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| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Google and Epic Games settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with Android and Google Play changes to expand competition and choice, pending a US judge's approval — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday it has reached a comprehensive U.S. court settlement with “Fortnite” …
More: Ars Technica, Thurrott, Associated Press, Game World Observer, BonTech Labs, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Android Authority, iPhone in Canada, Daring Fireball, Phone Scoop, TechRaptor, Engadget, Bloomberg, Android Police, iClarified, Android Central, Developer Tech News, PocketGamer.biz, MediaPost, and Sherwood News
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
In its Epic settlement, Google proposes lowering app store fees globally, a program to let alternative app stores become first-class Android citizens, and more — Instead of breaking Google's app store, Google will let them in. … He issued a permanent injunction that will force Google …
More: Thurrott, T3, 9to5Google, GameSpot, COINOTAG NEWS, Silicon Republic, MacStories, Mobilegamer.biz, WinBuzzer, 80 Level, and Tech in Asia
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Android
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Deutsche Bank is exploring strategies to hedge its exposure to data centers, like shorting AI stocks, after extending billions in debt to hyperscalers — Executives discussing options including shorting basket of artificial intelligence stocks or using derivatives to transfer risk
More: Reuters and Bitcoin Insider
| Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times: |
Barclays: hyperscalers have announced a total of 46 GW of AI data center capacity, which at full utilization will consume as much energy as ~44.2M US households — The financing package stitched together for Meta's humongous Hyperion data centre campus in Louisiana made Alphaville curious …
More: BonTech Labs and The Decoder
| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Sony rolls out PlayStation Portal cloud streaming, letting PlayStation Premium Plus members stream select titles without a PS5 connection, in testing since 2024 — Cloud streaming PS5 games to your PlayStation Portal is out of beta, and includes streaming for some games you own.
More: PlayStation.Blog, PlayStation, XDA Developers, Engadget, Push Square, Thurrott, CNET, Dexerto, GamesRadar, Tom's Guide, Neowin, TheGamer, Digital Trends, TechRaptor, TechRadar, Game Informer, Destructoid, Screen Rant, IGN, Polygon.com, Video Games Chronicle, GamingBolt, Kotaku, GameSpot, and PlayStation LifeStyle
| Wall Street Journal: |
France begins the process to temporarily suspend Shein for “the time necessary for the platform to demonstrate” it has scrubbed its website of illegal products — The order came as the Chinese-founded platform opened its first permanent store in Paris
More: The Sun, Courthouse News Service, France 24, Financial Times, Reuters, Le Monde, and Associated Press
| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Stablecoin operator Ripple raised $500M from Citadel, Fortress, and others at a $40B valuation and says payments made on its platform passed $95B so far in 2025 — $500mn investment round underlines appetite for stablecoin payments sector — Ripple has raised $500mn from investors including …
More: Ripple, DL News, Axios, CoinDesk, The Block, Fortune, Reuters, Decrypt, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, Ventureburn, The Crypto Basic, BeInCrypto, CoinGape, CNBC, Capital Brief, Bitcoin Insider, TheStreet, CryptoPotato, and Crypto Briefing
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| Lee Ying Shan / CNBC: |
Samsung, TSMC, SoftBank, SK Hynix, and others closed as much as 10% down, matching their US peers, as investors worry over stretched AI and tech valuations — Shares in Japan's SoftBank Group closed 10% lower on Wednesday, amid a broader drop in AI-linked companies as investors turned wary … | Bloomberg: |
More: Coinpedia Fintech News, Tech Times, NewsMax.com, CoinDesk, Korea Joongang Daily, CoinDesk, and CNBC
| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport says the US DOJ concluded its review of Google's planned $32B acquisition; the FTC's website says the early termination was October 24 — Alphabet Inc.'s Google and cybersecurity company Wiz Inc. cleared a key hurdle to closing their $32 billion deal …
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, CRN, COINOTAG NEWS, Globes, BonTech Labs, CTech, Proactive, WinBuzzer, and Blockonomi
| Reuters: |
Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically made AI chips — - Order likely to affect U.S. chipmakers Nvidia, AMD, Intel — Beijing trying to cultivate domestic AI chipmakers like Huawei
More: Tom's Hardware, Benzinga, PC Gamer, TipRanks Financial, WinBuzzer, TechWire Asia, COINOTAG NEWS, Bloomberg, Blockchain.News, The Information, and Rapid City Journal. Forums: r/hardware
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail Elon Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw racy chatbot Ani's design, unwound by playing Diablo, tended to his children, and more — Focus on winning tech arms race leads to long hours at xAI; employees turned over biometric data to develop controversial avatars
More: The Verge, BonTech Labs, and Business Insider
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Maps will get Gemini instead of Assistant on Android and iOS, offering a “hands-free, conversational driving experience”, in the “coming weeks” — In Google Maps, Gemini already exists in place listings, and it's now coming to the navigation experience on Android and iOS.
