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Washington Post:
Grokipedia, a Grok-based encyclopedia, launches with 885K+ articles, drawing from Wikipedia content; Elon Musk called it “a massive improvement” over Wikipedia  —  The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative, but it went down after about an hour.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
xAI's Grokipedia says Grok fact-checked its entries and some “content is adapted from Wikipedia”; some pages, like the PS5's, are almost identical to Wikipedia  —  Some of Grokipedia's pages say that content is ‘adapted’ from Wikipedia.
Bloomberg:
Amazon says it will cut ~14,000 jobs from its corporate workforce, after cutting 27,000 across 2022 and 2023; the company had 1.55M employees globally in June  —  Amazon.com Inc. plans to eliminate roughly 14,000 corporate jobs just months after Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy warned that AI will shrink the company's workforce.
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Anthropic's success in corporate AI, which makes up ~80% of its revenue; a July report put its enterprise API market share at 32%, above OpenAI's 25%  —  Anthropic, backed by Amazon and Google, is focusing on corporate customers rather than the mass market
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
OpenAI:
OpenAI estimates ~0.07% of ChatGPT's weekly active users “indicate possible signs of mental health emergencies” 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 …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there “isn't really another choice” but to use AWS and “the entire stack” is “owned by 3-4 players”  —  Meredith Whittaker is using the AWS outage as an opportunity to highlight the 'concentration …
Vallari Srivastava / Reuters:
NextEra Energy and Google sign a 25-year power supply deal, which includes restarting the 615MW Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa, shut down in 2020  —  U.S. utility NextEra Energy (NEE.N) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google have singed a power supply deal, which would help restart the Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa.
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Fireworks AI, which helps developers access AI chips and models, raised a $254M Series C at a $4B valuation, split into a $230M primary and $24M secondary round  —  The company raises $254 million to further develop its artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure, its CEO says
Hugh Son / CNBC:
PayPal CEO Alex Chriss says the company signed a deal with OpenAI to let shoppers use PayPal's digital wallet in ChatGPT to pay for items, starting in 2026  —  PayPal has signed a deal with OpenAI to have its digital wallet embedded into ChatGPT so users can pay for items found through …
Financial Times:
Visible Alpha: Apple's Services unit revenue is set to hit $108.6B in the year to September, its first time above $100B and up 13% YoY, ahead of its Q4 results  —  Tech giant's high-margin unit has doubled in size over the past five years  —  Apple is set to top $100bn in annual revenues …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
OpenAI offers its cheaper ChatGPT Go plan for free for one year to users in India starting November 4, but did not say how long the offer would remain available  —  OpenAI is offering its ChatGPT Go plan available free of charge for one year to users in India who sign up during …
Agence France-Presse:
Meta and TikTok say they will comply with Australia's under-16 social media ban, taking effect on December 10, but warn the landmark law may be hard to enforce  —  Tech giants Meta and TikTok said Tuesday they will obey Australia's under-16 social media ban but warned the landmark laws could prove difficult to enforce.
Reuters:
Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby completes a secondary share sale of existing shareholders' stakes, valuing it at $4.5B ahead of a possible IPO  —  Saudi Arabia-headquartered fintech Tabby said on Tuesday it has completed a secondary share sale involving shares held by existing shareholders …

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Deadline:
Nexstar closed down 13% on Monday after a US judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday evening blocking the company's $6.2B merger with Tegna

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Ampere Analysis: global streaming subscription revenue grew 14% YoY in 2025 to $157.1B, up from $63B in 2020; including ad revenue, streaming revenue hit $177B

Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
CBS News expands its investigative unit by hiring former Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Gilbert and Free Press reporter Gabe Kaminsky

More News

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI urges the US to commit to building 100GW of new energy capacity each year to stay ahead of China in AI, and says “electrons are the new oil”
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from the process and its financials remain dire, following Amazon abandoning a 2024 bid; IRBT drops 33%+
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

Earlier Picks

MiniMax:
China's MiniMax releases MiniMax M2, an open-source model optimized for AI agents and coding, priced at $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens
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
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
Reuters:
The US forms a $1B partnership with AMD to build two AI supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, accelerating research in fusion energy, drug development, and more
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 closed up 11%
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
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