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As part of the AWS deal, OpenAI says it will immediately begin running workloads on AWS infrastructure, tapping hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs in the US (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/open-ai-amazon-aws-cloud-deal.html

Amazon closes at record after $38 billion OpenAI deal with AWS
OpenAI will immediately begin tapping Nvidia's AI processors using infrastructure from Amazon Web Services.

Die Räntän sinn sischa. 🤪
#Altersrente

Altersvorsorge: Vertrauen in die Rente ist bei Mehrheit der Bevölkerung gering
Viele Menschen zweifeln daran, ob sie mit der gesetzlichen Rente ihren Lebensstandard halten können. Das zeigen die Ergebnisse des diesjährigen "Altersvorsorge-Reports".

from my link log —
Homotopy type theory for dummies.
http://www.chriswarbo.net/blog/2015-09-11-hott_for_dummies.html
saved 2025-11-03 …

‘Het is cru, maar Europeanen moeten zorgen dat Oekraïne het gevecht levert, zodat de oorlog dššr blijft en niet hier komt’ - NRC
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/02/europeanen-moeten-zorgen-dat-oekraine-het-gevecht-levert-zodat-de-oorlog-daar-blijft-en-niet-hier-komt-a4910300#/krant/2025/11/03/#110
Waarschijnlijk is het meest cruciale punt om de (Europese) Navo te laten overleven wel de betere samenwerking in de productie en ontwikkeling van wapens en munitie in Europa.
Naar mate de oorlog in Oekraïne langer duurt, worden die banden verstevigd.
Een belangrijk interview over de staat van de NAVO, de EU en geopolitiek.
(Via @… )

Umfrage: Chips aus Europa dürften nur wenig teurer sein
Wieviel mehr wären Unternehmen bereit, für sicherere Chiplieferketten auszugeben? Die Antwort darauf ist eindeutig.
https://www.h…

"Greece still buries nearly 80% of its waste despite billions spent and bins everywhere"
#Greece #Environment

Why does Greece continues to bury its rubbish and recycle very little?
The waste problem is particularly critical in Athens and the wider area of the Greek capital.

Here we go again ... Jared #Isaacman has been nominated for NASA Administrator a second time: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/04/trump-nominates-isaacman-nasa-administrator-00636497 and
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/trump-will-re-nominate-isaacman-for-nasa-administrator/. Also https://x.com/rookisaacman/status/1985796145017471442 = a looong statement by him about his leaked document (the 'Athena' plan) mentioned e.g. in https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/capitol-hill-is-abuzz-with-talk-of-the-athena-plan-for-nasa/ and https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/03/jared-isaacman-confidential-manifesto-nasa-00633858

Democrats win big on Election Night: Mamdani, Sherrill, Spanberger [and Prop 50]
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/democrats-trump-us-elections-mamdani-sherrill-spanberger.html

“They stood in a silence so heavy it seemed to bend the light around them.
Their smiles were hesitant — like doors that had forgotten how to open. And in that moment, I realized: freedom itself can be fragile.
We who survived war thought we had endured the worst — the bombs, the hunger, the endless waiting. But their stories shattered that belief.”
– @…

When I heard the prisoners were to be released, a fragile pulse stirred inside...
They stood in a silence so heavy it seemed to bend the light around them. Their smiles were hesitant — like doors that had forgotten how to open. And in that moment, I realized: freedom itself can be fragile. We who survived war thought we had endured the worst — the bombs, the hunger, the endless waiting. But their stories shattered that belief. They spoke of nights drenched in cold water while they slept, of wrists bound until flesh gave way, of blows that d...

Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to €4.3B, above €4.23B est., subscribers up 12% YoY to 281M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 713M, and a €582M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/spoti…

NATO and the drones. This weekend, drones were flying spy missions over a Belgian Air Force base. Said the country's Defense Minister: "A helicopter and police vehicles chased the drone, but lost it after several kilometers.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/02/…

Drones spotted above Belgian airbase were ‘spying’ on military planes, defense minister says
Several drones spotted above a Belgian airbase over the weekend were there “to spy” on military fighter jets, the country’s defense minister said Sunday, at a time when European nations are on high alert for airspace intrusions.

