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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Apple:
Apple updates the 24-inch iMac with an M6, which has up to a 12-core CPU and up to a 12-core GPU, and a dual 16-core Neural Engine, for $1,499+ from November 6  —  With blazing-fast performance, enhanced connectivity, Siri AI, and macOS 27, all in a stunning design in seven vibrant colors, the world's best all-in-one gets even better
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.
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 …
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.
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
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.
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 …
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 …
Financial Times:
S-1: Anthropic spent ~$2.50 on compute and infrastructure for every $1 of revenue in Q1 2025, falling to under 50 cents in Q2 2026, as it seeks profitability
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 …
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.
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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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Knight and MacArthur foundations and Press Forward invest in the new Local News Impact Investment Fund, launched by Social Finance with $21M in commitments

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Norwegian news organizations ask an Oslo court to stop Meta's new commercial terms, which they say let Meta scrape any publisher content, even paywalled

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Bob Woodward naming anonymous sources in a new book, including some who've died, raises questions about whether a promise of anonymity extends after death

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Lisa Cavazuti / NBC News:
Experts: since June, $100M+ in US data center freight has been stolen; in two successful heists, robbers struck escorts protecting trucks hauling $10M+ in goods
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Reuters:
China's Star 50 index of AI and chip leaders is down by 40% in under four months, losing ~$480B in market value; chipmaker CXMT is down ~25% in the past month
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple debuts iOS 27.2, with Siri AI enhancements for recalling past conversations, understanding more personal context, supporting five more languages, and more
Bloomberg:
Microsoft offers buyouts to ~60K workers, including at a VP level and below across the US, Canada, India, and the UK; its headcount at the end of June was 223K
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