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Chris Welch / The Verge: Apple updates the Mac mini with a smaller design, five USB-C ports, and up to 64GB of RAM, shipping from November 8 for $599+ with M4 and $1,399+ with M4 Pro -
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple debuts the M4 Pro: Thunderbolt 5, up to a 14-core CPU, up to a 20-core GPU with up to 2x an M4 GPU's power, a 16-core Neural Engine, and up to 64GB of RAM -
Alphabet: Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $88.27B, Search revenue up 12% to $49.39B, net income up 34% to $26.3B, and traffic acquisition costs up 9% to $13.72B -
Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube Q3 ad revenue grew 12.2% YoY to $8.92B, vs. $8.89B est.; total ads and subscription revenues passed $50B over the past four quarters for the first time -
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google Cloud Q3 revenue grew 35% YoY to $11.4B, vs. $10.88B est., led by accelerated growth in AI Infrastructure, Generative AI Solutions, and core GCP products -
New! Jay Peters / The Verge: Sundar Pichai says “more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers” -
Tom Warren / The Verge: GitHub plans to update Copilot to support Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI models, unveils AI web app building tool Spark, updates Copilot in VS Code, and more -
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Elon Musk's PAC sends Republicans texts impersonating Kamala Harris that push policies Harris doesn't support, without disclaimers, and ups its social ad spend -
Reuters: Sources: OpenAI has been working for months with Broadcom on its first in-house AI chip, for inference, built by TSMC, and has dropped its foundry plans for now -
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn launches Hiring Assistant, an AI agent designed to take on a wide array of recruitment tasks, like sourcing candidates, to a select group of customers -
Reuters: Dozens of sources share how Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the company's revival, including offending TSMC with Taiwan comments and losing a deep TSMC discount -
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Snap reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.37B vs. $1.36B est., DAUs up 9% YoY to 443M, issues light Q4 guidance, and announces $500M stock repurchase program -
25 minutes ago New York Times: Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump family members and Biden admin and State Dept. officials; audio communications may have been captured -
Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Why Meta is well positioned to be AI's main beneficiary in the short, medium, and long term: generative AI, ads, infinite content, XR, “generative UI”, and more -
Pritam Biswas / Reuters: MetaMask crypto wallet maker Consensys is cutting 162 staff, or ~20% of its workforce, citing broader macroeconomic pressures and ongoing regulatory challenges -
Wayne Ma / The Information: Sources: in a first, Apple is using an Indian factory to do the early manufacturing work for the base iPhone 17; the primary iPhone 17 Pro sites remain in China -
Washington Post: An analysis of the top 100 US congressional X accounts: since July 2023, Republicans had nearly all the posts with 20M+ views and saw bigger gains in followers -
10 minutes ago Wall Street Journal: Sources: xAI is in talks with investors to raise several billion dollars in a funding round that would value it around $40B; xAI was valued at $24B in May -
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: AMD reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $6.82B, vs. $6.71B est., Data Center revenue up 122% to $3.5B, and Q4 revenue forecast below est.; AMD drops 5% after hours -
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Reddit Q3: revenue up 68% YoY to $348.4M, vs. $312.8M est., DAUs up 47% YoY to 97.2M, vs. 96.5M est, ARPU of $3.58, vs. $3.24 est.; RDDT jumps 20%+ after hours -
Bloomberg: Shopify says it has lured hundreds of Salesforce clients, including Mattel and Casper; analysts say Shopify overtook Salesforce's e-commerce business in 2021