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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI launches its ChatGPT Atlas web browser, available initially for macOS, and “coming soon” to Windows, iOS, and Android — OpenAI on Tuesday announced a next-generation Web browser, Atlas, as the company seeks to expand from simply being a popular app into a broader computing platform.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas' opt-in browser memories feature can remember key details from users' web browsing to improve chat responses and offer suggestions — The browser with ChatGPT built in. — Today we're introducing ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core.
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
ChatGPT Atlas features an agent mode to let ChatGPT automate web-based tasks on behalf of users, available for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users — ChatGPT is the “beating heart of Atlas,” according to employees on the livestream. … OpenAI's next move in its battle against Google is an AI-powered web browser.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
| New York Times: |
Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K+ jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations — Earlier this month, I went to Louisiana to tour Amazon's most advanced warehouse. It was unlike any I had visited in my seven years covering the company →
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Bluesky: @carlquintanilla and @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk
| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform to let crypto companies quickly raise capital, for ~$375M, marking Coinbase's eighth acquisition in 2025 — Acquisition marks Coinbase's eighth deal this year — Coinbase Global has struck a roughly $375 million deal to acquire Echo …
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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $11.51B, matching est., operating margin below est. due to Brazilian tax dispute expense; NFLX drops 5%+ after hours — Shares of Netflix plummeted as much as 7% after the company posted a third-quarter earnings miss after the closing bell Tuesday.
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix says it is on track to more than double its advertising revenue in 2025 and is currently using AI to test new ad formats — The streaming giant reported its Q3 earnings Tuesday.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's foldable iPad with an 18" screen faces engineering challenges tied to weight, features, and display tech, pushing its debut to 2029 or later — Apple Inc.'s effort to reinvent the iPad by adding a giant foldable screen has hit development hurdles, potentially delaying the planned launch.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Dario Amodei addresses “inaccurate claims” about Anthropic's policy stances after David Sacks said the “real issue” is “Anthropic's agenda to backdoor Woke AI” — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed “inaccurate claims” about the artificial intelligence …
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| Omar El Chmouri / Bloomberg: |
Documents: OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers paid $150 per hour to train its AI to build financial models as part of its secretive Project Mercury — OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers helping train its artificial intelligence on how to build financial models …
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Apple MacBook Pro 14 (M5) review: feels the same as M4 with a speed upgrade and still good value for money with great battery life, but only a modest update — Last year's entry-level MacBook Pro was an impressive return to form for Apple's Pro laptop. Between the M4 chip, increased RAM …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
iPad Pro (M5, 2025) review: amazing performance, hardware remains unbeaten, and iPadOS is getting more Mac-like, but still too pricey for a secondary computer — What do you get the tablet that has everything? Last year, Apple debuted a massive overhaul to the iPad Pro, with a thin new design …
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches its likeness detection tech, letting eligible creators in its Partner Program request the removal of AI-generated content with their likeness — YouTube revealed on Tuesday that its likeness-detection technology has officially rolled out to eligible creators in the YouTube Partner Program, following a pilot phase.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Apple challenges the DMA in the EU's General Court, saying it “imposes hugely onerous and intrusive burdens” at odds with Apple's rights in the EU marketplace — Apple Inc. lashed out at the European Union's attempts to tame the power of Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge …
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| Reuters: |
Meta forms a JV with Blue Owl to fund the $27B, 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, its largest ever private capital deal; Meta will retain a ~20% equity — Meta (META.O) has struck a $27 billion financing deal with Blue Owl Capital to fund its biggest data center project globally …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99 — It's going to cost you more to watch HBO Max, after the streaming platform raised its prices just a year after its last hikes.
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| Artie Beaty / ZDNET: |
Samsung rolls out a Perplexity TV app, which works alongside Samsung's Vision AI Companion, on its 2025 TVs; 2023 and 2024 TV models will get it later this year — ZDNET's key takeaways — Samsung is introducing a new Perplexity TV app. — 2025 models get the app now, 2024 and 2023 models later this year.
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| Adrienne So / Wired: |
Oakley Meta Vanguard review: the smart glasses combine headphones, sunglasses, and a camera, plus Garmin integration, but the camera specs aren't too impressive — Meta's second collaboration with Oakley look good, sound great, and might just replace your action cam. — Rating:
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| Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar: |
Apple Vision Pro M5 review: everything looks sharper, especially virtual desktop mode, and the Dual Knit band is comfortable, but the headset still costs $3,500 — New Apple silicon and a new headband level up the experience — TechRadar Verdict … Why you can trust TechRadar …
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| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google Fi plans an AI call quality feature to filter out background sounds like wind next month, and will bring full RCS support on the web in December — Google's Fi cellular service is getting an upgrade, and since this is 2025, there's plenty of AI involved.
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
A US judge orders Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, and Adam Mosseri to testify in the “first bellwether trial” over child social media safety, set for January — Meta Platforms' CEO Mark Zuckerberg will need to testify at the first trial over the adverse effects of social media on younger users …
More: The Information, Engadget, Law360, and Bloomberg Law
| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: |
Google launches new features for its Google AI Studio developer platform, including a revamped “Build” tab to vibe code AI apps — Google debuts a revamped AI Studio “Build” interface that cuts technical barriers for AI app prototyping with one-click Cloud Run publishing.
More: VentureBeat, The Keyword, Android Headlines, and WinBuzzer
| Contessa Brewer / CNBC: |
DraftKings acquires predictions platform Railbird as it prepares to launch its mobile platform DraftKings Predictions in the coming months — DraftKings is acquiring predictions platform Railbird as it prepares to launch a mobile platform in the coming months to be called DraftKings Predictions.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic is in discussions with Google about a deal that would provide Anthropic with computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars — Anthropic PBC is in discussions with Alphabet Inc.'s Google about a deal that would provide the artificial intelligence company …
More: Social Media Today and Yahoo Finance
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Filing: Satya Nadella's total pay for fiscal 2025 rose nearly 22% YoY from $79.1M to $96.5M, including $84.2M in stock awards; MSFT is up ~23% so far in 2025 — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's total 2025 compensation rose nearly 22% from $79.1 million to almost $96.5 million … | Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Filings: Meta spent the most on US lobbying in Q3, spending $5.8M, followed by Amazon, Google, Apple; Anthropic, Nvidia, and a16z hit $1M+ for the first time — Meta was the top lobbying spender in the third quarter of 2025, and AI and semiconductor companies increased their quarterly spend, per federal filings.Sponsor Posts
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