How Europe plans to phase out Russian oil and gas, explained: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/how-europe-plans-to-phase.html

Anyway, back the Kickstarter for this book because I have selfish reasons for it to succeed (I want to read it!)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere

Hackers steal data, extort $350,000 from massage parlor clients
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-11-03/national/socialAffairs/Hackers-steal-data-extort-350000-from-massage-parlor-cli…

Hackers steal data, extort $350,000 from massage parlor clients
Police have arrested members of a hacking and phishing crime ring that stole data from massage parlor owner phones in order to scam their clients out of millions of won by threatening to release nonexistent “massage videos” if they didn't pay.

A beer the the first person to sneak an image of a massive dildo past the censors and onto this Christmas tree display by Apple… https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2025/11/apple-invites-the-uk-to-participate-in-your-tree-on-bat…

Apple invites the UK to participate in Your Tree on Battersea and express creativity on iPad this Christmas
Apple invites the UK to express their creativity on iPad in honour of Your Tree on Battersea, a new Christmas tree drawing competition.

¡AC/DC vuelve a Chile en 2026! La banda confirmó su regreso a Santiago con la gira "Power Up"
Agendaron el 11 de marzo en el Parque Estadio Nacional. Los acompañarš la banda The Pretty Reckless. La venta de entradas comienza el 7 de vuelve a las 10:00 por ticketmaster.

THIS. What @… said.
With your up-to-date hours, phone number, address, and menu. Right at the danged top where I can find them. That’s it. That is all I need.
And sure, put your carousel with food porn photos underneath if you really must. Whatever. I do not care.
https://mastodon.social/@Sadsquatch/115487996081932738

Last night was the second anniversary of the time that somebody hit-and-run -ed my house, destroying the gas main riser and sending me out in the pouring rain and dark, barefoot, to hold the roaring gas leak closed with my palm like that apocryphal Dutch kid and the dam.
https://westseattleb…

UPDATE: Gas-leak response after hit-run driver crashes into house
9:18 PM: Avoid the area of 37th/100th in Arbor Heights for a while - a driver hit a house and a natural-gas leak is reported to have resulted. Police have blocked off 37th. They are telling dispatch it's a hit-and-run - the driver subsequently took off. So far the vehicle is described only as

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This is brilliant
https://mastodon.social/@rustfoundation/115492388036662578

Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to €4.3B, above €4.23B est., subscribers up 12% YoY to 281M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 713M, and a €582M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/spoti…

Disney und Epic kooperieren für "Simpsons"-Monat in "Fortnite"
Epic Games und Disney veranstalten im November ein Crossover-Event von "Die Simpsons" und "Fortnite". Auf Disney erscheinen dazu vier Kurzvideos.

Belgium shuts down Brussels Airport due to suspicious drone sighting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/belgium-shuts-down-brussels-airport.html

from my link log —
Why doesn’t Isabelle use dependent types?
https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/11/02/Why-not-dependent.html
saved 2025-11-02

MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria is stepping down after 11 years, replaced by Cloudflare President of Product & Engineering Chirantan Desai, effective November 10 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/mongodb-ceo-dev-ittycher…

MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria steps down, replaced by Cloudflare executive CJ Desai
Dev Ittycheria, who took MongoDB public in 2017, is leaving the CEO role but will stay on the company's board.

Decision Desk is calling it for Mamdani 3 minutes after polls closed...

