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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: Barron's Online, ZeroHedge News, and Crypto Briefing
Bluesky: @stevenjcbuckley, @mims, @carlquintanilla, and @peark.es. Mastodon: @newsguyusa@flipboard.social
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/Anthropic, and r/StockMarket
| 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, Gizmodo, Forkast, CryptoSlate, The Decoder, Crypto Briefing, RuntimeWire, Quartz, The New Stack, and Techstrong.ai
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LinkedIn: Romain Egele, Surendra S., Michał Piszczek, Marcel Salathé, and Tianyi Cui. Forums: r/singularity
| 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: Reuters, Business Insider, The Verge, SpaceX, Financial Times, Crypto Briefing, Wall Street Journal, and Quartz
| 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/microsoft, r/gaming, r/xbox, and r/xcloud
| 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, Crypto Briefing, Blockchain.News, Unite.AI, and About Amazon
X: @semianalysis_ and @mainzonx
LinkedIn: Bill Jia, Adi Patel, Alexandru (Andi) Gavrilescu, and Mark Lohmeyer
| 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.
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X: @markchen90, @jayrughani, @aashaysanghvi_, @andrewcurran_, @8vc, @sussan_liu, @openai, @ashokaraj_, and @madisonmills22. LinkedIn: Aashay Sanghvi
| 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 …
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| 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 — The streaming service reported a 12 percent increase in quarterly revenue, but acknowledged that stagnant viewership … | Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
| 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: BleepingComputer, The Decoder, Engadget, Portland Oregon startups …, Developer Tech News, and Tech in Asia
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Forums: Hacker News and r/accelerate
| 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| 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 … | 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, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada, Quartz, The Apple Post, 9to5Mac, iDrop News, Apple Must, Small Business Trends, and iClarified
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| 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 revenue — Spotify on Tuesday launched paid memberships, a new way for podcasters to make money from their biggest fans beyond paywalled bonus episodes.| 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 … | 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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X: @dsteinberg10000, @benioff, @salesforce, @braze, @gregg_johnson, @jasonlk, @probyshandilya, @virtualgoodz, and @spenserskates
LinkedIn: Mirko Reckhard, Sam Ward, Jeff Chang, Marcos Duran, Rachel Cassidy, Braze, Bill Magnuson, Carlos Garcia, Rafael Beckenkamp, and Subhayan Deb. Forums: r/salesforce
| 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, Neowin, and Quartz
| 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
| Dennis Crowley / Teendrama Snippets: |
Foursquare co-founder says the company was acquired a month ago 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
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Polymarket investors pressured CEO Shayne Coplan to add stricter financial and operational controls; Elon Musk's lawyer, Alex Spiro, joined its board — When Founders Fund considered investing in Polymarket in 2025, it learned that the prediction-market startup's young chief executive … | 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, The Tech Portal, Pulse 2.0, Tech Funding News, and Unite.AI
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Muse had 10.9M downloads since its September debut, 10.2M of those 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.| 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 — OpenAI has changed its tune on China. Nvidia is a big winner. — OpenAI for much of last year advocated for strict limits …
More: Motley Fool, TechCrunch, Bruegel, and Barron's Online
X: @thezvi, @_nathancalvin, @hamandcheese, and @peterwildeford
| 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, GSMArena.com, BBC, Finance Magnates, iPhone in Canada, Business Standard, PaymentsJournal, Computerworld, iClarified, Neowin, Telegraph, Sharecast, and 9to5Mac. X: @cmagovuk
| 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 — W — hile the AI industry has bet heavily on LLMs and the massive data centers needed to scale them, one of the neolabs betting …
More: Inception and Forkast
X: @stefanoermon, @volokuleshov, @scaling01, @jasonhiner, @baseten, @mark_k, @stefanoermon, @stefanoermon, @tri_dao, @youdotcom, @stefanoermon, @modal, @adityagrover_, @therundownai, @javiergonzalez, @designarena, @_inception_ai, @mikelecheve, @p0, @timt, @rohan10395971, @lbunzel, and @volokuleshov. LinkedIn: Michael Giannangeli. Forums: Hacker News
| 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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