| 7:15 PM • | Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune: An interview with OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair about plans to offer financial services to its 2.5M active creators, a potential IPO, and more |
| 6:30 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says it is rolling out Personal Intelligence for Gemini on Android Auto now and to cars with Google built-in in the coming months as an opt-in feature |
| 6:00 PM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Pigment, a French startup that makes AI-powered software to help businesses forecast finances, spin up slide decks, and more, raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation |
| 5:55 PM • | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: PHP development team plans to release updates tomorrow to address two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2; security researchers at watchTowr say they are RCE flaws |
| 5:45 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to discuss a possible merger and calls the possibility of a Tesla-SpaceX merger a “good idea” |
| 5:30 PM • | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Eight intermediate TLS certificates from eMudhra with private key sizes of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised; browser makers and major apps have blocked them |
| 5:05 PM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Super Micro reports preliminary Q1 revenues of $18.5B to $19.5B, vs. $15B est., and gross margins of 12% to 12.5%; SMCI jumps 11%+ after hours |
| 4:55 PM • | Becky Peterson / Wall Street Journal: SpaceX reports Q3 capex of $19.6B, up from $6.9B a year earlier, and Q3 connectivity revenue, which includes Starlink, up 69% YoY to $5.2B |
| 4:50 PM • | David Morris / Bloomberg: Report: Anthropic's draft S-1 shows it spent ~$9B on compute and infrastructure in H1, up from $2.3B a year earlier, and could spend $750B in the coming years |
| 4:45 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix says it expects FY 2026 ad revenue of ~$2.7B, under its ~$3B forecast, and its Q4 operating margin will be impacted due to costs associated with layoffs |
| 4:35 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Elon Musk ordered Starshield slowdown in Ukraine and discussed it with Trump after the issue became public; some US officials say he acted unilaterally |
| 4:26 PM • | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: SpaceX reports Q3 revenue up 161% YoY to $14.58B, vs. $12.72B est., AI revenue up 830% to $7.56B, and AI operating income of $431M, up from a loss of $1.7B |
| 4:15 PM • | Nicole Sperling / New York Times: Netflix says despite investor concern about its view-hours growth, its engagement is “healthy” and it will try to bring more third-party content to its service |
| 4:10 PM • | Sarah Whitten / CNBC: Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $12.87B, in line with est., net income up 44% YoY to $3.66B, in part due to expenses timing; NFLX drops 5%+ after hours |
| 3:46 PM • | Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic's IPO prospectus: H1 2026 revenue of $16.3B, ~20% from two customers, vs. $1.1B in H1 2025, and an $80.7B net loss driven by accounting charges |
| 3:45 PM • | Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma; sources: Xbox plans a major Game Pass overhaul, a next-gen handheld device by late 2027, and a next-gen console by late 2028 |
| 3:25 PM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon plans to hire 300K+ US seasonal, part-time, and full-time workers for the upcoming holiday shopping season, up 20% YoY, paying $20-$24/hour on average |
| 3:00 PM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Google debuts TorchTPU, an open-source version of PyTorch for running AI apps on TPUs and Google Cloud via a simple configuration change and no code rewriting |
| 2:40 PM • | Joann Muller / Axios: Oro Mobility, a Hertz-owned fleet management business that has a deal to manage Uber's planned Lucid robotaxi fleet starting in San Francisco, raised $80M |
| 2:35 PM • | Luc Cohen / Reuters: A US judge dismisses a civil sexual abuse lawsuit brought against Sam Altman by his sister, after she refused to appear for an independent medical examination |
| 2:20 PM • | Madison Mills / Axios: OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio, which builds AI agents for managing drug development, and plans to integrate its tech into OpenAI life sciences suite Rosalind |
| 2:05 PM • | Dennis Crowley / Teendrama Snippets: Foursquare co-founder says the company was acquired in September in a deal resulting in a $0 payout for equity holders, and faults leadership installed in 2021 |
| 1:45 PM • | The Information: Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI staff of three AI endgames: an IAEA-style regulator, a CERN-like lab merger, or one lab using RSI to “melt everyone else's GPUs” |
| 1:30 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: Muse passed 10.9M downloads since its September debut, 10.2M of them in the US, becoming the 12th app to hit 10M US downloads in its first 40 days |
| 12:50 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Polymarket's investors pressured CEO Shayne Coplan to fix its financial controls; Elon Musk's lawyer, Alex Spiro, joined its board and now helps daily |
| 12:12 PM • | Mike Allen / Axios: Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan plans to leave in 2027, after 15+ years as Mark Zuckerberg's top DC adviser; Kaplan helped Meta get close to Trump |
| 11:55 AM • | Bloomberg: ASI, which makes AI tools for the military and air traffic controllers, raised a $325M Series C at a $3B valuation, after winning an $875M FAA contract in June |