Morgen geht's im #Digitalausschuss übrigens um den Haushalt des Ministeriums im nächsten Jahr, und um den #DigitalServicesCoordinator #DSC ( =Umsetzung des

Steht TP-Link das gleiche Schicksal wie Huawei bevor? 🚫 Wie die Washington Post berichtet, unterstützen mehr als ein halbes Dutzend US-Bundesbehörden einen Vorschlag zum Verkaufsverbot von TP-Link-Routern in den USA.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10964555?wt_…

Hong Kong-based crypto investor Animoca Brands plans to list on the Nasdaq via a reverse merger with Currenc Group, set to close in 2026 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-03/animoca-brands-pla…

Ukrainian counterattacks around Pokrovsk blunt Russia’s advance: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/ukrainian-counterattacks-around-pokrovsk-blunt.html

Sehr (bitter) gelacht.
Die lange erwartete empirische Studie zu geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt, die erste seit 2004, lässt weiter auf sich warten. 2023 hieß es "Erste Ergebnisse werden 2025 erwartet".
Aktuell will sich das Ministerium gar nicht mehr festlegen.
https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/…

Xi Jinping joked about security backdoors when presenting South Korean President Lee Jae Myung with Xiaomi smartphones at APEC, amid US concerns about Huawei (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-03/xi-…

arXiv ändert Regeln – KI-Studien zwischen Pre-Prints
arXiv.org muss sich gegen AI-Slop und Fake-Studien wehren. Künftig müssen Review-Artikel und Positionspapiere einen Peer-Review-Prozess durchlaufen haben.
https://www…

Putin in shock: Romania gets weapons nearly free, Russians face tribunal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/putin-in-shock-romania-gets.html

„Bereits als in der Schülerzeitung im Vorfeld des Besuchs zu Protest aufgerufen worden war, petzte die Schulleitung bei der #Bundeswehr.
Dann kam das Meme, eine Lehrerin holte Bentik aus dem Unterricht, drohte ihm mit Verweisen und der Schuldirektor wird gegen seinen eigenen Schüler vor Gericht aussagen.“
Protest gegen Bundeswehr an Schulen – Angell Gymnasium in

"Walk Me": Toyota zeigt laufenden Roboterstuhl
"Walk Me" soll Menschen auf vier Beinen transportieren, die nicht mehr so gut laufen können. Der Roboterstuhl funktioniert zwar, ist jedoch noch eine Studie.
ht…

NY-based Teleskope, which offers smaller LLMs fine-tuned for specific security problems, raised a $25M Series A led by M13, taking its total funding to $32.2M (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/03/former-airbnb-engin…

Former Airbnb engineer raises $25 million for AI security platform Teleskope
M13 led the Series A for the New York-based startup with participation from M13 and Lerer Hippeau.

CLOSER TO THE EU! Ukraine is fighting for freedom on all fronts! | NEWS PULSE: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/closer-to-the-eu-ukraine.html

Way to go.
"The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has walked away from a $1.5 million government grant and you can blame the Trump administration's war on woke for effectively weakening some open source security."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/pyt

TikTok announces its first ever TikTok Awards show in the US; the live event will take place on December 18 and will be streamed on the TikTok app and on Tubi (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/tiktok-announces-its-first-awards-show…

TikTok announces its first awards show in the US | TechCrunch
The awards will include "Creator of the Year," "Video of the Year," "Muse of the Year," "Breakthrough Artist of the Year," and more.

Aluminium: Ein US-Startup will alte Dosen in Wärme und Wasserstoff verwandeln
Das Startup Found Energy meint, mit Aluminiumabfällen einen vielversprechenden Weg gefunden zu haben, industrielle Prozesse ohne Öl und Gas zu betreiben.

Russia ends seasonal draft model, moves to year-round conscription from 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/russia-ends-seasonal-draft-model.html

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs prices its IPO at $2 to $2.5/share, valuing it at $2.9B at the top end of the range, down from a $5B valuation in 2022 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/pine…

Pine Labs aims to take Indian fintech global even as it cuts valuation for IPO | TechCrunch
The Indian fintech already has a presence in 20 countries worldwide.

