Amazon unveils the $500 Echo Show 16, the $200 Echo Time alarm, and the $200+ Alexa Photo Frame, raises smart speaker prices, and previews Alexa Home Map  —  With its latest devices, including a smart bedside alarm clock, Amazon looks to cement Alexa's presence in every room of the home

SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 328% YoY to ~$78.8B, above ~$74.07B est., and operating profit up 632% to ~$62.76B, above ~$57.78B est. and a company record  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.

Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February  —  The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors.  — 1.3k

Sources: Anthropic's seven cofounders remain extremely influential and personally tight; Daniela Amodei, who runs operations, is seen as a good balance to Dario  —  Anthropic's seven billionaire co-founders are set to gain collective control over one of the world's biggest companies following …

Research: professional analysts followed AI agents' randomly assigned “leans” on subjective analytical decisions 86% of the time; 77% used the agents' arguments  —  Amaç Herdağdelen, Hailey Joren, Alex Tamkin  —  When experts hand their work to an AI agent …

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 …

Artificial Analysis launches the Intelligence Index v5, with new coding and science benchmarks, built on private datasets; Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 58  —  Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, featuring 2 new benchmarks and 3 upgrades. For the first time, the majority of the Index is built on private datasets The Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index is our composite measure of model capabilities across tasks reflecting real-world u...

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.

X adds an intrusive promotional animation of an arm reaching across the screen to direct users to a “promote” post button, targeting verified and Premium users  —  You have to hand it to X's latest promotional gimmick.  —  After Elon Musk warned that …

Meta quietly launched Waddle World, a Tamagotchi-like, AI pet-rearing game, in the Philippines in September, calling it a “daily journal disguised as a pet”  —  But it's only available in the Philippines for now.  —  Looks like a big part of Meta's AI strategy is to rely on …

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.

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.

Email: a hacker attack forced the FEC to temporarily take its filing system offline around 10pm ET on Monday, blocking groups from submitting reports  —  The US Federal Election Commission's website was targeted by a hacker or hackers, according to an email seen by Reuters …

Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, and Granary v2, its open-source speech dataset  —  Nvidia Corp. today released a leaderboard-winning open artificial intelligence model for multilingual audio transcription and translation …

Samsung unveils the $229 Galaxy Buds On, its first open-fit, C-shaped cuff earbuds to compete with Sony and Bose, designed with AI's help, shipping November 6  —  Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its first pair of cuff-style earbuds, adding to a growing category that includes products from Sony Group Corp. …

The CFTC files a legal challenge to block Utah's attempt to restrict prediction market betting, asserting it is the sole US regulator of prediction markets  —  The U.S. agency that oversees derivatives has filed a federal legal challenge to halt Utah's attempt to stop prediction market betting in its state …

Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike  —  Large companies have learned over the past couple years that they can get more mileage out of AI agents by rethinking their processes from scratch …

Letter: Senator Elizabeth Warren asks Dario Amodei for “exhaustive responses” to four pages of questions by November 3 regarding existential risks in its S-1  —  The Democratic senator told the AI giant to answer four pages of questions about its IPO filing by Nov. 3

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft review: premium feel, lightweight, nice colors, and snappy performance, but expensive after price increases  —  The latest generation of Kindle's 7-inch e-readers have a new look and new accessories.  But are they worth the upgrade given Amazon's new Kindle prices?

Google unveils Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC), a digital-asset custody and security service in private preview, set for commercial availability in early 2027  —  Google to showcase a new security system designed to help banks and other financial institutions safeguard and move cryptocurrencies …

How Silicon Valley billionaires raised $333M+ to try to defeat a 5% California wealth tax; Patrick Collison's $33M is his most serious campaign engagement yet  —  Every Tuesday for the last few months, two dozen of the world's richest people or their advisers hop onto a conference call and plan for war.

AI and cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security raised $400M led by Bessemer at a $3.8B valuation, up from $1.5B in January, for $830M in total funding  —  Upwind Security, a San Francisco-based startup offering cybersecurity for artificial intelligence and cloud applications …

Chinese PCB maker Dongshan rises on its Hong Kong debut, after raising ~$1.3B in an IPO, below its $3B goal, at a $30B valuation, amid a tricky IPO market  —  Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing Co. shares erased an opening slide to trade higher in their first day of trading in Hong Kong …

OpenAI says it's launching an election “war room” ahead of the US midterms to identify potential spread of misinfo or other efforts to disrupt the elections  —  OpenAI is standing up an election “war room” ahead of the midterms, the company exclusively told Decoded by POLITICO.

Jio Platforms, India's largest telecom and digital services company, jumps 21.4% in its trading debut, after raising ~$3.2B in the country's largest-ever IPO  —  Jio Platforms' shares rose 21.4% on their trading debut Wednesday after a record initial public offering that was lapped up by retail as well as institutional investors.

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 …