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November 4, 2026, 1:35 AM
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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  —  Google is playing defense on Tuesday after a political backlash to its new policy surrounding use of artificial intelligence in schools.
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, vs. $13.09B est., Data Center revenue up 97% to $8.5B, forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours  —  Advanced Micro Devices reported third-quarter earnings on Tuesday that beat Wall Street's expectations, with revenue jump 45% …
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 …
David Swan / The Age:
Canva says it is restructuring, which will impact 1,271 workers, or 22% of its workforce, 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.  —  Co-founder and chief executive …
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 …
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'
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  —  ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry on ChatGPT's growth, the cost of personal agents, and plans to bring Chat and Work together.
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.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
California accepts $1.42B in 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 …
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.
Stephen Council / Business Insider:
Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure last month  —  - Cat Wu, who helped scale Claude Code into one of tech's most important products, has left Anthropic.  — She joined the startup in 2024 …
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  —  The latest updates to Windows 11 offer improvements in speed, performance, and memory management.  —  ZDNET's key takeaways
Xavier Martinez / Wall Street Journal:
Pharmaceutical leaders are skeptical of claims that AI could cure most diseases within a decade; the US FDA has yet to clear any AI-designed biotech drugs  —  No drug designed by artificial intelligence has won FDA clearance, and pharma leaders say biology is the obstacle
The Information:
How Nvidia uses soft power to influence customers and shape US chip policy; sources: OpenAI took no public stance on China chip exports to avoid angering Nvidia  —  Last month, OpenAI Senior Research Scientist Noam Brown posted a link in a company Slack channel to a news story …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and other Chinese AI companies ordered 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips worth $70B, but expect only ~1% within four months  —  Chinese AI developers expect to receive just a small fraction of the advanced Nvidia Corp. chips they've ordered over the next several months …

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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The NYT, the New York Daily News, and others sue browser maker Brave for allegedly scraping their articles for AI training and letting users bypass paywalls

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Memo: Skydance names WBD's Sarah Bergman and Paramount's Mickey Carter to lead its distribution business, as eight executives are set to leave the company

New York Times:
A profile of Laura Belin, an openly liberal Iowa journalist long shut out by state Republicans who says Democrats also favor friendly influencers over reporters

More News

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
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”
James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler AI, which helps monitor AI agents, for ~$400M, and Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for ~$95M, mostly in cash

Earlier Picks

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
Adriano Marchese / Wall Street Journal:
Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $3.74B, vs. $3.75B est., GMV up 29% to $119.15B, net income up 75% to $462M, and adjusted EPS of $0.49; SHOP falls 5%+
New York Times:
US data center operators and power developers are repurposing jet engines to secure power in as little as two years, bypassing multi-year grid-connection delays
Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI hires ex-US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to oversee national security modernization, as it pushes to secure government contracts and shape military policy
Tom Wilson / Financial Times:
The UK NCSC says AI is “transforming cyber operations” and expects China and Russia to “routinely use AI cyber to achieve their geopolitical goals” by 2028
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
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