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Nvidia says it is donating the Vera Rubin NVL144 server rack architecture to the Open Compute Project and outlines its vision for "gigawatt AI factories" (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/13/nv

Nvidia unveils its vision for gigawatt 'AI factories' based on its Vera Rubin architecture - SiliconANGLE
Nvidia unveils its vision for gigawatt 'AI factories' based on its Vera Rubin architecture - SiliconANGLE

"Unknown UAVs" – Russia conceals its INVASION into Europe! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/ampquotunknown-uavsampquot-russia-conceals-its.html…

Trump has said he is ready to impose sanctions on Moscow,
-- but on the condition that all Nato allies agree to completely halt purchases of Russian oil and other implement their own sanctions.
He also suggested members of the transatlantic alliance consider imposing tariffs of 50% to 100% on China for its purchases of Russian petroleum as a way to help end the war.
Turkey, a Nato member, is the third largest buyer of Russia’s oil products, after China and India, according …

TikTok launches Bulletin board, which lets brands and creators share public, one-to-many messages to their followers, similar to Instagram's broadcast channels (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/tiktok-launches-i…

TikTok launches its own version of Instagram's broadcast channels | TechCrunch
TikTok is rolling out “bulletin board,” a new one-to-many messaging feature that mirrors Instagram’s broadcast channels. The tool lets creators and brands share text, images, and videos directly with followers.

"Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows
A new study that mapped the portfolios of the world’s 250 biggest oil and gas companies found their deployment of renewable energy is paltry: they’re responsible for just 1.42% of the global renewable energy capacity in operation. Despite announcing ambitious plans to embrace renewables, a mere 0.1% of the primary energy they produce comes from […]

Charlie Kirk Probably Deserved To Die by Rachel Donald
In its quest for empathy, the Left has lost its moral clarity
#CharlieKirk

Charlie Kirk Probably Deserved To Die
In its quest for empathy, the Left has lost its moral clarity

Costco to stop selling abortion pill mifepristone at its US pharmacy stores (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/costco-stop-selling-abortion-pill-mifepristone-its-us-pharmacy-stores-2025-08-14/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p130#a250814p130

Please, think of the hungry kitties. Cats are known to wither away if feeding time is missed by less than 5 minutes. 😭

X replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-is

X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling
X has finally revealed its long-promised chat platform, which replaces the service's basic DM functionality with features more like the messaging...

I just discovered something wonderful (for anyone with an HBO streaming subscription)
https://www.hbomax.com/shows/how-its-made/ef833c95-bddf-4204-8e34-bc231327ec4a

Watch How It's Made | HBO Max
Watch How It's Made on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. Explore the fascinating world of how everyday items are manufactured and produced. From aluminum foil to contact lenses, discover how many of the things we buy and use are made.

Deloitte announced plans to roll out Anthropic’s chatbot Claude to its nearly 500,000 global employees on Monday. So maybe you don't want to use GenAI, but your consultant or accountant will....
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/delo

Deloitte goes all in on AI — despite having to issue a hefty refund for use of AI | TechCrunch
Deloitte is rolling out Claude to its nearly 500,000 employees after issuing a refund for a report that contained AI hallucinations.

A new question for your pub quiz:
Which AI company did Nvidia not invest in?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/12/nvidias-ai-empire-a-look-at-its-top-startup-investments/

Nvidia's AI empire: A look at its top startup investments | TechCrunch
Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 100 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments.

