Techmeme River
Sonntag, 2. November 2025
13:40
Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain drain that increased during the war in Gaza and tax breaks for investors in Israeli funds and tech firms
Financial Times
12:10
An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and OnlyFans, to verify the ages of their users will go into effect on November 12
Engadget
10:35
Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic death threats, posting hyper-realistic AI-generated images and sounds to social media platforms
New York Times
09:00
A profile of David Bailey, Trump's informal crypto advisor who organizes the Bitcoin Conference, as he seeks to turn a Utah health clinic into a bitcoin bank
Forbes
05:00
AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI's Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or alternate reporting instead
Columbia Journalism Review
01:00
Analysis: sports volumes on Kalshi approach $1B a week, with open interest in sports contracts regularly above $100M, significantly higher than other categories
Financial Times
01:50
Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80+ countries, raised a €30M Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech
Tech.eu
01:00
Nexperia's China unit says it has “sufficient inventories” to sustain order fulfillment “through year-end and beyond”, after the parent suspended wafer supplies
Reuters
00:45
How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto
New York Times
Samstag, 1. November 2025
23:40
Oxford Economics: the AI boom is lifting global trade, with ~60% of US data center capex spent on imported IT gear, mainly from Taiwan, South Korea, and Vietnam
Reuters
22:10
Big Tech's dominance on the S&P 500 is becoming more extreme; the eight biggest tech stocks account for 60% of the gains since the market bottomed in April 2025
Financial Times
20:40
How Google Cloud has become one of Alphabet's fastest-growing businesses under Thomas Kurian, driven by investments in AI, data centers, custom chips, and more
Reuters
19:10
A profile of Aaron Greenspan, who has spent years on a crusade to expose what he believes are financial problems at Tesla and at big tech companies
New York Times
17:40
Microsoft's AI tools still lag behind OpenAI's, as Microsoft struggles to create a cohesive AI experience and add new features by integrating OpenAI models
Bloomberg
16:50
Grokipedia content often closely mirrors Wikipedia except for some political topics but its use of AI makes it better than Wikipedia on obscure entries
Business Insider
16:05
The White House says China has agreed to effectively end rare earth export controls issued in 2025 and 2022, and will also close probes of US chip companies
Bloomberg
14:30
Q&A with Sam Altman and Satya Nadella about the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, OpenAI's restructuring and $100B revenue target for 2027, $3T AI buildout, more
@bg2pod
12:20
Turkish state media reports that Faruk Fatih Ozer, the former CEO of failed crypto exchange Thodex, has been found dead in his prison cell
Bloomberg
11:25
Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unmanned drone, flying it “semi-autonomously”, as the US Air Force plans swarms of unmanned jet drones
Reuters
10:35
ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast available on host Pat McAfee's X account, as Disney and YouTube TV continue to spar over a new carriage deal
Variety
10:25
A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake
Forbes
09:05
MediaTek says it is on track to generate $1B in revenue from its data center AI accelerator ASIC chips in 2026, after reporting Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $4.64B
Reuters
07:05
Singapore seizes more than $115M in assets linked to Cambodia's Prince Group, which the US and UK accuse of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers
Bloomberg
05:05
China says it will allow some Nexperia semiconductor chip exports to resume to ease critical supply shortages impacting global auto production
Financial Times
04:35
Nvidia says it will supply 260K+ of its most advanced AI chips to the South Korean government and major companies, including Samsung, Naver, and SK Group
Reuters
02:35
Despite the hype around large AI models, many companies like Meta are using small models for routine tasks, finding them more practical and cost-effective
Wall Street Journal
02:25
Shares of Seagate and Western Digital have sharply outperformed the broader market in 2025, surging ~200% on AI-related infrastructure demand for hard drives
Reuters
02:20
Vista Equity Partners buys a majority stake in Nexthink, which uses AI to let businesses track employees' device and app performance, valuing Nexthink at $3B
Bloomberg
02:10
Vodafone agrees to acquire Skaylink, a German company specializing in managing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure and AWS, for €175M from PE firm Waterland
Reuters
01:30
NEC to buy US-listed CSG, a SaaS provider of customer care and billing services for telcos and other companies, for ~$2.9B in a deal expected to close in 2026
Bloomberg
01:05
Mumbai-based Snapmint, a BNPL partner to brands that lets consumers pay in monthly instalments via India's UPI, raised a $125M Series B led by General Atlantic
Entrackr
Freitag, 31. Oktober 2025
20:55
Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, letting them keep the debt off their balance sheets
Bloomberg
19:20
New York-based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform for government agencies to offer services like utility billing, raised a $21M Series A led by NEA
