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| 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 …
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LinkedIn: Chris Lehane and Yvette Eden Ruiz
| 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
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber, which it says outperforms GPT-6 Astra on cyber benchmarks, is better at finding vulnerabilities, and is less likely to go rogue — Classified as ‘Critical,’ GPT-6 Cyber outperforms GPT-6 Astra on cyber-related benchmarks.
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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: a gorgeous screen, touch is useful for some apps, and excellent speakers with deep bass, but pricey and no Face ID — Sure, touch is there, too. — Reviews … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
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| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google plans to spend $17B to build its first Wyoming data center, pay for all the power it uses, and form a Community Council to address growth concerns — Alphabet Inc.'s Google will spend $17 billion to build a data center in Wyoming, formally putting a price tag on the proposal two days …
More: Google, Reuters, Ballotpedia, and TheEnergyMag
| 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 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out a Xbox PC app with an overhauled design to Xbox Insiders that it says launches up to 60% faster than before — Xbox Insiders can start testing the new PC app today. … Microsoft is unveiling a new Xbox PC app that launches “up to 60 percent faster” than before …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo reports Q2 net profit down 16% YoY to $468M, as rising Switch 2 component costs cut into its margins; Switch 2's H1 FY 2027 sales fell 37% YoY to 6.49M — Nintendo Co. reported a surprise quarterly profit decline, hurt by a dearth of major new game releases and rising Switch 2 component costs.
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is tightening oversight of some data center projects, stepping away from those it deems risky, and debating whether to ink new neocloud deals — Microsoft Corp. helped create the “neocloud” boom, signing tens of billions of dollars in contracts with upstart data center operators … | Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
Anthropic launches Personal Finance in Claude, letting users connect bank and credit card accounts via Plaid with read-only access to analyze spending trends — Anthropic has released what appears to be its answer to ChatGPT Finances. — ZDNET's key takeaways
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| 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 … | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta President Dina Powell McCormick says building new US data centers will be harder after midterm results, but it will be easier to expand existing projects — Speaking at the WSJ Tech conference, Dina Powell McCormick says the company is more optimistic about scaling up its existing data centers
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| 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.
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Mercedes-Benz rolls out conversational models that run directly on its cars instead of the cloud through a partnership with MIT spinout Liquid AI — The automaker is working with Liquid AI, a startup that spun out of MIT, to run AI models directly in the car, rather than the cloud
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| 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.
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| Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation, up from $7.85B after raising $600M+ in January, and plans to grow US manufacturing — CEO Keller Cliffton says the company's skyrocketing valuation is a sign that autonomous delivery has finally gained wider acceptance
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Walmart Inc., and DroneXL
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60 per 1M output tokens — There's another American victory worth paying attention to today: a new, open weights AI model that its creators claim scores …
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| Los Angeles Times: |
California's Proposition 40, which proposes a one-time 5% tax on assets of billionaires for healthcare funding, seems headed for defeat as vote counts continue — - 7 min Click here to listen to this article — Despite a nationwide blue wave in the midterm election …
More: Bloomberg, Politico, and Barron's Online
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Aina, which raised $5.5M, launches an “AI ring” with a screen, joystick, and mic to let users talk to their AI agents, take notes, control Apple TV, and more — Hardware startup Aina released a smart ring today that features a screen, a joystick, and a mic so that you can talk to your agents and take notes.| The Information: |
Sources: Nvidia approached Apollo about retrofitting some of the 130+ buildings of the PE firm's struggling ISP Brightspeed into a network of small data centers — Nvidia is looking for a faster way to get its chips turned on: old telecom company buildings.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Motorola launches the $1,599+ Signature 27, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset, a 6.8-inch Tandem OLED display, and seven years of OS updates — Motorola is officially back in the flagship space, with its new Signature 27 phone available for pre-order starting today, but it'll cost a pretty penny.
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rolls out Retention Messaging, letting developers show personalized text, images, or special offers to users who are trying to cancel their subscription — Apple today rolled out a new subscription retention tool for developers looking to reduce cancellations. Here are the details.| Reuters: |
Sources: about 600,000 of Nvidia's H200 chips are stored in Hong Kong awaiting shipment to mainland China, as Beijing withholds approval for large-scale imports — About 600,000 of Nvidia's advanced artificial intelligence chips are stored in Hong Kong awaiting shipment to mainland China … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out voice mode and expressive avatars in the Muse app, starting in the US, letting users have voice conversations with Muse in real time — Muse AI agent now has voices and ‘expressive’ avatars that animate while chatting with you. … The feature has been rolled out to me …
More: TechCrunch, Meta Newsroom, and iPhone in Canada
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| Tiffany Li / The Information: |
METR: Anthropic's models are improving about twice as fast as they did between March 2024 and October 2025, with internal AI use driving ~80% of acceleration — AI use within Anthropic may have doubled the company's pace of AI development, a new report from AI research nonprofit METR says.
More: Business Insider, Finimize, METR, METR, Associated Press, The Independent, and Unite.AI
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
X rolls out a redesigned web app country by country for signed-in users, replacing three servers with one to improve load times especially on 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.| Rya Jetha / Business Insider: |
Humble Robotics, which is building cabless electric autonomous trucks for regional routes under 250 miles, raised $51M, taking its total funding to $75M — Many self-driving truck companies are trying to teach existing trucks to drive themselves. Humble Robotics thinks the truck itself needs a rethink.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to raise ~$7B from its first investment-grade bond offering in more than a year to fund share buybacks, dividends, and capital expenditures — Apple Inc. has attracted solid demand and lowered borrowing costs on its investment-grade bond sale, luring investors seeking …
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Wall Street Journal
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google, Meta, and TikTok file lawsuits to block a California law that bans online platforms from providing “psychologically exploitative features” to under-16s — Google (GOOGL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok sued California to block enforcement of a new state law intended … | Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says H1 2026 was “pretty rough”, but agentic coding tools, GPT-5.6 Sol, and ChatGPT Work drove a “revenue inflection” in Q3 — The ChatGPT maker's president said it experienced a ‘revenue inflection’ in the third quarter of 2026, driven by a growing enterprise businessSponsor Posts
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