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October 28, 2026, 12:40 AM
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google DeepMind launches Genie 4, a world model powered by Gemini 3.8 Flash designed to generate interactive AI simulations, in preview first to trusted testers  —  The Genie 4 world model offers more realism and can create audio to accompany its interactive worlds.
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 328% YoY to ~$78.8B, vs. ~$74.07B est., and operating profit up 632% to ~$62.76B, vs. ~$57.78B est.  —  South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix on Wednesday posted a record high quarterly profit, sharply beating estimates, and announced over $25 billion in dividends and buybacks …
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
AMD says it will invest $1B in Meta's equity offering, its first Helios rackscale systems are installed at Meta, and its EPYC CPUs power Meta's Muse AI agent  —  Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have said they will invest a total of $4 billion in Meta after the social media …
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
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
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.
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.
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic's S-1 implies a $40T+ annual TAM based on the economic value of knowledge work in 2025, topping SpaceX's $28.5T estimate, without explicitly naming it  —  The company's estimated market opportunity, tied to the economic value of work produced by knowledge workers, tops SpaceX's enormous figure from earlier this year
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
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
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Memo: Amazon says measuring AI adoption solely by token usage or code generation is “deeply flawed,” as it discourages staff from tokenmaxxing  —  Amazon laid out its AI usage guidelines for software engineers in a memo to staffers, and discouraged employees from turning to …
Felix Rieseberg:
An Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them and tells junior engineers that “hunger beats tenure”  —  This month, I laid the traditional coding interview to rest.  As a hiring manager at Anthropic, I stopped asking candidates to do them.
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 7%+ after hours  —  Robinhood Markets (HOOD.O) reported a drop in third-quarter profit on Tuesday as slower cryptocurrency trading weighed on growth …
Valida Pau / The Information:
Sources: chipmaker Onsemi is in talks to acquire 16-year-old chip startup Ferric for ~$1B; PitchBook: Ferric last raised a $32.1M Series C in December 2024  —  Semiconductor component maker Onsemi has been discussing an acquisition of 16-year-old chip startup Ferric for close to $1 billion …
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Fujifilm plans to increase magnetic tape production capacity fivefold to meet AI-driven storage demand, its biggest production expansion in ~20 years  —  TOKYO — Fujifilm will raise production capacity for magnetic tape fivefold to meet artificial-intelligence-driven demand …
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: HP, Asus, and Acer are shifting some PC production from Thailand and Vietnam back to China amid rising component costs; Dell is mulling a similar move  —  TAIPEI — Leading PC makers, including HP of the U.S. and Asus and Acer of Taiwan, are combating soaring component costs by shifting …
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  —  Defense tech startup Anduril Industries Inc. has joined forces with chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. to produce laptops that are designed …

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Savannah Walsh / Vanity Fair:
A profile of Wren Woodson and Mabel Kabani, ex-60 Minutes staffers whose Gen Z news startup Newsgirls has ~500K followers across Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok

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Earlier Picks

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
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
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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