Axios
17:50
Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin infra startup BVNK in a ~$2B deal; Coinbase expects to close the deal later this year or early 2026
Bloomberg
17:35
In its Q3 earnings, Alphabet said the profit included “net gains on equity securities of $10.7B,” in part from a private company, which sources say is Anthropic
Bloomberg
17:01
Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch “dislikes” in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings
TechCrunch
16:55
Brian Armstrong ended Coinbase's Q3 earnings call by saying certain words that Kalshi and Polymarket users had wagered would be mentioned during the call
Bloomberg
15:20
Microsoft's Q1 earnings, showing that it had a $3.1B net loss from its OpenAI stake, imply OpenAI lost $11.5B during the quarter based on Microsoft's 27% stake
The Register
14:40
Archy, which offers AI-powered dental practice management software, raised a $20M Series B led by TCV, bringing its total funding to $47M
Crunchbase News
13:15
Lettuce Financial, which offers an accounting, payroll, benefits, and tax compliance service for one-person businesses, raised $28M led by Zeev
Forbes
12:20
Tether reports that it has generated profits of over $10B during the first three quarters of 2025 and it has issued an additional $17B in USDT during Q3
The Block
12:05
Human Interest, a 401(k) platform for SMBs that aims to cut down on administrative work, raised $100M+ at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.3B in 2024
Axios
11:45
In their latest earnings reports, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have announced plans to increase their AI spending in 2026 to a combined $400B
Wall Street Journal
10:55
Pony.ai becomes the first company to receive a citywide robotaxi permit for Shenzhen, allowing self-driving taxis to operate beyond pilot zones
CNBC
10:10
Sources: ex-xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B at a $5B valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that is better at collaborating with humans
Forbes
09:40
Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries
The Verge
09:15
Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools
Reuters
08:15
Denmark says it will withdraw the EU “Chat Control” proposal, which would force tech companies to scan messages for CSAM, and instead support voluntary scanning
Euractiv
07:01
Google releases its first AI-generated ad, promoting Search's AI mode, but chooses not to include a label disclosing it was made with Veo 3 and other tools
Wall Street Journal
06:10
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he still hopes to sell the company's Blackwell chips to China “someday”, but points out the decision is up to President Trump
Reuters
05:45
The US CBP signs a two-year deal with AI logistics company Altana, and will use its platform for real-time trade enforcement, forced labor detection, and more
Axios
05:40
Letter: Nexperia suspends supplies of wafers to its Chinese assembly plant, citing a failure to “comply with the agreed contractual payment terms”
Reuters
04:45
YouTube is revamping its TV app to mimic paid streamers like Netflix, organizing videos by seasons and episodes, blurring the lines between pro and user content
The Verge
02:25
Samsung says it's partnering with Nvidia to build an “AI Megafactory” and deploy over 50K of Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to embed AI in its chipmaking process
SiliconANGLE
02:01
Ofcom chief Melanie Dawes warns social media companies to prove their algorithms protect under-18s from seeing harmful content, or face enforcement action
Financial Times
00:40
Corporate travel and expense management software maker Navan's shares closed down 20% on October 30, valuing it at ~$5B, after raising $923.1M in its IPO
Bloomberg
Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2025
23:30
Filing: Gloo, a developer of AI tools for Christian churches with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as its head of technology, seeks an $873.4M valuation in its US IPO
Reuters
23:10
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to “culture” and “removing layers” from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors
GeekWire
22:20
SEC filing: Snowflake says an executive shared unauthorized financial guidance with an Instagram influencer; an Oct. 26 video interview features CRO Mike Gannon
Business Insider
20:15
Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $562M, vs. $544.6M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue of $589M, vs. $580M est.; NET jumps 8%+
Investor's Business Daily
19:50
Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.3B vs. $1.25B est., forecasts Q4 sales above est., agrees to buy identity platform Stytch; TWLO jumps 8%+
Seeking Alpha
19:40
OpenAI starts to sell extra credits for Sora, which currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day; 10 video gens will retail for $4 through Apple's App Store
Engadget
19:35
Amazon reports a $9.5B pre-tax gain from its investment in Anthropic, which was included in the company's non-operating income for Q3
GeekWire
19:08
Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $33B, vs. $32.42B est., and AWS operating income up 9.5% YoY to $11.4B
CNBC
17:55
Filing: Meta plans to raise money through bond offerings worth up to $30B; the company has said its capex next year would be “notably larger” than in 2025
Reuters
17:53
Apple expects Q1 revenue to grow 10% to 12% YoY, with iPhone sales up by double digits, and reports Q4 China revenue down 4% YoY to $14.5B, vs. $16.24B est.
