OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on the cards right now”, and that OpenAI hopes the US government will “backstop” financing of its data center deals
Sarah Friar says the AI giant could reach break-even quickly and would like government backstop on data-center investments
Jensen Huang warns “China is going to win the AI race”, after the US kept a ban on advanced AI chip sales to China, and says the West is held back by “cynicism”
CEO criticises western ‘cynicism’ while Beijing loosens regulations and cuts energy costs for data centres
Sandbar unveils Stream Ring, a $249+ AI-powered smart ring that transcribes audio notes into its app, available for preorder now and shipping in summer 2026
A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts.
Rockstar says it fired dozens of employees last week for “distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum”, disputing union allegations
Rockstar Games terminated more than 30 people last week in an action that a labor group called “union-busting.”
Docs: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its 2024 revenue, or $16B, came from ads for scams and banned goods, including ~$7B from “higher risk” ads
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show.
Investigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe right-wing politicians and encourages nationalism
“Elon Musk is a great leader,” says Amy, a British woman outside the Britannia Hotel in London at an anti-immigration rally in August.
Sources: Apple is finalizing a deal to pay Google ~$1B per year for a 1.2T-parameter Gemini model to help power the new Siri, which is on track for next spring
Apple Inc. is planning to pay about $1 billion a year for an ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model developed …
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman lays out the company's plans to develop AI self-sufficiency from OpenAI, like releasing its own voice, image, and text models
Tech giant forms team led by AI chief Mustafa Suleyman to build top artificial-intelligence systems and distance itself from longtime partner
Google says Gemini Deep Research can now directly draw on information stored in users' Gmail emails, Drive files, and Chat conversations to generate reports
After adding PDF support in May, Gemini Deep Research can now directly tap information stored in your Gmail and Google Chat conversations, as well as Google Drive files.
A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his role in the startup's aggressive ~$1.4T infrastructure buildout that OpenAI says is required to reach AGI
turning AGI ambition into hardware, capital, and political leverage. @fortunemagazine : Greg Brockman is leading OpenAI's aggressive infrastructure buildout, a project to which it has already committe...
Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley's new startup Hopscotch Labs debuts BeeBot, which combines AI, audio, and location-based social features, on the App Store
BeeBot is an “app for AirPods” that combines AI, audio and location-based social features. — Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley …
The AI boom is driving coordinated innovation in the US: new fabs and power generation capacity could produce lasting infrastructure even if the bubble bursts
It's funny to remember that a decade ago there were enough people convinced we were in a bubble that I felt compelled to write …
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft plans to focus on superintelligence that prioritizes human control; he will lead a new superintelligence team
Reed Albergotti / Semafor :
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking a government “backstop” for its infrastructure deals, saying her use of the word “muddied the point”
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said late Wednesday that the artificial intelligence startup is not seeking …
Senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley unveil a bipartisan bill that would require companies and US agencies to submit quarterly reports on AI-related job impacts
A new bipartisan bill seeks to provide a “clear picture” of how artificial intelligence is affecting the American workforce.
Research: US companies announced 153,074 job cuts in October 2025, the most for any October since 2003, as AI reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates
US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries …
Google says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is more than 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip config
Google is making its most powerful chip yet widely available, the search giant's latest effort to try and win business …
Duolingo's stock falls 25%+ after the company said it expects bookings to range between $329.5M and $335.5M this quarter, falling short of a $344.3M estimate
Duolingo's stock cratered 27% on lighter-than-expected guidance as the language learning platform zeroed in on user growth in lieu of near-term monetization.
Sources and documents: Google plans to build an AI data center on Australia's remote Christmas Island, after signing a cloud deal with its DOD earlier in 2025
- Plans come after Google, Australian Department of Defence sign cloud deal — Christmas Island increasingly featuring in regional war game scenarios
Microsoft releases a simulated marketplace for testing AI agents alongside research showing businesses can manipulate agents into buying their products and more
On Wednesday, researchers at Microsoft released a new simulation environment designed to test AI agents, along with new research showing …
SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's unpaired AWS-3 licenses for $2.6B in stock, after EchoStar sold AWS-4 and H-block licenses to SpaceX for ~$17B in September
EchoStar Corp. reported a $16.5 billion impairment charge and agreed to sell more spectrum licenses to Elon Musk's SpaceX …
License plate surveillance company Flock Safety faces bipartisan pressure from lawmakers and local organizers over its data handling and cybersecurity practices
Flock Safety—the surveillance company behind the country's largest network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) …
Source: Google is in early talks to deepen its strategic investment in Anthropic, which could value the AI startup at $350B+; Google has already invested $3B+
- The talks come as Anthropic and its main rival, OpenAI, are in a multitrillion-dollar race to dominate AI.
Nexperia says it suspended wafer supplies to its China factory because the local unit refused to make payments and has ignored global management's instructions
Nexperia suspended supplies to its China factory because the local unit refused to make payments, laying bare the internal discord at the heart of a global chip crisis.
