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
Company assured state officials that it would stay in California as it continues global expansion, which could include a public offering as soon as 2027
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
and struck a new deal with Microsoft Frank Landymore / Futurism : OpenAI Successfully Sheds Its Roots as an Ethical Non-Profit Ashley King / Digital Music News : OpenAI Restructures Into a For-Profit ...
Nvidia opens at a $5T market cap, becoming the first company to hit the milestone, climbing 5% in early trading; NVDA is up 50% in 2025 and 1,275% since 2022
US chip giant's stock propelled by strong sales of AI systems and prospect of access to China — Michael Acton in San Francisco …
Internal memo: Amazon makes “significant role reductions” to its game division and will cut down on big budget titles, as it focuses on Luna and casual games
Tech giant will reduce game development work and eliminate jobs — Amazon.com Inc. is gutting its video-game division …
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
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang announced a flurry of new partnerships and dismissed concerns about an AI bubble …
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
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg :
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 :
Jensen Huang says its Blackwell GPUs are now in full production in Arizona, after being solely manufactured in Taiwan previously
Turning Enterprise Data Into Dynamic Decision Intelligence Julia Shapero / The Hill : Nvidia becomes world's first $5 trillion company Reuters : Trump says may speak to China's Xi about Nvidia's ‘supe...
YouTube is using AI to upscale videos uploaded at between 240p and 720p to HD on TV screens, but users can opt out, and plans 4K upscaling “in the near future”
The platform is optimizing its TV experience with new resolution upscaling and shopping features.
Grokipedia hands-on: many articles clone Wikipedia, but deviate significantly on topics conflicting with Elon Musk's worldview; at times, it is overtly racist
xAI's Wikipedia-like website offers a generous take on Musk's worldview. … On Monday, a new online “encyclopedia” sputtered to life.
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
GitHub is making a bold bet that enterprises don't need another proprietary coding agent. They need a way to manage all of them.
Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone writing tool Grammarly still exists
ChatGPT changed the game on Grammarly, but now it's adding more AI to pull users back into its sidebar.
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
Move comes following growing public and regulatory scrutiny over safety of the technology for young users
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
- 76 percent of creators say creative generative AI has helped grow their business and personal brand
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-safeguard, its open-weight reasoning models for safety classification tasks, available in 120B and 20B parameters, under Apache 2.0
New open safety reasoning models (120b and 20b) that support custom safety policies. — Today, we're releasing a research preview …
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
In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for intelligence, IBM is charting a different course …
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
NEW CARLISLE, Indiana — A year ago, it was farmland. Now, the 1,200-acre site near Lake Michigan is home to one of the largest operational AI data centers in the world.
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
Jamf, which helps organizations manage and secure Apple products at work, said going private will provide greater financial flexibility
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
South Korea's SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, boosted by a strong demand for its high bandwidth memory used in generative AI chipsets.
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
Song Jung-a / Financial Times :
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
Layoffs at companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending young and experienced workers alike into an unwelcoming market
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
Review: The $100 Echo Dot Max outshines the pricier Echo Studio. — “Alexa, what new things can you do?”
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
The EU's digital rulebook is under unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration and a homegrown deregulation wave.
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
Advertisers are increasingly putting their digital ad spend into Reddit, drawn by the platform's growing audience and its influence … X: @ellynbriggs and @trishlaostwal X: Ellyn Briggs / @ellynbriggs ...
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
PARIS — French lawmakers are moving ahead with plans to double a tax on big tech firms — backing away from a more aggressive push amid fears …
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 tech rivalry with the U.S. has made China take an unusual step: It is accelerating the pace at which startups go public …
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
The University of Southern California has sued Google (GOOGL.O) in Texas federal court, alleging that the tech giant's Google Earth …
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
Apollo Global Management has reached a deal to sell AOL to Italian tech holding group Bending Spoons in a deal valued at roughly $1.5 billion, Axios has learned.
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
Apple Inc. is preparing major changes to its MacBook Air, iPad mini and iPad Air lines, with a plan to give the popular devices higher-end displays.
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
1X's Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
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
LG Uplus, one of the largest telecom operators in South Korea, has confirmed to TechCrunch that it has reported a suspected data breach …
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
Foxconn (2317.TW), the world's largest electronics maker and Nvidia's (NVDA.O) key AI server maker, said on Tuesday it will deploy humanoid robots …
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
1,000+ Blackwell chips for drug discovery, trials, and manufacturing. [image] Chris Gibson / @recursionchris : Vibes today @RecursionPharma... https://www.cnbc.com/... But in all seriousness, a huge k...
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations
enacting a loophole-ridden export control regime that failed to accomplish its big goals. By @garanceburke.bsky.social, @dakekang.bsky.social & me. — apnews.com/article/chin... Andrew Levesque / @a...
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
David Shepardson / Reuters :
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
Dee-Ann Durbin / Associated Press :
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
This year the chipmaker has backed 59 AI startups as of mid-October …
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
growth chief to replace Silverman Reuters : Etsy names insider Kruti Goyal as CEO Sean Mason / Proactive : Etsy Q3 earnings beat but sales fall, company replaces CEO Deb Wasser / Etsy, Inc. : Etsy Ann...
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
Samanth Subramanian / Bloomberg :
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 :
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
Nina Bambysheva / Forbes : X: @danalexander21 , @ninabambysheva , and @forbes X: Dan Alexander / @danalexander21 : Among the donors to Trump's ballroom: Ripple, which has had quite a year with Trump ...
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+
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek :
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 :
Celebrity video shoutout app Cameo sues OpenAI for trademark infringement, alleging Sora's “cameo” feature is likely to cause confusion and dilute its brand
Blake Brittain / Reuters :
YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing “graphic violence” and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods
Emma Roth / The Verge :
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 :
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
Jennifer Maas / Variety :
Oppo launches the €999 Find X9 and €1,299 Find X9 Pro in the UK and the EU with 7,025mAh and 7,500mAh silicon-carbon batteries and MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chips
All You Need To Know Kahekashan / The Hans India : Oppo Find X9 and Find X9 Pro Debut Globally: Bigger Batteries, Powerful Cameras, and India Launch Next Month Santiago Jr Bongco / Xiaomiui.Net : Oppo...
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
Bloomberg :