Reuters
17:40
Filings: business services giant Conduent, which was spun off from Xerox in 2017, confirms that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5M people
BleepingComputer
17:30
Coinbase reports Q3 revenue up 55% YoY to $1.9B, vs. $1.8B est., net income up 473% to $433M, and trading volume up 59% to $295B
Bloomberg
17:25
SEC filing: Meta says it is no longer facing a CFPB investigation over advertising for financial services on its platforms
Bloomberg Law
17:11
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple Pay, Apple TV, Apple Music, and iCloud, up 15% YoY to $28.75B, vs. $28.17B est.
The Wrap
17:00
Roku beats expectations with Q3 net income of $24.8M, vs. a net loss of $35.8M a year ago, and revenue of $1.21B, up 14% YoY; total streaming hours rose 12% YoY
Variety
16:56
Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova, with a deal likely valuing SambaNova below its $5B valuation in 2021
Bloomberg
16:55
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $17.7B, vs. $17.3B est., and subscription services revenue up 11% YoY to $12.6B
The Wrap
16:42
Apple reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $102.47B, vs. $102.24B est., net income up 86% to $27.5B, and FY 2025 revenue up 6% to $416.16B
CNBC
16:31
Apple Q4: iPhone up 6% YoY to $49.03B, vs. $50.19B est., Mac up 13% to $8.73B, iPad flat at $6.95B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories flat at $9.01B
Apple
16:27
Netflix announces a 10-for-1 stock split, after its shares boomed over the last three years to above $1,000 a share
CNBC
16:22
Reddit reports Q3 revenue up 68% YoY to $585M, vs. $546M est., and daily active uniques up 19% to 116M, vs. 114M est.; RDDT jumps 5%+
CNBC
16:10
Amazon raises its forecast for capital expenditures to $125B in 2025, up from its earlier estimate of $118B, and says that number will likely increase in 2026
CNBC
16:02
Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $180.2B, a $21.2B net income vs. $15.3B in Q3 2024, and operating income flat at $17.4B; AMZN jumps 10%+
Amazon
15:40
Sources: Nvidia plans to invest $500M to $1B in AI coding startup Poolside, which is in discussions to raise $2B at a $12B valuation
Bloomberg
15:05
Cognition releases SWE-1.5, a new coding model in Windsurf, saying it partnered with Cerebras to serve SWE-1.5 at speeds up to 13x faster than Claude Sonnet 4.5
Cognition
14:25
The ICC plans to switch from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, amid concerns about public bodies' reliance on US tech companies
Euractiv
13:25
Canva launches a foundational design model that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity free for all users, and more
TechCrunch
13:10
OpenAI launches Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered autonomous cybersecurity research agent that can identify and help patch vulnerabilities, in private beta
ZDNET
13:05
Sources: Meta has received record orders of about $125B for a corporate bond sale
Bloomberg
12:30
Applied Compute, which wants to create custom AI agents trained on latent company knowledge, raised $80M from Benchmark, Sequoia, Elad Gil, and others
@appliedcompute
11:50
Nothing's new Lock Glimpse feature on the Phone (3a) Lite shows a rotating selection of wallpapers that link to clickbait articles from a company called Vilykke
9to5Google
11:30
Extropic, which says its chips using probabilistic bits can be 10,000x more energy efficient than current AI chips, shares its first chip with some AI labs
Wired
11:05
Palantir sues two ex-employees now working at Percepta, an “AI transformation company” launched by General Catalyst, and alleges deception and stolen documents
Axios
10:45
Core Scientific shareholders vote to reject a $9B takeover bid by CoreWeave that proxy advisers said undervalued the data center company
Bloomberg
10:35
Milan-based Bending Spoons, which buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, raised $710M led by T. Rowe Price at an $11B pre-money valuation
Axios
10:25
Google partners with Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to Jio 5G users in India for 18 months; Perplexity has a similar deal with Bharti Airtel
TechCrunch
09:50
Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on surveillance, AI, the future of war, data, privacy, the US military, ImmigrationOS, the DHS, ICE, the UK's IDs, and more