Bitcoin Cross-Chain Bridge: A Taxonomy and Its Promise in Artificial Intelligence of Things
Guojun Tang, Carylyne Chan, Ning Nan, Spencer Yang, Jiayu Zhou, Henry Leung, Mohammad Mamun, Steve Drew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10413

Bitcoin Cross-Chain Bridge: A Taxonomy and Its Promise in Artificial Intelligence of Things
Bitcoin's limited scripting capabilities and lack of native interoperability mechanisms have constrained its integration into the broader blockchain ecosystem, especially decentralized finance (DeFi) and multi-chain applications. This paper presents a comprehensive taxonomy of Bitcoin cross-chain bridge protocols, systematically analyzing their trust assumptions, performance characteristics, and applicability to the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) scenarios. We categorize bridge design…

OpenAI has made a decision to encourage its users to form a parasocial relationship with ChatGPT. It's gross and dangerous. Also just not useful for serious use. But it will make their users more loyal and encourage psychological dependency.
GPT‑5.1 Instant, ChatGPT’s most used model, is now warmer by default and more conversational. Based on early testing, it often surprises people with its playfulness while remaining clear and useful.
(I really like ChatGPT and use it all the time. But this change is the exact opposite of what I want.)

⛳ Novel textile can adjust its aerodynamic properties on demand
#fabric

Novel textile can adjust its aerodynamic properties on demand
Imagine a road cyclist or downhill skier whose clothing adapts to their wind speed, allowing them to shave time just by pulling or stretching the fabric.

At Least It’s Not Monday: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/10/14/at-least-its-not-monday.html

At Least It’s Not Monday
Mind you, it could be. Same long work day, same dreary grey …

🇪🇺 🇷🇴 #Romania has strongly condemned the entry of a Russian drone into its airspace during an attack on neighbouring Ukraine, saying Moscow’s actions pose a “new challenge” to Black Sea security.
[…] The #EU’s foreign policy chief, @…

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/openai-says-its-fixed-chatgpts-em-dash-problem/

OpenAI says it's fixed ChatGPT's em dash problem | TechCrunch
OpenAI says users can now personalize ChatGPT to stop using the em dash in its output.

Atomistic Description of Spin Crossover Under Pressure and its Giant Barocaloric Effect
S. Vela, J. Ribas-Ari\~no, S. P. Vallone, A. M. dos Santos, M. A. Halcrow, K. G. Sandeman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10334

Atomistic Description of Spin Crossover Under Pressure and its Giant Barocaloric Effect
The pressure-dependent evolution of the spin crossover (SCO) transition has garnered significant interest due to its connection to the giant barocaloric effect (BCE) near room temperature. Pressure alters both the molecular and solid-state structures of SCO materials, affecting the relative stability of low- and high-spin states and, consequently, the transition temperature ($T_{1/2}$). Crucially, the shape of the $T_{1/2}$ vs. pressure curve dictates the magnitude of the BCE, making its accura…

Brazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours. | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/200428/brazil-bolsonaro-trump-coup-constitution

Brazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours.
Brazil barred Bolsonaro from running again and is sending him to jail. Other countries have done it, too. Why is the United States a unique failure?

Vendi Information Gain for Active Learning and its Application to Ecology
Quan Nguyen, Adji Bousso Dieng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10390 https://arxiv.org…

Vendi Information Gain for Active Learning and its Application to Ecology
While monitoring biodiversity through camera traps has become an important endeavor for ecological research, identifying species in the captured image data remains a major bottleneck due to limited labeling resources. Active learning -- a machine learning paradigm that selects the most informative data to label and train a predictive model -- offers a promising solution, but typically focuses on uncertainty in the individual predictions without considering uncertainty across the entire dataset.…

Sunflower Chimney bee (Diadasia enavata — according to iNaturalist) on a Sunflower. Chimney bees are solitary, ground dwelling pollinators common to Central and North America. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. September,2025. #laarboretum #bee

I sure hope Nvidia is using their own chips to model when their bubble will burst and are informed about what to do when chip demand screeches to a near-halt…
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/softbank-sells-its-entire-stake-in-nvidia-for-5po…

SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion
SoftBank is looking to capitalize on its "all in" bet on ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

Asteroseismic calibration of the Rossby number and its connection to the stellar dynamo and fundamental properties
Alfio Bonanno, Enrico Corsaro, Travis S. Metcalfe, Sylvain Breton, Orlagh L. Creevey, Christopher J. Lindsay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12471

