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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Samsung says it's partnering with Nvidia to build an “AI Megafactory” and deploy over 50K of Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to embed AI in its chipmaking process — Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. said today it's partnering with Nvidia Corp. to build an “AI Megafactory” …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch “dislikes” in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings — Social network Bluesky, which on Friday announced a new milestone of 40 million users, will soon start testing “dislikes” as a way to improve personalization on its main Discover feed and others.
More: Bluesky, The Verge, Engadget, and TheDesk.net
| Claudie Moreau / Euractiv: |
Denmark says it will withdraw the EU “Chat Control” proposal, which would force tech companies to scan messages for CSAM, and instead support voluntary scanning — The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders
More: The Record, Patrick Breyer, Electronic Frontier Foundation, WinBuzzer, DataBreachToday.com, Canadian Press, and Le Monde
X: @globalaffairs, @privacy_guides, @tutaprivacy, @andersonafdmdep, @andersonafdmdep, and @echo_pbreyer
Bluesky: @suzannesmalley and @jonatansark
Mastodon: @fj@mastodon.social and @delta@chaos.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/Italia, r/europe, r/privacy, r/eutech, r/BuyFromEU, r/france, and Slashdot
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
In their latest earnings reports, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have announced plans to increase their AI spending in 2026 to a combined $400B — Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon will increase spending in 2026; ‘Are we in a bubble?’ — Silicon Valley's biggest companies …
More: Livemint, Fortune, Barchart.com, CNN, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, City A.M., Business Insider, Barron's Online, TVNewsCheck, Sherwood News, Tech Brew, Washington Post, DigiTimes, Financial Times, MacDailyNews, Bloomberg, and Reuters
Forums: r/artificial and r/technology
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries — Instead of searching for a string of keywords, Perplexity's new tool allows you to use natural language to look for patents.
More: Perplexity, WinBuzzer, TestingCatalog, NDTV Profit, Livemint, and Axios
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin infra startup BVNK in a ~$2B deal; Coinbase expects to close the deal later this year or early 2026 — Leading US crypto exchange Coinbase Global Inc. is in late-stage talks to acquire stablecoin infrastructure startup BVNK …
More: CoinGape, The Daily Hodl, Bitcoin Insider, Fast Company, and Finextra
| Matt Rosoff / The Register: |
Microsoft's Q1 earnings, showing that it had a $3.1B net loss from its OpenAI stake, imply OpenAI lost $11.5B during the quarter based on Microsoft's 27% stake — Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised — Microsoft reported earnings for the quarter ended Sept. 30 …
More: Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, Windows Central, Analytics India Magazine, CoinDesk, and Daring Fireball
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/singularity, and r/Economics
| Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools — Getty Images (GETY.N) and Perplexity signed a global multi-year licensing agreement on Friday, allowing the AI startup to display …
More: The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, Barchart.com, Proactive, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, PetaPixel, Blockonomi, Reuters, WinBuzzer, eWeek, and Benzinga
| Bloomberg: |
Brian Armstrong ended Coinbase's Q3 earnings call by saying certain words that Kalshi and Polymarket users had wagered would be mentioned during the call — When Coinbase Global Inc.'s quarterly earnings call wrapped up Thursday, its chief executive, Brian Armstrong, didn't finish with profit guidance or statements of confidence.
More: Decrypt, Fast Company, Futurism, Yahoo Finance, DL News, Cryptonews, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinDesk, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, and CasinoBeats
X: @brian_armstrong, @seanlippel, @probaaron, @beaniemaxi, @frosen43, @0xfoobar, @adamscochran, @hasufl, @jdorman81, @astraffon, @mattmillsap, @readdanwrite, @polymarket, and @0xtyrael. Forums: Slashdot
| RT Watson / The Block: |
Tether reports that it has generated profits of over $10B during the first three quarters of 2025 and it has issued an additional $17B in USDT during Q3 — - The world's largest stablecoin issuer reported that it has generated profits of over $10 billion during the first three quarters of this year.| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Google releases its first AI-generated ad, promoting Search's AI mode, but chooses not to include a label disclosing it was made with Veo 3 and other tools — The search giant becomes the biggest name yet to generate an ad entirely with its Veo 3 and other artificial-intelligence tools
More: Google on YouTube, The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, The Decoder, Ad Age, MediaPost, Sherwood News, and Marketing Dive
X: @patrickcoffee and @rikiparikh
Bluesky: @rustybrick.com and @metacurity.com
| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Sources: ex-xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B at a $5B valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that is better at collaborating with humans — Humans& is building models that are better at interacting with humans, sources told Forbes.
Bluesky: @seldo.com, @rashis, and @iainmartin
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to “culture” and “removing layers” from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company's latest big round of layoffs — about 14,000 corporate jobs … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
More: About Amazon, Yahoo Finance, Techstrong.ai, Analytics India Magazine, Wall Street Journal, TheDesk.net, Constellation Research, Benzinga, The Hollywood Reporter, CNBC, and CNBC. Bluesky: @tomahawkd70
| Bloomberg: |
In its Q3 earnings, Alphabet said the profit included “net gains on equity securities of $10.7B,” in part from a private company, which sources say is Anthropic — Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. were rewarded by investors for reporting better-than-expected third-quarter profits.
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Archy, which offers AI-powered dental practice management software, raised a $20M Series B led by TCV, bringing its total funding to $47M — It was 2021 and Jonathan Rat was tired of seeing his wife, a dentist, struggle to maintain the tech stack at her practice.
More: Archy
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