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Binance says initial investigation suggests a compromised DevOps laptop may have enabled a ~$6.3B hack; Tether froze 1.5B+ USDT and Circle froze 800M+ USDC — Onchain data shows about $3.55 billion in incoming transfers to the unlabeled wallet, with nearly $900 million subsequently moved across other wallets.
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| George Steer / Financial Times: |
Binance “temporarily suspended” all deposits and withdrawals as it investigates security issues and works with law enforcement; Binance.US says it's unaffected — Tether and Circle freeze billions of dollars' worth of their coins as world's largest crypto exchange investigates security issue
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| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $201.94B, vs. $202.31B est., net income down 2% to $20.7B, forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; AMZN drops 7%+ after hours — Operating income was $28.1 billion and operating margin was 13.9%—Amazon's highest operating margin ever AWS net sales increased 39.3% …
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q3 revenue up 21% YoY to $16.5B, vs. $16.5B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS below estimates; INTC drops 23%+ after hours — Intel shares plummeted more than 20% in extended trading on Thursday after the chipmaker issued a weak fourth-quarter forecast, citing continued softness in the global PC market.
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| New York Times: |
US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, who has a close relationship with Jensen Huang, is a Chinese asset; Trump was briefed and took no action — Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, is influential at the White House on technology policy and has developed …
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| Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
Alphabet's stock falls 12.3%, wiping a record $500B from its market cap, after reporting negative cash flow amid its AI spending; the Nasdaq falls 1.4% — Google owner admits ‘AI mode’ has hurt traditional search as sales and profits undershoot expectations
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Reddit plans to require users to log in to fully access the site in response to AI scraping, and to begin tests in select markets outside the US this quarter — Reddit on Thursday said it's moving to become a primarily logged-in experience, marking one of the most significant shifts in its 21-year history.
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| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
NYSE owner ICE plans US-regulated Hyperliquid-based perpetual markets with Trade.xyz, a market operator on the crypto platform, and takes a stake in Trade.xyz — Intercontinental Exchange Inc. joined forces with one of the market operators behind offshore crypto-trading platform Hyperliquid …
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| Reuters: |
DoorDash agrees to acquire Instacart in a ~$17B deal, paying $65 per share, a 26% premium to its October 22 close, as the platform delivery market consolidates — DoorDash (DASH.O) said on Thursday it would buy Instacart (CART.O) in a deal valued at about $17 billion, stepping up its push …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/doordash_drivers
| Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide Nscale with billions of dollars in credit guarantees for debt to develop a 460MW data center that Anthropic plans to use — Nvidia is in talks to provide Nscale, a young AI cloud provider, with billions of dollars in credit guarantees for debt to develop …
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| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
Mistral releases the weights for Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, and says it rivals top open models such as GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index — Mistral has released the weights for Large 4, along with some impressive Artificial Analysis scores. — ZDNET's key takeaways
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Forums: r/Destiny and r/MistralAI
| Reuters: |
Polymarket resumes trading after a security incident with a third-party provider, which a source says is DebugBear, and says it will reimburse affected traders — Polymarket said on Thursday it had restored trading after a temporary halt prompted by a security incident involving a third-party provider …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase reports Q3 revenue down 35% YoY to $1.22B, in line with est., and net income up 66% to $719M, its first profit in a year, on unrealized crypto gains — Coinbase Global Inc. returned to profitability for the first time in a year while posting a quarterly decline in revenue …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Anthropic is “Customer B” cited by SpaceX in a filing as its single largest customer accounting for 34.5% of Q3 revenue, surpassing the US government — Anthropic PBC is SpaceX's largest single customer, a person familiar with the matter said, accounting for more than a third … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Roblox reports Q3 bookings down 12% YoY to $1.7B, vs. $1.63B est., and DAUs down 9% to 138M, vs. 145.8M est.; RBLX drops 16%+ after hours — Roblox Corp. reported a year-over-year decline in player engagement after deploying more robust child-safety measures.| Bloomberg: |
Canada-based Cohere completes the first close of a round that it expects to total up to $5B, with Canada agreeing to invest up to $1.14B, at a $20.5B valuation — Cohere Inc., an artificial intelligence model maker, is in the process of raising a large funding round at a $20.5 billion valuation …
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X: @cohere, @markjcarney, @markjcarney, @afinetheorem, @afinetheorem, and @afinetheorem. Bluesky: @twseal
| Liz Moyer / Barron's Online: |
Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.17B, vs. $1.21B est., global MAUs up 10% to 661M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; PINS drops 8%+ after hours — Choose Barron's as a preferred source of financial news — Key Points — Pinterest missed expectations and guided to lower … | Andy Larsen / Salt Lake Tribune: |
Utah files 14 criminal charges against Kalshi and its co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara for allegedly breaking Utah's gambling laws — The state of Utah has filed 14 criminal charges, including 13 felony counts, against the prediction market site Kalshi and its co-founders …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI updates Model Spec to reorganize it around five values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care — As our models get smarter and take more consequential actions in the world, it becomes increasingly important that they go beyond … | Business Insider: |
Sources: Instagram is offering select creators $50K to $500K to cross-post their long-form YouTube content to its new “Features” product — Instagram wants what YouTube has — and it's willing to pay up to get it. — In an effort to persuade content creators to post long-form video … | MarketWatch: |
Sandisk reports Q1 revenue up 378% YoY to $11B, vs. $10.7B est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est., announces an 8-for-1 stock split; SNDK drops 4%+ after hours — Sandisk's stock has climbed more than 2,600% since the company separated from Western Digital 20 months ago - and it has one of the highest prices in the S&P 500| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google, Meta, and other tech companies are resisting broad ICE demands for user data as they face future Democratic-led congressional investigations — As midterms near, Google, Meta and other tech firms resist broad ICE demands for user data as the agency scours platforms for immigration speech| John Collison / Cheeky Pint: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on finding PHP bugs, sandboxing superhuman models as an unsolved safety dilemma, robotics scaling data centers, math, agent swarms, and more — Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, joins John to break down how models uncovered critical PHP vulnerabilities …
More: YouTube, The New Stack, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: r/accelerate and r/singularity
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta quietly launches Style Sketch, an AI fashion app that helps users put together outfit ideas using clothes they own, in Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand — Meta has quietly launched Style Sketch, an AI fashion app that helps users put together outfit ideas using clothes they already own.| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Sources: an Accenture staffer's Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months and appears to have sent info to a third-party site before it was identified — Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee's personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.
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