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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5802042933&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI adopts a new for-profit structure, with a public benefit corporation controlled by the nonprofit, which holds a 26% stake, worth ~$130B, in the company</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5d2a30431e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Important and easy to overlook: > Through special voting and governance rights held solely by the OpenAI Foundation, the OpenAI Foundation appoints all members of the board of directors of OpenAI Group and can replace directors at any time. > the OpenAI Foundation (new name of the non-profit arm) also holds a warrant that allows it to receive additional shares in OpenAI Group if it hits a valuation milestone. If OpenAI Group's share price increases greater than tenfold after 15 years, the OpenAI Foundation will receive significant additional equity. With its equity stake and the warrant, the Foundation is positioned to be the single largest long-term beneficiary of OpenAI's success.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=20991cb6ca&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">This is going to be a wild new model for organization creation if it is allowed. Will a new playbook/tax loophole emerge? Using this system, rich people can form startups and get huge tax breaks while doing so. if the products scale, they flip them into for-profit companies — reaping the rewards. ... then as a bonus you can use the non-profit to make more startups... like a tax-advantaged startup incubator Will the openAI non-profit make ten more startups with their windfall and spin them out into public companies?! Wild times! You can just do things!</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1192afec93&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">This feels like a classic bait and switch. The whole point was about a non-profit serving the public good, but now the structure funnels massive equity value into a for-profit vehicle. Calling it a “foundation” controlling a PBC doesn't change the reality that the mission shifted from open, non-profit driven to a corporate entity with $130B on the line.</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=7c24835fcc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft now holds a ~$135B investment in OpenAI Group PBC, or a ~27% stake, down from 32.5%; OpenAI commits to purchase an additional $250B in Azure services</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1019b0ab6f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">New World development has ended (following Amazon layoffs today) - Season 10 and Nighthaven updates are the final content releases. FAQ and info: Servers will be live through 2026 [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9b3145f425&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Amazon layoff emails are out. 90 day severance. This is hitting all orgs. ‘Staying Nimble’ was the message. Dontcha just love these buzzwords they come up with to make it not feel so bad? 14K layoffs mentioned, most internally believe 15K+ more will be announced in January 2026.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e17be746de&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Anyone who talks about today's @NVIDIA and @nokia partnership and $1B investment and talks about the Nokia phone business immediately throws out any credibility they have. Nokia hasn't been in the phone business since it sold the division to Microsoft a decade ago.</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=63c0a9152a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Grokipedia, a Grok-based encyclopedia, launches with 885K+ articles, drawing from Wikipedia content; Elon Musk called it “a massive improvement” over Wikipedia</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=bbcf205d82&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">xAI's Grokipedia says Grok fact-checked its entries and some “content is adapted from Wikipedia”; some pages, like the PS5's, are almost identical to Wikipedia</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=29c48f41d4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">PayPal signs a deal with OpenAI to let PayPal buyers and sellers complete transactions through ChatGPT starting in 2026, using the Agentic Commerce Protocol</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Hugh Son / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</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=9e2c537bbc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">PayPal reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $8.4B, total payment volume up 8% to $458.1B, above $450.3B est., and raises its FY 2025 EPS forecast; PYPL jumps 10%+</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=247254e3d2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Truth Social launches Truth Predict, a prediction market platform in partnership with Crypto.com to let users trade on major current events like elections</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=5fae8fc0b0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Polymarket plans to return to the US with a focus on sports betting; initial trading is likely by the end of November, but won't be broadly available</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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Nvidia GTC
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=624ea2885e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uber plans a fleet of 100,000 autonomous vehicles powered by Nvidia's new Drive AGX Hyperion 10, starting in 2027</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Natalie Lung / </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=d65b0638c1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Jensen Huang says its Blackwell GPUs are now in full production in Arizona, after being solely manufactured in Taiwan previously</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kif Leswing / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</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=90423a100a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=fba85779c0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia unveils BlueField-4 data processing unit, combining a 64-core Grace CPU and ConnectX-9 SuperNIC for 800 Gbps of network throughput, launching in 2026</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dylan Martin / </span><span class="pub_name">CRN</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=729cd0dc79&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia unveils NVQLink, a high-speed interconnect that Jensen Huang says is the “Rosetta Stone connecting quantum and classical supercomputers”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Isabelle Bousquette / </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=04274d9f09&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia and HPE plan to build two new Vera Rubin-based supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, for national security and scientific research</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Anton Shilov / </span><span class="pub_name">Tom's Hardware</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=f66f04a7a1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A recording of Nvidia's GTC October 2025 Keynote with CEO Jensen Huang</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">NVIDIA on YouTube</span>)</span>
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Adobe Max
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b90a6e6312&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">At its Adobe Max event, Adobe unveils AI tools for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom, and says Firefly Image 5 can generate images in native 4MP resolution</a></span>
<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=62607dc514&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe partners with YouTube to offer a Create for YouTube Shorts feature in the Premiere mobile app, letting creators instantly publish video, launching soon</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kayla Cobb / </span><span class="pub_name">The Wrap</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=93920de08a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe plans to support custom AI models in Firefly, updates Firefly to generate soundtracks and speech, adds an AI assistant to Photoshop and Express, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jacob Roach / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</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=edf8137bc5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe unveils Project Moonlight, an AI agent on its Firefly platform designed to act as a creative director for social media campaigns via text prompts</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Verge</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=c9599e48b1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An ex-OpenAI staffer of four years says it isn't doing enough to protect users, especially those with mental health issues, and needs to offer more than words</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Steven Adler / </span><span class="pub_name">New