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Nov 6

Aaron Holmes / The Information

Cloud security startup Cyera is planning to raise around $800M in a round led by Cyberstarts at a $20B valuation, up from $12B in June

Nov 6

Nieman Lab

Meta indefinitely pauses its new commercial terms, which critics say would let it scrape sites of business users, after publisher outcry and court injunctions

Nov 6

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal

Lyft reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.92B est., and a net loss of $0.03 a share, vs. an est. profit of $0.20 a share; LYFT drops 8%+ after hours

Nov 6

Major Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis says Inkling 2 Small matches Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) in its index and would be the top open model outside China once its weights are out

Nov 6

Business Insider

Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5B led by Accel at a $40B pre-money valuation, more than tripling its valuation from its last public round last year

Nov 6

The Information

Filing: Airbnb discloses that it has the option to invest in and license tech from CEO Brian Chesky's stealth AI lab; source: Chesky has self-funded it so far

Nov 6

Financial Times

UK neobank Monzo is exploring a new fundraising round valuing it at ~£7.5B after failing to be acquired by Nu Holdings and struggling to sell a stake

Nov 6

Emma Roth / The Verge

Perplexity rolls out Teammates, an always-on AI agent system that integrates with Computer to handle multiple roles and execute large-scale tasks simultaneously

Nov 6

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder

Google rolls out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, which creates clips up to 15 seconds, vs. 10 seconds with Omni 1.1, has better reference adherence, and costs 30% less

Nov 6

Joel Khalili / Wired

Potential Sciences, an AI startup building large-scale chemical data sets, secured backing from the UK's Sovereign AI Fund, as part of an eight-figure raise

Nov 6

Top Story Jada Nagumo / Nikkei Asia

Asian tech stocks plunge amid fears US Democrats may delay data centers; Taiwan's Taiex sees a record intraday point drop, Kospi falls 8.7%, and Nikkei 6.7%

Nov 6

Reuters

China's top memory maker YMTC plans to source up to 70% of equipment for its fourth chip factory locally, up from just over 50% for its third factory

Nov 6

Manya Saini / Reuters

NY-based Kalepa, whose AI platform supports insurance underwriting, pricing, and portfolio management, raised a $75M Series B led by Updata at a $470M valuation

Nov 6

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg

Blockaid: Binance hackers stole ~$2.5B, or 40% of the $6.3B haul, in a single Ethereum transaction using wallet permissions that cost just $15 to set up

Nov 6

Major Wall Street Journal

Major investors are increasingly skeptical Anthropic's IPO can achieve a $1.5T valuation after a market selloff; one says it could be closer to $1T

Nov 5

Major Reuters

Unity has held talks to be acquired by a consortium including Silver Lake, which owns 8% of Unity, and Saudi Arabia's PIF, discussing a ~$25B valuation

Nov 5

Major New York Times

NYT has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Letterboxd for roughly $330M; A24 dropped out of negotiations after price expectations rose

Nov 5

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal

Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $782.5M, above $737.2M est., a $34.1M net loss, and lifts its FY 2026 guidance; NET jumps 14%+ after hours

Nov 5

Bloomberg

Airbnb reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to $4.9B, above est., Nights and Seats Booked up 16% to 155M, rises its FY 2026 revenue outlook; ABNB jumps 9%+ after hours

Nov 5

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC

GOP leaders of three House committees ask Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing on his ties with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, reportedly a Chinese asset

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

Major @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"

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

The Information

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

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

Reuters

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

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

Reuters

Marc Lore's Wonder Group files confidentially for a US IPO, after raising $650M at a $9B pre-money valuation in July and acquiring Grubhub for $650M in 2025

Nov 5

Major Djohnson / CyberScoop

OpenAI says GPT-6 Cyber will first launch to a limited number of customers in its Daybreak Red program and has found 81+ "novel" vulnerabilities in Firefox

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg

Defense tech startup Shield AI raises $2.5B to help acquire radar company Echodyne, including a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation, up from $12.7B in March

Nov 5

Major Brody Ford / Bloomberg

Microsoft is tightening oversight of some data center projects, stepping away from those it deems risky, and debating whether to ink new neocloud deals