| 11:00 AM • | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Daytona, which is building cloud infrastructure for AI agents, raised a $60M Series B led by FirstMark at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$91M |
| 10:35 AM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Firefly, whose AI software connects with existing cameras, radios, and sensors to detect incidents and coordinate responses in real time, raised a $20M Series A |
| 9:55 AM • | Politico: Sources: OpenAI has retreated from advocating for strict export controls on US chipmakers selling to China, a boon for Nvidia and aligning with President Trump |
| 9:35 AM • | Katie McQue / NPR: TikTok staff depositions: TikTok executives ignored internal warnings about child sexual exploitation on Live, where staff said minors appeared in livestreams |
| 9:25 AM • | Kate Rooney / CNBC: Arda, which builds AI software and agents to accelerate assembly lines and manufacturing, raised $230M at a $1.5B valuation led by Altimeter, Accel, and Khosla |
| 9:15 AM • | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Eka Robotics, which is developing a “vision-force-action” architecture for its physical AI models, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation |
| 9:05 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its high-performance inference framework that powers its production services, starting with support for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash |
| 8:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Salesforce agrees to acquire AI-powered marketing platform Braze for nearly $5.7B in enterprise value, paying $47.50 per share, set to close from February 2027 |
| 8:25 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify launches paid podcast memberships in 34 markets, including the US; creators can offer perks like bonus content or fewer ads and keep 90% of the revenue |
| 8:15 AM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Apple says it will commit up to $100M over three years to Pennsylvania-based Perryman, a titanium supplier for the iPhone Duo, and expand its Qnity partnership |
| 8:05 AM • | Reuters: Chinese state media: China inaugurates the National Data Group, a new state-owned enterprise that will focus on developing and utilizing data resources |
| 7:55 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Note-taking tool Otter.ai raised $320M in non-dilutive capital from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund; PitchBook says it raised $50M prior to this round |
| 7:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Four Z.ai founders participated in a 2018 to 2021 research project co-funded by CGTRI, which the UK's MI5 said had “very strong ties” to China's main spy agency |
| 7:20 AM • | Financial Times: Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei are pouring billions into data centers in Shaoguan, China, a hinterland region with cheap power and a cool climate, angering locals |
| 7:11 AM • | Bloomberg: Google says Cloud services in its London region are recovering after a “power event” caused a multi-hour outage that affected Revolut and several European banks |
| 6:55 AM • | Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: AI safety advocates widely criticize Anthropic's leaked US federal AI bill as much weaker than the bipartisan FRONTIER Act, undermining its safety-first pitch |
| 6:35 AM • | Paul Sandle / Reuters: The UK CMA proposes that Apple lower fees and remove technical barriers to its contactless tech to help Apple Pay rivals; a consultation runs until November 17 |
| 6:30 AM • | Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Estonia-based web traffic security tools startup Blackwall raised a $100M Series C led by AVP at a $2.2B valuation, after raising a €45M Series B in March 2025 |
| 6:20 AM • | Reuters: Sources: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent ordered 3M+ of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 GPUs, worth $35B+, in a rush to secure less powerful, export-compliant chips |
| 6:15 AM • | Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center: Survey: 20% of US adults regularly consume news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020; 39% of those aged 18 to 29 and 25% of those aged 30 to 49 do so regularly |
| 6:10 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Amazon pledges to spend €16B+ in Germany in 2027 on AWS and AI data centers, its Leo satellite internet, Prime Video media production, and a Berlin robotics lab |
| 6:05 AM • | Luke Kehoe / Ookla: Analysis: London fell from 7th to last place out of 18 European capitals for median mobile download speed from 2021 to 2026; 5G adoption has outrun 5G capacity |
| 5:50 AM • | OpenAI: OpenAI says its new models are better for building and migrating software in low-resource legacy programming languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic |
| 5:40 AM • | Bloomberg: The US sanctions Chinese VC firm MiraclePlus for financing Zhisuan, founded by Ding Linwei, who in 2026 was convicted of stealing Google's AI trade secrets |
| 4:00 AM • | Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: Ant-backed Mynt, which runs mobile wallet app GCash, rose as much as 2.4% in Manila after raising $841M in the Philippines' largest-ever IPO, valuing it at ~$7B |
| 2:15 AM • | Sam Biddle / The Intercept: Leaked documents detail ECHOTRIBBLE, a nascent US Army Cyber Command program for agentic AI to autonomously navigate networks to identify and neutralize targets |
