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Sources: at Jensen Huang's election 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 nondisclosure agreements and cutting power usage, 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 … | Calder Mchugh / Politico: |
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| Washington Post: |
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| 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 prompts or photos — 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/ChatGPT
| 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Katherine Schwartz / Bloomberg: |
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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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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
An interview with two Nintendo producers on the new Ocarina of Time remake for the Switch 2, which has modernized gameplay mechanics like full camera control — Producers Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi talk about bringing the first 3D Zelda to a whole new audience.
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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.| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Microsoft rejects an option to more than double its Texas data center contract with Nscale, dealing a fresh blow to Nscale's ambitions for a $35B IPO — Fresh blow ahead of start-up's IPO as tech giant turns down option to more than double Texas data centre contract
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Cristian Dina / The Next Web: |
Berlin-based Pliant raised an $80M Series C led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest, as it opens its B2B payments infrastructure to AI agents — Claude, ChatGPT and in-house AI agents can now run business payments through Pliant. The Berlin fintech, past $100M in recurring revenue, will expand in North America.
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| 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 … | Mark Stenberg / Adweek: |
Sources: Anthropic and AP struck a licensing deal just before the midterms, marking the first time Anthropic paid a digital news publisher to license content — The arrangement marks the first time the artificial intelligence firm has paid a digital news publisher to license its content| 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 business
More: Reuters
| 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.
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| 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.| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Goldman Sachs and Apollo are in talks with investors to sell portions of SpaceX's ~$40B chip financing, asking some for up to $500M before syndication — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Apollo Global Management Inc. are in talks with Wall Street investors to start selling portions …
More: Reuters
| Charles Rollet / Business Insider: |
Source: Meta has decided to stop using fruit for its AI model codenames, as they didn't suit its lofty AI ambitions; its latest model was named “Watermelon” — Meta is done with fruits. — The social media giant has internally decided to stop naming its AI models after fruit, a person familiar with the matter said.
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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 — Meta Platforms Inc. raised €9 billion from a debut euro debt bond sale that drew a record €53 billion of orders … | William Gavin / MarketWatch: |
AppLovin reports Q3 revenue up 55% YoY to $2.18B, above $2.07B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; APP surges 20%+ — AppLovin's stock is popping after ‘clearly positive’ earnings results — AppLovin's forecast impressed investors. — No stock in the S&P 500 has performed worse …
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