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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Microsoft 365 and Azure suffer outages; users report problems accessing sites and services, and the company says it is investigating  —  Microsoft was hit with outages in its Azure cloud and 365 services on Wednesday, hours before the company's scheduled earnings release.
Cursor:
Cursor launches Cursor 2.0, with its first coding model, Composer, that it says is 4x faster than similar models, and a multi-agent interface  —  Today, we're releasing two big updates that make Cursor the best place to work with agents: our first coding model, Composer, and a new interface for working with many agents in parallel.
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
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
Rocket Drew / The Information:
Memo: California's AG says OpenAI's restructuring has “no impact” on other cases, likely referring to Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over its restructuring
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.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons, sources say in a deal valued at ~$1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across its email and web properties  —  Apollo Global Management has reached a deal to sell AOL to Italian tech holding group Bending Spoons in a deal valued at roughly $1.5 billion, Axios has learned.
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
The Verge:
Grokipedia hands-on: many articles clone Wikipedia, but deviate significantly on topics Elon Musk cares about, with inaccuracies on some scientific topics  —  xAI's Wikipedia-like website offers a generous take on Musk's worldview. … On Monday, a new online “encyclopedia” sputtered to life.
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
During Nvidia's first ever GTC conference in Washington, DC, Jensen Huang praised Trump's policies and emphasized themes of patriotism and US national interests
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.
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.
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.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Amazon opens Project Rainier, an $11B AI data center on 1,200 acres in Indiana that trains and runs Anthropic's AI models using 500K+ Amazon Trainium 2 chips  —  NEW CARLISLE, Indiana — A year ago, it was farmland.  Now, the 1,200-acre site near Lake Michigan is home to one of the largest operational AI data centers in the world.
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
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Internal memo: Amazon makes “significant role reductions” to its game division and will cut down on big budget titles, as it doubles down on Luna  —  Tech giant will reduce game development work and eliminate jobs  —  Amazon.com Inc. is gutting its video-game division as part …
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 …
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
Wall Street Journal:
Eli Lilly partners with Nvidia to build what the companies say will be the most powerful supercomputer run by a pharma company, powered by 1,000+ Blackwell GPUs  —  Drugmaker hopes Nvidia-chip powered supercomputer will help it find new drugs and accelerate lengthy R&D timelines
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.

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Noor Nanji / BBC:
The BBC apologizes to President Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his January 6 speech together but rejects his demands for compensation

Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
Bob Iger says upcoming changes to Disney+ include “game-like features” and “mostly short-form” user-generated content made with generative AI

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the first-round bid deadline for WBD is November 20; Paramount wants the full company, and Comcast and Netflix are eying movie/TV studios and HBO Max

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Dee-Ann Durbin / Associated Press:
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Bloomberg:
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing “graphic violence” and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods
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
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