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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: HomeView units sat in warehouses for months; Apple plans a Nov. 6 store reset, likely for new Macs; iPhone Duo preorder mess could boost 18 Pro sales — Also: The company is planning Nov. 6 retail store reset, indicating potential Mac release date.
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, PCMag, iThinkDifferent, Digital Trends, Digital Trends, and Tom's Guide
| James Titcomb / Telegraph: |
Microsoft cancels its deal to be the anchor tenant and rent 23K Nvidia AI chips at Nscale's Essex, UK, data center, which may not get grid power until the 2030s — US tech giant pulls the plug on Nscale deal in threat to multibillion-dollar listing — Microsoft has pulled …
More: Bloomberg, Australian Financial Review, Financial Times, The Guardian, Finimize, Reuters, Seeking Alpha, TheEnergyMag, and Crypto Briefing
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Forums: r/uknews and r/ukpolitics
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic is consulting law firms on deal negotiation tactics as it develops AI agents to negotiate on humans' behalf and interact with AI counterparts — Tech companies are being forced to confront the rules of negotiation when machines act on humans' behalf
More: The Verge, The Decoder, and Crypto Briefing
Forums: r/Futurology, r/BetterOffline, and r/technology
| Financial Times: |
RegLayer: 47+ large US data center projects were delayed, withdrawn, or blocked in 2026; Bernstein says ~35% of the planned US data center pipeline is credible — A vast bet on the future of the technology is running into the unforgiving economics of the physical world| New York Times: |
AI debt worries mount as CoreWeave's bond yield tops 15%, insuring SoftBank debt gets pricier, and some Oracle debt trades near 80 to 90 cents on the dollar — Debt trouble at CoreWeave, Oracle and SoftBank raises questions about whether there are broader problems with the data center build-out.
More: The Business Times and Motley Fool
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| Giovanni Colantonio / Polygon: |
An interview with Apple's new VP of the App Store, Carson Oliver, on Apple's gaming vision, Apple Arcade, providing tools for indie game developers, and more — Back when Apple Arcade launched in 2019, there was a resounding belief among gamers that the mobile gaming service wasn't long for this world.| Joanna Stern / The New Things: |
An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, plans to make Windows a safer OS to run AI agents, and more — My exclusive interview with Satya Nadella on the new Surface Laptop Ultra and Microsoft's plan to make Windows safer for AI agents
More: NBC News and Windows Central
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Disney agreed to hire 60+ staff from Character.AI and pay them ~$180M over three years, plus $30M for retention awards; a bankruptcy judge must approve — More than 60 workers at Character.AI are being offered a lifeline from the media giant … Soft Landing — Layoffs are common in bankruptcy.
More: TechCrunch and Yahoo Finance
| Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Bleecker Street says TikTok suspended the Musk documentary account for “political policy” violations and called the suspension “permanent”; Bleecker's appealing — Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens. Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.
More: The Verge, Telegraph, Anadolu Ajansı …, The A.V. Club, TechCrunch, The Wrap, Gizmodo, Mashable, and Variety
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Forums: r/FedEmployees, r/centrist, r/DeFranco, r/entertainment, r/DCU_, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/TechGawker, r/technology, r/blankies, r/BetterOffline, r/ABoringDystopia, r/anticapitalism, r/anime_titties, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/popculture, r/PopCultureV2, r/TheBigPicture, r/boxoffice, r/politics, r/UnderReportedNews, r/Fauxmoi, r/thebulwark, r/popculturechat, and r/movies
| Google: |
Google says “magic state cultivation” works in practice on its Willow quantum processor, calling it a breakthrough that reduces errors by about 40x — We've shown that magic state cultivation works on Google Quantum AI hardware. — Google Quantum AI has demonstratively opened …
More: Google Quantum AI on YouTube, Superintelligence, and CoinDesk
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LinkedIn: Julian Kelly and Emma Rosenfeld
Bluesky: @peark.es and @enikofox.com
| Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable: |
MapQuest adds a Surveillance Layer to its mobile app showing license plate readers and cameras from 10+ companies including Flock, using OpenStreetMap data — MapQuest will not go gentle into that good night. — The navigation software — which debuted in 1996 and was later eclipsed …
More: Decrypt, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, Business Insider, The Hill, TechRadar, MakeUseOf, CNET, The Next Web, and RuntimeWire
Forums: r/Ohio, r/FlockSurveillance, r/USNEWS, and r/UnderReportedNews
| Bloomberg: |
GTCR and Elliott agree to acquire and take private CCC, a Nasdaq-listed car insurance software provider, for $4.6B; the deal values CCC at $6.1B including debt — GTCR and Elliott Investment Management are acquiring car-insurance software provider CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc … | Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: |
Holyvolt, which develops AI tools for making and testing new battery materials, raised $45M from Zone II, CC.VC, and others, a source says at a $245M valuation — Steven Prast is old enough to remember when a mobile phone came in a bag. It was too heavy to carry around, so most people mounted it in the car.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017, an update it says offers “stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs” than its predecessor — DeepSeek released an update of its AI model this weekend that it says is faster and leaner, ramping …
More: DeepSeek on Hugging Face, The Decoder, Tech in Asia, Wccftech, and Crypto Briefing
X: @deepseek_ai, @quantamagazine, @quantamagazine, @zizhpan, @natolambert, @cline, @pawelhuryn, @martinvars, @thom_wolf, @haider1, @kimmonismus, @suchenzang, @testingcatalog, @teortaxestex, and @deepseekharness. LinkedIn: John Pavlus
Forums: r/SillyTavernAI and r/LocalLLaMA
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Turkish police detained Hex and PulseChain founder Richard Heart on Oct. 14, seizing $7M+ in cash and six cold wallets; HEX fell nearly 50% on initial reports — Turkey's justice minister said Heart's wife and three bodyguards were also detained, and that searches turned up guns, ammunition, watches and jewelry.
More: Bitcoin Insider, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoPotato, Bitcoin News, and Inside Bitcoins
X: @defi_warhol and @dr_pegger
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