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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI pledges to change how it handles data center deals, including avoiding NDAs and lowering power usage during peak times, after Democrats' midterm wins — OpenAI said it will avoid nondisclosure agreements when it negotiates data center deals and ensure residents don't pay for the electricity …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: at Jensen Huang's midterms event, tech executives expressed concern over anti-data center results; OpenAI discussed resetting its 2027 capacity plans — Americans' vote for anti-data center candidates and ballot measures could rein in AI's expansion and hobble economic growth| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: a gorgeous screen, touch is useful for some apps, and excellent speakers with deep bass, but pricey and no Face ID — Sure, touch is there, too. — Reviews … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
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| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
The MacBook Pro's PROLED XDR display is the best display you can buy right now, but touching it is not very ergonomic and lack of Apple Pencil support is weird — Apple's new, highest-end MacBook Pro diverged from the last few launches in that it didn't focus on performance at all …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord is moving its desktop app from Electron to Rust for improved speed and memory safety; its CTO shares an image of the Windows app using just 290MB of RAM — Discord is moving its apps fully over to the Rust programming language. … Discord is finally giving up on Electron … | New York Times: |
Sources detail Dario Amodei's AI beliefs, shaped by forums like GiveWell and based on EA and “rationalism”, and his disputes with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — One night in 2007, Dario Amodei regaled a friend who was visiting him at Princeton University with his thoughts on …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
An interview with two Nintendo producers on the new Ocarina of Time remake for the Switch 2, which features modern gameplay mechanics like full camera control — Producers Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi talk about bringing the first 3D Zelda to a whole new audience.
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Mercedes-Benz rolls out conversational models that run directly on its cars instead of the cloud through a partnership with MIT spinout Liquid AI — The automaker is working with Liquid AI, a startup that spun out of MIT, to run AI models directly in the car, rather than the cloud| Financial Times: |
Sources: Microsoft rejects an option to more than double its Texas data center contract with Nscale, dealing a fresh blow to Nscale's ambitions for a $35B IPO — Fresh blow ahead of start-up's IPO as tech giant turns down option to more than double Texas data centre contract
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs — Security research that once required a separate, sustained investigation for each finding can increasingly be run as a systematic process.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and its API, saying it generates images 50% faster, and adds animated GIF creation from a prompt or a photo — You can use ChatGPT to edit a GIF's animation speed and individual frames. … ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot.
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sony reports Q2 revenue of ~$21.7B, operating profit of $3.94B, both above est., and 2.6M PS5 sales, as GTA VI sparks a US sales jump, especially of the PS5 Pro — Sony Group Corp. raised its profit outlook after a string of entertainment hits propelled better-than-expected results in the September quarter.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60 per 1M output tokens — There's another American victory worth paying attention to today: a new, open weights AI model that its creators claim scores …
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rolls out Retention Messaging, letting developers show personalized text, images, or special offers to users who are trying to cancel their subscription — Apple today rolled out a new subscription retention tool for developers looking to reduce cancellations. Here are the details.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap from $300 to $200 and plans cuts to as little as $100, as cost cutting stokes employee fears of layoffs — Apple Inc. is reducing employee budgets for artificial intelligence usage as part of a cost-cutting effort …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google, Meta, and TikTok file lawsuits to block a California law that bans online platforms from providing “psychologically exploitative features” to under-16s — Google (GOOGL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok sued California to block enforcement of a new state law intended …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says H1 2026 was “pretty rough”, but agentic coding tools, GPT-5.6 Sol, and ChatGPT Work drove a “revenue inflection” in Q3 — The ChatGPT maker's president said it experienced a ‘revenue inflection’ in the third quarter of 2026, driven by a growing enterprise business| Stephen Council / Business Insider: |
Catherine Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she joined OpenAI as Product Lead for Core Products; Wu was the Head of Product for Claude Code for two years — Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week after becoming one of the company's highest-profile product managers, is joining OpenAI.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
X rolls out a redesigned web app country by country for signed-in users, replacing three servers with one to improve load times especially on slow connections — X is moving signed-in users to its new web app one country at a time, but it's already using the rewrite for X's logged-out web experience.| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
Sources: China told SoftBank it will not allow the $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division to go ahead; the Swiss-Swedish company employs ~12,700 in China — Swiss-Swedish company's unit is focused on Chinese market and has mega-factory in Pudong — China has told SoftBank … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
ElevenLabs says users can now publish AI-generated music made with ElevenMusic directly on SoundCloud and that users have created 25M+ tracks using its models — Audio AI company ElevenLabs on Thursday said users will be able to publish AI-generated music created using its ElevenMusic platform directly on SoundCloud.| Charles Rollet / Business Insider: |
Source: Meta has decided to stop naming its AI models after fruit, as they didn't suit its lofty AI ambitions; its latest, Wonder Full, was codenamed Watermelon — Meta is done with fruits. — The social media giant has internally decided to stop naming its AI models after fruit, a person familiar with the matter said.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Dropbox plans to acquire AI storage startup Tigris Data for $350M, its largest acquisition to date; Tigris raised ~$31.9M from Spark, a16z, and others — Dropbox announced Thursday plans to acquire Tigris Data for $350 million in a transaction the company told Crunchbase News would mark …
More: TechCrunch, The New Stack, and Work in Progress
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Motorola launches the $1,599+ Signature 27, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset, a 6.8-inch Tandem OLED display, and seven years of OS updates — Motorola is officially back in the flagship space, with its new Signature 27 phone available for pre-order starting today, but it'll cost a pretty penny.
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| Lefteris Papadimas / Reuters: |
Greece's parliament approves a 10% capital gains tax on crypto, exempting gains of up to €500 a year, in the country's first comprehensive crypto tax framework — Greece's parliament approved on Thursday a bill that imposes a 10% capital gains tax on cryptocurrencies … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:NEW |
Aina, which raised $5.5M, launches an “AI ring” with a screen, joystick, and mic to let users talk to their AI agents, take notes, control Apple TV, and more — Hardware startup Aina released a smart ring today that features a screen, a joystick, and a mic so that you can talk to your agents and take notes.| Mark Stenberg / Adweek: |
Sources: Anthropic and AP struck a licensing deal just before the US midterms, the first time Anthropic paid a digital news publisher to license its content — The arrangement marks the first time the artificial intelligence firm has paid a digital news publisher to license its content — Key Takeaways
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| Rya Jetha / Business Insider: |
Humble Robotics, which is building cabless electric autonomous trucks for regional routes under 250 miles, raised $51M, taking its total funding to $75M — Many self-driving truck companies are trying to teach existing trucks to drive themselves. Humble Robotics thinks the truck itself needs a rethink.| Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation, up from $7.85B after raising $600M+ in January, and plans to grow US manufacturing — CEO Keller Cliffton says the company's skyrocketing valuation is a sign that autonomous delivery has finally gained wider acceptance
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Quartz
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| Tess Owen / Wired: |
Pro-AI PAC Leading the Future ended the midterms with $20M+ in the bank, from ~$100M, after focusing on safe bipartisan candidates; its riskier bets fell flat — Leading the Future, backed by Silicon Valley's biggest billionaires, had a war chest of $100 million and an aggressive stance against AI regulation.
More: TechCrunch, Politico, Politico, Citation Needed, and Washington Post
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Zoho:
Labels that build themselves: Simplified Label Automation in Zoho Writer — Anyone who ships every day knows this feeling. Forty orders, each with a different number of items, and every item needs its own label.
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IDrive:
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WebBrain:
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