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106 stories from 40 outlets. Times show when each story first broke, in UTC.
Apple's fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 results show $114.5 billion in revenue, up 12%, and $30.7 billion in profit. It is the first earnings report under CEO John Ternus, and results beat Wall Street forecasts.
Also covered by MacRumors, AppleInsider
#Palantir gave a full-year 2026 revenue forecast that beat Wall Street expectations, driven by surging demand for its data analytics tools. Commercial revenue reached $984 million, up 148%, surpassing government revenue of $953 million for the first time.
Also covered by CNBC Technology, The Next Web
#Anthropic reported nearly $17 billion in revenue for the third quarter as of September 30, a twelvefold increase year over year. The company also swung to a third-quarter operating loss as compute costs surged ahead of its IPO.
Also covered by The Register, CNBC Technology, The Next Web, The Decoder, CoinDesk
#Apple's September-quarter sales growth slowed and China revenue missed analyst estimates. It is the first earnings report since John Ternus became CEO.
#The Information reports that Apple has been developing a larger, robotic version of its HomeView smart home hub. The device would feature a 9-inch screen that rotates 360 degrees.
Also covered by Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, ZDNET
#Marvell agreed to buy Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at $115 billion, adding optical components for AI data centers. Marvell believes optics demand will grow sharply as Nvidia and others pursue bigger systems.
Also covered by TechCrunch, The Register, CNBC Technology, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE
#Squarespace is cutting 19% of its workforce, about 300 people, out of roughly 1,800 employees worldwide. The website builder is working to simplify operations.
Also covered by TechCrunch, The Next Web
#SpaceX is reportedly in talks to buy EchoStar's Boost Mobile. The deal could bypass the MVNO firewall set up by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, though litigation is possible.
Also covered by TechCrunch, Engadget, The Next Web, Android Authority, Digital Trends
#Meta Platforms is preparing a cross-border investment-grade bond offering, according to Bloomberg Technology. The move tests investor appetite for debt as skepticism grows about the pace of AI infrastructure spending.
Also covered by The Next Web, Quartz
#Match Group Inc. posted weaker-than-expected quarterly revenue and forecast adjusted earnings below Wall Street estimates. The results suggest its turnaround is still incomplete.
#Oracle is launching a $20 billion debt offering to fund AI infrastructure buildout, as reported in a Bloomberg Technology segment. The same briefing notes Alphabet tapping European debt markets and Anthropic reporting nearly $17 billion in third-quarter revenue.
Also covered by Hacker News
#The Nasdaq 100 Index fell into a correction on Monday. Investors have grown more pessimistic about Big Tech and the AI trade.
#Qatalyst Partners, a boutique investment bank serving the tech industry, has closed its largest-ever deal. The transaction came from a buyside M&A role, a departure from its usual focus on selling companies.
#In a Decoder interview, Matt Strauss, now chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group, discusses Peacock's bet on YouTube. The conversation also covers organizational and structural changes at NBCU since their last talk two years ago.
#Earl Davis, head of fixed income and money markets at BMO Global Asset Management, says TIPS hedge uncertainty around AI earnings and capital spending. He spoke on Bloomberg Surveillance.
#Yardeni Research president Edward Yardeni says the AI trade slowdown benefits both stocks and bonds. He is holding to his year-end S&P 500 target.
#Alphabet is selling euro bonds less than a week after disappointing third-quarter earnings. The seven-part offering spans maturities from two to 19 years, its second euro sale this year.
#MUFG global markets research head Derek Halpenny told Bloomberg Television that AI is everywhere in US GDP data. He said the US and the dollar are very dependent on the continuation of the AI story.
#Structured products in the US have grown very large recently and are on track to hit $300 billion in sales this year. Bloomberg Technology examines what these once opaque financial products are and how they influence the economy.
#Fowler, UBS chief European equity strategist and head of derivatives, says the AI trade is still quite robust. He argues memory makers are pricing in an incredibly short AI cycle.
#Howard Marks, co-chair of Oaktree Capital Management, said in a Bloomberg TV interview that recent AI-related market stumbles have somewhat burst the bubble of infallibility around the sector. The comments were made in an interview with Bloomberg TV.
#Hong Kong listing candidates are disclosing cross-investments and personal connections in their IPO filings. Regulators are stepping up scrutiny of structures that could distort the market.
#An executive at Macquarie says junior research staff at Macquarie Capital need not worry too much about AI taking their jobs. The comments were reported by Bloomberg Technology.
