SpaceX Joins AT&T in EchoStar’s Spectrum Sale
Direct-to-device satellite spectrum became a carrier-market asset when the FCC approved EchoStar’s sale of roughly 65 MHz to SpaceX alongside 50 MHz to AT&T. Compatible phones, ground networks and national permissions still determine what those licenses can deliver.
Apple unveils the $299 Apple HomeView, a 7" smart display with an A18 chip, tabletop and wall-mounted versions, and “HomeView software”, shipping November 13
With customizable “faces,” this 7-inch smart display is a unique hybrid between an iPhone and an Apple Watch.
OpenAI says the FBI arrested one of its staffers after the company found a hidden recording device in its offices and used its models to understand the device
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee h...
Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon globally in the Gemini API paid tier, to AI Pro and Ultra users in the Gemini app and AI Mode, and to Ultra users in Antigravity
After months of trailing its rivals, Google says Argon competes with the industry's best.
Apple unveils the fourth-gen Apple TV 4K, with Siri AI, an A19 chip, 128GB of storage, far-field mics, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 6, shipping November 13 for $299
The fourth-gen streaming box also gets a surround-sound upgrade and the ability to find your Siri remote.
Sources: Rockstar plans to release the PC version of GTA VI within the first three months of 2027, after releasing it on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 19
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Bumble says it has agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings in a $1.3B deal; Ithaca co-founders Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman will become Bumble's co-CEOs
Bumble (BMBL.O) said on Tuesday it had agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings in a deal valued at $1.3 billion …
Anthropic details Scion, a git replacement for its monorepo, built by seven engineers with Claude in five months, as daily merges rose from 2,500 in May to 30K+
As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck.
The FBI says it worked with CrowdStrike to dismantle 40+ laptop farms across Texas used to help North Koreans get remote US tech jobs under stolen identities
F.B.I. investigators worked with the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to dismantle so-called laptop farms that steal American identities to earn cash for Pyongyang.
Open letter: Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and over 400 scientists call for an international body to oversee AI containment standards and incident reporting
Around 400 scientists, including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, on Tuesday called for an international body …
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports and mashups, many of them built with AI tools
New business unit is charged with testing new projects and judging them by user feedback, spurred by recent mashups and ports delivered with AI coding tools
Memo: Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or ~1,000 jobs globally across product, tech, legal, and HR, its biggest layoffs since 2022, amid slowing growth
Job cuts affect about 1,000 positions and come as the company struggles with slowing growth — Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff …
Ukraine's drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Yandex's web crawlers, not Russian political bot operations, as Zelenskyy celebrated “less division”
Zelenskyy celebrated ‘less division’ on social media after the strikes but the data isn't backing that up yet.
Epic unveils a refresh of its Epic Games Launcher for PC in preview, saying that the new version is “vibe coded” and “way faster”, and now supports Linux
Epic is making a big push into AI-assisted development, and that approach includes its work on the new, faster launcher.
Ukraine says SpaceX has stopped Starshield, its military-grade Starlink service, from working at speeds above 100mph with no warning, disrupting drone missions
SpaceX (SPCX.O) has introduced a limit on some Starlink services in Ukraine, disrupting combat drone missions for which the technology …
CoreWeave stock drops 15%+ and its bond yields near 15%, over concerns that some tech companies are borrowing too heavily for the AI build-out; ORCL drops 8%+
CoreWeave's stock and bonds were both hit on Wednesday as investor fear grew that some technology companies are borrowing …
Inside the making of Rockstar's GTA VI, which analysts expect to sell 40M copies and make $3B+ in revenue in its first four months; Rockstar now has 4,711 staff
If the video game industry had something like an annual high school yearbook, the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI would garner …
Google says users with a standard account can now build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio and will be able to share them with friends in coming months
It just got a whole lot easier to vibe code the exact Android app you need - no developer experience required. — ZDNET's key takeaways
Researchers say they discovered and communicated with Chinese AI agents that were trying to bypass security controls on websites and were traced to Tencent
Researchers discovered that the agents were trying to bypass security controls on websites and made contact with them.
Filing: OpenAI says a staffer who joined Apple sent 100+ files to a personal account and made a presentation about an unreleased product to Apple leadership
An OpenAI employee who left the ChatGPT maker for Apple sent more than 100 files about an unreleased product to a personal account …
Microsoft releases updates fixing 1,400+ security vulnerabilities, surpassing September's record of 972, which was already ~10x the normal monthly patch load
Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software.
