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| Bloomberg: |
Democratic gubernatorial wins from Texas and Georgia to Ohio and Pennsylvania are set to expose 50% of AI data center proposals 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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| Nick Wingfield / The Information: |
Texas elects Democrats for governor and the US Senate for the first time in decades, creating uncertainty for its booming AI data center sector and Elon Musk — Texas elected Democrats for governor and the U.S. Senate for the first time in decades, creating potential uncertainty …
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| Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times: |
Democrat James Talarico defeats Ken Paxton to win Texas' 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
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| Calder Mchugh / Politico: |
Elon Musk's preferred US midterm candidates, including Ken Paxton and Vivek Ramaswamy, lost almost everywhere; Musk spent ~$446M, a record for a non-candidate — Plans for buildout of data centers across Texas in doubt after Democrats won a surprise sweep.
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| Washington Post: |
US voters in 29+ jurisdictions overwhelmingly pass data center bans or restrictions; S&P Global: 145+ US projects were delayed or canceled through early August — They passed a string of local bans and elected gubernatorial and Senate candidates pledging tougher regulation. — SummaryLoading...
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Democrats' US midterms victory is a win for hyperscalers and AI labs, a mixed bag for Nvidia, an advantage to China, and may make space data centers attractive — Data Centers were on the ballot, and they lost in a major way; what does it mean if American opposition to building is permanent?
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| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
Democrats' sweep of Congress raises the likelihood of strong frontier AI legislation passing in early 2027, including mandatory testing and developer liability — Strong AI legislation now looks much more likely — America is waking up to an astonishing Democratic sweep.| Financial Times: |
NBC exit poll: 56% said AI and data centers had been a “crucial or a major factor” in their Congress votes, as Democratic candidates pledged to halt development — Gubernatorial wins in Texas, Georgia and Ohio and local ballot measures show depth of discontent with Trump-backed infrastructure spree
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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
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| Politico: |
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Oracle has scrapped a ~$7B, five-year deal to lease as many as 100K advanced AI chips to Tencent after bowing to pressure from the Trump administration — Intervention comes amid growing tension for US AI infrastructure groups doing business with Chinese tech giants.
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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
OpenAI acquires developer tools startup Pierre Computer for an undisclosed amount and plans to integrate Pierre's Code Storage feature directly into Codex — OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer, a developer tools startup whose technology is already embedded in Codex, the company told Axios exclusively.
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| Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm signs a multiyear SpaceX deal to supply Dragonwing hardware and network software for “tens of thousands of cell sites” for a US-wide network in 2027 — Qualcomm Inc. will supply hardware components for SpaceX's planned nationwide terrestrial wireless network …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Revolut hits a $115B valuation, up from $75B in November 2025, after a secondary share sale led by Glade Brook, Coatue, and others, as it plans a US bank launch — Revolut's investors have completed a secondary share sale that values the British fintech at $115 billion …
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| 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.
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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $14.8B, Gross Bookings up 20% to $59.8B, trips up 16% to 4B, and plans to scale its autonomous fleet to 2,000+ in 2027 — Ride-hailing group aims to have 2,000 robotaxis on road by end of next year but will still trail rival Waymo
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| 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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| Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: |
Sequoia says it is closing its London office after six years and consolidating operations back to the Bay Area, citing a lack of need for a local presence — US venture capital giant Sequoia Capital is closing its London office, ending the six-run of a significant European presence and triggering a shake-up of its investment team.
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| Naman Ramachandran / Variety: |
EloElo Group, the company behind Indian microdrama app Story TV, raised an $80M Series C co-led by NBCUniversal and Hornbill, bringing its total raised to $130M — NBCUniversal and India-focused investment firm Hornbill Capital have co-led an $80 million Series C round in EloElo Group …
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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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| Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: |
The French Blood Establishment says external providers' blood cold storage units were hacked to raise temperatures, in a wave of refrigeration cyberattacks — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
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| 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 operations in Malaysia, including on new computing hubs and water security — Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it plans to spend $15 billion to expand data center and cloud operations in Malaysia …
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| Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Circle reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $875M, driven in part by ARC token sales, net income up 5% YoY to $226M, and says it is cutting 5% of its staff — Stablecoin issuer Circle reported third-quarter revenue jumped 17% to $875 million, reflecting mostly a one-time bump from a token sale.
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| Ben Gartside / Wired: |
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan says AI is set to add £55B to £140B to the economy by 2030, below a £400B estimate from a Google-led report touted by officials — The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country's slow rate of adoption| SemiAnalysis: |
Analysis: SpaceX revises its 2027 data center capacity target up to a record ~13GW, roughly equivalent to all of Google's capacity from 1999-2026 in 1.5 years — Making 13GW in 1.5 Years A Reality, Repurposing Rocket Ship Campuses, A Datacenter at TeraFab? — Reyk Knuhtsen, Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros, and Dylan Patel
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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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