„Das Unternehmen bestätigte Zahlen der „Süddeutschen Zeitung“, wonach nur knapp 52 Prozent aller Fernzüge ohne größere Verzögerungen ans Ziel kamen. Ein schlechterer Monatswert ist bisher nicht bekannt.“
Ich würde gern mit Ihnen darüber sprechen, ob Privatisierung (= Zwang, Profit zu machen) von Daseinsvorge wirklich so eine gute Idee ist

Cyber-Resilienz im Fokus: IT-Sicherheitstag Gelsenkirchen
Am 18. November diskutieren Profis in Gelsenkirchen, wie Unternehmen ihre IT gegen immer intelligentere Cyberangriffe stärken können.
https://www.

Alphabet's X is increasingly spinning out independent companies via a dedicated Series X Capital fund, which has raised $500M with a minority Alphabet stake (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/alph

Alphabet is increasingly launching "moonshot" projects as independent companies -- here's why | TechCrunch
Despite the emphasis on detachment from ideas, X employees do have significant skin in the game when projects spin out.

Returning home, photographer Yelena Yemchuk finds beauty in a country at war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/returning-home-photographer-yelena-yemchuk.html

Das Spardiktat von CDU und SPD reduziert die Zahl der Studienplätze in Berlin um 14 Prozent.
Wow.
Diese große Sorge um junge Menschen während der Pandemie hat nicht lange gehalten.
Wissenschaft – Kürzungen an Berliner Unis: Zähneknirschend unterschreiben | nd-aktuell.de

Microsoft signs a five-year, ~$9.7B deal to buy AI cloud capacity from Sydney-based IREN, giving Microsoft access to Nvidia's GB300 in IREN's Texas facility (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Explosions reported in Russia's Oryol Oblast — residents claim missile attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/05/explosions-reported-in-russias-oryol.html

Proofpoint says it has "high confidence" that hackers are working with organized crime groups to infiltrate trucking and freight companies to steal cargo (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Russian Victory" – MYTH: Putin's illusions distort reality, Russia's losses are mounting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/190049.html

How Portugal is investing ~4.6% of its GDP around the port of Sines, seeking to transform it from a tourism-dependent economy to a tech and industrial hub (Sofia Horta e Costa/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ukrainian drones hit Russian refineries in Bashkortostan and Kstovo, sparking fires: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/ukrainian-drones-hit-russian-refineries.html

A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which scraped billions of web pages since 2013, including paywalled articles, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/202

Common Crawl Is Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

Russia's seaborne oil exports see sharpest fall since early 2024 after new US sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/russias-seaborne-oil-exports-see.html

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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/super-micro-sh…

Ukraine’s military intelligence opens ground corridor in Pokrovsk to improve logistics: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/ukraines-military-intelligence-opens-ground.html

Some podcasters are embracing AI voice clones from ElevenLabs and other startups, aiming to augment, translate episodes, and even replace in-studio performances (Reggie Ugwu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/arts/podcast-ai-voices-clones.html…

For Podcasters, a Voice Clone Is a Double-Edged Sword
Are A.I. replicas a boon for productivity or a betrayal of the bond with listeners?

POKROVSK IS UNCONQUERED! Russia fails to break through Ukrainian defenses! | Map of the War: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/05/pokrovsk-is-unconquered-russia-fails.html

Goldman Sachs: just 33 US counties accounted for 72% of all US data center capacity as of July; places like Umatilla have been transformed by an AWS build-out (David Uberti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/w…

Ukraine is moving towards EU membership faster than expected, according to EU Commission report: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/ukraine-is-moving-towards-eu.html

Crypto.com strikes a deal with Hollywood.com to let users make predictions related to movies, actors, shows, and awards (Rob Golum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-03/crypto-com-teams-up-for-bets-on-holl…

Leaked documents reveal sanctions and tech shortages crippling Russia’s Su-57 and PAK DA programs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/leaked-documents-reveal-sanctions-and.html