Meta expands its AI-powered “Your Algorithm” feature from Instagram to Facebook and Facebook Reels and says it is using LLMs more in its ranking systems
Meta's bringing Instagram's “Your Algorithm” feature to Facebook, and using LLMs more to rank content.
WhatsApp rolls out a guest calling feature letting people join a call even if they don't have an account; guests cannot start a call and have to be invited
It's also working on calendar integrations for later this year. — WhatsApp is adding more flexibility for talking to people who aren't regular users of its service.
ASML reports Q3 net sales of €11.66B, vs. €11.72B est., a €4.96B net profit, vs. €4.1B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €43B-€45B to €44B-€45B
ASML said Wednesday that some of its customers are expressing interest in placing orders …
Sources: Anthropic told investors that its revenue jumped to $16.8B in Q3, up from $11.5B in Q2, and that the company was profitable on an adjusted basis in Q3
AI start-up gathered investors for presentations in San Francisco on Wednesday ahead of its expected public listing
Shareholders for both Fox Corp. and Roku approve Fox's $22B acquisition of Roku; Fox expects the deal to be finished in H1 2027, subject to regulatory clearance
At separate special meetings of shareholders Wednesday to vote on the deal, the majority of shares owned by Fox Corp. and Roku investors were in favor the deal.
YouTube Music rolls out labels for songs created with the help of AI; Spotify has AI labels, and Apple Music plans to add “Made With AI” labels later this year
YouTube Music announced Wednesday the rollout of a new labeling system aimed at improving transparency around songs created with the help of generative AI.
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says “I now think it's more likely we'll see full RSI become possible in 2027”, earlier than his previous prediction of 2028
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A look at a coordinated theft of ~$100M in crypto using hardware backdoors planted in Ledger wallets sold by Malaysia-based authorized reseller CryptoBilis
The theft last week of an estimated $100 million in crypto using a hardware backdoor planted in Ledger wallets points to a sophisticated …
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI security and agentic safety research
US chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) has pledged $250 million worth of computing resources to Britain over five years, to fund AI security research …
Apple unveils the Apple Home Collection, a lineup of smart home accessories made with LG and Schneider, including cameras, thermostats, a doorbell, and a lock
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Apple unveils the $149 HomePod mini 2, with an S10 chip, “Sound Glow” interactive lighting, and Siri AI via a future update, in five colors, shipping October 30
Tencent raised ~$5.7B via US dollar and offshore yuan debt offerings, drawing $23B+ in orders; a source says Tencent had initially been expected to raise $4.5B+
Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) has raised about $5.7 billion through US dollar and offshore yuan debt offerings on Tuesday …
Delaware-based Causa Prima, which develops an agent-to-agent AI platform for managing B2B payments, resolving billing disputes, and more, raised a $20M seed
Artificial intelligence is becoming a fixture in the workplace. Soon, many firms will have agents that don't just operate within a business …
Apple v. OpenAI: a US judge partly grants Apple's motion for expedited discovery, ordering OpenAI to hand over forensic images of devices and other documents
Apple Inc. convinced a federal judge in California to force OpenAI Inc. to expedite turning over documents concerning its alleged theft …
A Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages after finding Arm breached its architectural license agreement and sought to disrupt Qualcomm's business
Chip technology supplier Arm Holdings (O9Ty.F) breached a licensing agreement with Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and intentionally interfered …
Eight US states sue OpenAI separately in a bipartisan effort, alleging it didn't implement sufficient safeguards to protect kids and other vulnerable users
More than half a dozen states sued OpenAI Inc. Wednesday alleging the tech giant didn't implement sufficient safeguards to protect vulnerable users, including kids.
Apple closes above a $5T market cap for the first time, the second company after Nvidia to do so; Apple had crossed $5T six times intraday previously
To power Apple's next phase, CEO John Ternus needs to raise Apple's AI game — Apple became the second company to close above …
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, with features first rolled out in 2024; the launch won't include Siri AI
Apple Inc. is gearing up to release its artificial intelligence platform in mainland China, following a lengthy regulatory delay …
SpaceXSI debuts Grok Voice 3.0, saying it tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index, responds in under a second, and costs less than rivals, at $0.08/min
The world's most intelligent voice model. … Today, we're announcing Grok Voice 3.0, the world's most intelligent speech-to-speech model.
Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro review: gorgeous screen, Android apps, and nice design and build quality, but Amazon's bloatware is pervasive and Alexa+ is subpar
We have to talk about this screen. It's the first thing you notice, and maybe the only thing that matters, about the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro.
Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale
China's industrial dominance is driven by competitive local governments that act like venture capital firms, making it a continent-sized Silicon Valley
China is not the world's largest command economy. It is a continent-sized Silicon Valley. — Imagine if Y Combinator owned and ran San Francisco.
Apple HomeView demo: a square screen with a personalized, iPhone-like experience based on facial recognition, up to six users, Siri AI, and a closed ecosystem
Nicole Nguyen /Wall Street Journal:
Apple says HomeView's facial recognition works only if users have a “registered personal device” with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI on the same Wi-Fi network
John Gruber /Daring Fireball:
GlobalFoundries plans to build two “essential chip” plants in Malta, New York, backed by up to $21B from Japan; the US will take a 4% stake in GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries Inc. plans to build two new chip plants with the backing of as much as $21 billion from the Japanese government …
Albert Invent, which launched an AI model trained on chemical patents and data about 15M molecules, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $340M valuation
Scientists at manufacturing conglomerates like Kenvue and Henkel use Albert Invent's AI tools to design experiments.
Chinese manufacturers dominate humanoid robot production, capturing 97% of global shipments in H1 2026, thanks to government support and vast supply chains
Advanced humanoid hardware is one of the strategic high-tech fields where China has an early lead over the US.
Austin-based Icon, which builds robotic 3D-printing construction systems and software, raised a $200M Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock
Icon, an Austin, Texas-based robotic construction startup, announced a $200 million Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock on Tuesday.
Google plans to acquire power from AEP's Cheyenne Fuel Cell under a 20-year deal; AEP will invest ~$4B in the Wyoming fuel cell project using Bloom's tech
Google will acquire power from Cheyenne Fuel Cell under a 20-year power purchase agreement — American Electric Power plans to invest …
Sources: Anduril opens a tender offer of up to ~$1.3B for staff at a ~$90B valuation, available in 16 countries for the first time; it was valued at $61B in May
Anduril Industries Inc. is allowing employees to sell shares as part of a tender that stands to value the defense technology startup …
Sources: Decagon, which offers AI customer service agents and was last valued at $4.5B, hired a bank and is in early talks with buyers, including ServiceNow
- AI startup Decagon builds AI agents to automate customer support for enterprise customers. — The company has hired an investment bank to evaluate M&A interest.
US federal prosecutors say the FBI arrested a Saudi national over bugging an OpenAI exec conference room; OpenAI found the audio recorder around September 30
An OpenAI engineer has been arrested on suspicion of hiding an audio recording device in an executive conference room …
CoreWeave says it is targeting insurers' “unlimited” capital, as the AI cloud provider seeks cheaper ways to fund the tens of billions it is spending on chips
Co-founder eyes insurers' vast capital for loans as the Nvidia-backed cloud provider seeks to fund the data centre build-out
Berkshire Hathaway invests an additional $330M in Bending Spoons, taking its stake to 4%, after investing $600M during Bending Spoons' July IPO; BSP jumps 40%+
Shares of conglomerate that owns AOL and Vimeo jump more than 50% on news of expanded investment by Nebraska asset manager
Ukraine's drone attacks severely damaged three of Yandex's six data centers, disrupting Russia's tech ecosystem, centered on one vast, state-aligned company
Kyiv's attacks exposed vulnerabilities of Kremlin effort to centralise internet services under one company
Elon Musk says the US government owns and controls Starshield systems and “any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS”
Elon Musk /@elonmusk:
Zenzap, a private messenger with AI agents that aims to replace apps like WhatsApp in the workplace, raised $44M from Bessemer, Lightspeed, and others
Many businesses around the world use consumer-facing chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, or iMessage to talk and coordinate with staff, and exchange documents or data.