Asteroseismic calibration of the Rossby number and its connection to the stellar dynamo and fundamental properties
The stellar Rossby number, a dimensionless parameter quantifying the influence of Coriolis forces on convective motions, plays a pivotal role in understanding magnetic stellar evolution. In this work, we explore the connection between the Rossby number and potential dynamo mechanisms in Sun-like stars, as well as its dependence on fundamental stellar properties. We present a novel, detailed asteroseismic calibration of the convective turnover time, incorporating for the first time Gaia photomet…

Remember the Photoshop competitor that didn't require a monthly subscription? #AffinityPhoto
You can no longer download/purchase their software and they are giving away the iPad version for free until the end of the month. And they are teasing something "big" coming up with a bunch of marketing-speak. Whenever a company talks about freedom, be weary.

Characterization of groupoid categories in terms of its category of $\mathcal{C}$-sets
J. Miguel Calder\'on, Alberto Gerardo Raggi-C\'ardenas, Itzel Rosas, Ram\'on H. Ruiz-Medina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10162

Characterization of groupoid categories in terms of its category of $\mathcal{C}$-sets
A $\mathcal{C}$-set is a functor from the category $\mathcal{C}$ to the category of finite sets and functions. The category of $\mathcal{C}$-sets, $\mathcal{C} - \operatorname*{set}$, is defined as the category whose objects are $\mathcal{C}$-sets, and whose morphisms are natural transformations between them. In this document we provide some concise characterizations of groupoids in terms of their category of $\mathcal{C}$-sets.

Die Konsequenz müsste sein, neue (Informations-)Technologien bei der Einführung viel stärker zu kontrollieren und Konsequenzen für die Gesellschaft zu prüfen, statt jeden neuen Schritt zu bejubeln.
Die Bundesregierung will das Gegenteil: Noch mehr Freiheiten ('Bürokratieabbau') für 'Innovationen'. Politik für Unternehmen, nicht fürs Gemeinwohl.
Shock Report: Meta’s AI Rules Have Let Bots Hold ‘Sensual’ Chats With Kids, Offer False Medical Info

Albania Digs Up a Roman Noble’s Tomb–the First of its Kind Ever Found in the Country https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/albania-digs-up-a-roman-nobles-tomb-the-first-of-its-kind-ever-found-in-the-country/

Albania Digs Up a Roman Noble's Tomb–the First of its Kind Ever Found in the Country
Part of the Empire's territory for 600 years, the south Balkan country has never dug up anything like the 29 by 19 foot long tomb.

Raiders mailbag: Why hasn’t team paid its top receiver yet? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-mailbag-why-hasnt-team-paid-its-top-receiver-yet-3441239/

On the Use of Hierarchical Vision Foundation Models for Low-Cost Human Mesh Recovery and Pose Estimation
Shuhei Tarashima, Yushan Wang, Norio Tagawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12660

On the Use of Hierarchical Vision Foundation Models for Low-Cost Human Mesh Recovery and Pose Estimation
In this work, we aim to develop simple and efficient models for human mesh recovery (HMR) and its predecessor task, human pose estimation (HPE). State-of-the-art HMR methods, such as HMR2.0 and its successors, rely on large, non-hierarchical vision transformers as encoders, which are inherited from the corresponding HPE models like ViTPose. To establish baselines across varying computational budgets, we first construct three lightweight HMR2.0 variants by adapting the corresponding ViTPose mode…

Being a kitty is exhausting!

Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
After nearly a decade in limbo and years of negotiations,
a treaty announced in June and set to come into effect over coming months,
will scrap most barriers to travel and trade that went up after Britain’s divorce from the E.U. became official at the end of 2020.

Some 40,000 Gibraltarians will regain what millions of traveling Brits miss most:
the ability to wander unfettered, without passports or time limits, througho…

The Brits who beat Brexit: Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
Nearly a decade after Britain quit the E.U., British residents of Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain, will regain travel and commercial access under a treaty.

