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| 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 — In a new draft prospectus viewed by the Journal, the AI giant disclosed an $80.7 billion net loss for the first half of 2026 and a long list of risk factors
More: TechCrunch, Reuters, San Francisco Business Times, Barron's Online, ZeroHedge News, and Crypto Briefing
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Bluesky: @stevenjcbuckley, @mims, @carlquintanilla, and @peark.es. Mastodon: @newsguyusa@flipboard.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, r/Anthropic, and r/StockMarket
| 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 — Anthropic PBC could spend $750 billion on additional computing power in the coming years, according to a Wall Street Journal report … | 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 — SpaceX reported 161% revenue growth for the third quarter, driven by the company's artificial intelligence business and Starlink Subscriber growth.
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, SpaceX, The Verge, Quartz, Financial Times, Cautious Optimism, The Independent, Unite.AI, Forbes, and Wall Street Journal
X: @andrewcurran_, @firstadopter, @firstadopter, @munster_gene, @firstadopter, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @lexnfx, and @stocksavvyshay. Forums: r/CanadianInvestor
| 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 — Security personnel around the world are on high alert Tuesday following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys …
More: Mozilla Security Blog, The Hacker News, eMudhra Limited, Scott Helme, 9to5Linux, and Cyber Security News
X: @scott_helme, @emudhra, @logic, @ghidraninja, @jedisct1, @astuyve, @charliermarsh, @iangcarroll, @astuyve, @geoffreyhuntley, and @iangcarroll. Bluesky: @malwarejake. Mastodon: @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 — DeepSeek is opening up the software it uses to run its artificial intelligence models at scale, potentially making its technology cheaper and easier for businesses to run.
More: GitHub, PYMNTS.com, Forkast, Gizmodo, CryptoSlate, The Decoder, Quartz, and The New Stack
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LinkedIn: Romain Egele, Surendra S., Michał Piszczek, Marcel Salathé, and Tianyi Cui
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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 — The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions
More: The Sun, TMZ.com, The Hill, and Mediaite
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| Mike Allen / Axios: |
Joel Kaplan, Meta's chief global affairs officer, plans to leave in 2027 after 15+ years as Mark Zuckerberg's top DC adviser; Kaplan has close Trump ties — Joel Kaplan, Meta's chief global affairs officer, will leave Meta next year after 15+ years as Mark Zuckerberg's top Washington adviser.
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| 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 next-gen console by late 2028 — Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. — Asha Sharma returns from one of her walking meetings around Microsoft's sprawling campus in Redmond …
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Forums: r/gamesEcultura, r/kindafunny, r/consoles, r/gadgets, r/gaming, r/xbox, r/microsoft, and r/xcloud
| 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 — OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a startup building AI agents to help pharmaceutical companies manage drug development, the ChatGPT maker shared exclusively with Axios.
More: OpenAI, TechCrunch, The Information, Blockchain.News, and RuntimeWire
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| 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 — Netflix on Tuesday reported third-quarter earnings that topped analyst estimates and revenue that was in line as Wall Street eyes …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Google launches TorchTPU, an open-source version of PyTorch to let AI apps run on TPUs and Google Cloud via simple configuration changes without rewriting code — On Tuesday, Google announced that TorchTPU, its long-awaited version of PyTorch, is now available as an open-source project.
More: Google Cloud Blog, PyTorch, Forkast, Crypto Briefing, Blockchain.News, Unite.AI, and About Amazon
X: @semianalysis_ and @mainzonx
LinkedIn: Bill Jia, Adi Patel, Alexandru (Andi) Gavrilescu, and Mark Lohmeyer
| 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 — A Google Cloud outage in Europe that knocked out digital bank Revolut Ltd. and other online services for several hours …
More: Google Cloud Status, Reuters, Business Insider, BBC, Revolut System Status, The Register, The Verge, Neowin, The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Telegraph, Silicon Republic, tovima.com, Associated Press, FStech, DailyCoin, Business Reporter, NZ Herald, Protos, The Hindu BusinessLine, The Paypers, Türkiye Today, Financial Times, Mashable, ITV News, The Stack, and TechRadar
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| 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 — Our latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic.
More: Gizmodo, BleepingComputer, The Decoder, Engadget, Portland Oregon startups …, Developer Tech News, and Tech in Asia
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Forums: Hacker News and r/accelerate
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to hire 300K+ US workers for seasonal, part-time, and full-time roles for the upcoming holiday season, up 20% from 2025, paying $20/hour on average — Amazon.com Inc. plans to hire more than 300,000 workers during the holiday shopping season, up 20% from a year ago … | 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 — Salesforce Inc. plugged a gap in its marketing platform with an agreement to buy Braze Inc. for an enterprise value of about $5.7 billion …
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LinkedIn: Braze, Mirko Reckhard, Bill Magnuson, Sam Ward, Carlos Garcia, Jeff Chang, Marcos Duran, Rachel Cassidy, Rafael Beckenkamp, and Subhayan Deb. Forums: r/salesforce
| 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 — Apple is adding a U.S. titanium supplier for its new iPhone Duo and expanding domestic production of camera components …
More: Apple, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada, Quartz, The Apple Post, 9to5Mac, iDrop News, and Apple Must
X: @johnternus, @tim_cook, and @raywongy. LinkedIn: Tom Stephan. Bluesky: @mechachurchill. Forums: r/apple
| 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” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week told employees about three proposals the industry has discussed for how to safely develop AI … | 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 — Spotify on Tuesday launched paid memberships, a new way for podcasters to make money from their biggest fans beyond paywalled bonus episodes.| 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 — After 17 years, FSQ's ending has been written. Some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team …
More: Business Insider and Ben Werdmuller
| 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 — OpenAI's former research chief has been quietly building a startup that aims to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. using AI.
More: San Francisco Business Times, Quartz, and Crypto Briefing
X: @bobmcgrewai, @boztank, and @bobmcgrewai
LinkedIn: Jen Ben Arye, Eric Chen, and Natacha Gabbamonte
| 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 — Amazon.com Inc. said it will invest more than €16 billion ($17.9 billion) next year in Germany for operations including data centers …
More: About Amazon, DatacenterDynamics, Euronews, Wall Street Journal, The Crypto Basic, and Neowin
| 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 — Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund …
More: Otter.ai, Pulse 2.0, and The Tech Portal
| 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 — Meta's AI companion, Muse, is now one of only a dozen mobile apps to have reached 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days on the market.| 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 — Britain's competition regulator said on Tuesday it was seeking to loosen Apple's grip on contactless payments by proposing …
More: GOV.UK, BBC, GSMArena.com, Finance Magnates, Business Standard, iPhone in Canada, PaymentsJournal, iClarified, Neowin, and Telegraph. X: @cmagovuk
| 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 — When Founders Fund considered investing in Polymarket in 2025, it learned that the prediction-market startup's young chief executive … | 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 — ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards with a collective sticker price …
More: Reuters, Quartz, Crypto Briefing, ZeroHedge News, and Seoul Economic Daily
Forums: r/NVDA_Stock, r/BetterOffline, and r/NvidiaStock
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