Nov 5

Lefteris Papadimas / Reuters

Greece's parliament approves a 10% capital gains tax on crypto, exempting gains of up to €500 a year, in the country's first comprehensive crypto tax framework

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News

Dropbox plans to acquire AI storage startup Tigris Data for $350M, its largest acquisition to date; Tigris raised ~$31.9M from Spark, a16z, and others

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

ElevenLabs says users can now publish AI-generated music made with ElevenMusic directly on SoundCloud and that users have created 25M+ tracks using its models

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge

United Airlines is rolling out a custom native Spotify seatback app across its fleet, letting users log into their accounts, powered by Starlink's Wi-Fi

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg

Agility Robotics begins trading on the Nasdaq under AGLT after a SPAC merger, the first dedicated humanoid robotics company to go public in the US

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

Bloomberg

Micron suspends construction of its $3B to $4.5B Fab 11E facility in Taiwan, set for 2028, due to mounting uncertainties over a local labor dispute

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

Major Wall Street Journal

At Jensen Huang's midterms event, tech executives expressed concern over anti-data center results; OpenAI discussed resetting its 2027 capacity plans

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

Aryan Gupta / Bloomberg

Sunil Mittal, founder of India's second-largest telco Airtel, says Airtel-backed OneWeb can build a satellite-internet network independent of the US and China

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

Jenny Lee / CNBC

Chinese chipmakers' aggressive hiring of experienced engineers is increasingly at odds with efforts to protect trade secrets in Taiwan and South Korea

Nov 5

Irina Anghel / Bloomberg

Adzuna: UK entry-level job postings mentioning AI are up ~3x since early 2025; Indeed says one in six vacancies in AI-exposed fields now mentions AI, up 2x YoY

Nov 5

Reuters

Sources and company memo: Chinese NAND flash maker YMTC has put its Shanghai IPO on hold as China tightens share sale approvals; YMTC sought to raise ~$4.9B

Nov 5

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia

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

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

Valida Pau / The Information

Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli startup Clutch Security, which develops software for tracking passwords used by AI agents, for ~$500M

Nov 5

David Keohane / Financial Times

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

Nov 5

Charles Rollet / Business Insider

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"

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

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

Nov 5

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%+

Nov 5

Major 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

Nov 5

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg

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

Nov 5

Mark Stenberg / Adweek

Anthropic and AP struck a licensing deal just before the midterms, marking the first time Anthropic paid a digital news publisher to license content

Nov 5

Major Emma Roth / The Verge

OpenAI launches Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API, saying it generates images 50% faster, and adds animated GIF creation from prompts or photos

Nov 4

Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters

Figma reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $391.4M, above est., gross margin of 80%, below 81% est., and lifts its 2026 revenue outlook; FIG drops 6%+ after hours

Nov 4

Major Reuters

Data center shares fall as investors expect slower AI buildout after Democrats win Congress; Hut 8 drops 23%, IREN 11%, Core Scientific 10%, Applied Digital 7%

Nov 5

Bloomberg

Google DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise ~$5B at a ~$50B valuation; the AI drug discovery startup last raised $2.1B in May

Nov 4

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg

Snap reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.72B, in line with est., and DAUs up 4% to 495M, vs. 499M est.; SNAP drops 10%+ after hours

Nov 4

Reuters

Arm reports Q2 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.44B, vs. $1.38B est., royalty revenue up 8% to $670M, vs. $720.8M est., and licensing revenue up 50% to $773M

Nov 4

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

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

Nov 4

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

Nov 4

Murad Hemmadi / Globe and Mail

Filing: AMD will pay ~$2.9B in cash and stock for AI chip startup Taalas, with $1.4B dependent on unspecified conditions; the deal was announced in August

Nov 4

Major 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

Nov 4

Major 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

Nov 4

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

Nov 4

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Titan OS, which monetizes smart TVs via ads and FAST deals, raised $46M in equity and debt, taking its total funding to $110M, and says it now has 30M users