Netflix is shifting its video game strategy to focus on popular titles like Pictionary, Boggle, and Tetris, playable on TVs with smartphones as controllers (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/business/media/netflix-video-game-tv.ht…

Netflix Is Bringing Video Games to Users’ TVs
The company is shifting its video game strategy to focus more on popular games you already know, such as Pictionary and Boggle.

Amazon schedules its annual fall hardware event for September 30 in NYC, where it is expected to launch new Echo smart speakers and Kindle devices (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/778008/amazon-fall-hardware-event-…

Amazon announces its fall hardware event
The company will likely launch its latest Echo devices and new Kindles at the September 30th event.

PromptLocate: Localizing Prompt Injection Attacks
Yuqi Jia, Yupei Liu, Zedian Shao, Jinyuan Jia, Neil Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12252 https://arxiv.o…

PromptLocate: Localizing Prompt Injection Attacks
Prompt injection attacks deceive a large language model into completing an attacker-specified task instead of its intended task by contaminating its input data with an injected prompt, which consists of injected instruction(s) and data. Localizing the injected prompt within contaminated data is crucial for post-attack forensic analysis and data recovery. Despite its growing importance, prompt injection localization remains largely unexplored. In this work, we bridge this gap by proposing Prompt…

Human safari in KHERSON: it's still hard to realize! – Zabrisky #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/human-safari-in-kherson-its.html

Qualcomm says its new flagship processor will be called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5; Xiaomi says its 17 series will launch with the chip (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-branding-3597533/

It's official: The 'Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5' will power the next wave of Android flagships
Qualcomm has confirmed that its next flagship SoC will be called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, coming first to the Xiaomi 17 series.

The US right has increased its influence on mainstream media in America in recent weeks,
especially in television news which has been a major target of the Donald Trump administration.
CBS News
– once home to legends of US journalism like Walter Cronkite and Edward R Murrow
– installed a Trump ally as its ombudsman,
weeks after the family of Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest men, and a friend of the US president, sealed control over Paramount, the owner …

Apple says Apple TV streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/13/apple-tv-plus-rebrand/

Apple TV+ Being Rebranded as Apple TV
Buried in its announcement about "F1: The Movie" making its streaming debut on December 12, Apple has also announced that Apple TV+ is being...

CoreWeave's IPO lockup expires Friday for holders of 80% of its Class A shares; its stock plunged 33% in the two days after its Q2 earnings amid selloff fears (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/apple-lob…

A comet's sudden and bright arrival has caught the eye of astronomers around the world.
The newly discovered comet SWAN25B (C/2025 B1) made its first appearance in early September 2025, and although it hasn’t been officially confirmed yet, it’s already turning heads for its brightness and photogenic tail.
https://share.google/Xe…

New comet SWAN25B already bright, but near sunset’s glow

Foxconn's AI server business surged 60% YoY in Q2, surpassing revenue from Apple-related products for the first time, and is projected to grow 170% YoY in Q3 (Lauly Li/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology…

Foxconn's AI server revenue tops its Apple earnings for first time
Milestone reached as uncertainty over tariffs clouds consumer electronics segment

Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/technology/oliver-curt

Firmus Technologies: Oliver Curtis’ AI infrastructure start-up triples valuation to $6 billion
The AI start-up has tripled its valuation in two months, raising a further $500 million from investors to bankroll its massive data centre developments. 

Britain has quietly suspended intelligence cooperation with the US in the Caribbean
because London does not consider the deadly US military campaign against ships accused of drug trafficking to be in line with international law.
That amounts to an extraordinary open fissure in a close working relationship
at a time when the US is increasing its military buildup,
expanding its controversial campaign in the region with an attempt to threaten Venezuela.

Sources: OpenAI is working with Arm to develop a CPU designed to work with the AI chip OpenAI is developing with Broadcom, which will be manufactured by TSMC (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-working-softbanks-arm-br…

OpenAI Is Working With SoftBank’s Arm on Broadcom AI Chip Effort
OpenAI’s development of its own artificial intelligence chip will benefit SoftBank, one of its biggest shareholders, which is also helping the ChatGPT maker develop and finance its ambitious data center plan. OpenAI is working with SoftBank’s Arm subsidiary to develop a central processing unit ...