New York Times
09:25
UMG and Stability AI announce a partnership to develop music creation tools powered by “responsibly” trained AI
Billboard
09:10
WhatsApp launches passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android, letting users encrypt their stored message history using their face, fingerprint, or a code
The Verge
08:30
OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including “character cameos” to create AI deepfakes of pets, illustrations, and more, clip stitching, and leaderboards
The Verge
08:10
Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says “AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth” and AI Mode has 75M DAUs
Adweek
08:00
Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 48% YoY to $1.36B, DAUs up 70% YoY to 151.5M, above 132.3M est., bookings up 70% YoY to $1.9B, above $1.7B est.; RBLX drops 10%+
Bloomberg
07:40
After Trump and Xi's meeting, China says it will suspend its rare earth export controls issued on October 9 for one year, but says nothing about earlier limits
New York Times
07:20
Sources: the US Commerce Department has proposed banning TP-Link's devices, citing its ties to China; more than six departments and agencies backed the proposal
Washington Post
07:00
Swedish startup Legora, whose AI tools help legal teams research and more, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.8B valuation, up from $675M in May after raising $80M
Reuters
06:45
China's Commerce Ministry says it will work with the US to resolve issues related to TikTok, stopping short of saying it agreed to a deal touted by Trump
Bloomberg
06:40
Google, Meta, and Microsoft collectively spent nearly $80B on AI infrastructure in Q3, dividing the market on whether they can translate huge capex into income
Financial Times
06:35
Netflix, Anthropic, and others are paying researchers up to $25K to find and report flaws; HackerOne paid a record $81M in rewards in the past year, up 13% YoY
Bloomberg
06:25
Scale AI and CAIS' Remote Labor Index, which measures AI models' ability to automate freelance work, finds the best AI performed less than 3% of tasks
Wired
06:15
Trump and Xi Jinping agree to a yearlong truce that rolls back many contentious tariffs and retaliatory measures; the current deal was set to expire on Nov. 10
New York Times
06:05
Elon Musk's lawyer pledges to fight OpenAI's for-profit restructuring and says California's and Delaware's AGs “cannot sanitize OpenAI's unlawful conduct”
Bloomberg
05:50
President Trump says he and Xi Jinping discussed Nvidia and other chipmakers' access to China, and that they didn't discuss approving sales of Blackwell chips
Bloomberg
05:40
TrendForce estimates DRAM in 2026 will bring in over 4x as much revenue as the 2023 trough, reaching a record ~$231B, driven by AI industry demand for HBM chips
Wall Street Journal
05:25
Walmart's PhonePe raised $600M from General Atlantic at a $14.5B valuation, as the Indian digital payments and financial services company prepares for an IPO
The Economic Times
05:15
Corporate travel and expense management software maker Navan and its shareholders raised $923.1M in a US IPO priced at $25/share, giving it a $6.2B market cap
Bloomberg
05:05
LatAm e-commerce giant MercadoLibre reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $7.4B, vs. $7.2B est., a $421M net income, vs. $489M est., and 77M unique buyers, up 26%
Bloomberg
04:54
Q&A with Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber on software-enabled hardware, prioritizing design, launching about 40 new products each year, AI, tariffs, and more
Fast Company
02:35
GitHub says TypeScript passed Python and JavaScript in August to become the most used language among its 180M+ developers; India added 5.2M developers in 2025
The GitHub Blog
01:30
Sources detail how Binance boosted the Trump family's World Liberty Financial by facilitating a $2B purchase of USD1 and building its tech ahead of CZ's pardon
Wall Street Journal
00:30
Bengaluru-based Snabbit, which offers a range of on-demand home services, raised a $30M Series C at a $180M valuation, taking its total funding to $55M
TechCrunch
00:10
Life sciences group Thermo Fisher agrees to acquire PE-owned drug trial software maker Clario for $9.4B in an all-cash deal expected to close by mid-2026
Financial Times
Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2025
23:15
Google updates Play Store policy in the US to let developers link to external app stores and payment options, following the Epic v. Google injunction
Android Authority
22:25
UMG partners with AI music generator Udio to launch a subscription service for creating music with licensed songs in 2026, in part to settle a copyright lawsuit
Wall Street Journal
22:05
Disney and YouTube settle their legal dispute over YouTube's hiring in May of former Disney executive Justin Connolly to be global head of media and sports
Deadline
21:25
CoreStory, whose AI platform automates generating documentation for legacy code bases, raised a $32M Series A led by Tribeca, NEA, and SineWave
SiliconANGLE
20:55
Samsung reports Q3 revenue up 8.85% YoY to ~$60.5B, vs. ~$60.4B est., and operating profit up 32.9% YoY to ~$8.57B, vs. ~$7.9B est., more than doubling from Q2
CNBC
20:15
Sources: Consensys, maker of crypto wallet MetaMask, plans to go public, with JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs leading its IPO; Consensys was valued at $7B in 2022
Axios
19:35
Sources: OpenAI is preparing for a US IPO that could value it at ~$1T and has explored raising $60B+, filing as soon as H2 2026, and listing in 2027
Reuters
19:20
Crypto media company Blockworks is closing its newsroom, launched in 2021, and will focus on software and data, continuing its main newsletters and podcasts
TheStreet
18:35
Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.51B, Xbox hardware revenue down 29% YoY, and Xbox content and services revenue up 1% YoY
Variety
18:15
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 150M DAUs, up from 100M+ in December 2024, and Meta has rolled out ads globally in the Threads feed with plans to add video ads
Engadget
17:15
Microsoft reports Q1 Azure and other cloud services revenue up 40% YoY, vs. 38.4% est., and capital expenditures at $34.9B, vs. $30.34B est.
Reuters
17:12
Sources: Mastercard is in late-stage talks to acquire crypto and stablecoin infrastructure startup Zerohash for between $1.5B and $2B
Fortune
17:10
Microsoft's OpenAI investment resulted in a $3.1B hit to Q1 net income; Productivity and Business Processes revenue, with Office and LinkedIn, grew 17% to $33B
CNBC
16:55
eBay reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $2.82B, vs. $2.73B est., GMV up 10% to $20.1B, and forecasts Q4 profit below estimates; EBAY drops 6%+
Bloomberg
16:50
Alphabet reports Google Cloud Q3 revenue of $15.15B, vs. $14.74B est., and raises 2025 capex forecast to between $91B and $93B, after projecting $85B in July
CNBC
16:45
Sources: YouTube reorganizes its leadership team, with three product teams reporting to CEO Neal Mohan, and announces a “voluntary exit program” for US staff
Sources
16:40
Meta reports Reality Labs Q3 revenue of $470M, above $316M est., and a $4.4B operating loss, below $5.1B est.; Reality Labs has lost $70B+ since 2020
CNBC
16:35
Meta recorded a $15.93B one-time income tax charge related to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, and expects 2025 capex of $70B-$72B, up from its $66B-$72B forecast
Reuters
16:20
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q3 ad revenue rose 15% YoY to $10.26B, vs. $10.01B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $74.18B, up from $65.85B in Q3 2024
Variety
16:10
Microsoft reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $77.7B, vs. $75.3B est., net income up 12% YoY to $27.7B, and More Personal Computing revenue up 4% YoY to $13.8B
Microsoft
16:07
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $51.2B, vs. $49.4B est., net income down 83% YoY to $2.7B, and family DAP up 8% to 3.54B for September; META drops 9%+
Meta
16:05
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to $102.35B, vs. $99.89B est., Services revenues up 14% to $87.05B, and net income up 33% to $34.98B
Alphabet
15:30
Google starts rolling out the Gemini for Home voice assistant in early access in the US, on Nest devices set to English
9to5Google
15:10
A former L3Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars
CyberScoop
15:00
Sources: Synthesia, which helps companies generate videos with AI avatars, raised $200M led by GV at a $4B valuation, up from a $2.1B valuation in January
Forbes
14:30