Nov 4

Isaac Kasahara / Pangram

Pangram releases Pangram Image 1.0, which it says is state-of-the-art in AI image and AI video detection, and the smaller Image Flash 1.0 for AI video detection

Nov 4

Top Story Shakeel Hashim / Transformer

What the blue tsunami means for AI policy

Nov 4

Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg

Tron, Tether, Binance, and TRM Labs' T3 Financial Crime Unit quietly dissolved in August due to slow response times, after freezing $250M in assets

Nov 4

Deborah Sophia / Reuters

TeraWulf secures a credit backstop agreement with Google to support financing for its data center project with Anthropic in Kentucky, set to come online H2 2027

Nov 4

Yueqi Yang / The Information

Circle reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $875M, driven in part by its ARC token presales, net income up 5% to $226M, and says it is cutting 5% of its employees

Nov 4

Bloomberg

Singapore-based, Nigeria-focused payments startup OPay halts its $300M US IPO just hours after pricing it due to inquiries from a Chinese regulator

Nov 4

Major Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Revolut hits a $115B valuation, up from $75B in November 2025, after a secondary share sale led by Glade Brook, Coatue, and others, as it plans a US bank launch

Nov 4

Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC

The French Blood Establishment says external providers' blood cold storage units were hacked to raise temperatures, in a wave of refrigeration cyberattacks

Nov 4

Ben Gartside / Wired

UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan says AI is set to add £55B to £140B to the economy by 2030, below a £400B estimate from a Google-led report touted by officials

Nov 4

Major Bloomberg

Qualcomm signs a multiyear SpaceX deal to supply Dragonwing hardware and network software for "tens of thousands of cell sites" for a US-wide 5G network in 2027

Nov 4

Major Bloomberg

Waymo plans to end its exclusive robotaxi partnership with Uber in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028 and switch to its own app to improve consistency for users

Nov 4

Naman Ramachandran / Variety

EloElo Group, the company behind Indian microdrama app Story TV, raised an $80M Series C co-led by NBCUniversal and Hornbill, bringing its total raised to $130M

Nov 4

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE

Sentra, which helps restrict and monitor data access for AI agents, raised a $150M Series C led by Capital One Ventures, taking its total funding to $250M+

Nov 4

Bloomberg

HP names former GSK CEO Emma Walmsley as its new CEO, effective from January 4, filling the role after HP's Enrique Lores left for PayPal in February 2026

Nov 4

Reuters

AI sales automation startup Nooks secures a $500M commitment from General Catalyst's CVF, which will take a share of the returns its capital helps generate

Nov 4

Major Madison Mills / Axios

OpenAI acquires developer tools startup Pierre Computer for an undisclosed amount and plans to integrate Pierre's Code Storage feature directly into Codex

Nov 4

Reuters

Google says it expanded voluntary exit buyouts in June to employees across Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland to manage costs amid huge AI spending

Nov 4

Danial Azhar / Bloomberg

Google plans to spend $15B across 2027 and 2028 to expand its data center and cloud infrastructure in Malaysia, including building new computing hubs

Nov 4

SemiAnalysis

Analysis: SpaceX revises its 2027 data center capacity target up to a record ~13GW, roughly equivalent to all of Google's capacity from 1999-2026 in 1.5 years

Nov 4

Financial Times

Legal shifts in Texas and Delaware leave Elon Musk's SpaceX-Tesla merger and Meta's new non-voting share plan better prepared to fend off shareholder lawsuits

Nov 4

Martha Muir / Financial Times

Industry experts warn that slow US power grid expansion could stifle its AI boom and give China an edge, as China builds power infrastructure faster

Nov 4

Neil Kakkar / The Pragmatic Engineer

A software engineer details how he went from merging eight to 20 pull requests per month to 200+ after joining AI-native creator startup Tano eight months ago

Nov 4

Reuters

ITjuzi: Chinese embodied AI companies raised ~$13B across 322 deals in H1 2026, up 5x YoY, as robot makers shift focus from hardware to AI

Nov 4

Major Simon Sharwood / The Register

AMD projects ~$17B in Q4 revenue, above Intel's $15B to $16B projection, potentially overtaking Intel as the largest x86 processor vendor for the first time

