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Yann LeCun says he is leaving Meta at the end of 2025 to build a new startup and continue his “Advanced Machine Intelligence research”, with Meta as a partner — Yann LeCun, an artificial intelligence pioneer who runs a research lab at Meta Platforms Inc., told employees … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, vs. $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66%, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; NVDA jumps 5%+ after hours — Nvidia reported fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street expectations on Wednesday and provided stronger …
More: Nvidia Newsroom, The Register, CNN, BBC, New York Times, Tom's Hardware, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Thurrott, SiliconANGLE, HotHardware, Agence France-Presse, New York Times, TechCrunch, NextBigWhat, Taiwan News, WebProNews, Wired, The Indian Express, Quartz, NDTV Profit, The Information, Bloomberg, Fortune, Axios, Financial Times, Fast Company, CoinDesk, Barchart.com, GamesBeat, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Channel News, Bloomberg, The National, CBS News, Semafor, Yahoo Finance, Capacity, Sharecafe, and Capital Brief
X: @economyapp, @melt_dem, @firstadopter, @ericjhonsa, @edzitron, @nvidianewsroom, @edzitron, @zerohedge, @zerohedge, @jimcramer, @amitisinvesting, @thetranscript_, @edzitron, @stocksavvyshay, @nvidianewsroom, @amitisinvesting, @andrewyng, @divestech, @elerianm, @divestech, @stevesi, @stevesi, @michaeljburry, @michaeljburry, @michaeljburry, @unusual_whales, @kimmonismus, @thetranscript_, and @thestalwart. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/technology, r/hardware, and r/NVDA_Stock
| Tina Nguyen / The Verge: |
A draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal government sole power to regulate AI and create an “AI Litigation Task Force” overseen by the AG — Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations — President Donald Trump …
More: Washington Post, The Information, NBC News, FedScoop, Reuters, Politico, Wired, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Quartz, The Hill, Axios, Transformer, Punchbowl News, StateScoop, International Business Times, Marcus on AI, and NewsMax.com
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Warner Music settles its lawsuit with AI music startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in — Agreement with Udio could allow fans to create their own songs using licensed tracks if artists opt in| Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: |
More: SiliconANGLE, Suno, Forbes, Digital Music News, Boston Business Journal, Music Ally, and Inc.com
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, saying it is “significantly better” at “long-horizon reasoning” and is the first model it has trained for Windows environments — ZDNET's key takeaways — Codex Max processes massive workloads through improved context handling.
More: OpenAI, Simon Willison's Weblog, The New Stack, NextBigWhat, Neowin, The Decoder, Windows Report, and Implicator.ai
X: @openaidevs, @openaidevs, @kimmonismus, @yuchenj_uw, @deryatr_, @openaidevs, @sama, @emollick, @polynoamial, and @thsottiaux
LinkedIn: David Wiesen and Alexander Embiricos
Forums: Hacker News, r/codex, r/singularity, and r/OpenAI
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500-megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips — Elon Musk said his xAI artificial intelligence startup plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia … | Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times: |
| Ben Berkowitz / Axios: |
Ex-US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and OpenAI say he has resigned from OpenAI's board, after a US House Committee released his emails with Jeffrey Epstein — Former Treasury secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers has resigned from the OpenAI board, he and the company told Axios …
More: CNBC, The Information, New York Times, New York Times, Reuters, Associated Press, NewsMax.com, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Harvard Crimson, WBUR, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, Bloomberg, The Boston Globe, and Business Insider
X: @adamscochran, @marionawfal, @mikeallen, @lizrhoffman, @shakeelhashim, @miles_brundage, @dhruvtkpatel, and @mattyglesias
Bluesky: @asskickerleague, @flingjore.com, and @karlbode.com
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI announces ChatGPT for Teachers, designed for K-12 educators and school districts, and says it will be free to K-12 educators in the US through June 2027 — Arrows pointing outwards — OpenAI on Wednesday announced ChatGPT for Teachers, a version of its artificial intelligence chatbot …
More: OpenAI, Gizmodo, Engadget, GovTech, Neowin, ZDNET, Mashable, and Axios
LinkedIn: Chris Lehane, Jason Wilmot, Arielle Yael Mokhtarzadeh, Lauren Haber Jonas, Ray Fleming, and Debbie Mesloh
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The US, the UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting provider Media Land, which provided services to cybercrime marketplaces and ransomware groups — Today, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia announced sanctions targeting Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users — Feature debuts after streamer introduced text-based AI recaps last year … Now Amazon is using AI to add sight, sound and motion to the mix.| The Verge: |
The EU proposes changes to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and watering down a key part of the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure — The EU folds under Big Tech's pressure. … After years of staring down the world's biggest tech companies and setting the bar …
More: European Commission, The Verge, European Digital Rights, European Commission, Reuters, AppleInsider, The Record, Engadget, MacRumors, WebProNews, Bluesky Social, Biometric Update, CIO Dive, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, and The Guardian
X: @hennavirkkunen, @hennavirkkunen, @bradrcarson, @hennavirkkunen, @eu_justice, @pes_pse, @eu_justice, @vdombrovskis, @digitaleu, @digitaleu, @glenngabe, @lukolejnik, @bertuzluca, @hennavirkkunen, @lukolejnik, and @digitaleu
LinkedIn: Shoshana Rosenberg, Yomi Ajibade, and Otto Michelsen
Bluesky: @dompreston.com, @stevepeers, @epsu, and @chrisinparis
Threads: @benedictevans and @vishwanathsarangkeller
Mastodon: @techlore@social.lol and @darnell@one.darnell.one
Forums: Hacker News, r/europe, r/consulting, r/webdev, r/privacy, r/CroIT, r/neoliberal, r/technology, r/europe, and MacRumors Forums
| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Crypto exchange Kraken says it confidentially filed for a US IPO; on November 18, Kraken said it raised $200M at a $20B valuation, up 33% in under two months — Crypto exchange Kraken said on Wednesday it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States.