More: The Keyword, How-To Geek, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, The Verge, PCMag, Engadget, Ars Technica, Droid Life, KnowTechie, WeRSM, WinBuzzer, Axios, and Android Authority. X: @sundarpichai
| Koh Ewe / BBC: |
A Chinese court sentences five top members of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death, convicting 21 in total, as Beijing continues its crackdown on scam operations — A Chinese court has sentenced five top members of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death as Beijing continues its crackdown on scam operations in South East Asia.
More: South China Morning Post, Washington Post, CBS News, and GZERO
| Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: |
Letter: the MPA sent Meta a cease-and-desist over Instagram's use of “PG-13” for teen content restrictions, calling it “literally false and highly misleading” — Meta says it never claimed or implied that its teen accounts were officially PG-13 rated or certified by MPA
More: TechCrunch, The Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, Variety, Deadline, NBC News, Sherwood News, and The Wrap
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Roelof Botha was asked to step aside after some Sequoia partners raised concerns about his leadership; Botha had declined to comment on Shaun Maguire — Sequoia leaders asked Roelof Botha to step aside amid leadership concerns and a turbulent stretch
More: Sourcery, Bloomberg, StrictlyVC, Reuters, Forbes, The Information, Venture Capital Journal, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios
| The Intercept: |
YouTube confirms it removed 700+ videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with the US State Department's sanctions — A documentary featuring mothers surviving Israel's genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel's role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist.
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| CNBC: |
Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of “bullying” via an “aggressive legal threat” that demands it stop Comet Assistant purchases for users, who “love this experience” — Perplexity AI accused Amazon of “bullying” on Tuesday after it received a letter …
More: Perplexity, About Amazon, eWeek, The Guardian, Thurrott, TechCrunch, Platformer, The Verge, International Business Times, The Decoder, KnowTechie, PC Gamer, Shelly Palmer, Futurism, Financial Express, Implicator.ai, Spyglass, Decrypt, Nairametrics, Proactive, The Indian Express, NewsMax.com, The Hans India, Blockonomi, Silicon Republic, Benzinga, PCMag, MediaPost, Analytics India Magazine, Digit, The Economic Times, SiliconANGLE, Moneycontrol, The Register, Android Headlines, Ad Age, The Information, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Reuters, and Constellation Research
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| Boaz Barak / Windows On Theory: |
Research: AI's ability to complete lengthy software engineering tasks has doubled roughly every six months, but there is a “messiness tax” for real-world tasks — METR has had a very influential work by Kwa and West et al on measuring AI's ability to complete long tasks.