#Amy Lo, Asia Chairman at UBS Global Wealth Management and CEO of UBS Hong Kong, says the bank is hiring selectively. She describes Asia Pacific as a strong growth region, speaking at the Women Chief Executives Summit in Hong Kong.
#Capital Group Vice Chair Jody Jonsson says the asset manager will formally open its Middle East office in November. She cites investment opportunities and a source of client wealth, speaking at the Women Chief Executives Summit in Hong Kong.
#STT GDC Pte. is negotiating a S$3.1 billion ($2.4 billion) syndicated loan with banks, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal reflects how the AI boom is driving debt demand among companies building data center infrastructure.
#Kioxia Holdings shares fell as much as 15% on Monday after the Japanese memory maker's cautious outlook disappointed investors. The decline has raised concerns that the rapid growth driven by artificial intelligence may be leveling off.
#Bloomberg Technology reports that the two publicly traded record labels are struggling to attract investor interest. The piece frames this as a $20 billion public market problem for the music industry.
#The New York Times sued Brave Software, accusing the browser maker of scraping its journalism and selling access to AI companies. Three other US papers reportedly filed similar suits hours later.
Also covered by TechCrunch, The Next Web, Slashdot
#Anthropic says it is very close to RSI, the point where AI becomes so capable at training itself that its capabilities accelerate dramatically. AI doomers see RSI as a potential point of no return.
#TechRadar reports that OpenAI knows data centers are unpopular and may rebrand them as AI compute campuses. The report questions whether the rename will help.
Also covered by TechRadar, Slashdot
#Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg predicts that AI will be used to develop all medicines. He says the open question is how quickly that will happen.
#OpenAI plans to merge the chat and work tabs in ChatGPT, following a similar move by Anthropic. The change will be tested among select users before a wider rollout.
Also covered by ZDNET, Mashable Tech
#Elon Musk said the Grok Bot was throttled last week because costs were unsustainably high relative to revenue. The statement was reported by TechRadar.
Also covered by The Next Web, The Decoder, Gizmodo, TechRadar, TechSpot
#The essay argues that as AI becomes cheaper and more widely available, economic gains go to companies that put AI into the real world. Manidis co-wrote the essay and is SVP of Veradigm AI.
#The program commits OpenAI's future campuses to reducing electricity use when power grids are under strain. Its planned Georgia campus will serve as the pilot.
Also covered by The Next Web
#MIT Technology Review argues that agentic AI can automate enterprise analytics workflows and take actions based on agent insights. It identifies the quality of those insights as the main obstacle.
#DeepSeek has released an open-source prototype of a more autonomous coding agent called Super-agent. Bloomberg reported the release on Sunday.
Also covered by The Next Web
#OpenAI has signed deals to deploy its technology across energy companies, investment firms and government agencies in the United Arab Emirates. Sam Altman said AI is going to transform the economics of the energy world at the Adipec conference in Abu Dhabi on Monday.
Also covered by CNBC Technology, The Next Web
#Elon Musk has joined the backlash against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's recent comments that PCs having RAM is terrible. Musk mocked the claim with a meme posted to X.
#OpenAI said the change means ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool. The merge combines the two tabs into one.
#MIT Technology Review argues that the agentic web has arrived, extending Tim Berners-Lee's 2001 Semantic Web vision of an internet navigated by autonomous software.
#When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent plans, generates code, runs tests and repeats to fix errors. A single task can use 10 to 50 times more tokens than a basic chat prompt.
#Wired explains that AI chatbots are often good at retrieving information from the web. For some queries, typing into a standard search engine produces better results.
#Studios are incorporating generative AI into film and TV production. Comedy content creators have broken through by mocking chatbots, drawing interest from Hollywood agents.
#New data indicates that AI tools are not shortening the work week as promised. Employees are instead working longer days so far.
#A Bloomberg Technology video examines options for shielding investors from a possible AI bubble. No written summary accompanies the video.
#Burga's sale takes $25 off orders over $50 on phone cases, magnetic rings, Apple Watch bands and power banks. The discount is a limited-time promotion.
#Meta plans to release the last OS update for Quest 2 and Quest Pro by March 2027, which will be v213. Security patches and critical bug fixes will continue through the end of support.
#On the Power On podcast, Mark Gurman and Chris Welch discuss Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro. They examine whether it will compete with the iPad.
#The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 now costs $385 after an $80 increase, more than triple its $120 launch price. The 16GB Compute Module 5 also rose $40 amid the ongoing RAM shortage.
