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| Bloomberg: |
Democratic gubernatorial wins from Texas and Georgia to Ohio and Pennsylvania are set to expose 50% of AI data center proposals to more scrutiny and pushback — Data center developers seeking to build dozens of sprawling artificial intelligence campuses across Texas were already dealing …
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| Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times: |
Democrat James Talarico defeats Ken Paxton to win Texas' first Democratic Senate seat in 30+ years; Elon Musk spent $47M+ backing Paxton and attacked Talarico — Billionaire had ploughed $47mn into bankrolling Republican Ken Paxton's campaign while fuelling conspiracy theories about his opponent
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| Nick Wingfield / The Information: |
Texas elects Democrats for governor and the US Senate for the first time in decades, creating uncertainty for its booming AI data center sector and Elon Musk — Texas elected Democrats for governor and the U.S. Senate for the first time in decades, creating potential uncertainty …
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| Calder Mchugh / Politico: |
Elon Musk's preferred US midterm candidates, including Ken Paxton and Vivek Ramaswamy, lost almost everywhere; Musk spent ~$446M, a record for a non-candidate — Plans for buildout of data centers across Texas in doubt after Democrats won a surprise sweep.
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| Financial Times: |
NBC exit poll: 56% said AI and data centers had been a “crucial or a major factor” in their Congress votes, as Democratic candidates pledged to halt development — Gubernatorial wins in Texas, Georgia and Ohio and local ballot measures show depth of discontent with Trump-backed infrastructure spree
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| Washington Post: |
US voters in 29+ jurisdictions overwhelmingly pass data center bans or restrictions; S&P Global: 145+ US projects were delayed or canceled through early August — In at least 38 jurisdictions voters rejected or restricted data centers, delivering a major setback to the AI industry.
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| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
Democrats' sweep of Congress raises the likelihood of strong frontier AI legislation passing in early 2027, including mandatory testing and developer liability — America is waking up to an astonishing Democratic sweep. As I write, Dems may end up with 56 Senate seats and as many as 261 House seats … | Katherine Schwartz / Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave's stock and unsecured bonds fall after sweeping Democratic midterm victories, as Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa calls for a data center moratorium — CoreWeave Inc.'s bonds tumbled on Wednesday, in some cases to new lows, after Democratic candidates in favor of slowing …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Democrats' US midterms victory is a win for hyperscalers and AI labs, a mixed bag for Nvidia, an advantage to China, and may make space data centers attractive — Data Centers were on the ballot, and they lost in a major way; what does it mean if American opposition to building is permanent?
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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
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| Politico: |
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| Sasha Rogelberg / Fortune: |
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Oracle has scrapped a ~$7B, five-year deal to lease as many as 100K advanced AI chips to Tencent after bowing to pressure from the Trump administration — Intervention comes amid growing tension for US AI infrastructure groups doing business with Chinese tech giants.
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| Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm signs a multiyear SpaceX deal to supply Dragonwing hardware and network software for “tens of thousands of cell sites” for a US-wide 5G network in 2027 — Qualcomm Inc. will supply hardware components for SpaceX's planned nationwide terrestrial wireless network …
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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
OpenAI acquires developer tools startup Pierre Computer for an undisclosed amount and plans to integrate Pierre's Code Storage feature directly into Codex — OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer, a developer tools startup whose technology is already embedded in Codex, the company told Axios exclusively.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia raised ~$10B in new funds, and announces it is shutting down its Arc accelerator and Scouts program, merging its early-stage and growth teams, and more — Sequoia Capital posted a memo to X on Wednesday morning titled “The Sequoia of Tomorrow” that's full of surprises.
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| Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Tencent releases its Hy4 open-weight foundation model, which it says joins the top tier of Chinese open-weight AI for the first time, and plans a Flash version — Tencent Holdings Ltd. released a foundation model Wednesday that it said joins the top tier of Chinese open-weight AI systems for the first time.
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Forums: r/artificial and r/accelerate
| Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Circle reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $875M, driven in part by its ARC token presales, net income up 5% to $226M, and says it is cutting 5% of its employees — Stablecoin issuer Circle reported third-quarter revenue jumped 17% to $875 million, reflecting mostly a one-time bump from a token sale.
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $14.8B, Gross Bookings up 20% to $59.8B, trips up 16% to 4.1B, and plans to scale its autonomous fleet to 2,000+ in 2027 — Ride-hailing group aims to have 2,000 robotaxis on road by end of next year but will still trail rival Waymo
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| Reuters: |
Google says it expanded voluntary exit buyouts in June to employees across Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland to manage costs amid huge AI spending — Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) has expanded employee buyout offers to several countries this year as it looks to rein … | David Swan / The Age: |
Canva says it is restructuring, impacting 1,271 jobs, or 22% of its staff, across layoffs and relocations, as it merges its product, growth, and platform teams — Canva will cut more than 1000 jobs in a major restructure in response to slowing growth at the design giant.
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Revolut hits a $115B valuation, up from $75B in November 2025, after a secondary share sale led by Glade Brook, Coatue, and others, as it plans a US bank launch — Revolut's investors have completed a secondary share sale that values the British fintech at $115 billion …
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| Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: |
The French Blood Establishment says external providers' blood cold storage units were hacked to raise temperatures, in a wave of refrigeration cyberattacks — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
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| Danial Azhar / Bloomberg: |
Google plans to spend $15B across 2027 and 2028 to expand its data center and cloud operations in Malaysia, including on new computing hubs and water security — Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it plans to spend $15 billion to expand data center and cloud operations in Malaysia …
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| Isaac Kasahara / Pangram: |
Pangram releases Pangram Image 1.0, which it says is state-of-the-art in AI image and AI video detection, and the smaller Image Flash 1.0 for AI video detection — State-of-the-art AI image and video detection with our latest Pangram Image models. … A few months ago, we released Pangram Image as a research preview.
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| Ben Gartside / Wired: |
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan says AI is set to add £55B to £140B to the economy by 2030, below a £400B estimate from a Google-led report touted by officials — The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country's slow rate of adoption| Stephen Council / Business Insider: |
Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, says she has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure on October 24 — - Cat Wu, who helped scale Claude Code into one of tech's most important products, has left Anthropic.| Neil Kakkar / The Pragmatic Engineer: |
A software engineer details how he went from merging eight to 20 pull requests per month to 200+ after joining AI-native creator startup Tano eight months ago — Before we start: I'm in San Francisco this week and there are a few remaining spots for these live events (registration required):
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 45% YoY to $13.38B, vs. $13.09B est., Data Center revenue up 97% to $8.5B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. but gross margin below — Advanced Micro Devices reported third-quarter earnings on Tuesday that beat Wall Street's expectations, with revenue jumping 45% …
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
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