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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 …
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
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.
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 …
Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel:
The MacBook Pro's PROLED XDR display is the best display you can buy right now, but touching it is not very ergonomic and lack of Apple Pencil support is weird
Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Google says it will 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 …
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
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.
@metr_evals:
METR: Anthropic redacted much of the “most informative” evidence from METR's 100-page report, so readers “must rely on our judgment more than we consider ideal”
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 …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft rolls out to Xbox Insiders an Xbox PC app that launches up to 60% faster and has a design to match Xbox Cloud Gaming updates on the web and smart TVs  —  Xbox Insiders can start testing the new PC app today. … Microsoft is unveiling a new Xbox PC app that launches …
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
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.
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
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 …
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 …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta rolls out voice mode and expressive avatars in the Muse app, starting in the US, letting users have real-time voice conversations with their Muse AI agent  —  Muse AI agent now has voices and ‘expressive’ avatars that animate while chatting with you.
Natalia Kniazhevich / Bloomberg:
The Nasdaq 100 drops 6%, losing a record $2.3T in value, and the Philadelphia chip index plunges 12%, on concerns over the AI trade after Democrats won Congress  —  Technology stocks plunged the most since 2020 on Thursday as investors exited the sector on concerns over the artificial intelligence trade …
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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.
Los Angeles Times:
California's Proposition 40, which proposes a one-time 5% tax on billionaires' assets to mostly fund healthcare, 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 …
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
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.
Rocket Drew / The Information:
California State Senator Scott Wiener, an author of AI safety law SB 53, won Tuesday's election to succeed Pelosi in the US House, campaigning on AI regulation  —  Scott Wiener, the California politician who led the successful effort to pass AI safety legislation in the state's legislature last year, is headed to Washington.
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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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Amazon partners with Uber to make Uber Eats the “official” US restaurant delivery partner for Amazon Prime subscribers, after previously partnering with Grubhub
Bloomberg:
Study: UK consumer AI spending passes £1B annually, with 5.2% of adults paying for subscriptions as of July 2026, when Claude's share hit 29% vs. ChatGPT's 52%
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
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
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
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