Sources: legal AI startup Harvey raised $150M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from a $5B valuation in June, bringing its total raised to over $1B
Forbes
13:10
Microsoft says an issue that impacted a subset of Microsoft 365 and Azure services for several hours on October 29 has now been mitigated
CNBC
13:00
Cursor launches Cursor 2.0, with its first coding model, Composer, that it says is 4x faster than similar models, and a multi-agent interface
Cursor
12:10
China is expediting IPO approvals amid its AI rivalry with the US, recently approving listings for chip designers MetaX and Moore Threads in just three months
The Information
11:55
Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons, sources say in a deal valued at ~$1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across its email and web properties
Axios
10:56
Amazon opens Project Rainier, an $11B AI data center on 1,200 acres in Indiana that trains and runs Anthropic's AI models using 500K+ Amazon Trainium 2 chips
CNBC
10:30
Jamf says PE firm Francisco Partners agreed to take the device management software maker private in an all-cash deal valued at ~$2.2B, set to close in Q1 2026
Wall Street Journal
10:15
Amazon's $100 Echo Dot Max and $220 Echo Studio review: the devices run Alexa+, which works well, and have good audio quality, but the Studio is underwhelming
Bloomberg
09:50
YouTube is using AI to upscale videos uploaded at between 240p and 720p to “HD” and plans to offer 4K upscaling “in the near future”; users can opt out
The Verge
09:40
Nvidia becomes the world's first $5T company after closing up 3% on October 29, having hit a $4T market cap in July; NVDA is up about 90% in the past six months
Financial Times
09:30
Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations
Associated Press
09:15
Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone writing tool Grammarly still exists
The Verge
09:10
Character.ai plans to limit under-18s to two hours of conversations per day, gradually reducing the time limit before banning them completely from November 25
Financial Times
08:55
Grokipedia hands-on: many articles clone Wikipedia, but deviate significantly on topics Elon Musk cares about, with inaccuracies on some scientific topics
The Verge
08:45
The US FCC votes 3-0 to tighten restrictions on telecom equipment from Chinese companies on its Covered List, including Huawei and ZTE, to close loopholes
Reuters
08:30
Uber plans to launch its first robotaxi in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2026, built on Lucid's Gravity SUV, after testing 100 cars in the coming months
Associated Press
08:20
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-safeguard, its open-weight reasoning models for safety classification tasks, available in 120B and 20B parameters, under Apache 2.0
OpenAI
07:45
PitchBook: Nvidia invested in 59 AI startups in 2025 so far, including 10 in the past two months, surpassing 55 investments in 2024 and 12 investments in 2022
Bloomberg
07:30
Etsy appoints Chief Growth Officer Kruti Patel Goyal as its new CEO, starting January 1, 2026, replacing Josh Silverman after eight years in the role
Bloomberg
07:15
Big Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 146 meetings with EU officials
Corporate Europe Observatory
07:05
Jensen Huang says the US needs “finesse” to maintain its AI lead over China and Nvidia is an “awkward place” as President Trump meets Xi Jinping later this week
Bloomberg
06:55
Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are laying off tens of thousands of white collar workers, as executives hope AI can handle their workload
Wall Street Journal
06:45
Internal memo: Amazon makes “significant role reductions” to its game division and will cut down on big budget titles, as it doubles down on Luna
Bloomberg
06:30
IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, designed to run on consumer hardware and even in web browsers
VentureBeat
06:15
A look at the FGC-9, a 3D-printed semiautomatic gun created by a German incel that scholars and lawmakers say is the most popular “ghost gun” outside the US
Bloomberg
06:05
French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation
Politico
05:55
Sources: OpenAI's restructuring, approved by California's AG, paves the way for an IPO as soon as 2027; Sam Altman says an IPO is likely but gave no timeframe