More: Business Wire, Reuters, Reuters, CNBC, Tech in Asia, TheStreet, The Block, crypto.news, Proactive, DL News, Bitcoin Magazine, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, Coinspeaker, and Fortune
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.47B, vs. $2.46B est., forecasts Q2 revenue in line with est., and agrees to buy Chronosphere for $3.35B — Palo Alto Networks beat Wall Street's fiscal first-quarter estimates after the bell on Wednesday and announced plans …
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LinkedIn: Meerah Rajavel, Rob Skillington, Martin Mao, Pramod Gosavi, and Sam Rubin. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
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The Dutch government suspends its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, restoring control to its Chinese owner; a Dutch minister says the move is “a show of goodwill” — The Dutch government suspended its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, handing back control to its Chinese owner …
More: DigiTimes, UPI, Government.nl, CNN, South China Morning Post, Silicon Republic, New York Times, Politico, CNBC, and Reuters
Bluesky: @noahbarkin and @fbermingham
Forums: Hacker News, r/Netherlands, r/worldnews, r/neoliberal, r/hardware, r/China, r/europe, r/Sino, and Slashdot
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Sources: ID verification startup Incode is in preliminary talks to raise between $150M and $300M at a valuation of up to $3B, up from a $1.25B valuation in 2021 — Incode Technologies Inc., an identity verification platform, is in preliminary talks to raise between $150 million and $300 million … | Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports — Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events such as elections and sports, according to two people familiar with the matter.| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Adobe says it will acquire NYSE-listed Semrush, which helps companies run search engine optimization as AI use rises, for $1.9B in cash, paying $12 per share — Semrush helps businesses from Amazon to TikTok with search-engine optimization and marketing — Adobe struck a $1.9 billion deal …
More: Adobe Newsroom, Reuters, Stock Market, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Channel News, CNBC, Bloomberg, MediaPost, Proactive, Motley Fool, Barchart.com, San Francisco Business Times, and Yahoo Finance
LinkedIn: Natalia Witczyk, Syed Balkhi, Robert Derow, Amy Worcester Lanzi, and Michael Scott. Forums: r/PPC
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Investors pulled $523M from BlackRock's IBIT bitcoin ETF on Tuesday, its largest single-day outflow since launch; BTC fell ~30% from its October all-time high — Investors pulled more than half a billion dollars from BlackRock Inc.'s iShares Bitcoin Trust, the largest single-day outflow since …
More: Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Bitcoin Magazine, and The Coin Republic
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Gemini 3 hands-on: a fundamental improvement on daily use, extremely fast, Antigravity IDE is a powerful launch product, and its personality is terse and direct — Gemini 3 is a fundamental improvement on daily use, not just on benchmarks. It feels more consistent and less “spiky” than previous models.
More: Google Antigravity, Fortune, The American Bazaar, Artificial Ignorance, Mashable, MarkTechPost, The New Stack, Ars Technica, WebProNews, and One Useful Thing
X: @kalomaze, @pli_cachete, @_vincentpaul_, and @mattshumer_. LinkedIn: Rajneesh Kumar. Threads: @carnage4life. Forums: r/accelerate
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
More: Stratechery. X: @oriolvinyalsml, @scaling01, @karpathy, @a__tomala, @stochasticchasm, @jonasaadler, @kyleichan, @jasondeanlee, @kyleichan, @code_star, @jenzhuscott, @jasondeanlee, @deredleritt3r, @graph_, and @deredleritt3r. Threads: @benedictevans
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic Games partners with Unity to bring Unity Engine-made games to Fortnite in 2026, part of Epic's long-term vision to make Fortnite into an “open metaverse” — Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival. … Epic Games is teaming up with arguably …
More: Epic Games, Comic Book, Yahoo Finance, GameSpot, Neowin, TechRaptor, and Proactive
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta releases SAM 3, a model for object detection, segmentation, and tracking in images and videos, and SAM 3D, which can reconstruct objects and humans in 3D — Meta Platforms Inc. today is expanding its suite of open-source Segment Anything computer vision models with the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D …
More: Meta, Meta Newsroom, WinBuzzer, Social Media Today, CNET, GitHub, Hugging Face, and Meta
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: key White House officials are pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to keep AI chip export restrictions to China out of the annual defense policy bill — Key White House officials are pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to keep AI chip export restrictions to China out of the annual defense policy bill … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block expects gross profit to increase in the mid-teens YoY through 2028, reaching ~$15.8B, with adjusted operating income growing ~30% YoY; XYZ closed up 7.56% — Block said Wednesday that it expects gross profit to increase in the mid-teens annually for the next three years, reaching about $15.8 billion in 2028.| New York Times: |
TikTok's and YouTube's rise undermined the FTC's Meta antitrust case and helped Meta avoid a breakup; Judge Boasberg: the tech landscape “has changed markedly” — Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed at rapid digital changes to blunt government efforts to rein in its power.
More: PCMag, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, Reason, Breitbart, Forbes, Spyglass, CNBC, The Economic Times, and The Information
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More: Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, Cautious Optimism, and Reclaim The Net
X: @mikeisaac, @halsinger, and @mikeisaac
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