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A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports Int...

Chris Allnutt / Financial Times: A profile of Football Manager game developer Sp...

Australia broadens its social media ban for under&16s to include Reddit and Kick, which join Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and YouTube (Clare Armstrong/ABC)

Australia broadens its social media ban for under&16s t...

Clare Armstrong / ABC: Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to ...

Sources: Netflix has sent out dozens of requests to agents at WME, UTA, and CAA for video podcast creators, and plans to launch video podcasts in early 2026 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)

Sources: Netflix has sent out dozens of requests to age...

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: Sources: Netflix has sent out dozens of...

Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, vs. $6.09B est., and forecasts Q2 profit below estimates; SMCI drops 9%+ after hours (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, vs....

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, vs. $...

Nintendo reports Q2 revenue up 90% YoY to $3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., net profit of ~$667M, vs. ~$412M est., and expects 19M Switch 2 sales by March 2026, up from 15M (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Nintendo reports Q2 revenue up 90% YoY to $3.7B, vs. ~$...

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Nintendo reports Q2 revenue up 90% YoY to $3.7B, vs. ~$3B ...

Grab reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $873M, vs. 869M est., and an adjusted EBITDA of $136M, helped by offerings like group food orders and cheaper shared rides (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

Grab reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $873M, vs. 869M e...

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Grab reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $873M, vs. 869M es...

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaround, AI, paying drivers more, Uber, partnership with Tensor for autonomous vehicle tech, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's tur...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaro...

Apple launches the App Store on the web, with dedicated pages for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, TV, Watch, and Vision (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple launches the App Store on the web, with dedicated...

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple launches the App Store on the web, with dedicated...

France threatens to ban Shein and refers it to Paris prosecutor after an investigation found that sex dolls "resembling children" were being sold on the site (Liz Alderman/New York Times)

France threatens to ban Shein and refers it to Paris pr...

Liz Alderman / New York Times: France threatens to ban Shein and refers it to Pa...

Sources: Trump decided not to discuss Nvidia's AI chip exports to China during his October 30 meeting with Xi Jinping following opposition from his top advisers (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Trump decided not to discuss Nvidia's AI chip ...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Trump decided not to discuss Nvidia's AI chip expo...

French government threatens to ban Shein if child&like sex dolls reappear

French government threatens to ban Shein if child&like ...

The French finance ministry says it will ban Chinese e-commerce giant Shein if c...

Sources: Pony AI plans to raise $863M in its November 6 Hong Kong IPO by selling 48.3M shares at ~$17.88 each, below its October 31 Nasdaq close at $18.68 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Pony AI plans to raise $863M in its November 6...

Bloomberg: Sources: Pony AI plans to raise $863M in its November 6 Hong Kong IPO...

A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a ...

Steven Levy / Wired: A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997...

Cologne&based Octonomy, which helps companies deploy AI in complex workflows, raised a $20M seed led by Macquarie Capital, bringing its total raised to $25M (Amelia Isaacs/Pathfounders)

Cologne&based Octonomy, which helps companies deploy AI...

Amelia Isaacs / Pathfounders: Cologne-based Octonomy, which helps companies depl...

Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic death threats, posting hyper&realistic AI&generated images and sounds to social media platforms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)

Online harassers are using AI tools to create more real...

Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: Online harassers are using AI tools to create more...

Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain drain that increased during the war in Gaza and tax breaks for investors in Israeli funds and tech firms (James Shotter/Financial Times)

Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain dra...

James Shotter / Financial Times: Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech b...

An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and OnlyFans, to verify the ages of their users will go into effect on November 12 (Jackson Chen/Engadget)

An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub,...

Jackson Chen / Engadget: An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub,...

Copenhagen&based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80+ countries, raised a €30M Series B co&led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Copenhagen&based Formalize, whose compliance software s...

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance softw...

Nexperia's China unit says it has "sufficient inventories" to sustain order fulfillment "through year&end and beyond", after the parent suspended wafer supplies (Reuters)

Nexperia's China unit says it has "sufficient inventori...

Reuters: Nexperia's China unit says it has “sufficient inventories” to sustain o...

How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto (Anatoly Kurmanaev/New York Times)

How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stabl...

Anatoly Kurmanaev / New York Times: How the Venezuelan government is using crypt...

Turkish state media reports that Faruk Fatih Ozer, the former CEO of failed crypto exchange Thodex, has been found dead in his prison cell (Baris Balci/Bloomberg)

Turkish state media reports that Faruk Fatih Ozer, the ...

Baris Balci / Bloomberg: Turkish state media reports that Faruk Fatih Ozer, the ...

Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet&powered unmanned drone, flying it "semi&autonomously", as the US Air Force plans swarms of unmanned jet drones (David Jeans/Reuters)

Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet&powered un...

David Jeans / Reuters: Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unma...

ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast available on host Pat McAfee's X account, as Disney and YouTube TV continue to spar over a new carriage deal (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast availab...

Brian Steinberg / Variety: ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast avail...

Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, letting them keep the debt off their balance sheets (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs ...