Sources: WeRide is set to raise ~$308M in its Hong Kong listing, planning to price shares at ~$3.48, representing a ~4% discount to its Monday Nasdaq close (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/weride…

Ukrainian prosecutors accused of using force against operative amid conflict with anti-graft agency: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/ukrainian-prosecutors-accused-of-using.html

Cisco launches Unified Edge, an all-in-one system to help retail stores, health care facilities, and factories use AI with a single equipment rack (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-03/cis…

Albatros-M warship burns in Sevastopol, one of only four in Russia’s Black Sea Fleet used to track drones: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/albatrosm-warship-burns-in-sevastopol.html

AWS says it is developing the Fastnet subsea cable to connect Maryland and Ireland, aiming to launch by 2028 with a capacity of 320Tbps and buried ~1.5m deep (Emily Forlini/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-equips-next-underwater-ca…

Video shows Russian drone killing white flag-waving civilians and dog, Ukraine opens war crimes investigation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/video-shows-russian-drone-killing.html

Russia's Oreshnik missile enters serial production, Putin claims — nearly 1 year after promising to mass produce weapon: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/russias-oreshnik-missile-enters-serial.html

Apple launches the App Store on the web, with dedicated pages for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, TV, Watch, and Vision (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/03/apple-launches-rich-new-web-interface-for-the-app-store/

Apple launches rich new web interface for the App Store - 9to5Mac
Apple has launched a dramatic new web interface for the App Store. You can now get the full App Store...

Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of "bullying" after receiving "an aggressive legal threat" demanding Comet not make purchases on users' behalf (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/perplexity-ai-amazon-bullying-comet-browser.html

Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of bullying with legal threat over Comet browser
Amazon wants Perplexity to prevent its users from using its AI browser called Comet to make purchases on their behalf.

❗️ZELENSKYY visited POKROVSK DIRECTION #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/zelenskyy-visited-pokrovsk-direction-shorts.html

Sequoia announces that Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will be elevated to firm stewards, succeeding Roelof Botha, who led Sequoia solo since 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/sequoia-capital-roelof-botha-pat-grady-alfred-lin

Sequoia Capital transitions to new leadership
Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will become Sequoia's new stewards.

NATO's new plan: tanks will cross European borders without stopping! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/natos-new-plan-tanks-will.html

Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 63% YoY to $1.18B, vs. $1.09B est., US government revenue up 52% to $486M, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/palantir-pltr-q3-earnings-2025.html

Palantir tops estimates, boosts fourth-quarter guidance on AI adoption
Palantir's earnings topped third-quarter results and the company issued strong guidance, attributing much of its rapid growth to artificial intelligence.

❗️ZELENSKYY: "The Russians would like to win, but that will never happen!" #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/zelenskyy-ampquotthe-russians-would-like.html

WhatsApp launches an Apple Watch companion app, letting users get call notifications, read full messages, and record and send voice messages (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/whatsapp-launches-long-awaited-apple-watch-app/…

WhatsApp launches long-awaited Apple Watch app | TechCrunch
For the first time, WhatsApp users will be able to use their Apple Watch to get call notifications, read full messages, record and send voice messages, and view media content more clearly.

💣 Putin threatens with nuclear weapons again – "Burevestnik" and "Poseidon" #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/putin-threatens-with-nuclear-weapons.html…

Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $1.05B, MAUs up 12% to 600M, vs. 590M est., but forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; PINS drops 13% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/pinterest-pins-q3-earnings-report-2025.html

Pinterest shares plummet 15% on earnings miss, weak forecast
Pinterest shares tanked on Tuesday after the company reported third-quarter financial results that missed on earnings per share and provided weak guidance.