Harmonic Security, which uses small language models to inspect employee interactions with AI tools, raised a $50M Series B, taking its total funding to $76M
Workplace artificial intelligence security startup Harmonic Security Inc. today announced it has raised $50 million in new funding …
Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI staffer charged with bugging a conference room, used a Seeed Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense dev board; a website sells it for $14
An employee at OpenAI was arrested and charged with using a hidden recording device in one of the company's San Francisco offices …
Scuba, which is building a “context engine” designed to serve as a shared memory hub for human workers and AI agents, raised $34M across pre-seed and seed
Sources: the EU is negotiating with China to lift sanctions on an unnamed Chinese company in exchange for China lifting sanctions on a German ASML supplier
The European Union is in talks with China to secure relief from sanctions that threatened the survival of Sindlhauser Materials GmbH …
SpaceXSI launches a unified X Subscription bundling Grok, Cursor, and X Premium, with tiers at $8, $30, $100, and $200 per month; the $30 tier includes Grok Bot
The EU Commission's AI Office launches formal AI Act probes into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI agent hacks; experts say the AI Act includes an R&D exemption
The EU is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic over AI agents that hacked outside organisations, raising questions about whether …
AI infrastructure startup Modal raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $1.2B, and passes $1B ARR
AI infrastructure startup Modal raised a $750 million Series D at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation and topped $1 billion in ARR …
Booking Holdings launches Vayo, a travel startup that uses AI agents to track booking confirmations, price drops, and more, with a planned $100M investment
Booking Holdings is launching a new Seattle-based travel startup called Vayo, led by serial entrepreneur Mike Fridgen …
Bengaluru-based Scimplify, which uses AI agents and 500+ partner manufacturing facilities to accelerate chemical production, raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures
As manufacturers across industries strive to reduce their reliance on Chinese suppliers, Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25 million …
US defense companies and startups have signed at least 13 deals with Taiwanese hardware companies since September 2025 to build a secure drone tech supply chain
American tech meets Taiwanese hardware in push to assemble uncrewed boats and aircraft using a ‘non-red’ supply chain
The IMF lifts its 2026 global GDP growth forecast to 3.1%, up from 3% in July, citing an AI boom that offsets Middle East war disruptions and high energy costs
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, which finds and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source software; founded in 2012, it has 40+ employees
OpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju, who joined OpenAI last year and was promoted as CTO for compute in July, to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses
OpenAI has named former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses, marking the latest leadership shakeup …
Google DeepMind and Google Cloud plan to provide up to 200 European scientific researchers with access to their frontier AI models and $3M in compute credits
Analysis: AI safety groups and individual donors have spent $48M in the midterm election cycle across bipartisan races to back candidates favoring AI regulation
Advocates for AI safety and regulation are emerging as a force in U.S. elections, spending nearly $50 million this election cycle …
Pluto Security, which monitors AI agents and vibe-coded apps, exits stealth with $42M, including a $34M Series A, and says it has hit $2M+ in ARR since April
A look at OpenAI's safety concerns over loop transformers before shipping its next major model; Microsoft accidentally confirmed GPT-6.1 Sol uses the technique
Meta says hackers stole some code and personal data of roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, after compromising some of its GitHub repos
Uber's head of autonomous mobility and delivery, Sarfraz Maredia, is leaving on November 16 after 12+ years at Uber, the latest exit from its autonomous unit
Salience Labs, which develops specialized all-optical circuit switching tech for AI data centers, raised a $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital
CXMT says it plans to launch a 4F² design DRAM chip for data center servers before the end of 2026, achieving a breakthrough that rivals have pursued for years
Bumble says Ithaca Holdings will pay $6.05 per share, a 138% premium to Bumble's Friday close; BMBL jumps 57% to $5.95, after a 50% jump Monday on sale reports
US law enforcement and intel agency docs: since 2021, the FBI, DHS, and NYPD have viewed AI as both a facilitator of violent extremism and a target for attacks
Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at $30B+, up from $15B in June
Sources: US banking regulators are questioning banks about their deployment of agentic AI, use of Chinese-developed AI models, and autonomous system safeguards
Alibaba unveils its next-gen Qwen Glasses N1, starting at ~$450, with 50MP cameras, sensors, and eye-tracking on the ~$520 Pro model, and Qwen Clip AI earbuds
Jensen Huang announces $2B in new European Nvidia investments, including in French startups Doctolib and Genesis AI, adding to $8B invested over the past year
Benoit Berthelot /Bloomberg:
Meta confirms Muse lets users “engage in adult conversations, if they choose, using a private and secure VM”, saying it doesn't block “legal adult behavior”
Profile of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national the FBI arrested after OpenAI found a recording device; he has deep ties to Saudi officials and tech investors
Financial Times:
OpenAI's head of computing capacity Sachin Katti is leaving the company next month after about a year and is expected to stay on as an adviser
The artificial-intelligence company plans to spend around $750 billion on computing power through 2030 — OpenAI's head of computing capacity …
Sources: Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for substantial control over what external AI evaluators can publish, out of concern that trade secrets could leak
Sources: Chinese tech companies bought 1M+ Nvidia gaming and workstation chips, mostly RTX 5090 and RTX Pro, for basic AI workloads amid an AI chip shortage
ASML says it cannot fully meet AI-driven demand for its chipmaking tools in 2027 and 2028, and is seeing “strong interest” in orders for 2029 and 2030
ASML (ASML.AS) said on Wednesday AI-driven demand for its chip-printing tools is so strong that it will not be able …