Netflix is shifting its video game strategy to focus on popular titles like Pictionary, Boggle, and Tetris, playable on TVs with smartphones as controllers (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/business/media/netflix-video-game-tv.ht…

Netflix Is Bringing Video Games to Users’ TVs
The company is shifting its video game strategy to focus more on popular games you already know, such as Pictionary and Boggle.

Apple debuts its M5 chip, with a 10-core GPU, a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling 4x the performance of M4, and a 10-core CPU with six efficiency cores (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/15/apple-unveils-m5-chip-with-n…

Apple Unveils M5 Chip With Next-Generation GPU
Apple today announced the M5 chip, its next-generation chip for the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro. From Apple's press release: Built...

Ubisoft delays the publication of its H1 financial results and requests the shares be halted from trading until then; its stock is down 49% so far in 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/ubisoft-delays-…

Broadcom closes up 9.88% following the announcement of its custom chip deal with OpenAI; its stock is up over 50% in 2025 after more than doubling in 2024 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/openai-partners-with-bro…

Broadcom stock pops 7% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreements
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to jointly develop and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators starting in 2026.

Sources: Apple plans to build its upcoming indoor security camera, home hub, and tabletop robot in Vietnam as part an effort to lessen its dependence on China (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.c…

India notifies its first data protection law to strengthen privacy, security
India has officially notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, establishing a framework for data processing, protection, and governance. These rules, enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, introduce verifiable consent, breach notification mandates, and data retention limits. They aim to enhance individual control and foster safer digital ecosystems.

Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/14/amazon-layoffs-pxt-hr-andy-jassy/

Amazon is planning a new wave of layoffs, sources say
Amazon's 10,000-plus employee HR division, which includes recruiters, is expected to be among the hardest hit in the job cuts.

Google's Gemini app is the #1 app in the US App Store, driven by its Nano Banana model, which has been used to edit 500M images since its August 26 launch (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/09/13/gemini-top-free-apple-app-store/

Google Gemini is the top free iPhone app
Nano Banana has been a hit for Google, and presumably the reason that Gemini for iPhone is the top free app in the US App Store.

Apple says Apple TV streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/13/apple-tv-plus-rebrand/

Apple TV+ Being Rebranded as Apple TV
Buried in its announcement about "F1: The Movie" making its streaming debut on December 12, Apple has also announced that Apple TV+ is being...

Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Bitfarms says it will wind down its BTC operations and pivot to AI infrastructure after posting a net loss of $46M in Q3 (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/348573/bitfarms-wind-down-bitcoin-mining-pivot-ai-aft…

Bitfarms Will 'Wind Down' Bitcoin Mining and Pivot to AI After $46 Million Loss
Bitcoin miner Bitfarms will end its Bitcoin operations in the coming years, shifting focus to providing infrastructure for growing AI demand.

Sources: Bank of England officials are holding up Revolut's full UK licence over concerns about whether its risk controls can keep pace with its global growth (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4d9eb502-bf18-4dc7-a1b5-5da9f4930d3f

Microsoft officially ends support for Windows 10, which runs on ~40% of Windows PCs per Statcounter; users can enroll in an Extended Security Updates program (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/…

Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deaths
End users can get an extra year of security updates relatively easily.

Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/te

As Tech Leaders Flatter Trump, Anthropic Takes a Cooler Approach
In June, the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic was finally getting close to hiring a candidate—a Republican—for its top government relations jobafter months of searching for someone. That decision marked a shift: Anthropic had hired several former Biden staffers earlier in the year, ...

Mike Novogratz's Galaxy says it has secured $1.4B in debt financing to expand its Helios data center in West Texas, aiming to boost AI and HPC capabilities (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/08/15/galaxy-secur…

GLXY News: Galaxy Lands $1.4B for Helios Data Center Expansion as CoreWeave Commits to 800 MW
The firm, led by Mike Novogratz, projected its deal with AI cloud firm CoreWeave could generate $1 billion annual revenue over 15 years.

Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/thinking-machines-lab…

Thinking Machines Lab wants to make AI models more consistent | TechCrunch
In a blog post shared Wednesday, Mira Murati's startup offered a rare glimpse into some of work its doing to improve AI models.

Opendoor's new chairman Keith Rabois says "I don't know what most" of its 1400 employees do and the company doesn't need "more than 200 of them" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/opendoors-

Opendoor board chair Rabois says company is 'bloated,' needs to cut 85% of workforce
Keith Rabois was named chairman of Opendoor this week and the company, which he co-founded, hired former Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as its new CEO.

Samsung projects Q3 operating profit up 32% YoY to ~$8.47B vs. ~$6.8B est., its biggest quarterly profit in more than three years, as AI development accelerates (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Samsung schedules a "Worlds Wide Open" Galaxy event on October 21 at 10pm ET, where it will provide more information about its Project Moohan headset (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799607/samsung-…

Samsung officially teases Moohan headset launch for next week
Samsung is finally about to reveal more details about its Project Moohan mixed reality headset at a new “Worlds Wide Open” Galaxy event on October 21st.

Sen. Josh Hawley calls for a congressional probe into Meta after a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids; Sen. Marsha Blackburn backs a probe (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/u

Online loans marketplace LendingTree says CEO and Chairman Doug Lebda died at 55 in an ATV accident on his family's farm; Lebda founded LendingTree in 1996 (Ryan Mac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/business/doug-lebda-lendingtree-…

Doug Lebda, LendingTree C.E.O. and Founder, Dies in ATV Accident
LendingTree named its chief operating officer, Scott Peyree, as its new chief executive.

Sources: Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of ~$6B, up from $1.8B in July when it raised a $200M Series A (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

Vibe Coding Startup Lovable In Talks To Raise At $6 Billion Valuation
The Stockholm-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to code apps and websites for its users is in talks to raise a new round at triple its last valuation from just four months ago.

Valve says it has stopped production of its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, which it's "no longer manufacturing", after unveiling the Steam Frame (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/817967/valve-index-vr-hea…

Valve has stopped manufacturing its Index VR headset
Valve is no longer manufacturing the Valve Index VR headset, which it released in 2019. Instead, it’s putting its efforts behind the new Steam Frame.

Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or ~2,000 employees, after completing its $35B acquisition of engineering design firm Ansys earlier in 2025 (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/synopsys-cut…

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveils Agentforce 360, a unified agentic AI stack to connect humans, AI agents, and more, and positions Slack as an "agentic OS" (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce makes its Agentforce 360 case to be your AI agent platform
Salesforce announced a series of product updates, a process intelligence acquisition and an Agentforce 360 architecture designed to make the case that it should orchestrate first and third party AI agents. At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce looked to differentiate itself from what's becoming a crowded agentic AI platform space. The cloud giants are looking to go horizontal with stacks to build, deploy and optimize AI agents. SaaS vendors are expanding into managing AI agents beyond their verticals.…

Wingtech's Shanghai-listed stock plunged its daily limit of 10% after the Dutch government moved to exert control over Nexperia, which it acquired in 2018 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-13/chi…

China’s Wingtech Dives 10% After Dutch Take Control of Chip Unit
Wingtech Technology Co. plunged its daily limit of 10% after the Dutch government moved to exert control over its European unit Nexperia, an unusual move that risks inflaming tensions between China and Europe.

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs launches Marble, its first world model to let users turn prompts, photos, and other media into editable 3D environments, after a beta (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/fei-

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product | TechCrunch
Marble is different from competitors like Odyssey, Decart, and Google's Genie because it creates persistent, downloadable 3D environments rather than generating worlds on-the-fly as you explore.

Google plans to shut down Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to Airtable, in December and directs users to migrate to Google Sheets or AppSheet (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/google-is-shutting-down-tables-its-airtable…

Google is shutting down Tables, its Airtable rival | TechCrunch
Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. The app will not be supported after December 16, 2025.