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| Tyler Cowen / Conversations with Tyler: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on managing OpenAI's growth, delegating work, hiring hardware talent, GPT-6 enabling scientific research, AI's societal challenges, and more — How hard is it to change someone's mind, and could AI do it accidentally? … Sam Altman makes his second appearance …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says it now has 1M+ business customers globally, with ChatGPT for Work seats up 40% in two months to 7M+ and ChatGPT Enterprise seats up 9x YoY — Customers such as Amgen, Commonwealth Bank, Booking.com, Cisco, Lowe's, Morgan Stanley, T-Mobile, Target, and Thermo Fisher Scientific … | Jaures Yip / CNBC: |
Pinterest shares dropped 20% on Wednesday after forecasting Q4 revenue below estimates as advertising took a hit from retailers dealing with tariffs — Pinterest shares plummeted 20% on Wednesday after lackluster third-quarter earnings as advertising took a hit from larger retailers dealing with tariffs.
More: Blockonomi, Reuters, The Information, and Investor's Business Daily
| Tarpley Hitt / The Guardian: |
How “porno-troll” Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos — A company called Strike 3, owner of Vixen and Tushy, has clogged US courts with lawsuits, mostly against porn watchers who feel shamed into settling privately| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon opens a new 10,000-square-foot automated Whole Foods store in Pennsylvania partly staffed by robots; customers can scan and order items from the aisles — Amazon.com Inc. has combined a Whole Foods Market store with a mini warehouse stocked with products the chain hasn't previously sold.
More: GeekWire, Retail TouchPoints, About Amazon, and Lawyer Monthly
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Motorola Edge 70 review: the new £699 ultra-thin device has a silicone back and great battery life, but the OS is full of ads; the phone won't launch in the US — I've been as much of a thin phone skeptic as anyone. Why would I give up on camera specs and battery life just to shave …
More: T3, CNET, 9to5Mac, GSMArena.com, Mashable, Mirror, Android Police, Android Headlines, TechRadar, and Tech Advisor. Forums: r/gadgets
| Philip Stafford / Financial Times: |
UK retailer M&S expects a £136M profit hit in 2025 after an April cyberattack, which it attributes to DragonForce, and says it claimed £100M from its insurers — Stuart Machin says prospect of Budget tax rises is making customers uneasy — Marks and Spencer chief executive …
More: Mirror, RTÉ, The Grocer, Wall Street Journal, and The Independent
| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the US agency's long-term cyber capabilities — The National Security Agency is confronting a wave of internal strain — including leadership gaps, program cuts and deferred resignation offers … | Chris Allnutt / Financial Times: |
A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports Interactive, which has ~280 full-time staff and licenses its scouting data to 40+ teams, as it releases FM26 — Over 33 years, the series has won over frustrated fans, the football industry, even Americans — but it took three Lionesses to get women's teams into the game
More: ESPN, Football Manager 26, BBC, The Athletic, The Athletic, Radio Times, T3, Top Gear, The Guardian, and BBC
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Armis, which helps businesses secure and manage IoT devices, raised $435M at a $6.1B valuation led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, up from $4.2B in October 2024 — Cybersecurity startup Armis has raised $435 million in a funding round that values the company at $6.1 billion.| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Reevo, which aims to use AI to help bring products to market, raised $80M, split across a $10M seed and $70M Series A led by Kleiner, at a $500M valuation — Artificial intelligence startup Reevo Inc. has raised $80 million from investors including Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins … | New York Times: |
How xAI and Gab position their ideology-driven AI chatbots Grok and Arya as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias like ChatGPT and Gemini — Enoch, one of the newer chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, promises “to ‘mind wipe’ the pro-pharma bias” from its answers.
More: Tech Xplore
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Netherlands-based Nebius unveils Token Factory, a platform to let companies use open source AI models like GPT-oss, in a bid to compete with AWS and Azure — Nebius Group NV, an artificial intelligence cloud provider, is releasing a new product meant to offer access to open source models …
More: Livemint, TipRanks Financial, and Nebius
| Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: |
Giga, which develops voice-based AI agents for customer support, raised a $61M Series A led by Redpoint with participation from Y Combinator and Nexus — Giga raises $61 million to expand enterprise voice AI. — Giga, a San Francisco-based startup that builds voice-based AI agents … Sponsor Posts
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