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| Bret Taylor / OpenAI: |
OpenAI adopts a new for-profit structure, with a public benefit corporation controlled by the nonprofit, which holds a 26% stake, worth ~$130B, in the company — OpenAI has completed its recapitalization, simplifying its corporate structure. The nonprofit remains in control of the for-profit …
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft now holds a ~$135B investment in OpenAI Group PBC, or a ~27% stake, down from 32.5%; OpenAI commits to purchase an additional $250B in Azure services — Since 2019, Microsoft and OpenAI have shared a vision to advance artificial intelligence responsibly and make its benefits broadly accessible.
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LinkedIn: Rory Quinn and Saanya Ojha
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft gets access to OpenAI tech through 2032, including models post-AGI but excluding consumer hardware; OpenAI can now develop products with third parties — OpenAI is giving its long-time backer Microsoft Corp. a 27% ownership stake as part of a restructuring plan that took nearly …
X: @kakashiii111, @quantian1, @firstadopter, @caro_milanesi, @josephjacks_, @firstadopter, and @danielnewmanuv. LinkedIn: Matt Day
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| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Nokia for a 2.9% stake and announces a partnership to integrate Nvidia tech into Nokia's network products; NOK closes up 22.8% — Nvidia Corp. is taking a $1 billion equity stake in Nokia Oyj and plans to supply the telecom company with artificial-intelligence powered computers for wireless networks.
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Forums: r/Nokia, r/ElectricalEngineering, and r/hardware
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber plans a fleet of 100,000 autonomous vehicles powered by Nvidia's new Drive AGX Hyperion 10, starting in 2027 — Uber Technologies Inc. will begin expanding a fleet of 100,000 autonomous vehicles powered by Nvidia Corp. technology starting in 2027, an ambitious move that could help bring … | Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
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Bluesky: @vegandroid and @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
| Wall Street Journal: |
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| NVIDIA on YouTube: |
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| 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.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPad Air with OLED screens; the iPad mini will likely arrive first, as early as 2026 — Apple Inc. is preparing major changes to its MacBook Air, iPad mini and iPad Air lines, with a plan to give the popular devices higher-end displays.
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
PayPal signs a deal with OpenAI to let PayPal buyers and sellers complete transactions through ChatGPT starting in 2026, using the Agentic Commerce Protocol — PayPal has signed a deal with OpenAI to have its digital wallet embedded into ChatGPT so users can pay for items found through …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| 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.
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Mastodon: @AkaSci@fosstodon.org and @nixCraft@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Substrate, which aims to challenge TSMC, raised $100M+ from Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and others at a $1B+ valuation as it seeks to boost US chip making — Substrate plans to use particle accelerators to lower cost of chip manufacturing — Silicon Valley investors …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026 — 1X's Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
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| Steven Adler / New York Times: |
An ex-OpenAI staffer of four years says it isn't doing enough to protect users, especially those with mental health issues, and needs to offer more than words — I've read more smut at work than you can possibly imagine, all of it while working at OpenAI. — Back in the spring of 2021 …
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LinkedIn: Michael Davies and Kavya Miriyala
Bluesky: @justinhendrix, @annmlipton, @emollick, and @seldo.com
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and r/AINewsMinute
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
At its Adobe Max event, Adobe unveils AI tools for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom, and says Firefly Image 5 can generate images in native 4MP resolution — Adobe's Creative Cloud and Firefly apps are adding new ways to do labor-intensive photo and video editing tasks for you.| Financial Times: |
Truth Social launches Truth Predict, a prediction market platform in partnership with Crypto.com to let users trade on major current events like elections — US president's social media platform enters prediction market sector — Donald Trump's Truth Social platform is to offer users …
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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
GitHub plans to launch Agent HQ, a hub to let developers access third-party AI coding agents, including Claude and OpenAI's Codex, in the coming months — ZDNET's key takeaways — GitHub launches Agent HQ to unite Codex, Claude, and Jules. — Developers can now manage multiple AI agents side by side.
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Western Union plans to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, that is built on the Solana blockchain and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, in H1 2026 — Company plans to launch its own stablecoin in 2026 — One of the oldest payments networks is stepping into the digital age.
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LinkedIn: Emanuele R. and Martin Carrica
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale — Along with the issuing of the financial details Tuesday, the maker of “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” “The Sims” and “Apex Legends” …
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| 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 …
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| Natalie Kainz / NBC News: |
An analysis of 30+ US data center proposals in 14 states: in most cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with apparent shell companies to hide details — Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards.| Associated Press: |
Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as part of operations starting in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling — Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share
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