiny and pushback — Data center developers seeking to build dozens of sprawling artificial intelligence campuses across Texas were already dealing …
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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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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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% …
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Sources: Oracle has scrapped a ~$7B, five-year deal to lease ~100K advanced AI chips to Tencent after yielding to pressure from the Trump administration — Intervention comes amid growing tension for US AI infrastructure groups doing business with Chinese tech giants.| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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LinkedIn: Dylan Jones and Richard Teng
| Bloomberg: |
Tencent releases its Hy4 open-weight foundation model, which it says joins the top tier of Chinese open-weight AI for the first time, and plans a Flash version — Tencent Holdings Ltd. released a foundation model Wednesday that it said joins the top tier of Chinese open-weight AI systems for the first time.| 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 …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/antiai, r/AIBubble, r/technology, r/programare, and r/singularity
| 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.| Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
Industry experts warn that slow US power grid expansion could stifle its AI boom and give China an edge, as China builds power infrastructure faster — Why America is struggling to power the AI boom. The US is building electricity lines at a quarter the rate of a decade ago It took 13 years …
LinkedIn: Martha Muir
| Reuters: |
Google says it expanded voluntary exit buyouts in June to employees across Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland to manage costs amid huge AI spending — Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) has expanded employee buyout offers to several countries this year as it looks to rein … | Danial Azhar / Bloomberg: |
Google plans to spend $15B across 2027 and 2028 to expand its data center and cloud infrastructure in Malaysia, including building new computing hubs — Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it plans to spend $15 billion to expand data center and cloud operations in Malaysia as the artificial …
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| 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'
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| 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 … | Reuters: |
ITjuzi: Chinese embodied AI companies raised ~$13B across 322 deals in H1 2026, up 5x YoY, as robot makers shift focus from hardware to AI — After years of building humanoid robots capable of running, dancing and performing backflips, Chinese companies are pouring resources into a different challenge … | Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Traversal, which provides AI agents for site reliability engineering, raised $120M co-led by Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, and Khosla at a $1B valuation — Traversal has raised $120 million in funding to help companies like American Express and Pepsi troubleshoot site outages. — for The Prompt
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