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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm unveils two AI inference chips, the AI200, set for 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, and says Humain is the first customer; QCOM jumps 12%+ — Qualcomm announced Monday that it will release new artificial intelligence accelerator chips, marking new competition for Nvidia …
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| Sneha Kumar / Reuters: |
Australia sues Microsoft for allegedly misleading ~2.7M Microsoft 365 users into accepting a price hike for Copilot plans while hiding cheaper non-AI options — - Microsoft 365 personal plan price increased by 45% — Cheaper ‘classic’ plan only revealed during cancellation process
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft's next Xbox will run Windows, letting users play PlayStation titles on Steam and the full Xbox console library, without a multiplayer paywall — The new Xbox platform is said to be a “premium” experience, and now we have some details on what it'll look like.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI estimates that around 0.07% of ChatGPT users active in a week show “severe mental health symptoms” like mania, and details its safety improvements — We worked with more than 170 mental health experts to help ChatGPT more reliably recognize signs of distress, respond with care …
More: Wired, Big Technology, WebProNews, and Blockchain.News
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate staff, or ~30,000 people, its largest layoffs since 2022, to reduce costs and address pandemic overhiring — Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses … | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Internal memo: Meta's head of AI product Nat Friedman says Vishal Shah, who previously led the metaverse unit, is joining his team to lead AI product management — Vishal Shah takes on key role after Meta AI video service Vibes overshadowed by OpenAI's Sora
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Economic Times
| Will McCurdy / PCMag: |
X prompts users to re-enroll their security keys for 2FA, and will lock accounts that are not updated by Nov. 10, allowing it to retire the Twitter.com domain — If you're using a hardware security key as your two-factor authentication (2FA) method on X, you'll need to re-enroll by Nov. 10 or your account will be locked.
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X: @safety, @safety, @safety, @icesolst, @marc0zane, @nathanmcnulty, @dinodaizovi, and @itsreallynick
| Webb Wright / ZDNET: |
Anthropic expands Claude for Financial Services with a beta Claude for Excel integration, additional data connectors, and new pre-built Agent Skills — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic's Claude chatbot just got a suite of finance updates. — Claude can draft financial reports, access new data, and more.
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| MiniMax: |
China's MiniMax releases MiniMax M2, an open source model optimized for AI agents and coding and priced at $0.30/1M input tokens and $1.20/1M output tokens — From Day 1 of our founding, we have been committed to the vision of “Intelligence with Everyone.”
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| Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: |
In Vietnam, 65 countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite tech companies' and activists' privacy and security concerns — HO CHI MINH CITY — Under a new United Nations treaty, 65 countries have agreed to fight cybercrime, including by sharing data … | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Meta launches “ghost posts” on Threads, letting users share “unfiltered thoughts” in posts that disappear after 24 hours; replies will appear as a DM — Threads is rolling out ghost posts, which get automatically archived after 24 hours. Here's how it works.
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Threads: @conno_r, @kurtwag8, @masiosare, @kurtwag8, and @threads
| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
IBM launches Digital Asset Haven, a digital assets platform built with crypto wallet provider Dfns for financial institutions, governments, and companies — International Business Machines Corp. is launching a digital assets platform to allow financial institutions, governments and companies …
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is finalizing $350M in funding led by Felicis at a $10B valuation; founded in 2023, Mercor manages 30K contractors — Founded in 2023 by three college dropouts, Mercor recruits humans to train chatbots, a new industry gold mine
More: TechCrunch, CNBC, and Tech Funding News
| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ's rigged-poker-game indictment involved hacking DeckMate, a casino-standard, suitcase-sized, $10K+ card shuffling machine, to reveal players' hands — The rigged-poker-game indictment unveiled on Thursday reads like a Hollywood heist film, featuring NBA stars and famous Mafia crime families.| Financial Times: |
Sources: JPMorgan Chase is giving staff the option to use its in-house LLM to write year-end performance reviews, a shortcut to the often painstaking process — Move allows employees to use bank's large language model to generate reviews from their own prompts| Dion Lim / CEO Dinner Insights: |
The current AI investment boom will spark a “wildfire” that wipes out some companies, yet bolsters and enables others by unlocking GPUs, energy, and talent — AI won't crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next.
More: Heatmap News. X: @manosaie, @ericabrescia, @thisiskp_, and @mamoonha
LinkedIn: Liz Fuscaldo Chroust, Benjamin Abes, and Dion Lim
| Reuters: |
The US forms a $1B partnership with AMD to construct two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, accelerating research in fusion energy, drug development, and more — - Supercomputers to help harness fusion energy, treat cancer — Lux supercomputer to come online in six months
More: Benzinga, Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp, Washington Examiner, Watcher Guru, and Proactive
| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant, including putting OpenAI-related losses into a $4.7B “other, net” expense line in the FY ended June 30 — Company's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant. That is no longer tenable. — How long can Microsoft expect investors …
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