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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=99089ee605&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple launches the M5 chip, featuring a 10-core GPU with over 4x the peak performance of the M4, up to a 10-core CPU, and a ~30% increase in memory bandwidth</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6a7c50a799&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Apple M5 is here. Some highlights for AI: * Significantly faster prefill, meaning lower time-to-first-token * Quicker image and video generation * Faster fine-tuning (both LoRA and full models) * Higher throughput for batch generation Plus, there's a solid boost in memory bandwidth, which helps reduce token generation latency even further!</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dbe4bd2d28&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Apple introduces the new M5 chip GPU ~30% faster than M4 Much faster on-device AI 30% more unified memory bandwidth: 153GB/s They put the chip in: Vision Pro iPad Pro Macbook Pro [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3bcff95213&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, claiming it offers similar levels of coding performance to Sonnet 4 at “one-third the cost and more than twice the speed”</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ff3fd3d93a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@_catwu:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0779c5a338&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Haiku 4.5 is a workhorse that makes the coding experience in Claude Code feel really fast. While Sonnet 4.5 remains the default, Haiku 4.5 now powers the Explore subagent which can rapidly gather context on your codebase to build apps even faster. [video]</a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=576f3c8f43&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@kimmonismus:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=da2e9fb676&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Haiku 4.5 is nice, but surprisingly more expensive than Haiku 3.5, and to remain truly competitive, it needs Opus 4.5 at an attractive price. Haiku 4.5 Pricing is now $1/$5 Haiku 3.5 Input. $0.80 / MTok. Output. $4 / MTok So roughly 20%-25% more expensive Strangely enough, Anthropic seems to be increasingly focusing on B2B rather than B2C with these prices.</a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0f37084406&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@claudeai:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=01a7a3b97b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Sonnet 4.5 remains the best coding model in the world. Haiku 4.5 gives you near-frontier performance with greater cost-efficiency. Use them together: Sonnet can build multi-step plans, then orchestrate a team of Haikus to complete subtasks in parallel.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e291bf8de0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Context that might not be obvious - F5 serves >85% of Fortune 500 + 1000+ other corps. Their BIG-IP platform is absolutely critical network infra for many major orgs. It handles things like load balancing, WAF, access proxy, and SSL management.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c5d2cf4fd1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Unless we see significant penalties imposed on vendors, no one gives a shit, nothing happens. Like those breach notifications we get stating exposure of our PII. Nothing we can do. If you want people to care, impose penalties, unlock security teams' budgets.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a4be9319ad&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US bank Erebor, founded by Palmer Luckey, Joe Lonsdale, and others, wins conditional OCC approval to offer services to emerging tech companies in crypto and AI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">David Pan / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0db0026dfe&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An investment consortium that includes BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft says it will acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie in a $40B deal</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=692761424d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; OpenAI currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumer ChatGPT use</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=31edcf2148&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Anthropic held early funding talks this month with Abu Dhabi-based MGX, which it considers a prior investor, after closing a $13B Series F in September</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=49f4f00f57&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Anthropic is on track to meet an internal goal of $9B in annual revenue run rate by the end of 2025 and is targeting $20B to $26B for 2026</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a21d9a7bed&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">China's Industry Ministry says that during a visit, Tim Cook pledged to boost Apple's investment in China, but offers no details, amid the US-China trade war</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=badba165cf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Apple plans to build its upcoming indoor security camera, home hub, and tabletop robot in Vietnam, part of its effort to lessen its dependence on China</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=93eaf82c9a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sam Altman says OpenAI is “not the elected moral police of the world” after receiving backlash for saying ChatGPT will allow “erotica for verified adults”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ashley Capoot / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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funding deals
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d872a7f278&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Reducto, which uses OCR with vision language models to convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z at a $600M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Stephanie Palazzolo / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=16a3e9321e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">NYC-based Finch, which offers a voice-based AI system to automate paralegals' administrative tasks, raised a $20M Series A, a source says at a $100M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rashi Shrivastava / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f36b0fd16e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">MIT spinoff Vertical Semiconductor, which makes gallium nitride transistors that are stacked vertically for data centers, raised an $11M seed led by Playground</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mike Wheatley / </span><span class="pub_name">SiliconANGLE</span>)</span>
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Data Centers
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f4155e54cf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta says it is investing $1.5B+ to set up a 1GW data center in El Paso, Texas, and expects it to come online in 2028</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kurt Wagner / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9bbadbba3e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CoreWeave and AI coding startup Poolside plan a 500-acre, natural gas-powered data center on a Texas ranch; sources: Poolside is raising $2B at a $14B valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Bradley Olson / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6f7cb5d2c6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: French telecom operator Orange is seeking to raise €400M-€500M by selling a stake of as much as 50% in its data center business</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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Artificial Intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fb00dc1c2a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google introduces Veo 3.1, with improved audio output and stronger prompt adherence, and rolls out new updates to its AI video editor Flow</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Keyword</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=552ab8b2a6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Japan says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IP, including anime, manga, and games, calling them “irreplaceable treasures”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Verity Townsend / </span><span class="pub_name">IGN</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4a33dc864d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A survey of 28K+ adults in 25 countries: 34% are more concerned than excited about AI, including 50% in the