York 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=02fff6fffc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">GitHub plans to launch Agent HQ, a hub to let developers access third-party AI coding agents, including Claude and OpenAI's Codex, in the coming months</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">David Gewirtz / </span><span class="pub_name">ZDNET</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=8b7ec42a46&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Appfigures: between September 30 and October 18, OpenAI's Sora had 2.6M iOS downloads, above the Meta AI app, which had 1.1M; Sora is iOS- and invite-only</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">CNBC</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=54d2ef5600&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Celebrity video shoutout app Cameo sues OpenAI for trademark infringement, alleging Sora's “cameo” feature is likely to cause confusion and dilute its brand</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Blake Brittain / </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=8efacf53ad&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI offers its cheaper ChatGPT Go plan for free for one year to users in India starting November 4, but did not say how long the offer would remain available</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jagmeet Singh / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</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=b6230b26c2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sam Altman says OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4T on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30GW of data center capacity</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ina Fried / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</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=f9461e5569&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An analysis of 30+ US data center proposals in 14 states: in most cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with apparent shell companies to hide details</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Natalie Kainz / </span><span class="pub_name">NBC News</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=713fbf94aa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Anna Lagos / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</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=673a5eed18&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Blackstone partners with Humain to invest about $3B in building and operating data centers and AI infrastructure across Saudi Arabia, set to open in 2026</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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cryptocurrency
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=03dca0788b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Western Union plans to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, that is built on the Solana blockchain and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, in H1 2026</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Vicky Ge Huang / </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=8aab8104e1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Circle launches the test version of its Arc blockchain, with Goldman, BlackRock, Apollo, Anthropic, Intercontinental Exchange, and others set to trial it</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=44897b4242&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments, files to go public via a SPAC started by Cantor Fitzgerald, valuing Securitize at $1.25B pre-money</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Liz Napolitano / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</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=30448e03a9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Stablecoin startup ZAR raised $12.9M led by a16z to test USD-backed coins for Pakistan, which the World Bank estimates has the third-largest unbanked population</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Faseeh Mangi / </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=bca9651074&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jennifer Maas / </span><span class="pub_name">Variety</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=46537e6452&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $17.02B, vs. $17.22B est, operating profit up 62% YoY to $7.92B, a record, boosted by demand for its HBM chips for AI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">CNBC</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=37c3774b09&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">NXP reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.17B, vs. $3.16B est., automotive revenue flat YoY at $1.84B, and expects Q4 revenue above estimates</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Juby Babu / </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=cb504f7169&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Fireworks AI, which helps developers access AI chips and models, raised a $254M Series C at a $4B valuation, split into a $230M primary and $24M secondary round</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Belle Lin / </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=2a3708dbd5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Livestream marketplace Whatnot raised $225M at an $11.5B valuation, after raising $265M at a $4.97B valuation in January, taking its total funding to $968M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Michael J. de la Merced / </span><span class="pub_name">New York 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=f8e9c2f9f1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Substrate, which aims to challenge TSMC, raised $100M+ from Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and others at a $1B+ valuation as it seeks to boost US chip making</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=5dc5339dbc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A profile of Substrate, which uses particle acceleration to handle lithography, claiming to solve one of tech's toughest problems, and aims to compete with ASML</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=7f76719b30&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">ConductorOne, which helps address identity cybersecurity risks for human and AI staff, raised a $79M Series B led by Greycroft, sources say at a $350M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alicia Park / </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=2a0f9b841d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Mem0, which aims to build a “memory passport” so users' AI memory can travel across their devices, apps, and agents, raised $24M, including a $20M Series A</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tage Kene-Okafor / </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=d506e8e099&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Joanna Stern / </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=d629d774ab&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</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=c258136bee&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Visible Alpha: Apple's Services unit revenue is set to hit $108.6B in the year to September, its first time above $100B and up 13% YoY, ahead of its Q4 results</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emma Roth / </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=9a73f2da41&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as part of operations starting in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samantha Subin / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emma Roth / </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=05f64745f9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple crosses a $4T market cap in intra-day trading, making it only the third public company ever to reach the milestone; AAPL is up 56% since its April low</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Subrat Patnaik / </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=8104410423&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Oppo launches €999 Find X9 and €1,299 Find X9 Pro in the UK and EU, with 7,025mAh and 7,500mAh silicon-carbon batteries and a MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chip</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=0f4235bef3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta and TikTok say they will comply with Australia's under-16 social media ban, taking effect on December 10, but warn the landmark law may be hard to enforce</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Agence France-Presse</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=c235758a2b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Skyworks buys rival Qorvo for ~$9.76B in a cash-and-stock deal, forming a $22B combined company that supplies radio-frequency chips to Apple and others</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=5a8a86cb3e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Uber plans to invest in the Hong Kong listings of Pony AI and WeRide, deepening its Chinese robotaxi ties, including ~$100M in Pony AI's share sale</a></span>
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