Nov 4

Mario Gabriele / The Generalist

Q&A with Simile CEO Joon Sung Park on claims that its digital twins predict human behavior with 85%+ accuracy, its goal of simulating all 8B people, and more

Nov 4

Major Financial Times

Oracle has scrapped a ~$7B, five-year deal to lease ~100K advanced AI chips to Tencent after yielding to pressure from the Trump administration

Nov 4

Bloomberg

A Democratic sweep of US Congress pulls down Asian tech stocks, as investors rethink trades built around Trump's policy agenda for AI infrastructure and crypto

Nov 4

Bloomberg

Meta raised $15B in a US dollar bond sale; sources: the offering drew as much as $58B in orders and is the biggest portion of a $20B+ cross-border bond offering

Nov 4

Xavier Martinez / Wall Street Journal

Pharmaceutical leaders are skeptical of claims that AI could cure most diseases within a decade; the US FDA has yet to clear any AI-designed biotech drugs

Nov 4

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica

California accepts $1.42B in US federal broadband funding, but challenges the Trump administration's demand that it stop enforcing state net neutrality rules

Nov 4

Katie Drummond / Wired

Q&A with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on new municipal AI policy measures, like an AI ban for some students, support for a one-year data center pause, and more

Nov 4

Top Story Isabel O'Brien / CNBC

Following backlash against its education updates, Google says schools can choose to enable Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Search individually

Nov 4

Stephen Council / Business Insider

Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure last month

Nov 4

@newsfromgoogle

We want to clarify what we announced today about our education services. Today's announcements give schools more choice, not less. Here's what we announced: - Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Search will be OFF 🔴 by default. This is based on K-12 schools asking for more control over student use of AI...

Nov 3

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes

Traversal, which provides AI agents for site reliability engineering, raised $120M co-led by Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, and Khosla at a $1B valuation

Nov 3

Jay Peters / The Verge

Valve announces changes to Steam's review process, as a surge in game submissions pushes review times to "up to 12 business days", instead of the usual 3-5 days

Nov 3

Major Tobias Mann / The Register

Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs by ~90% in less than a year by making self-hosted GLM models its default over commercial tools like Claude Code

Nov 3

Major David Swan / The Age

Canva says it is restructuring, which will impact 1,271 workers, or 22% of its workforce, as it merges its product, growth, and platform teams

Nov 3

Reuters

Block reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $6.7B, above est., Cash App gross profit up 27% to $2.07B, raises its full-year profit outlook; XYZ jumps 5%+ after hours

Nov 3

Reuters

Super Micro reports Q1 revenue up 298% YoY to $19.95B, vs. $16.39B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; SMCI jumps 7%+ after hours

Nov 3

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg

Ubisoft and at least two other gaming companies offered to acquire Arkane Studios from Microsoft, which is exploring options before a December deadline

Nov 3

Major Anthropic

Anthropic releases FlashProve, an open-source prototype that cryptographically verifies an AI response came from a given model, not one that a router swapped in

Nov 3

Mike Allen / Axios

OpenAI hires Jill Hazelbaker, Uber's president and chief corporate affairs officer, as its new chief corporate affairs officer, reporting to Greg Brockman

Nov 3

Major Bloomberg

Apple launches iOS 27.3 beta, adding Apple Intelligence in China with an Alibaba-powered content filter, and watchOS 27.3 beta, with Siri Recap and Live Rewind

Nov 3

Karen Freifeld / Reuters

US officials have held up approval for US chipmaking equipment needed by SK Hynix to expand in China, complicating its plans for new plants in New York

Nov 3

Samantha Subin / CNBC

CrowdStrike debuts an AI kill switch in Falcon Guardian to stop internal AI agents that go rogue, and announces a Falcon Guardian integration with Claude Cowork

Nov 3

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times

How OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are trying to prevent anyone from using their AI tools to disrupt the US midterms, including Anthropic's first-ever "war room"

Nov 3

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg

AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3B led by Bessemer at a $16B valuation, up from $8B in April; source: Fal hit $800M in annualized revenue earlier in 2026

