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Scott Patterson / Bloomberg:

OKX and ICE's joint venture OKXICE plans to launch a US tokenized stock venue on November 23 and list 70+ assets; 56 of the 62 companies it targeted objected

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

AWS releases AWS Emulator, a free tool that simulates 200+ of its services locally, saying AI agents wrote it and its team hasn't written or reviewed any code

Google:

Google launches Gemini Decisions API, powered by its new Gemini Decision 1 model, to return predefined answers with confidence scores, at $0.10/1M input tokens

Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal:

United Airlines says it will prevent personal AI assistants from booking tickets, citing data privacy risks and possible FAA and DOT rule violations

Nick Clegg / The Atlantic:

Silicon Valley's herd mentality in cozying up to Trump backfired as Democrats may seek retribution, China closes the AI gap, and anti-Big Tech sentiment grows

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:

IBM unveils the Quantum Nighthawk r3, its next-gen processor designed to execute 10,000 quantum operations across 520 qubits to tackle more complex computations

Bloomberg:

Self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition is in talks to raise at least $1.5B led by General Catalyst at a ~$30B pre-money valuation

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:

Memo: Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering Santosh Janardhan plans to leave in early 2027 and Dave Brown will become head of infrastructure

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:

Imprint, which helps companies offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $130M led by Khosla Ventures at a ~$1.9B valuation

Tim Keary / Forbes:

Tel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform designed for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across a Series A and a seed

Robert Hart / The Verge:

Google DeepMind launches AlphaGenome 2, trained on 100M+ cell profiles across 68 tissues to predict the effects of genetic variants, for non-commercial research

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:

Plurai, founded by former Nexar staffers to use synthetic data and digital twins of corporate IT environments to assess AI agents, raised a $13M seed

Morgan Chittum / Fortune:

Rox, which develops AI agents to automate customer research and outreach, raised a $100M Series B co-led by General Catalyst and March at a $1.3B valuation

J.D. Capelouto / Semafor:

An analysis of 42 interviews since 2022: after US chip restrictions, Jensen Huang's public rhetoric became more admiring of China and critical of export rules

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:

Anthropic's IPO draws multiple times the orders for the shares available; a source says Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon have a livestream event on Friday

Mark Chediak / Bloomberg:

Salt Lake City-based energy storage startup Torus raised a $500M Series C led by Magnetar to build shipping container-sized AI data centers at 1MW to 20MW sizes

George Hammond / Financial Times:

London-based AI chip startup Fractile raised $720M from Thrive, Founders Fund, and others, sources say at a $7B post-money valuation, up from ~$1.1B in May

Loreben Tuquero / Poynter:

Wesleyan Media Project: political campaigns spent ~$187M on ~300 AI-generated or AI-enhanced ads in the midterms; 90% of tracked AI ads were for GOP candidates

Luke Plunkett / Aftermath:

Game developer House House confirms using AI during Big Walk's final development, sparking an intense debate among Independent Games Festival judges and jurors

Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media:

German defense tech giant Helsing launches Clarity, an intelligence platform using military-customized AI agents to rival Palantir's Maven and Anduril's Lattice

Bloomberg:

ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming says the company plans to launch a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks and reach the AI frontier by 2029-2030

Wall Street Journal:

SoftBank reserved 13GW+ of turbines, equivalent to six Hoover Dams, to power AI; SoftBank took a $3.7B earnings hit mostly from canceled reservations

Andrew Silver / Reuters:

After China's anti-corruption crackdown on hospital visits and pharma reps, drugmakers are turning to AI assistants from Alibaba and others to reach physicians

Alexander Gladstone / Wall Street Journal:

Filing: Alphabet agrees to additional privacy protections to salvage its $10M acquisition of bankrupt Spirit Airlines' data, resolving union objections

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:

The European Commission introduces the Digital Fairness Act, which aims to curb addictive design features and manipulative "dark patterns" or face large fines

Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:

The UK's proposed under-16 social media ban is expanding to target recommender systems and user content, including YouTube Kids, Lego Play, and Spotify

Reuters:

Analysis: AI-driven e-commerce adoption surged during China's month-long Singles Day festival, with event sales rising 2.4% between October 7 and October 31

Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News:

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR teardown: a 5/10 score, a point above the M5 MacBook Pro, and Touch ID works with a new logic board; the backlit logo uses four LEDs

Richard Adams / The Guardian:

England's university regulator says AI makes grading coursework "close to impossible" and recommends a return to "AI-free assessment" methods like written exams

Jaron Lanier / New York Times:

VR pioneer Jaron Lanier says Silicon Valley is sabotaging itself by poorly pitching AI and treating areas designated for data centers as sacrifice zones

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:

Nintendo sold 5.2M copies of its The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake in just four days, giving the Switch 2 the blockbuster hit it had been waiting for

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:

Rapidus has yet to produce functioning SRAM, a key step that needed to be completed by summer 2026 to meet its March 2028 deadline for making 2nm chips

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:

Records: China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, which has close PLA ties, has access to Nvidia's H200 AI chips despite being on a US export blacklist

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Researchers find that Grok Build is leaking data of over 35,000 apps via shareable links, including proprietary information, some belonging to SpaceXSI

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:

Apple says its Apple Support Community forum will close permanently on November 20 and starting today the site is read-only and no longer accepts new posts

Declan Harty / Politico:

The CFTC warned Kalshi of possible imminent charges over failure to notify the regulator of certain products; Kalshi says it is addressing the issue

Heather Knight / New York Times:

A US judge sentences tech consultant Nima Momeni to 16 years to life in prison for the second-degree murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee in April 2023

Jenny Lee / CNBC:

Anthropic opens its Australian retail IPO, giving individual investors access to Class A shares ahead of the company's planned Nasdaq listing

Bloomberg:

How US-based game publishers are losing ground in the $121B mobile gaming market to Chinese rivals, which can make games quicker, cheaper, and more profitably

Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter:

An analysis of the tech job market in late 2026: product managers seem to be benefiting most in the AI era, demand for engineers is plateauing, and more

Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware:

A deep dive into AMD's Zen 6 EPYC Venice: it uses TSMC's N2P, the 9686F often beats Nvidia's Vera, a dual 9996 is up to 93% faster than a dual Zen 5 9965, more

Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal:

NY-based Daylight, which provides AI-powered managed security, raised an $80M Series B led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, sources say at a ~$400M valuation

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:

In a report, Railway says it believes the October hack targeted AI provider keys for resale, and unauthorized spend on the stolen keys was estimated at ~$740K

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:

Leaked documents: OpenAI's adjusted operating margin improved from -150% to -109% from Q2 to Q3

Ben Bergman / Business Insider:

Coframe, which uses AI to make websites that test and personalize themselves for each visitor, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $35M

Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg:

Sources and records: 11+ NSA and US Cyber Command personnel died by suicide over the 12 months to September, prompting White House and congressional questions

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

CoreWeave reports Q3 revenue up 168% YoY to $3.66B, vs. $3.55B est., a $132.5B revenue backlog, and lifts its 2026 guidance; CRWV jumps 5%+ after hours

Shubhangi Goel / Business Insider:

Graphon, which wants to resolve AI agent memory limitations by mapping connections across docs, videos, and images, raised a $35M Series A led by RRE Ventures

Bloomberg:

Lawsuit filing: Point72's quant unit Cubist claims its fired lead research analyst used Claude and Codex to steal source code before leaving for a competitor

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:

SpaceX announces Starlink Mini 2 with a swappable battery that it says can operate for over four hours without an external power source, reportedly for $999

Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg:

São Paulo-based Clara, which sells corporate spend management tools in Latin America, raised $105M, as a $65M Series C and $40M in renewed growth financing

Sam Rutherford / Engadget:

Google Fi debuts a "super network" feature for automatic carrier switching and Wi-Fi Auto-Connect+ to improve indoor connectivity in malls, airports, and more

Bloomberg:

Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and others in a 21-bank consortium have committed ~$270M to fund five years of a stablecoin venture announced in September

Kyle Baird / The Block:

Alta, which is building blockchain infrastructure for banks and payment companies, raised a $47.5M Series A led by Index, bringing its total funding to $80M

Jay Peters / The Verge:

OpenAI launches Businesses in ChatGPT in beta, including Business Agents for companies to interact with users and a hub where companies can claim their profiles

AI Futures Project:

The AI Futures Project updates its timelines after METR's report on Anthropic R&D progress, saying it now expects a Superhuman AI Researcher to arrive in 2027

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Oura agrees to acquire AI and on-demand doctor tool Counsel Health for $625M, and says Q4 revenue grew 153% YoY to $533M and FY 2026 revenue grew 92% to ~$1.75B

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

Anthropic unveils office tools, including a video call assistant, a data dashboard, and spreadsheet service Claude Sheets, competing with Microsoft and Google

Calder McHugh / Politico:

New York Governor Kathy Hochul launches the US' first effort to independently test AI systems and train a new generation of AI safety experts via a new center

CTech:

Dreeze, launched by Zerto founders to help companies recover from cyberattacks by restoring entire cloud applications, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed

Martin Peers / The Information:

SoftBank wrote off $3.7B in non-refundable data center equipment advances after reviewing its plans in Q2; the company had committed $9.5B in advance payments

Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google:

Google rolls out Gemini 4 Carbon to paid API and AI Ultra users two weeks after releasing it to cyber defenders, and previews a swarm feature in Antigravity

Reuters:

AI training startup Mercor raised a $750M Series D from Benchmark, General Catalyst, Nvidia, and others at a $20B valuation, up from $10B in October 2025

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:

IBM ends H-1B and green card sponsorships for most of the sponsored roles in IBM Consulting; source: workers can still work with IBM outside the US or leave IBM

Mia Sato / The Verge:

Reddit launches Reddit Reviews, a built-in hub using AI to turn subreddit comments into product pages with pros, cons, and sentiment, starting with 10K items

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Rockstar plans to make GTA VI available on Xbox Cloud Gaming at launch next week, likely restricting streaming exclusively to consoles; GTA VI runs at 30fps

Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder:

Scale Labs and CAIS' Remote Labor Index: Fable 5.2 completes 41.3% of freelance projects at professional quality, above Opus 5.5's 21.3% and GPT-6 Astra's 20.8%

Reece Rogers / Wired:

Cyanogen's co-founder and two others debut Kora, a Linux desktop OS that integrates AI models at a system level, set for a 2027 launch on Snapdragon and x86 PCs

Chris Metinko / Axios:

Tel Aviv-based Bay, which helps companies find AI agents and set guardrails, emerges from stealth with a $37M Series A led by Battery Ventures and a $13M seed

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:

Path Robotics, which develops software for autonomous manufacturing robots, raised a $300M Series E at a $2.45B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$610M

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:

At Adobe Max, Adobe unveils Creative Cloud and Firefly AI updates to make designing and editing easier, including Premiere's new Generative Remove tool

Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET:

Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Drone Cam and the $999 Ring Rover Cam, utilizing its AI Pilot navigation software, under new subbrand Ring Robotics

Bloomberg:

Filing: Alibaba says its chip design unit T-Head filed on September 11 for a Hong Kong listing after exchange clearance; T-Head is set to remain a subsidiary

Alexandra Alper / Reuters:

Microsoft is among a group of companies lobbying the Trump administration to halt the FCC's plan to ban imports of Chinese optical transceivers

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:

Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI framework AlphaProof Code to verify the Signal protocol's cryptographic guarantees, in a four-week proof-of-concept

Kieran Smith / Financial Times:

BT CEO Allison Kirkby says a Starlink deal is "ready to launch" but the company is "cautious on how Starlink might be viewed" after the Ukraine service cutoff

Reuters:

China's trade surplus hit $1.04T in the first 10 months of 2026, topping $1T for a second year in a row, as AI-driven tech exports offset weak domestic demand

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:

Meituan releases weights for LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model for long-horizon agentic tasks, under the MIT license, after unveiling it on November 1

Ryan Lawler / Axios:

GeniosAI, which develops AI software for financial analysis and modeling, raised $19.1M across seed and Series A; FactSet led the Series A

Andy Lin / Bloomberg:

Filings: Moonshot signed a deal in August to rent 32 China-based Super Micro servers with Nvidia B300, the most powerful AI chip, possibly in breach of US rules

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