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Sources: OpenAI's restructuring, approved by California's AG, paves the way for an IPO as soon as 2027; Sam Altman says an IPO is likely but gave no timeframe — Company assured state officials that it would stay in California as it continues global expansion, which could include a public offering as soon as 2027
More: OpenAI, Financial Times, New York Times, Implicator.ai, Implicator.ai, Benzinga, Axios, and Politico
| Rocket Drew / The Information: |
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| Bloomberg: |
After Nvidia GTC, Jensen Huang says “I don't believe we're in an AI bubble” and that Nvidia expects to sell 20M Blackwell chips, up from 4M Hopper chips — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang announced a flurry of new partnerships and dismissed concerns about an AI bubble … | Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Forbes Middle East, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Fast Company, ZeroHedge News, Forbes, Korea Joongang Daily, COINOTAG NEWS, TipRanks Financial, and Implicator.ai
Forums: r/technology, r/madeinusa, and r/StockMarket
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Amazon makes “significant role reductions” to its game division and will cut down on big budget titles, as it focuses on Luna and casual games — Tech giant will reduce game development work and eliminate jobs — Amazon.com Inc. is gutting its video-game division …
More: Official New World, Windows Central, IGN, TheGamer, PocketGamer.biz, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, VideoGamer, GamingBolt, Tech4Gamers, Variety, KitGuru, DBLTAP, Eurogamer.net, GameSpot, GamesRadar, GeekWire, Game Informer, and The Verge
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Forums: r/xbox, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/pcgaming, r/newworldgame, r/lotro, r/MMORPG, r/PS5, and r/Games
| Financial Times: |
Nvidia opens at a $5T market cap, becoming the first company to hit the milestone, climbing 5% in early trading; NVDA is up 50% in 2025 and 1,275% since 2022 — US chip giant's stock propelled by strong sales of AI systems and prospect of access to China — Michael Acton in San Francisco …
More: The Guardian, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, Fortune, The Independent, Capacity, and Bloomberg
| The Verge: |
Grokipedia hands-on: many articles clone Wikipedia, but deviate significantly on topics conflicting with Elon Musk's worldview; at times, it is overtly racist — xAI's Wikipedia-like website offers a generous take on Musk's worldview. … On Monday, a new online “encyclopedia” sputtered to life.
More: Wired, 404 Media, Associated Press, The Atlantic, Grokipedia, International Business Times, Benzinga, Business Insider, CNN, Mashable, and Matt Mullenweg
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $17.02B, below $17.22B est., and operating profit up 62% YoY to a record $7.92B, boosted by demand for its HBM chips — South Korea's SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, boosted by a strong demand for its high bandwidth memory used in generative AI chipsets.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Character.ai plans to limit under-18s to two hours of conversations per day, gradually reducing the time limit before banning them completely from November 25 — Move comes following growing public and regulatory scrutiny over safety of the technology for young users
More: New York Times, Business Insider, Axios, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Verge, CNBC, BBC, Mashable, Character.AI Blog, and TBIJ
| Adobe Newsroom: |
A survey of 16K+ creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more — - 76 percent of creators say creative generative AI has helped grow their business and personal brand
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| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
GitHub updates VS Code with Plan Mode for building step-by-step project approaches, MCP Registry integration, definable project rules via AGENTS.md, and more — GitHub is making a bold bet that enterprises don't need another proprietary coding agent. They need a way to manage all of them.| 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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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, designed to run on consumer hardware and even in web browsers — In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for intelligence, IBM is charting a different course … | 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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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone writing tool Grammarly still exists — ChatGPT changed the game on Grammarly, but now it's adding more AI to pull users back into its sidebar.
More: 9to5Mac, Thurrott, SiliconANGLE, ZDNET, PCWorld, and Fast Company
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-safeguard, its open-weight reasoning models for safety classification tasks, available in 120B and 20B parameters, under Apache 2.0 — New open safety reasoning models (120b and 20b) that support custom safety policies. — Today, we're releasing a research preview … | Corporate Europe Observatory: |
Big Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 146 meetings with EU officials — The EU's digital rulebook is under unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration and a homegrown deregulation wave.
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Politico
| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
Foxconn says it plans to deploy Nvidia's Isaac GR00T N model of humanoid robots at its factory in Houston, Texas, which produces AI servers for Nvidia — Foxconn (2317.TW), the world's largest electronics maker and Nvidia's (NVDA.O) key AI server maker, said on Tuesday it will deploy humanoid robots …
More: Nvidia Newsroom, ASSEMBLY, Toronto Star, and TechRadar
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
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X: @dkhos, @stellantis, @natlungfy, @alexgkendall, @andrewgordonmac, and @ntwork. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
YouTube is using AI to upscale videos uploaded at between 240p and 720p to HD on TV screens, but users can opt out, and plans 4K upscaling “in the near future” — The platform is optimizing its TV experience with new resolution upscaling and shopping features.
More: TechCrunch, YouTube Official Blog, Digital Trends, Cord Cutters News, and Tubefilter. Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are laying off tens of thousands of white collar workers, as executives hope AI can handle their workload — Layoffs at companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending young and experienced workers alike into an unwelcoming market
More: The Register, Fortune, Axios, Business Insider, and Raw Story
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Forums: r/technology and r/jobs
| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience — Advertisers are increasingly putting their digital ad spend into Reddit, drawn by the platform's growing audience and its influence …
X: @ellynbriggs and @trishlaostwal
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
USC sues Google in Texas federal court, alleging that Google Earth, Maps, and Google Street View violate its patents for overlaying 2D images onto 3D models — The University of Southern California has sued Google (GOOGL.O) in Texas federal court, alleging that the tech giant's Google Earth … | Politico: |
French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation — PARIS — French lawmakers are moving ahead with plans to double a tax on big tech firms — backing away from a more aggressive push amid fears …
More: Bloomberg Law
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
All three major South Korean telcos, SK Telecom, KT Telecom, and now LG Uplus, have reported cybersecurity incidents to the government over the past six months — LG Uplus, one of the largest telecom operators in South Korea, has confirmed to TechCrunch that it has reported a suspected data breach …
More: The Korea Herald and Korea Joongang Daily
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, below $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” … Sponsor Posts
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