Google and Epic Games settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with Android and Google Play changes to expand competition and choice, pending a US judge's approval
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday it has reached a comprehensive U.S. court settlement with “Fortnite” …
Sony rolls out PlayStation Portal cloud streaming, letting PlayStation Premium Plus members stream select titles without a PS5 connection, in testing since 2024
Cloud streaming PS5 games to your PlayStation Portal is out of beta, and includes streaming for some games you own.
Samsung, TSMC, SoftBank, SK Hynix, and others closed as much as 10% down, matching their US peers, as investors worry over stretched AI and tech valuations
Shares in Japan's SoftBank Group closed 10% lower on Wednesday, amid a broader drop in AI-linked companies as investors turned wary …
Amazon sues Perplexity, accusing it of computer fraud, after sending a cease-and-desist letter demanding it stop letting Comet make purchases on users' behalf
Amazon.com Inc. is suing Perplexity AI Inc. to try and stop the startup from helping users buy items on the world's largest online marketplace …
Stablecoin operator Ripple raised $500M from Citadel, Fortress, and others at a $40B valuation and says payments made on its platform passed $95B so far in 2025
$500mn investment round underlines appetite for stablecoin payments sector — Ripple has raised $500mn from investors including …
In its Epic settlement, Google proposes lowering app store fees globally, a program to let alternative app stores become first-class Android citizens, and more
Instead of breaking Google's app store, Google will let them in. … He issued a permanent injunction that will force Google …
Bitcoin dropped as much as 7.4% on November 4, below $100K for the first time since June; ether fell as much as 15%, and many altcoins are down 50%+ in 2025
Analysts Warn Market Confidence Is ‘Slipping Fast’ NewsMax.com : Bitcoin Slips Below $100,000 for the First Time Since June Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk : Dogecoin Falls 5% as Lower-Lows Pattern Aids Bear...
France begins the process to temporarily suspend Shein for “the time necessary for the platform to demonstrate” it has scrubbed its website of illegal products
The order came as the Chinese-founded platform opened its first permanent store in Paris
Sources: Deutsche Bank is exploring strategies to hedge its exposure to data centers, like shorting AI stocks, after extending billions in debt to hyperscalers
Executives discussing options including shorting basket of artificial intelligence stocks or using derivatives to transfer risk
Shein opens a store in Paris, its first physical outlet, on the top floor of the historic BHV Marais department store, as politicians and retailers protest it
Jenny Che / Bloomberg :
YouTube confirms it removed 700+ videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with the US State Department's sanctions
A documentary featuring mothers surviving Israel's genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel's role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist.
Google says Maps will get Gemini instead of Assistant on Android and iOS, offering a “hands-free, conversational driving experience”, in the “coming weeks”
In Google Maps, Gemini already exists in place listings, and it's now coming to the navigation experience on Android and iOS.
A Chinese court sentences five top members of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death, convicting 21 in total, as Beijing continues its crackdown on scam operations
A Chinese court has sentenced five top members of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death as Beijing continues its crackdown on scam operations in South East Asia.
Letter: the MPA sent Meta a cease-and-desist over Instagram's use of “PG-13” for teen content restrictions, calling it “literally false and highly misleading”
Meta says it never claimed or implied that its teen accounts were officially PG-13 rated or certified by MPA
Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically made AI chips
- Order likely to affect U.S. chipmakers Nvidia, AMD, Intel — Beijing trying to cultivate domestic AI chipmakers like Huawei
Barclays: hyperscalers have announced a total of 46 GW of AI data center capacity, which at full utilization will consume as much energy as ~44.2M US households
The financing package stitched together for Meta's humongous Hyperion data centre campus in Louisiana made Alphaville curious …
Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport says the US DOJ concluded its review of Google's planned $32B acquisition; the FTC's website says the early termination was October 24
Alphabet Inc.'s Google and cybersecurity company Wiz Inc. cleared a key hurdle to closing their $32 billion deal …
Motorola Edge 70 review: the new £699 ultra-thin device has a silicone back and great battery life, but the OS is full of ads; the phone won't launch in the US
I've been as much of a thin phone skeptic as anyone. Why would I give up on camera specs and battery life just to shave …
Sources: Roelof Botha was asked to step aside after some Sequoia partners raised concerns about his leadership; Botha had declined to comment on Shaun Maguire
Sequoia leaders asked Roelof Botha to step aside amid leadership concerns and a turbulent stretch
Sources detail Elon Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw racy chatbot Ani's design, unwound by playing Diablo, tended to his children, and more
Focus on winning tech arms race leads to long hours at xAI; employees turned over biometric data to develop controversial avatars
Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of “bullying” via an “aggressive legal threat” that demands it stop Comet Assistant purchases for users, who “love this experience”
The point of technology is to make life better for people. Laurent Giret / Thurrott : Amazon Sues Perplexity Over Comet's Agentic Shopping Capabilities M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : AI is Breaking the Bro...
Research: AI's ability to complete lengthy software engineering tasks has doubled roughly every six months, but there is a “messiness tax” for real-world tasks
METR has had a very influential work by Kwa and West et al on measuring AI's ability to complete long tasks. X: @kirillzzy , @boazbaraktcs , @benshindel , @jasonfurman , @jasonfurman , and @sama X: Ki...