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPV...

New York&based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform for government agencies to offer services like utility billing, raised a $21M Series A led by NEA (Chris Metinko/Axios)

New York&based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platfo...

Chris Metinko / Axios: New York-based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform...

Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin infra startup BVNK in a ~$2B deal; Coinbase expects to close the deal later this year or early 2026 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablec...

Bloomberg: Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin infra star...

Sources: ex&xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B at a $5B valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that is better at collaborating with humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Sources: ex&xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B...

Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: ex-xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B at a...

Perplexity launches a free AI&powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Perplexity launches a free AI&powered patent research t...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research too...

Pony.ai becomes the first company to receive a citywide robotaxi permit for Shenzhen, allowing self&driving taxis to operate beyond pilot zones (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Pony.ai becomes the first company to receive a citywide...

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Pony.ai becomes the first company to receive a citywide rob...

Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $562M, vs. $544.6M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue of $589M, vs. $580M est.; NET jumps 9%+ after hours (Reinhardt Krause/Investor's Business ...)

Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $562M, vs. ...

Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily: Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 3...

Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.3B vs. $1.25B est., forecasts Q4 sales above est., agrees to buy identity platform Stytch; TWLO jumps 8%+ after hours (Chris Ciaccia/Seeking Alpha)

Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.3B vs. $1.25...

Chris Ciaccia / Seeking Alpha: Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.3B vs....

OpenAI starts to sell extra credits for Sora, which currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day; 10 video gens will retail for $4 through Apple's App Store (Anna Washenko/Engadget)

OpenAI starts to sell extra credits for Sora, which cur...

Anna Washenko / Engadget: OpenAI starts to sell extra credits for Sora, which cu...

Trump&Xi summit yields tariff cut, one&year deal on rare earth minerals

Trump&Xi summit yields tariff cut, one&year deal on rar...

A rare meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping i...

Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth" and AI Mode has 75M DAUs (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)

Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the firs...

Kendra Barnett / Adweek: Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the firs...

Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 48% YoY to $1.36B, DAUs up 70% YoY to 151.5M, above 132.3M est., and bookings up 70% YoY to $1.9B, above $1.7B est. (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 48% YoY to $1.36B, DAUs up...

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 48% YoY to $1.36B,...

OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including "character cameos" to create AI deepfakes of pets, illustrations, and more, clip stitching, and leaderboards (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including "charact...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including “cha...

Crypto media company Blockworks is closing its newsroom, launched in 2021, and will focus on software and data, continuing its main newsletters and podcasts (Pooja Rajkumari/TheStreet)

Crypto media company Blockworks is closing its newsroom...

Pooja Rajkumari / TheStreet: Crypto media company Blockworks is closing its news...

Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.51B, Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 1% (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.5...

Jennifer Maas / Variety: Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.5...

Sources: OpenAI is preparing for an IPO that could value it at ~$1T and has looked at raising $60B+, filing as soon as H2 2026 and listing in 2027 (Reuters)

Sources: OpenAI is preparing for an IPO that could valu...

Reuters: Sources: OpenAI is preparing for an IPO that could value it at ~$1T and...

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 (Wall Street Journal)

Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies a...

Wall Street Journal: Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are l...

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 (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Internal memo: Amazon makes "significant role reduction...

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Internal memo: Amazon makes “significant role reduct...

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 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

IBM releases four open&source Granite 4.0 Nano AI model...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI mo...

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)

During Nvidia's first ever GTC conference in Washington...

Wall Street Journal: During Nvidia's first ever GTC conference in Washington, DC...

Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as part of operations starting in September to curb cross&border online scams and illegal gambling (Associated Press)

Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October...

Associated Press: Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as ...

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 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook A...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook A...

Musk launches AI&powered Grokipedia to challenge ‘left&biased’ Wikipedia

Musk launches AI&powered Grokipedia to challenge ‘left&...

After months of delays to "purge out the propaganda", Elon Musk on Monday announ...

NXP reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.17B, vs. $3.16B est., automotive revenue flat YoY to $1.83B, and expects above estimates Q4 revenue of $3.20B to $3.40B (Juby Babu/Reuters)

NXP reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.17B, vs. $3.16...

Juby Babu / Reuters: NXP reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.17B, vs. $3.16B es...

Riyadh&based BNPL startup Tabby completes a secondary share sale of existing shareholders' stakes, valuing it at $4.5B ahead of a possible IPO (Reuters)

Riyadh&based BNPL startup Tabby completes a secondary s...

Reuters: Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby completes a secondary share sale of exi...

EU officials are scrambling to resolve a growing trade clash with China over rare earths and chips, as the bloc gets caught between Beijing and Washington (Financial Times)

EU officials are scrambling to resolve a growing trade ...

Financial Times: EU officials are scrambling to resolve a growing trade clash wi...

Sources: SAP is considering a new bid for accounting software company BlackLine, after its previous bid of nearly $4.5B was rejected in June (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

Sources: SAP is considering a new bid for accounting so...

Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: SAP is considering a new bid for accounting soft...

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