| 12:45 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Chinese robovan maker Neolix raised a $400M Series E led by Boyu, taking total funding to $1.4B+; it operates 30K+ vehicles in 300+ cities across 20 countries |
| 11:45 PM • | Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: An Australian minister says the eSafety Commissioner plans to sue Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube over alleged non-compliance with the under-16 social media ban |
| 11:05 PM • | Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Mercury CEO Immad Akhund says the fintech hit $1B in annualized revenue, up ~50% YoY, now has 450K+ customers, and is launching a payroll service |
| 9:45 PM • | Jason Hiner / The Deep View: Inception debuts Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM that it says tops GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash on agentic benchmarks while being 4x to 8x faster |
| 8:56 PM • | Bloomberg: Seoul-based data center infrastructure company Elice falls 30%+ in its Kosdaq debut, the worst-ever opening day for a sizable Korean IPO, after raising ~$151M |
| 7:38 PM • | Reuters: Sources: OpenAI is racing to secure investor commitments before Anthropic's expected mid-November IPO, at a $1.4T+ valuation; source: OpenAI could raise ~$30B |
| 7:30 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Ted Sarandos complained for months that Netflix was short on new hit shows and lower US watch time; Netflix just fired its film chief and content chief |
| 7:10 PM • | Ellen DiMauro / Semafor: Sources: Waymo aims to expand its fleet to 8,000 by the end of 2026, up from 4,000 now, and to 20,000 by the end of 2027, after raising $5B in debt in October |
| 6:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Eric Schmidt, who owns ~1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions in its Series A, is poised to have one of the largest windfalls from its IPO |
| 6:35 PM • | Cloudflare: Cloudflare debuts Clairic, a System One-class extraction model it says processes unstructured data faster, more cheaply, and more accurately than normal LLMs |
| 5:55 PM • | Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: The US FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp acquisition, subject to a consent decree requiring equal access to LiveRamp's data connectivity tools for all clients |
| 5:25 PM • | John Koetsier / Forbes: Dream Labs, which offers a public API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures |
| 4:00 PM • | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Ramp says it applied to the US OCC for a trust bank charter that, if approved, would allow it to offer fiduciary investment management and digital asset custody |
| 3:55 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Nscale is in talks for a second deal with Anthropic worth ~$45B to deliver 460MW of computing power at its West Virginia campus using Vera Rubin chips |
| 2:25 PM • | Engineering at Meta: Meta details Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale supercluster in Ohio, which Meta is scaling to ~1M GPUs and used to train its Muse family of foundational models |
| 2:20 PM • | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Town, which develops enterprise AI assistants, raised a $108M Series B at a $1B valuation led by Forerunner and Menlo, after announcing a $55M Series A in June |
| 2:05 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Developers and vibe coders are using AI tools like Claude Code to remove sponsored ads on their smart TVs, speed up app launchers, disable tracking, and more |
| 1:50 PM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: NYC-based Prism Data, which provides credit-scoring data and analytics that help lenders assess borrowers, raised a $20M Series A led by Story Ventures |
| 1:15 PM • | Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: Tolan, an AI assistant focused on users that are not tech-savvy, raised $30M from USV, Khosla Ventures, and Homebrew, and says 70% of its users are women |
| 1:05 PM • | The Information: Sources: DeepSeek and Huawei are collaborating on future AI chip designs and DeepSeek plans to start using Ascend 950DT for pretraining as soon as 2026's end |
| 12:20 PM • | Blake Brittain / Reuters: SCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, and Warner Music, upholding a decision that copyright termination rights apply globally, not just in the US |
| 12:15 PM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple announces a “Pro and tell” event on October 28 at 10am PT in LA, where its first touchscreen MacBook, a 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, and more are expected |
| 11:55 AM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon launches TorchNeuron, an open-source framework that lets developers run PyTorch code on Amazon's Trainium chips with no rewriting needed, in public beta |
| 11:40 AM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: AI infrastructure startup Modal says it plans to start using Nvidia's Vera CPUs for the first time for hosting agents, alongside its current Intel and AMD chips |
| 11:30 AM • | MiniMax: MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, saying it delivers “a generational leap” in agentic tasks, coding, computer use, and cybersecurity, with weights due October 23 |
| 11:10 AM • | ProPublica: Sources: DHS officials asked CISA to hack a voting machine to report vulnerabilities to the White House without telling the vendor; the request wasn't acted on |
| 10:55 AM • | Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: The US DHS orders all federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek's tech from their IT systems and prohibits future procurement of its products and services |
