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November 11, 2025, 12:35 PM

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Financial Times:
Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds  —  Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push  —  Melissa Heikkilä in London …
David Keohane / Financial Times:
SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake, or ~32M shares, in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B, above est.  —  Net profit doubles to $16bn on gains from OpenAI and PayPay holdings  —  Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group has sold its entire stake …
Vogue:
Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150+ iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, in Apple's first fashion deal since Hermès' in 2015  —  It's no secret that Steve Jobs's favorite fashion designer was Issey Miyake.  The former Apple CEO adopted …
Reuters:
A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal  —  A German court on Tuesday sided with the country's music rights society GEMA in a closely watched copyright case against U.S.-based artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.
The Information:
Sources: Apple may add a second camera to the next iPhone Air, possibly set for spring 2027 alongside the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e, to address user complaints  —  Apple is delaying the release of the second-generation iPhone Air to work on a redesign of the device and make it more appealing to consumers …
The Information:
Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal:
Sony reports Q2 revenue up 4.6% YoY to ~$20.3B, net profit up 6.7% YoY to ~$2.02B, 3.9M PS5s sold, and raises its FY operating profit forecast by 7.5% to ~$9.3B  —  Sony 6758 5.51%increase; green up pointing triangle Group raised its earnings forecasts after a stronger-than-expected second quarter …
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Search and browser startup Brave's CBO says it passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024  —  Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google's Chrome.
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Docs: Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses, or ~75% of revenue, that year before turning a profit in 2030  —  Financial documents from both companies show the different approaches they are taking to the AI boom
Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin  —  A Chinese woman described as a “super villain” who orchestrated a multibillion dollar investment fraud to buy Bitcoin was sentenced …
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