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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: at Jensen Huang's midterms event, tech executives expressed concern over anti-data center results; OpenAI discussed resetting its 2027 capacity plans  —  Americans' vote for anti-data center candidates and ballot measures could rein in AI's expansion and hobble economic growth
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
OpenAI pledges to change how it handles data center deals, including avoiding NDAs and lowering power usage during peak times, after Democrats' midterm wins  —  OpenAI said it will avoid nondisclosure agreements when it negotiates data center deals and ensure residents don't pay for the electricity …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
OpenAI launches Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and its API, saying it generates images 50% faster, and adds animated GIF creation from a prompt or a photo  —  You can use ChatGPT to edit a GIF's animation speed and individual frames. … ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot.
OpenAI:
OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs  —  Security research that once required a separate, sustained investigation for each finding can increasingly be run as a systematic process.
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
An interview with two Nintendo producers on the new Ocarina of Time remake for the Switch 2, which features modern gameplay mechanics like full camera control  —  Producers Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi talk about bringing the first 3D Zelda to a whole new audience.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for automating advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60/1M output  —  There's another American victory worth paying attention to today: a new, open weights AI model that its creators claim scores …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Discord is moving its desktop app from Electron to Rust for improved speed and memory safety; its CTO shares an image of the Windows app using just 290MB of RAM  —  Discord is moving its apps fully over to the Rust programming language. … Discord is finally giving up on Electron …
David Keohane / Financial Times:
Sources: China has told SoftBank it will not allow the $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division to go ahead; China is the division's biggest market  —  Swiss-Swedish company's unit is focused on Chinese market and has mega-factory in Pudong  —  China has told SoftBank it will not allow …
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sony reports Q2 revenue of ~$21.7B, operating profit of $3.94B, both above est., and 2.6M PS5 sales, as GTA VI sparks a US sales jump, especially of the PS5 Pro  —  Sony Group Corp. raised its profit outlook after a string of entertainment hits propelled better-than-expected results in the September quarter.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap to $200 from $300 and plans cuts to as little as $100, as cost cutting stokes staff fears of layoffs  —  Apple Inc. is reducing employee budgets for artificial intelligence usage as part of a cost-cutting effort, even as the company seeks …
Reuters:
Data center shares fall as investors expect a slower AI buildout after Democrats' win; Hut 8 drops 23%, IREN 11%, Core Scientific 10%, and Applied Digital 7%  —  Wall Street closed sharply higher on Wednesday as Democrats' sweeping midterm election victory eased political uncertainty …
New York Times:
Sources detail Dario Amodei's AI beliefs, shaped by forums like GiveWell and based on EA and “rationalism”, and his disputes with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman  —  One night in 2007, Dario Amodei regaled a friend who was visiting him at Princeton University with his thoughts on …
Stephen Council / Business Insider:
Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she is joining OpenAI to lead product manangement for core products; Wu was the product lead for Claude Code  —  Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week after becoming one of the company's highest-profile product managers, is joining OpenAI.  She announced the news on X.
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: China's export curbs on critical metals have disrupted supplies of micro drill bits made mainly from tungsten carbide, used in PCBs and chip substrates  —  TAIPEI — China's export controls on critical metals have disrupted supplies of micro drill bits, little-known but critical components …
Madison Mills / Axios:
Meta acquires Conductor, which lets developers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel; CEO Charlie Holtz says the team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs  —  Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that lets software engineers manage multiple coding agents simultaneously …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
X is rolling out a redesigned web app country by country for signed-in users, with a single unified server, saying it improves load times over slow connections  —  X is moving signed-in users to its new web app one country at a time, but it's already using the rewrite for X's logged-out web experience.
Will Knight / Wired:
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says his P(doom) is “close to zero”, arguing that future AI risks stem from closed frontier AI labs, not open-source systems  —  “Most of the risk is actually created by a couple of players building behind closed doors,” Clément Delangue said of the need for open source AI.
Bloomberg:
Study: UK consumer AI spending passes £1B annually, with 5.1% of adults paying for subscriptions as of July 2026; Claude is rapidly catching up to ChatGPT  —  UK consumers are spending over £1 billion ($1.4 billion) a year on artificial intelligence subscriptions …
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Apple says it will check iCloud items shared to “Anyone with the link” for “harmful content” in 27.3 OS versions, and may delete the content or disable accounts  —  iOS 27.3 adds lots of new iPhone features, and it also makes a change to how public iCloud links work …

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
As Democrats take the House and the Senate, David Ellison and other media executives are likely to face inquiries and hearings over their deals and Trump ties

The New York Times Company:
NYT reports Q3 revenue up 9.7% YoY to $768.5M, digital-only subscription revenue up 14.6% to $421.3M, and operating profit up 16.4% to $121.9M; NYT jumps 4%+

Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
Trump appeals a district court judge's dismissal of his $10B defamation suit against the WSJ over a story claiming his signature was on an Epstein birthday card

More News

Tess Owen / Wired:
Pro-AI PAC Leading the Future ended the midterms with $20M+ in the bank, from ~$100M, after focusing on safe bipartisan candidates; its riskier bets fell flat
XBOX Wire:
Microsoft previews using smartphones as controllers for Xbox Cloud Gaming on supported smart TVs and direct Wi-Fi cloud gaming support for the Nano Controller

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Bloomberg:
Meta raised €9B from its debut euro bond sale that drew a record €53B of orders, paying ~1.4x the risk premium Alphabet offered for similar bonds this week
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
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