🇺🇸 US Ambassador to NATO visits Kyiv: support for Ukraine and the path to peace #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/us-ambassador-to-nato-visits.html

Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 9% , Advantest 7% (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/softbank-ai-stocks-slide-on-valuation-jitters-.ht…

SoftBank shares plunge 10% as Asian AI-linked stocks slide on valuation jitters
The AI-led rally has pushed the S&P 500's forward P/E above 23—its highest since 2000, according to FactSet.

Spotify says it now has nearly 500K video podcasts and more than 390M users have now streamed a video podcast on its platform, up 54% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/spotify-now-has-half-a-mi…

Spotify now has half a million video podcasts, which nearly 400M users have watched | TechCrunch
Spotify says that users' time spent with video content on Spotify has also more than doubled year-over-year, largely driven by video podcasts.

Nintendo reports Q2 revenue of $3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., and net profit of ~$667M, vs. ~$412M est.; it now expects 19M Switch 2 sales by March 2026, up from 15M (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/nintendo-raises-switch-2-sales-fo…

Nintendo hikes Switch 2 sales forecast to 19 million units as flagship console momentum grows
Nintendo is riding a wave of momentum after launching its latest console called the Switch 2.

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)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/busines

Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars
Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, A.I. chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators.

Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics, which is building AI models to enable human-like robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks, raised a $16M seed (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/04/mimic-raises-16m-build-a…

Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands - SiliconANGLE
Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands - SiliconANGLE

Apple says Live Translation on AirPods will expand to the EU next month; the first iOS 26.2 beta, seeded to developers on Tuesday, brings the feature to the EU (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/04/ios-26-2-expands-live-transl…

iOS 26.2 Expands Live Translation on AirPods to EU
The upcoming iOS 26.2 update for iPhone makes the Live Translation feature on select AirPods available in the EU, according to Apple. The news was...

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/goldm…

Goldman Sachs doubles down on MoEngage in new round to fuel global expansion | TechCrunch
MoEngage already has customers across 75 countries, with North America being its biggest business driver.

Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical adviser (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/nvid

NVIDIA, Qualcomm join U.S., Indian VCs to help build India's next deep tech startups | TechCrunch
Qualcomm Ventures has joined six Indian venture firms, collectively adding more than $850 million to boost India’s deep-tech ecosystem.

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)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/reddit-and-kick-added-to-c…

Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban
Reddit and Kick will be included in the world-first social media ban for children under 16, which begins next month.

Google unveils Project Suncatcher to launch two solar-powered satellites, each with four TPUs, into low Earth orbit in 2027, as it seeks to scale AI compute (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/04/2025/google-wants-…

Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space
The tech giant released a paper Tuesday outlining plans to launch its AI chips into low-earth orbit, allowing them to run off solar power.

Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the agency's long-term cyber capabilities (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/11/lea

A leadership vacuum and staff cuts threaten NSA morale, operational strength
The signals intelligence giant has halted recruitment for its Legal Honors Program, two people familiar say, slowing inflow of top legal talent. Other long-term capabilities are at risk.

Bitcoin dropped below $100K for the first time since June on Tuesday; ETH also fell as much as 15% on Tuesday, and many altcoins are down 50% this year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/bitc…

Bitcoin (BTC) Falls Below $100,000 With Risk Appetite Muted After Wipeout
Bitcoin has wiped out its summer rally, giving back gains made during Wall Street’s euphoric embrace and a surge in institutional buying.

Microsoft plans to spend $7.9B on data centers, cloud, and staff in the UAE over the next four years, taking its total UAE investment to $15B from 2023 to 2029 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11…

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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $2.84B, vs. $2.76B est., GMV up 32% YoY to $92B, and expects Q4 revenue up in the mid-to-high 20% range, vs. 23.4% est. (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

The UK's High Court rules against Getty in its lawsuit against Stability AI over its image generator; the judge calls the ruling "extremely limited in scope" (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustaina…

The UK CMA says it will launch an in-depth investigation into Getty and Shutterstock's proposed merger after their proposed remedies failed to address concerns (Raechel Thankam Job/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/susta…