Nov 3

Major Lance Whitney / ZDNET

Microsoft updates Windows 11 to make PCs with 8GB of RAM up to 20% more responsive and multitasking up to 40% faster in lab tests, utilizing memory compression

Nov 3

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post

UK-based Google DeepMind employees urge leaders to drop non-disparagement clauses barring public warnings about AI risks even after they leave Google

Nov 3

Major Jeff John Roberts / Fortune

Binance says North Korean hackers stole $6.3B through a months-long scheme with fake LinkedIn job interviews and an ad campaign to deliver malicious software

Nov 3

Major Emma Roth / The Verge

Rockstar plans to let users pre-load GTA VI on November 10, ahead of its November 19 launch, and says the game requires up to 212GB "depending on your device"

Nov 3

The Information

Anthropic has told investors in recent meetings that its 15-person chip design team is using Claude for engineering and design work on its custom chips

Nov 3

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal

CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler AI, which helps monitor AI agents, for ~$400M, and Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for ~$95M, mostly in cash

Nov 3

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology

ChatGPT Consumer Product Lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M over the past two months, and its search volume is now ~20% of Google's

Nov 3

Colin Demarest / Axios

New England-based autonomous submarine startup Corridian emerges from stealth with a $38M seed led by Point72 Ventures and plans to unveil its first AUV in 2027

Nov 3

David Pierce / The Verge

IPad mini (2026) review: great OLED display, it's waterproof and dustproof, and the A20 Pro is fast, but it's expensive, has no 120Hz display, and lacks Face ID

Nov 3

New York Times

US data center operators and power developers are repurposing jet engines to secure power in as little as two years, bypassing multi-year grid-connection delays

Nov 3

Adriano Marchese / Wall Street Journal

Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $3.74B, vs. $3.75B est., GMV up 29% to $119.15B, net income up 75% to $462M, and adjusted EPS of $0.49; SHOP falls 5%+

Nov 3

Major Dave Lee / Bloomberg

John Ternus' first earnings call was a timid, scripted affair, as Apple faces a challenging Christmas quarter and a difficult 2027; AAPL falls 3%+

Nov 3

Major Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal

OpenAI hires ex-US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to oversee national security modernization, as it pushes to secure government contracts and shape military policy

Nov 3

Bloomberg

China plans to roll out broad AI safety standards covering development through deployment, targeting domestic AI model makers, after global security incidents

Nov 3

Major Tom Wilson / Financial Times

The UK NCSC says AI is "transforming cyber operations" and expects China and Russia to "routinely use AI cyber to achieve their geopolitical goals" by 2028

Nov 3

Top Story Ben Schoon / 9to5Google

Google severs ties with and bans Android TV box maker Videostrong after finding it intentionally preloaded malware to open a backdoor to control the XCPE botnet

Nov 3

David Freedlander / New York Magazine

How Alex Bores' Who Decides seeks to make AI safety a standard Democratic position, like being pro-choice, in 2028, as tech-funded rivals vie for influence

Nov 3

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC

UK energy company Drax partners with Brookfield and neocloud Radiant to develop an AI data center in North Yorkshire, targeting 100MW of capacity by Q1 2028

Nov 3

OpenAI

OpenAI partners with Cathedral to test its security defenses and revamps its Security Bug Bounty program, including quadrupling rewards for critical findings

Nov 3

The Information

Huawei told some clients that a large share of its upcoming flagship AI chip, Ascend 960DT, will run largely on HBM made by Samsung and SK Hynix

Nov 3

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Google expands Dreambeans to India, its first market outside the US, offering AI-generated visual stories from users' digital activity in 13 local languages

Nov 3

Aditi Bharade / Business Insider

Larridin, which helps companies track how AI affects employee output and identifies areas for better AI adoption, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Ventures

Nov 3

Major The Information

Salesforce plans to acquire Cresta, a provider of AI-powered contact center automation software; a source says Salesforce agreed to pay $2.7B for Cresta