Wall Street Journal
05:45
After Nvidia GTC, Jensen Huang says “I don't believe we're in an AI bubble” and that Nvidia expects to sell 20M Blackwell chips, up from 4M Hopper chips
Bloomberg
04:15
US FEC filings and public statements: a handful of crypto super PACs have amassed ~$263M ahead of the 2026 midterms; Fairshake remains the biggest at $141M
Bloomberg
03:55
Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience
Adweek
02:30
A survey of 16K+ creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more
Adobe Newsroom
02:10
USC sues Google in Texas federal court, alleging that Google Earth, Maps, and Google Street View violate its patents for overlaying 2D images onto 3D models
Reuters
01:45
All three major South Korean telcos, SK Telecom, KT Telecom, and now LG Uplus, have reported cybersecurity incidents to the government over the past six months
TechCrunch
01:30
Ripple's shares trade between $135 and $170 in private markets, up ~2x to 3x since early 2025, valuing the company at $22B-$30B after several major acquisitions
Forbes
01:10
Palantir announces a partnership to use Nvidia's chips and software to help its customers speed up decision making in complex fields such as logistics
Reuters
01:05
CrowdStrike and Nvidia announce a partnership expansion to deepen the use of each other's technologies for creating and deploying AI agents for cybersecurity
CRN
01:01
EV maker Lucid partners with Nvidia to develop a fully autonomous vehicle platform, starting with building more ADAS tech for Lucid's existing Gravity SUV
Bloomberg
00:55
Eli Lilly partners with Nvidia to build what the companies say will be the most powerful supercomputer run by a pharma company, powered by 1,000+ Blackwell GPUs
Wall Street Journal
00:50
SK Hynix says its DRAM, NAND, and HBM production capacity for next year “has been sold out” and that it would set up a production system to meet OpenAI's demand
Financial Times
00:01
Sublime Security, which uses AI agents to protect against phishing and other email threats, raised a $150M Series C, bringing its total funding to $240M+
SecurityWeek
Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2025
23:40
Foxconn says it plans to deploy Nvidia's Isaac GR00T N model of humanoid robots at its factory in Houston, Texas, which produces AI servers for Nvidia
Reuters
23:30
Memo: California's AG says OpenAI's restructuring has “no impact” on other cases, likely referring to Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over its restructuring
The Information
22:01
Sources: Francisco Partners is in talks to acquire Jamf, which provides remote device management tools, taking it private; Jamf has a market cap of ~$1.5B
Reuters
21:40
GitHub updates VS Code with Plan Mode for building step-by-step project approaches, MCP Registry integration, definable project rules via AGENTS.md, and more
VentureBeat
20:01
Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, is set to raise $250M at a $4B+ valuation
Bloomberg
19:35
SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $17.02B, below $17.22B est., and operating profit up 62% YoY to a record $7.92B, boosted by demand for its HBM chips
CNBC
19:15
Celebrity video shoutout app Cameo sues OpenAI for trademark infringement, alleging Sora's “cameo” feature is likely to cause confusion and dilute its brand
Reuters
18:55
YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing “graphic violence” and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods
The Verge
17:45
During Nvidia's first ever GTC conference in Washington, DC, Jensen Huang praised Trump's policies and emphasized themes of patriotism and US national interests
Wall Street Journal
17:30
Myanmar shut down a major online scam center in mid-October as part of operations that began in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling
Associated Press
17:10
Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPad Air with OLED screens; the iPad mini will likely arrive first, as early as 2026
Bloomberg
16:55
EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, below $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale
Variety
15:40
China claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind energy and cooled by seawater
Wired
14:45
A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026
Wall Street Journal