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October 31, 2025, 6:40 PM
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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.
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” …
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
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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:
Amazon reports a $9.5B pre-tax gain from its investment in Anthropic, which was included in the company's non-operating income for Q3
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 …
Elaine Pofeldt / Forbes:
Lettuce Financial, which offers an accounting, payroll, benefits, and tax compliance service for one-person businesses, raised $28M led by Zeev  —  How to break $1M in revenue in a business staffed only by the owners  —  Lettuce Financial, a San Francisco-based fintech platform for solopreneurs …

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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
About 60% of the Reuters newsroom uses AI tools, including one that suggests what to cover based on press releases and another that creates first drafts

Jem Bartholomew / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Mohsin Hamid, co-founder of Equator magazine, which aims to be a “post-American” magazine of politics and culture, avoiding a “Western-centric gaze”

Matt Slater / The Athletic:
In a global first, DAZN will broadcast a live match between two teams in the National League, the fifth tier of English soccer, for free on its TikTok account

More News

Reuters:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he still hopes to sell the company's Blackwell chips to China “someday”, but points out the decision is up to President Trump
Reuters:
Letter: Nexperia suspends supplies of wafers to its Chinese assembly plant, citing a failure to “comply with the agreed contractual payment terms”

Earlier Picks

Pritam Biswas / Reuters:
Filing: Gloo, a developer of AI tools for Christian churches with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as its head of technology, seeks an $873.4M valuation in its US IPO
Alice Tecotzky / Business Insider:
SEC filing: Snowflake says an executive shared unauthorized financial guidance with an Instagram influencer; an Oct. 26 video interview features CRO Mike Gannon
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Coinbase reports Q3 revenue up 55% YoY to $1.9B, vs. $1.8B est., net income up 473% to $433M, and trading volume up 59% to $295B
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