Nov 3

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg

Match Group reports Q3 revenue down 3% YoY to $891M, below est., total paying users down 5% YoY to 13.8M; Q4 forecast has adjusted EBITDA below estimates

Nov 2

Major Jason Shubnell / The Block

Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin halts withdrawals after a breach involving $46M+ in assets, per Arkham; Tether froze 4.5M+ USDT in response

Nov 3

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch

Trajectory, which is developing AI model post-training tools for nontechnical customers, raised a $45M Series A led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation

Nov 2

Samantha Subin / CNBC

Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 96% YoY to $2.31B, above $2.18B est., US commercial revenue up 148% YoY to $984M, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance to ~$8.53B

Nov 2

Todd Spangler / Variety

Roku reports Q3 revenue up 24% YoY to $1.5B, Platform revenue up 23% to $1.3B, ad revenue up 23% to $727.4M, and subscription revenue up 23% to $580.9M

Nov 2

Major Rikiya Takehi

Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math

Nov 2

OpenAI

OpenAI launches the Grid Protectors Program, a US effort for its future data center campuses meant "to reduce electricity demand when the grid is under strain"

Nov 2

Liam Proven / The Register

Memo: Linux distribution vendor SUSE is laying off ~10% of its employees, saying "automation and AI are fundamentally shifting how software companies operate"

Nov 2

Debby Wu / Bloomberg

DeepSeek releases a "creator mode" that allows DeepSeek Harness users to quickly create custom plugins, like a 3D model renderer and a video editing workbench

Nov 2

John Werner / Forbes

Tutor Intelligence, which trains robot foundation models and builds AI warehouse robots, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z, taking its total funding to $117M

Nov 2

Major Bruno Ferreira / Tom's Hardware

Anthropic confirms new Claude Code limits "to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game", saying IP infringement is against its usage policy

Nov 2

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch

Tel Aviv-based 42AI, which is developing a "behavioral world model" that tries to predict how humans will act, emerges from stealth with a $62.5M seed

Nov 2

Major Ashley Capoot / CNBC

Amended S-1: Anthropic says it has purchased commitments and lease agreements of $895.4B, "substantially all of which is related to compute and infrastructure"

Nov 2

Reuters

Putin orders owners of non-state data centers to reserve 10% of capacity for Russia's IT infrastructure after Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian facilities

Nov 2

Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine

A profile of OpenAI VP Charles Porch, an ex-Instagram executive who is rehabilitating AI's image across Hollywood and the media, including via celebrity dinners

Nov 2

Major Aaron Tilley / The Information

Apple is developing a tabletop robot with a 9" screen and a swiveling arm, set for release in 2027 or 2028 for ~$1,000, as John Ternus pushes robotics

Nov 2

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal

Filings: Oracle is selling $10B in common stock and $10B in bonds, as it rushes to get financing for its data center buildout and chip purchases; ORCL falls 5%+

Nov 2

Reuters

Memo: Alphabet is issuing €6B in euro-denominated debt across seven tranches, attracting €17B+ in demand; Alphabet sold €9B of bonds in six tranches in May 2026

Nov 2

Major Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Email: OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs on desktop for select users before rolling it out widely; Codex "will remain a separate experience"

Nov 2

Major Siladitya Ray / Forbes

Elon Musk says the cost of serving Grok Bot was "unsustainably high relative to revenue", in response to subscribers complaining about SpaceX's usage limits

Nov 2

Scott Alexander / LessWrong

A look at AI safety debates and the rising popularity of "Stop Unilaterally + Raise Awareness", or SURA; safety-focused AI labs shouldn't abandon the AI race

Nov 2

Rest of World

Hirundo, Lazarus, and others are applying machine unlearning and weight edits to Chinese models to remove censorship and harden security for Western companies

Nov 2

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times

Analysis: Elon Musk contributed a record $474M to political groups for the 2026 midterms, including $216M to America PAC, the most a non-candidate has spent yet

Nov 2

Major Bloomberg

Marvell's $115B Lumentum acquisition is one of the biggest tech deals ever and 2026's top M&A deal; Lumentum is up 128% YTD, giving it a ~$76B market cap