US, and 42% are equally concerned and excited</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Pew Research Center</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=60a22b9cf9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">David Sacks says Anthropic is running a “regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering”, responding to Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark's post on AI policy</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dave Lee / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1ef468b2fb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Viven, which builds AI “digital twins” that grant employees access to crucial information when coworkers are unavailable, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marina Temkin / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2142c66854&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How AI is replacing workers in India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M; conversational AI startup LimeChat says it automated 5,000 jobs</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5c1d2e9463&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Mother Jones</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=626b2be562&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US DHS: Chinese criminals made $1B+ in the past three years via scam texts; Proofpoint: Americans reported a record 330K toll-scam texts in one day in September</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Robert McMillan / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=74f0f79826&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Chinese state actors compromised UK government servers for at least the last 10 years, routinely accessing low- and medium-level classified information</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Wickham / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a117ffcb40&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A US judge sentences Matthew Lane, a 20-year-old Massachusetts man, to four years in prison after he pled guilty to hacking two companies, including PowerSchool</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nate Raymond / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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Streaming
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dd11fbf654&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube starts rolling out a “cleaner and more immersive” video player, with rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, the web, and TVs</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ad9d871bd5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Spotify's deal to bring video podcasts to Netflix prevents shows from airing in full on YouTube; Netflix won't run ads, but Spotify's integrated ads will remain</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jess Weatherbed / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2485670b53&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CoinDCX CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Danny Park / </span><span class="pub_name">The Block</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0e144ecb35&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Stripe's stablecoin arm Bridge applies to the OCC for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking federal oversight</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Vince Dioquino / </span><span class="pub_name">Decrypt</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=da1823a90e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">UK-based cloud provider Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tim Bradshaw / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8d1723b5c4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">ROG Xbox Ally review: great grips, good speakers, and Windows is easier to control with joysticks, but worse performance than the Steam Deck and a half-baked UI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sean Hollister / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=446481d24d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London in 2026, its first international expansion, after human-supervised cars first collect data</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a53a17fe80&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">ASML CFO Roger Dassen says the company is “well prepared” for China's curbs on exports of rare earth minerals; source: ASML may face weeks-long shipment delays</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b05435666f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.52B, vs. €7.79B est., and €2.13B net profit, vs. €2.11B est., and says it expects a “significant” China sales decline in 2026</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tobias Mann / </span><span class="pub_name">The Register</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1d3bdf252c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Honor teases the “Robot Phone”, with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that unfolds from the phone's rear and can capture photos and video in any direction</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic Preston / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9c4ca9aa9d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Honor unveils its flagships Magic8, with a 7,000mAh battery, and Magic8 Pro, with 7,200mAh, both featuring an AI button, launching in China for ~$630 and ~$800</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic Preston / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=34d4e80387&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple says it will sell Vision Pro-compatible PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers for $250 from November 11 and the $130 Logitech Muse digital pen from October 22</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zac Hall / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2cd4b770d7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f3461f09c7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple doesn't include a charger in the box with the new M5 MacBook Pro in European countries, making users pay extra; the company cites local regulations</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Joe Rossignol / </span><span class="pub_name">MacRumors</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=62a0643dd7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Apple executive Ke Yang, who was appointed just weeks ago as head of a team developing AI-driven web search for Siri, is leaving for Meta</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7e6313a6f3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its 10,000+ HR employees, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jason Del Rey / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f0025c4f15&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US SEC filing: Jeff Bezos discloses that he now owns 9% of Amazon's stock, down from 10.1% in September 2024, after selling 100M+ shares over the past year</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Weprin / </span><span class="pub_name">The Hollywood Reporter</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b243a084aa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta announces a partnership with Arm to power AI ranking and recommendation systems across Meta's family of apps using Arm-based data center platforms</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Arsheeya Bajwa / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7228c002db&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AppLovin shut down Array last quarter, calling it “a test product” that wasn't “economically viable”, after allegations it led to unwanted Android app installs</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=561d45e228&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Netherlands seizing Nexperia from Wingtech is a landmark moment, showing allowing its sale was a mistake and how ensnared the EU is in the US-China tech war</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=87b5623a89&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Washington Post</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=aff5bc3e37&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Rakuten began considering a US IPO of its credit card business after SoftBank announced plans to launch an IPO for its mobile payment app PayPay</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=712598bd6d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SoftBank's $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics unit signals the robot revolution could leave Europe behind, as Asian and US companies lead the “physical AI” era</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Bryant / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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