Sources, public records, and documents detail TuSimple's downfall, after it transferred autonomous driving IP to Chinese partners despite a 2022 CFIUS agreement
American officials thought they'd secured a deal with TuSimple to protect autonomous-driving technology. It didn't work. X: @business . LinkedIn: David Atkinson and Shawn Donnan . Bluesky: @metacurit...
Snap announces a deal to incorporate Perplexity's search engine into Snapchat from 2026; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity
https://lnkd.in/... Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : You gotta spend money to lose money [embedded post] Mark Riedl / @markriedl : I thought people were supposed to pay AI companies for their serv...
Datadog's stock jumps 20%+ after reporting Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $885.7M, above $852.8M est., and forecasting Q4 revenue at $912M-$916M, above $877M est.
Datadog shares jumped 20% on Thursday after the software company reported third-quarter revenue that topped Wall Street estimates …
Sony unveils the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark dataset for testing the fairness of computer vision models, saying it was compiled in a fair and ethical way
Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent — AI models are filled to the brim with bias …
LA-based Metropolis, which operates parking lots that use AI and computer vision, raised $1.6B, including a $500M Series D led by LionTree at a $5B valuation
Metropolis Technologies, a U.S. operator of parking lots that uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to recognize vehicles …
British Airways owner IAG signs a deal with SpaceX's Starlink for Wi-Fi across all five carriers in the airline group, making it available in 500+ aircraft
Kate Duffy / Bloomberg :
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative restructures to focus on AI and science, led by Biohub research centers, and acquires AI startup Evolutionary Scale's team
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative said its restructured organization, Biohub, would lead its focus on artificial intelligence and scientific research.
Robinhood reports Q3 revenue up 100% YoY to $1.27B, vs. $1.19B est., transaction-based revenue up 129% to $730M, vs. $739M est., and net income up 271% to $556M
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC :
Qualcomm reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $11.27B, vs. $10.79B est., handsets revenue up 14% YoY to $6.96B, a $3.1B net loss, and projects Q1 revenue above est.
Ari Levy / CNBC :
Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M+ to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies
so poor all they have is money. And Andreessen is the OG — Original Greed www.propublica.org/article/trum... Scott Horton / @robertscotthorton : Given all the ways in which the ultra-wealthy have cur...
Huawei unveils the ~$590 Mate 70 Air, a 6.6mm thick smartphone set to take on the $999+ iPhone Air, with a 7" display and HarmonyOS, shipping from November 11
Bloomberg :
Researchers used AI to design functional antibodies from scratch, suggesting that AI tools could speed up antibody discovery without the need for animal testing
@nature.com — (and congrats to lead authors and everyone involved )! — At Xaira we are excited about pushing antibody design further to bind harder targets and make drugs for unmet medical needs. ...
Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo Ventures and releases a new Mercury coding model
With so much money flooding into AI startups, it's a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to test out.
Chinese robotaxi companies Pony.ai and WeRide saw their stocks decline 11% and 7.8% in their Hong Kong IPOs; Pony.ai raised ~$863M and WeRide raised ~$309M
Bloomberg :
DualBird, which has created a plug-in for rewritable hardware to accelerate data workloads, raised $25M, including a $16.5M Series A led by Lightspeed
DualBird, which accelerates data workloads, raised $25 million in a combined seed and Series A, co-founders Gilad Tal and Amir Gilad tell Axios Pro.
Sources: SoftBank explored a potential takeover of Marvell earlier in 2025 to merge it with Arm, in what would have been the chip industry's largest-ever deal
Bloomberg :
Synchron, whose brain implant is inserted through the circulatory system, avoiding invasive brain surgery, raised a $200M Series D at a nearly $1B valuation
Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg :
Sources: Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, for as much as $600M
Sujeet Indap / Financial Times :
Fomo, a consumer crypto trading app, raised a $17M Series A led by Benchmark, taking its total funding to $19M, and reports $20M to $40M in daily trading volume
Julie Bort / TechCrunch :
Truffle Security, whose open source tool detects, verifies, and remediates leaked secrets such as API keys, raised a $25M Series A led by Intel Capital and a16z
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE :
Inside Kalshi's NYC HQ on election night, as it processed ~$100M in trades and called the mayoral race for Zohran Mamdani 36 minutes before any media outlet
Alex Heath / Sources : Bluesky: @alexeheath.com See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Alex Heath / @alexeheath.com : did a very NYC tech thing last night sources.news/p/election-n... See also Mediagazer
Sources: Sequoia's Pat Grady and Alfred Lin plan to deepen the VC firm's AI focus and reframe its image as less politically partisan, after Roelof Botha's exit
Kate Clark / Bloomberg :
Sources: Shein told investors in August that it expects $2B in 2025 net income, up 81% YoY, despite US tariffs and forecasts mid-teen percentage growth in sales
Bloomberg :
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