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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
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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
A Democratic sweep of US Congress pulls down Asian tech stocks, as investors rethink trades built around Trump's policy agenda for AI infrastructure and crypto — Global markets pared a selloff sparked by a Democratic sweep of the US Congress, as investors weighed tougher scrutiny …
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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.
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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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| 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% …
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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: |
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 … | 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 …
More: Storyboard18, Fortune, and PYMNTS.com
| 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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Forums: r/blade, r/ImmersiveSim, r/dishonored, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/xbox, r/PS5, and r/Games
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
India-based EloElo, whose Story TV microdrama app has 33M+ estimated active users, raised an $80M Series C led by Hornbill Capital and NBCU at a $500M valuation — More than 118 million users watch microdramas every month as the serialized format has taken off in India.| 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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| 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 …
More: American Prospect, KQED, CalMatters, and Broadband Breakfast
| Neil Kakkar / The Pragmatic Engineer: |
A software engineer details how he went from merging eight to 20 pull requests per month to 200+ after joining AI-native creator startup Tano eight months ago — Before we start: I'm in San Francisco this week and there are a few remaining spots for these live events (registration required):
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Legal shifts in Texas and Delaware leave Elon Musk's SpaceX-Tesla merger and Meta's new non-voting share plan better prepared to fend off shareholder lawsuits — SpaceX-Tesla merger and Meta's new share class expected to fend off legal challenges after shareholder rights diminished in Delaware and Texas.
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| 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.
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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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