Also covered by Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, Gizmodo
#Early deals cut prices on espresso machines that WIRED has tested. The discounts give buyers time to practice before Thanksgiving guests arrive.
#Readwise Books offers an ebook store, a reading tracker, detailed reading stats and AI features. The app is positioned against Amazon's ecosystem.
#Wired's review finds the quad-band gaming router fabulously fast and feature-packed. It is described as the first Wi-Fi 8 router to arrive.
#The Verge's review says Vivo's X300 Ultra kept its lead on cameras with a 35mm main lens and a top ultrawide. The new X500 Pro does not offer either of those features.
#TechCrunch reviews the Ninja Crispi Microwave and its FusionCrisp technology. The reviewer says the appliance can replace two kitchen devices at once.
#Both budget smart feeders were tested in a backyard setting. Saving money on a smart bird feeder comes with trade-offs, some easier to live with than others.
#The build is presented as an e-paper display that can show whatever the user wants. It works in two official ecosystems or on a self-hosted server.
#Wired recommends 18 gifts for PC gamers, including headsets, desks and monitors. The picks are gear its editors say they use themselves, with prices starting at $12.
#Sony has issued a new PS5 firmware update to counter the homebrew community's ongoing effort to jailbreak the console. The update arrives ahead of the release of GTA 6.
#Jackery announced the Explorer 100D, a portable power station using lithium iron phosphate batteries the company first introduced in 2023. At 4.6 by 3.4 by 3.4 inches, it is the smallest power station Jackery has made.
Also covered by Mashable Tech, TechRadar
#Supermarkets across Europe report sudden fridge and freezer temperature changes in suspected cyberattacks, weeks after a similar issue in France. Bloomberg reports the incidents span multiple countries.
Also covered by The Verge, TechCrunch, The Register, Axios, The Guardian Tech
#Google says Android manufacturing partner Videostrong secretly built a backdoor into 1.3 million set-top boxes and turned them into a botnet. Google says it dismantled the backdoor and cut ties with the Shenzhen-based maker, which has been banned.
Also covered by The Register, 9to5Google, The Hacker News, BleepingComputer
#Apple has sent mercenary spyware warnings to iPhone users in 110 countries. In Germany, the cybersecurity agency has told lawmakers who received the alerts to treat their iPhones as possibly compromised, per The Next Web.
Also covered by The Next Web, TechSpot
#Digital Trends details what Ford's connected cars collect and how the automaker uses that information. Owners can manage privacy settings, but opting out may remove some useful features.
Also covered by Digital Trends, Gizmodo
#The Capytistas, a secretive group claiming more than $1.2 million in backing, plans to publicize homes linked to billionaires. The group began with Elon Musk and Tesla's board, according to Wired.
#WIRED identified about 400 apps and websites tied to Chinese-language developers that appear to be regular AI tools. They contain hidden features that let users generate violent AI-generated images and video.
Also covered by 9to5Mac, AppleInsider
#Both countries said they faced cyberattacks targeting emergency and air raid alert systems. The reports were carried by Bloomberg Technology.
Also covered by The Register
#Ford is making an explicit commitment to customers that their vehicle data is safe with the company. The announcement also explains how and why Ford uses customer data.
#The writer says they received nearly 2,000 fundraising texts meant for someone else. The investigation uncovered a network of politicians, data brokers and questionable tactics.
#The North Korean group accused of the world's largest-ever crypto heist is a state-sponsored collective of elite hackers. Artificial intelligence now gives the group a powerful new tool to fund Kim Jong Un's military expansion.
Also covered by CoinDesk
#BTCPay, a bitcoin payment tool, has told users to switch off their servers. The request follows reports that wallets were drained. CoinDesk reported the story.
Also covered by BleepingComputer, Decrypt
#Mihoko Matsubara, Chief Cybersecurity Strategist at NTT, discusses the risks in a recent wave of cyberattacks in Japan. The attacks have targeted the government, banks and conglomerates' cyber infrastructure. She spoke on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade.
#The settlement spares Snap a second bellwether trial in California state court over claims that social apps harm young users. The case is part of broader litigation over youth harm.
Also covered by Engadget, The Next Web, Quartz
#John Ternus leads his first Apple earnings call as the company's CEO. The call begins at 2 p.m. Pacific Time, or 5 p.m. Eastern.
Also covered by MacRumors
#Searching for the Easter egg transports users to a 1998-style version of Google's search results page. The results use blue links as they did in that era.