Nov 2

Major Washington Post

SpaceX is in talks with EchoStar to acquire Boost Mobile or access its network, after Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T rebuffed requests for network access

Nov 2

Major Bloomberg

Supermarkets in Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia report fridge and freezer temperature spikes due to suspected hacks, echoing attacks in France

Nov 2

Major Matt Burgess / Wired

Investigation: a network of 400+ domains and apps linked to Chinese-language developers bypasses app store reviews to generate nonconsensual deepfakes and CSAM

Nov 2

Major Bloomberg

Ukraine says its air raid alert app was compromised late on Sunday, sending false warnings of "nuclear danger"; Russia says its alert app had also been attacked

Nov 2

Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times

British physicist and materials scientist Cyril Hilsum, widely recognized as "the father of liquid crystals" for enabling flat-panel display tech, died at 101

Nov 2

Major Rivka Galchen / New Yorker

A profile of UCLA math professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process

Nov 2

Bruce Gil / Gizmodo

Fan fiction site AO3 says it could take two to four weeks to restore service after a security incident; AO3 hosts 18M+ works and has 11M+ registered users

Nov 2

Emmy Martin / New York Times

How SF's AI boom is reshaping dating: founders treat first dates as interviews, use tech terms like "conversion rate" to track dates, and pay coaches $5K/month

Nov 2

Major YC Labs

YC details multi-agent tests in games like Minecraft, where agents exhibit emergent capabilities, forming roles, hierarchies, and complex coordination patterns

Nov 2

Bloomberg

NAND maker Kioxia's shares fell up to 15% on Monday after its cautious Q3 outlook disappointed investors, raising concerns that AI-driven growth may be slowing

Nov 2

Rahul Raj / EU-Startups

The Hague-based Braid, whose API lets companies sell eSIM mobile plans under their own brand via 600+ carriers, raised a ~$38M Series A led by Octopus Ventures

Nov 2

Meir Orbach / CTech

Bites, whose AI tools deliver personalized training to frontline workers via WhatsApp, SMS, Slack, and other channels, raised a $40M Series A led by PeakSpan

Nov 2

Reuters

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung vows to dedicate ~$16B for AI, chips, physical AI, and data centers in the country's 2027 budget, ~2x the 2026 allocation

Nov 2

Major Jeff John Roberts / Fortune

Casap, whose AI tools automate dispute and anti-fraud operations for banks, raised a $56M Series B led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to $90M

Nov 2

Will Maddox / Axios

Midstream Health, whose AI tools help 250 hospitals recover revenue from rebates and vendor and payer underpayments, raised a $20M Series A led by Valtrius

Nov 2

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare

AI-powered medical search engine Vera Health, which says it is used by 800,000+ clinicians in 190 countries, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Threshold Ventures

Nov 2

Major Tim Keary / Forbes

Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation

Nov 2

Major Leo Schwartz / The Information

Letter: the White House argues it doesn't have to share the full draft of its voluntary AI testing framework, citing national security and commercial exemptions

Nov 2

Major Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune

Broccoli AI, which sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC, and electrical companies, raised a $22M Series A and a $30M Series B; a source says it is valued at $300M

Nov 2

Geoff Weiss / Business Insider

Hyperbolic, which lets companies rent AI compute across ~30 neoclouds, raised a $30M Series A-1 led by Lip-Bu Tan's Walden Catalyst; it has raised $50M to date

Nov 2

Major Bloomberg

A look at Binance's efforts to contain the hack, including creating a global war room of ~100 people and coordinating with other crypto companies and the FBI

Nov 1

Major Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat

Saudi Aramco acquires a 49% stake in AI startup Humain, contributing ~$2.6B in cash in 2026 plus AI, compute, and digital assets; Saudi Arabia's PIF retains 51%

Nov 1

Major Jon Caramanica / New York Times

How IShowSpeed became YouTube's top livestreamer with 62M+ subscribers, as his 24/7 "IRL streams" that last days mingle childlike wonder with teenage mischief

Nov 1

Major Axios

OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses"