| 10:35 AM • | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Sources: US investigators pursuing ShinyHunters, which stole FBI data, identified executives at two ransomware negotiation firms who had unusually close ties |
| 10:25 AM • | Dan Mangan / CNBC: Filing: US prosecutors say OpenAI suspect Abdulrahman Alfozan maintained frequent WhatsApp contact in 2025 and 2026 with an unnamed Saudi Royal Family member |
| 10:15 AM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Anthropic is preparing a model with better intuition and reasoning that can discern underlying intentions and is better at thinking outside of the box |
| 9:25 AM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft debuts new security tools in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception system that treat AI agents as potential insider threats via risk assessments |
| 9:05 AM • | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: How Democrats, who polls predict will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, are preparing to aggressively scrutinize the AI industry |
| 8:30 AM • | Raphael Satter / Reuters: Researcher: a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to target 1,200+ websites and breach 100+ entities, like Deere and SharkNinja, spending ~$5,000 in tokens |
| 8:20 AM • | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Tel Aviv-based doubleAI releases a code execution model for improving GPU and CPU performance; doubleAI raised $220M, using ~50% to buy 1,000 Nvidia B300 chips |
| 8:10 AM • | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Vinted sees an influx of listings suspected of containing stolen goods following widespread French riots, which hit Sephora, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, and others |
| 7:55 AM • | Financial Times: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone agree to explore a joint bid to offer “direct-to-device” satellite service in Europe, challenging Starlink |
| 7:45 AM • | Bloomberg: AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X at a $6.2B valuation, up from $2.6B after raising $700M in 2024 |
| 7:30 AM • | Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis: Analysis: companies are set for a massive acceleration of 50GW+ in data center capacity additions in 2027; 24GW+ across 40 campuses are in the advanced stages |
| 7:10 AM • | Maddy Varner / Wired: Character.AI's Chapter 11 court filings indicate a two-part deal with Disney to transfer talent and tech, shielding Disney from Character.AI's legal liabilities |
| 6:50 AM • | Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal: A look at Anthropic's opaque, five-member Long-Term Benefit Trust, where members own no Anthropic equity but hold enormous sway by appointing most of its board |
| 6:30 AM • | Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price |
| 6:15 AM • | Pew Research Center: Survey: the chatbot gender adoption gap among US adults has closed since 2024, though men are more likely to use them daily; ChatGPT has identical usage rates |
| 6:00 AM • | Reed Stevenson / Bloomberg: Foxconn agrees to acquire a 50% stake in Mitsubishi's automotive components unit for ~$727M; Mitsubishi will provide autonomous tech for Foxconn's EV platforms |
| 5:40 AM • | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Elon Musk says “I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America” in 2027, a gift worth ~$10.5B, after Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to APBF |
| 5:15 AM • | Wccftech: Q&A with Nvidia's Vera team on agentic AI driving CPU demands and forcing CPU design back to prioritizing single-threaded performance over core counts, and more |
| 4:40 AM • | Caroline Haskins / Wired: How the data center industry courts kids amid a backlash: 11+ firms and groups hosting field trips since 2025, flag kits and cards for first graders, and more |
| 4:20 AM • | New York Times: Analysis: 11K+ accounts on X, Bluesky, Discord, Telegram, and others made nearly 25K posts to unmask a Cornell sexual assault accuser, after she named seven men |
| 4:00 AM • | Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek: CyberSN: US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% YoY to a four-year low of 235,786 roles from January to September; AI security engineer demand soared 268.3% |
| 3:45 AM • | Bloomberg: A profile of Alona Katz, the chief of Brooklyn DA's Virtual Currency Unit, who recently led an operation that seized and disrupted 240+ crypto fraud websites |
| 2:25 AM • | Financial Times: AI's ability to forecast extreme weather faces a major test in the coming months amid 2026's historic El Niño, as some scientists question the tech's accuracy |
| 1:45 AM • | Financial Times: Survey of 94 economists: 54% expect AI's gains to spread across the G20 over the next decade, not just the US and China; 32 see African countries falling behind |
| 1:20 AM • | Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: Stripe Link data shows agentic transactions increased by 38x and volume of payments by 20x in September, with retail leading in both, and a ~$100 average spend |
| 12:40 AM • | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Abby Care, which runs an AI-powered platform that trains and certifies family members as paid caregivers, raised an $82M Series C led by Transformation Capital |
| 12:15 AM • | Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: Allium: stablecoin payments rose 45% YoY to $482B YTD through September 30, with transactions up 71% to 1.04B, while circulating supply grew just 0.4% to ~$305B |
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