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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Genie 4, a world model powered by Gemini 3.8 Flash designed to generate interactive AI simulations, initially as a preview to trusted testers — The Genie 4 world model offers more realism and can create audio to accompany its interactive worlds.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Nvidia and Meta expand their Muse partnership, including Meta deploying more Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs; Nvidia will invest $3B in Meta's planned equity fundraise — Investment comes as Facebook's parent seeks up to $95 billion via stock offerings — Nvidia and Meta Platforms are expanding …
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| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta's $25B share sale was oversubscribed 5x as it seeks $98B for AI spending; the 15 largest investors in the sale accounted for ~70% of shares — Meta Platforms Inc.'s upsized $25 billion share sale attracted demand for about five times the available shares …
More: Quartz and The Asia Business Daily
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| Apple: |
Apple unveils a 14" MacBook Pro with an M6, which has a 12-core CPU and a 12-core GPU, 16GB or 32GB of unified memory, and Wi-Fi 7, for $1,999+ from November 6 — Supercharged by M6, the 14-inch MacBook Pro features incredible performance and next-level AI capabilities, enhanced connectivity …
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| Apple: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple has discussed charging $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an OLED XDR touch screen and M5 Pro chip, $400 more than the current M5 Pro model — Apple Inc., after successfully betting this month that consumers are willing to pay $2,000 or more for a foldable iPhone … | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Discord says it will let public-channel messages from servers listed in Server Discovery appear in web search from mid-December; admins and members can opt out — Discord announced on Tuesday it will make some conversations in its public servers searchable and easier to find on the internet.
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| Bloomberg: |
Anduril and Qualcomm unveil BlueChip, a line of laptops designed and assembled in the US for defense and government; Anduril will begin taking orders in 2027 — Anduril and Qualcomm Plan US Supply Chain Laptop — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 44.16% Playback Rate
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details early drug development work with six partners and says it has acquired Mithril, a one-person company working on muscular dystrophy — There are many opportunities to speed up drug development, even beyond the most commonly discussed applications of AI, like proposing initial designs for new molecules.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple adds a beta AI assistant built on Apple's and OpenAI's models to Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Logic Pro, plus MCP support to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — The new AI assistant can draft and restructure content in Pages, while organizing data in Numbers.
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Sources: Trend Micro's TrendAI found Israeli adtech company Discover-Tech heavily targeted Starlink users in 100+ countries, likely to geolocate or surveil them — Experts at a digital defense firm recently found that an Israeli ad tech company was heavily targeting users …
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| Seema Mody / CNBC: |
Oracle adds ChatGPT and Codex to its app stack and expands Oracle Cloud Infrastructure lineup with Google TPUs, OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, and Cerebras hardware — Oracle on Tuesday announced an expanded collaboration with OpenAI that brings the artificial intelligence lab's ChatGPT …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Memo: Amazon says measuring AI adoption solely by token usage or code generation is “deeply flawed,” as it discourages staff from tokenmaxxing — Amazon laid out its AI usage guidelines for software engineers in a memo to staffers, and discouraged employees from turning to … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Anthropic's S-1 shows an 85% gross margin in H1 from running its models, a reality check for skeptics who said pay-as-you-go model sales wouldn't be profitable — When Anthropic on Monday dropped its long-awaited initial public offering prospectus filing, a lot of the details …
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| Financial Times: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan held 11th-hour talks and agreed to higher rates and loan guarantees to secure bank participation in the $63B Anthropic debt deal — The deal, announced on Monday, is the biggest ever to raise money for AI infrastructure — Hock Tan was running out of patience.
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X: @benitoz, @andrewcurran_, @zerohedge, @ranjanxroy, @anissagardizy8, and @jeffreyleefunk. Forums: r/technology
| Reuters: |
Robinhood reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.42B, in line with est., crypto revenue down 55% to $120M, and profit down 14% to $476M; HOOD drops 5%+ after hours — Robinhood Markets (HOOD.O) reported a drop in third-quarter profit on Tuesday as slower cryptocurrency trading weighed on growth …
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| Luke Fountain / CNBC: |
Analysis: AI political groups have spent $78.5M on US federal candidates during the 2026 cycle; AI accelerationists spent $34M and safeguard-focused groups $39M — Silicon Valley's bid to dominate artificial intelligence politics has devolved into a fight with itself.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise $1B+ led by Avenir and Lux Capital at a ~$20B valuation, up from $11.5B earlier in 2026 — Physical Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence software to power robots for real-world tasks …
More: Quartz
| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 328% YoY to ~$78.8B, vs. ~$74.07B est., and operating profit up 632% to ~$62.76B, vs. ~$57.78B est. — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.| Financial Times: |
GM plans to switch from the NYSE to Nasdaq on November 17 as part of its push under Tesla veteran Sterling Anderson to use AI to speed up its development cycle — Move marks another blow for Big Board as tech-focused rival attracts some of world's most valuable companies
More: Axios, Bloomberg, New York Times, Associated Press, and Yahoo Finance
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Infisical, which helps companies use AI agents without handing over their private credentials, raised a $40M Series B led by Elad Gil at a $600M valuation — Infisical is helping companies like Airbus and Volkswagen use agents without handing over their private credentials.| Anthropic: |
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