Also covered by CNET, Engadget, Mashable Tech, Polygon, IGN
#Android Authority shows a first look at a redesigned Google Messages icon. The new gradient design brings the app in line with Google's sibling apps.
Also covered by Android Authority, Android Police
#Apple shares have run up to their priciest levels since 2008, leaving little room for disappointment when the company reports earnings after the bell on Monday. Bloomberg notes the stock is especially vulnerable if results fall short of expectations.
Also covered by 9to5Mac, Quartz
#Spotify plans to let users remix artists' songs using AI next year, with the feature tipped for February. The AI remix tools could cost up to $5 more per month on Premium subscriptions.
Also covered by TechRadar, TechSpot
#Aerospace startup Northwood raised $375 million at a $2 billion valuation. The funds will expand production and deployment of ground infrastructure for space companies.
#The satellite ground network company raised $375 million, reaching a $2 billion valuation. It plans to add 400 jobs over three years and expand its global antenna network.
Also covered by Quartz
#42AI has come out of stealth with $62.5 million in funding. The company is building a world model meant to predict what people will do, even in unfamiliar situations.
#Two startups working on data center water problems are combining in a $16 million acquisition. Omen AI adds liquid know-how through the deal.
#The TechCrunch Founder Summit is set for November 4 in Boston, with sessions and networking aimed at founders. Savings of up to $100 and group pass discounts are available.
#A third human death from bird flu has been reported since the virus began spreading from animals to livestock. The threat is still considered low, but the virus continues to spread.
#NASA's Swift Observatory is set to crash back to Earth this week. Estimates suggest at least 100 kilograms, about 220 pounds, could survive reentry.
Also covered by Gizmodo, TechSpot
#A large study finds that most measures of a key cognitive process disagree. The study is reported by Ars Technica as mostly negative results.
#A newly released global action plan seeks to put the 2030 nature targets back on track. Ars Technica reports that funding for the plan still falls short.
#Xbox's former chief operating officer, Helen Chiang, suddenly left Microsoft less than two weeks ago after being promoted into the role in July. I wrote in my Notepad newsletter last week that it seemed very weird for Chiang to suddenly depart Microsoft after 21 years with a surprisingly short memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. […]
Also covered by IGN
#The app brings Canva's free all-in-one design suite to Apple's tablet. It includes a new Sketch Studio built for touch and Apple Pencil.
Also covered by 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider
#BMW says its partially automated driving system will move into city streets starting in 2027, launching first in Germany. The system will steer, accelerate and brake on both highways and city streets, positioning it against Tesla FSD.
#Bloomberg Opinion columnist Gearoid Reidy argues that rising development costs leave studios with fewer chances to experiment. He says AI could lower costs and revive creativity in the games industry.
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#Russia will temporarily permit the use of data centers located outside its borders. The change follows a series of Ukrainian attacks that targeted tech company Yandex's facilities.
Also covered by Tom's Hardware
#Netflix announced a multiyear deal with comedian and influencer Druski to create original content exclusively for the streamer. The deal extends Netflix's push to bring creators onto its platform.
Also covered by Mashable Tech
#The Center for Renewing America says that neo-Marxist progressives and anti-Western Muslims cannot sincerely swear to protect the Constitution. The group argues they should not be allowed to assume office.
#The plan does not include a mission similar to Apollo 8 or Artemis II.
#There was plenty of drama on and off the track for Formula 1 this weekend.
#Justice Department efforts to sow chaos in the electoral system have failed to gain traction so far, even as Americans are already voting in the midterms.
#The Verge profiles Florida voter Patti Zirhut, who is splitting her ballot over data center concerns. The story examines whether the backlash could shift Florida's midterm results.
#The studio of Yakuza series creator Toshiro Nagoshi has officially closed. It shut down before it released any game.
Also covered by GamesIndustry.biz, Polygon, IGN, Wccftech
#Bloomberg Technology reports that tech leaders are waiting on the fallout from Tuesday's US midterm elections. The coverage suggests the results will not calm polarized tech rhetoric.
#Chinese developer S-GAME says its debut console game has sold over 4 million units on PlayStation 5 and PC in 72 hours. Metacritic scores are 88 on PC and 93 on PS5.
#Parliamentary allies and the opposition are pressing Norway's minority government to halt data center development in the Nordic country. They cite warnings of looming power supply shortages.
#NASA satellite imagery indicates a major Russian crude-pumping and storage site in the Volga region could be on fire. Ukraine resumed strikes against Moscow's oil assets.
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