A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports Interactive, which has ~280 full-time staff and licenses its scouting data to 40+ teams, as it releases FM26
Over 33 years, the series has won over frustrated fans, the football industry, even Americans — but it took three Lionesses to get women's teams into the game
UK retailer M&S reports a £135.6M profit hit in H1 2025 after a cyber attack in April, which it attributes to DragonForce, and claimed £100M from its insurers
Stuart Machin says prospect of Budget tax rises is making customers uneasy — Marks and Spencer chief executive …
Amazon opens a new 10,000-square-foot automated Whole Foods store in Pennsylvania partly staffed by robots; customers can scan and order items from the aisles
Amazon.com Inc. has combined a Whole Foods Market store with a mini warehouse stocked with products the chain hasn't previously sold.
XPeng says it plans to launch three self-developed robotaxis in 2026, the first Chinese EV maker to do so, using in-house chips and its own software system
The Nasdaq-listed Chinese EV maker sees high potential in overseas markets — XPeng is set to become the first Chinese carmaker …
Armis, which helps businesses secure and manage IoT devices, raised $435M at a $6.1B valuation led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, up from $4.2B in October 2024
Cybersecurity startup Armis has raised $435 million in a funding round that values the company at $6.1 billion.
OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android, including in the US, Canada, and Japan; the app reached 1M+ downloads in the five days after its September iOS launch
Emma Roth / The Verge :
How “porno-troll” Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos
A company called Strike 3, owner of Vixen and Tushy, has clogged US courts with lawsuits, mostly against porn watchers who feel shamed into settling privately Bluesky: @davelee.me . Forums: r/Piracy a...
IBM plans to cut “a low single-digit percentage” of its workforce in Q4, affecting thousands of staffers; IBM employed ~270K workers as of the end of 2024
The company is “rebalancing” its workforce, a spokesperson told me. … Forums: r/technology : IBM to Cut Thousands of Roles in Focus on Software Growth r/Layoffs : IBM to cut thousands of jobs in fourt...
Q&A with Sam Altman on managing OpenAI's growth, delegating work, hiring hardware talent, GPT-6 enabling scientific research, AI's societal challenges, and more
How hard is it to change someone's mind, and could AI do it accidentally? … Sam Altman makes his second appearance … X: @tylercowen X: @tylercowen : My excellent Conversation with Sam Altman: https://...
Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the US agency's long-term cyber capabilities
The National Security Agency is confronting a wave of internal strain — including leadership gaps, program cuts and deferred resignation offers … X: @joedoc2112 . Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com X: Joe Doug...
The US sanctions eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes for the North Korean government
Tim Starks / CyberScoop :
Google removed 749M URLs to Anna's Archive, which links to shadow libraries of pirated books, over copyright claims, representing ~5% of all takedown requests
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak :
Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, below $6.09B est., net income down 60% YoY to $168M, and forecasts Q2 profit well below est.; SMCI drops 5%+
Dina Bass / Bloomberg :
Insiders detail how Nepal's Gen Z protests, born on Discord servers, TikTok feeds, and encrypted messaging apps, ended with an online poll to pick the new PM
Today on @wired.com we're publishing this deep dive into what actually happened, and what might come next. — www.wired.com/story/nepal-... Matthew Champion / @matthewchampion : “Maybe we didn't chan...
A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks
where young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores. https://www.latimes.com/... [video] Nilesh Christopher / @nilchristopher...
A profile of Chen Zhi, chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group, accused by the US and UK of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers
Bloomberg : X: @business . LinkedIn: Russell Ward and Rosalind Mathieson . Forums: r/geopolitics X: @business : Chen Zhi's family office website describes the 37-year-old as a “young business prodigy...
Netherlands-based Nebius unveils Token Factory, a platform to let companies use open source AI models like GPT-oss, in a bid to compete with AWS and Azure
Nebius Group NV, an artificial intelligence cloud provider, is releasing a new product meant to offer access to open source models …
Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M+ in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical advisor
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
VW says it is developing an AI chip for advanced driving in China via a JV between its Cariad unit and Horizon Robotics, with deliveries in three to five years
Edward White / Financial Times :
Reevo, which aims to use AI to help bring products to market, raised $80M, split across a $10M seed and $70M Series A led by Kleiner, at a $500M valuation
Artificial intelligence startup Reevo Inc. has raised $80 million from investors including Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins …
Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it adds more AI features
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Singapore-based Video Rebirth, founded by Tencent AI veteran Liu Wei to develop AI video generation models, raised a $50M seed from Qiming, ActozSoft, and more
Bloomberg :
A look at Fermi, a startup co-founded by ex-US Energy Secretary Rick Perry that aims to build one of the world's largest data center campuses by 2038, in Texas
Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal :
How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias
New York Times :
A look at US efforts to train workers for semiconductor manufacturing, led by Arizona, which has secured over 60 semiconductor expansion projects since 2020
Nikkei Asia :
Giga, which develops voice-based AI agents for customer support, raised a $61M Series A led by Redpoint with participation from Y Combinator and Nexus
Beatrice Nolan / Fortune :
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