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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking a government “backstop” for its infrastructure deals, saying her use of the word “muddied the point” — OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said late Wednesday that the artificial intelligence startup is not seeking …
More: BonTech Labs, WinBuzzer, Wall Street Journal, and Analytics India Magazine
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
David Sacks says there will be “no federal bailout for AI”, as the US has at least five major AI companies and “if one fails, others will take its place” — Venture capitalist David Sacks, who is serving as President Donald Trump's artificial intelligence and crypto czar …
More: Wall Street Journal. X: @davidsacks, @davidsacks, @jason, @garymarcus, @rodriscoll, @scobleizer, @buccocapital, @khansaifm, @benbrodydc, @thestalwart, @benbajarin, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, and @davidsacks. Mastodon: @evan@cosocial.ca
Forums: r/politics, r/artificial, and r/StockMarket
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on the cards right now”, and that OpenAI hopes the US government will “backstop” financing of its data center deals — Sarah Friar says the AI giant could reach break-even quickly and would like government backstop on data-center investments
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| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
| Jeff Horwitz / Reuters: |
Docs: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its 2024 revenue, or $16B, came from ads for scams and banned goods, including ~$7B from “higher risk” ads — Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show.
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman lays out the company's plans to develop AI self-sufficiency from OpenAI, like releasing its own voice, image, and text models — Tech giant forms team led by AI chief Mustafa Suleyman to build top artificial-intelligence systems and distance itself from longtime partner| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
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| Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang warns “China is going to win the AI race”, after the US kept a ban on advanced AI chip sales to China, and says the West is held back by “cynicism” — CEO criticises western ‘cynicism’ while Beijing loosens regulations and cuts energy costs for data centres
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| Sky News: |
Investigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe right-wing politicians and encourages nationalism — “Elon Musk is a great leader,” says Amy, a British woman outside the Britannia Hotel in London at an anti-immigration rally in August.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The AI boom is driving coordinated innovation in the US: new fabs and power generation capacity could produce lasting infrastructure even if the bubble bursts — It's funny to remember that a decade ago there were enough people convinced we were in a bubble that I felt compelled to write …
More: Financial Times and Reuters
X: @stratechery, @abstractopinion, @jayair, and @benbajarin. LinkedIn: Jerome Kucera. Bluesky: @gilesyb
| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which also gets prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket for future event analysis, first in the US — Deep Search gets you answers to comprehensive questions, while prediction market support will be clutch for future analysis. — •
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley's new startup Hopscotch Labs debuts BeeBot, which combines AI, audio, and location-based social features, on the App Store — BeeBot is an “app for AirPods” that combines AI, audio and location-based social features. — Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley …
More: Dennis Crowley, The Verge, and WeRSM
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Sandbar unveils Stream Ring, a $249+ AI-powered smart ring that transcribes audio notes into its app, available for preorder now and shipping in summer 2026 — A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Rockstar says it fired dozens of employees last week for “distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum”, disputing union allegations — Rockstar Games terminated more than 30 people last week in an action that a labor group called “union-busting.”
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| Kirsty Needham / Reuters: |
Sources and documents: Google plans to build an AI data center on Australia's remote Christmas Island, after signing a cloud deal with its DOD earlier in 2025 — - Plans come after Google, Australian Department of Defence sign cloud deal — Christmas Island increasingly featuring in regional war game scenarios
More: Ars Technica, DatacenterDynamics, Tech in Asia, Benzinga, WinBuzzer, COINOTAG NEWS, and TipRanks Financial. LinkedIn: Bryan Clark
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Fomo, a consumer crypto trading app, raised a $17M Series A led by Benchmark, taking its total funding to $19M, and reports $20M to $40M in daily trading volume — Paul Erlanger and Se Yong Park, co-founders of consumer crypto trading app Fomo, took an unusual route to raising capital that is paying off for them.| a16z: |
a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating “impactful content” via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more — A new 8-week program for operators, creators, & storytellers shaping the future of media
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Bluesky: @chronotope.aramzs.xyz and @willoremus.com
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
OpenAI releases a blueprint the company hopes lawmakers will use in crafting safety standards for teens using AI, with five suggestions for AI companies — OpenAI on Thursday released a blueprint the company hopes lawmakers will use in crafting safety standards for teens using AI, per a copy first shared with Axios.
More: OpenAI
| Julia Fanzeres / Bloomberg: |
Research: US companies announced 153,074 job cuts in October 2025, the most for any October since 2003, as AI reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates — US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries …
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| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Source: Google is in early talks to deepen its strategic investment in Anthropic, which could value the AI startup at $350B+; Google has already invested $3B+ — - The talks come as Anthropic and its main rival, OpenAI, are in a multitrillion-dollar race to dominate AI.
More: Reuters, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, and TipRanks Financial
| CNBC: |
Google says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is more than 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip config — Google is making its most powerful chip yet widely available, the search giant's latest effort to try and win business …
More: SiliconANGLE, The Economic Times, Tom's Hardware, TestingCatalog, Trusted Reviews, and TipRanks Financial
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's unpaired AWS-3 licenses for $2.6B in stock, after EchoStar sold AWS-4 and H-block licenses to SpaceX for ~$17B in September — EchoStar Corp. reported a $16.5 billion impairment charge and agreed to sell more spectrum licenses to Elon Musk's SpaceX … | New York Times: |
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative restructures to focus on AI and science, led by Biohub research centers, and acquires AI startup Evolutionary Scale's team — The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative said its restructured organization, Biohub, would lead its focus on artificial intelligence and scientific research.| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo Ventures and releases a new Mercury coding model — With so much money flooding into AI startups, it's a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to test out.| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Duolingo's stock falls 25%+ after the company said it expects bookings to range between $329.5M and $335.5M this quarter, falling short of a $344.3M estimate — Duolingo's stock cratered 27% on lighter-than-expected guidance as the language learning platform zeroed in on user growth in lieu of near-term monetization.| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft releases a simulated marketplace for testing AI agents alongside research showing businesses can manipulate agents into buying their products and more — On Wednesday, researchers at Microsoft released a new simulation environment designed to test AI agents, along with new research showing … | Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences Keonne Rodriguez, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to five years in prison for helping to launder hundreds of millions — A co-founder of cryptocurrency mixer Samourai Wallet was ordered to spend five years behind bars for running a business that laundered hundreds …
More: The Block and Blockonomi
| Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: |
Sources, public records, and documents detail TuSimple's downfall, after it transferred autonomous driving IP to Chinese partners despite a 2022 CFIUS agreement — American officials thought they'd secured a deal with TuSimple to protect autonomous-driving technology. It didn't work.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
DualBird, which has created a plug-in for rewritable hardware that accelerates data workloads, raised an $8.5M seed and a $16.5M Series A led by Lightspeed — DualBird, which accelerates data workloads, raised $25 million in a combined seed and Series A, co-founders Gilad Tal and Amir Gilad tell Axios Pro.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini Deep Research can now directly draw on information stored in users' Gmail emails, Drive files, and Chat conversations to generate reports — After adding PDF support in May, Gemini Deep Research can now directly tap information stored in your Gmail and Google Chat conversations, as well as Google Drive files.Sponsor Posts
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