Nov 1

John Herrman / New York Magazine

How "get-paid-to" apps like Freecash, briefly a top five App Store app in September, pay users small sums to play games and help publishers find big spenders

Nov 1

Major Allon Sinai / CTech

ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to speed up customers' migrations to its CRM, for an undisclosed price estimated at hundreds of millions

Nov 1

Shane Burke / The Information

Analysis: candidates backing a data center moratorium could win up to 15 of 36 US governors' races on Tuesday, including in Texas, Ohio, Michigan, and New York

Nov 1

Major Andrew Fedorov / The San Francisco Standard

A look at VC-backed glossy magazine Colossus, whose glowing profiles of Zuckerberg and other tech titans win industry praise, while Kara Swisher says it is PR

Nov 1

Major Amir Efrati / The Information

Google's data center energy head says space data centers cost up to 100x more than Earth-based ones, and US power supply is sufficient but permits are slow

Nov 1

Major Gunjan Banerji / Wall Street Journal

Solve: the cost of insuring against debt defaults at hyperscalers Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle has hit its highest level since 2021

Nov 1

Major Harry Lambert / Colossus

A profile of White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, an ex-Peter Thiel aide who is among a handful of players steering the Trump administration's AI policy

Nov 1

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg

A look at a crude campaign of cyberattacks by Russia-linked hacktivist groups that have caused physical damage in NATO-aligned countries over the past two years

Nov 1

Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal

Lumaril, which develops AI software for optimizing industrial production by connecting to existing control systems, raised a $66M Series A at a $400M valuation

Nov 1

TechNode

Shanghai-based NeuroXess, which is developing BCI technology for movement support, speech decoding, and control of external devices, raised a ~$105M Series B

Nov 1

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M+ and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum

Nov 1

Major Debby Wu / Bloomberg

DeepSeek open sources Super-Agent, a coding agent research prototype it says proactively monitors developer group chats for coding issues and suggests solutions

Nov 1

Major Anzar Mehraj / Reuters

Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B+ in cash

Nov 1

Major Washington Post

Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22%

Oct 31

Major Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News

Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link

Oct 31

Major Jyoti Mann / The Information

Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units

Oct 31

Angela Christy / Reuters

Binance says it has covered 90% of its hack losses, having set aside $6.34B+ of company funds; the remaining 10% is in less liquid tokens

Oct 31

Major Morgan Meaker / Bloomberg

How AI detectors like Pangram are changing human writing: authors drop em dashes, "not X, but Y" phrasing, and words like "delve", or add typos, to look human

Oct 31

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge

A look at growing bipartisan opposition to AI data centers in drought-stricken Arizona, where TSMC's chip fabs were welcomed but newer projects face backlash

Oct 31

The Commanding Heights

As AI models commoditize, lasting wealth will accrue to those controlling chokepoints like distribution, payment rails, and a stablecoin dollar, not to the labs

Oct 31

Major Wall Street Journal

Neoclouds CoreWeave, Nebius, and Nscale have effectively been shut out of the bond market in recent weeks as lenders and investors demand tougher terms

Oct 31

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware

When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and "being used 5% of the time"

Oct 31

Major Steven Levy / Wired

John Ternus says Apple doesn't "want to ship AI for AI's sake" and that Tim Cook is "available to help wherever I ask" on policy; Ternus has yet to meet Trump

Oct 31

Major Felix Rieseberg / @felixrieseberg

Anthropic says a malicious actor used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a "tampered" copy of the Claude Code extension, which it didn't build or publish

Oct 31

Major Jonathan Vanian / CNBC

S&P downgraded Meta's outlook from stable to negative, citing high capex and negative free cash flow; META fell 15% in October, its worst month in four years

Oct 31

Major Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal

OpenAI has secured ~$11B in commitments for its latest funding round, less than half its initial $30B target, and expects to raise more in coming weeks

Oct 31

Bloomberg

Baseten is raising ~$2B in two tranches, one valuing it at $26B and the other at $30B; Baseten was valued at $13B in June after raising $1.5B

Oct 30

Bloomberg

Google is in talks with the DOD on a new effort to secure the data that feeds into software being built for the Golden Dome missile defense program