Salesforce expands its partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their AI models into Agentforce 360, including letting customers access it in ChatGPT (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce expands OpenAI, Anthropic partnerships, eyes Agentforce everywhere
Salesforce expanded partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their large language models into Agentforce 360. At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce said it has expanded a partnership with OpenAI so customers can access Agentforce 360 in ChatGPT. Salesforce customers will be able to access sales records, review conversations and build Tableau visualizations from within ChatGPT.

YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799492/youtube-new-video-player-update-changes

YouTube has a new video player
YouTube is introducing a bunch of changes, including a new look for the video player and animations for liking a video.

Microsoft unveils MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image AI model developed in house, and says it excels at photorealistic imagery, like lighting and landscapes (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/798923/microsoft-ai-image-generator-in-house…

Microsoft AI announces first image generator created in-house
Microsoft AI announced a new text-to-image generator developed in-house.

Maryland will use Claude across its agencies to help residents apply for food aid, Medicaid, and more, and deploy Percepta tools to speed up housing permits (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/maryland-ai-housing-government-benefits

Exclusive: Maryland taps AI for housing and government benefits
Applying for government assistance or housing permits, as well as processing those services, can be difficult and time consuming.

Bhutan announces that it is migrating its national ID system for roughly 800,000 residents from Polygon to Ethereum, with completion expected by Q1 2026 (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bhutan-migrates-ethereum-national-id

Sources: Renesas is exploring a sale of its unit that supplies timing components for data centers and 5G networks, in a deal that could value the unit at $2B (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/japanese-

Apple updates the iPad Pro with an M5 chip, its new C1X cellular modem, and N1 chip, for $999 for the 11-inch and $1,299 for the 13-inch, shipping October 22 (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799352/apple-ipad-pro-m5-price-release-date

Apple’s iPad Pro now has an M5 chip and some nice internal upgrades
Last year’s Pro shipped with new accessories, a new deisgn, and a new screen. The 2025 iPad Pro is mostly an internal upgrade, including the new M5 processor.

Sources: some N26 investors seek to replace its co-CEOs after German regulator Bafin identified new deficiencies in the digital bank's internal controls (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/n26-…

Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak its search results to show vertical search engines in their own box on Search (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-offers-tweak-search-resu…

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to expand its lending to commodities traders "dramatically" after extending ~$1.5B worth of credit to the sector (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11…

Tether Plans ‘Dramatic’ Expansion in Commodity-Trade Lending
Stablecoin giant Tether Holdings SA plans to expand “dramatically” in lending to commodities traders after extending roughly $1.5 billion worth of credit to the sector, Chief Executive Officer Paolo Ardoino said.

Baidu stock fell as much as 9.8% in Hong Kong on Friday after its latest AI model Ernie 5.0 fails to impress investors (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-14/baidu-slumps-as-latest-ai-model-fails-to-im…

Walmart partners with OpenAI to let shoppers browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, including apparel, entertainment, packaged food, and third-party goods (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling that it abused its dominance by charging unfairly high App Store fees; a lawyer calculates damages at £1B (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/apple-refused-permissio…

Google plans to invest $9B in South Carolina through 2027 to scale up its Berkeley County data center campus and support building two sites in Dorchester County (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…

Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818355/samsung-tvs-bixby-generative-ai-con…

Samsung brings a generative AI-powered Bixby to its TVs
Samsung Vision AI Companion will let you ask Bixby questions about what’s on screen in real time, powered by Copilot and Perplexity.

The London Stock Exchange launches a blockchain-based platform, marking its push into digital assets, initially focused on private funds (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/lse-grou…

Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33% since late 2024 (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/rolling-stone-publisher-sues…

Cursor says it has crossed $1B in annualized revenue, has 300 employees, and its in-house models "generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/cursor-ai-startup-funding-round-valuati…

AI startup Cursor raises $2.3 billion funding round at $29.3 billion valuation
Cursor built a popular AI coding tool that helps software developers generate, edit and review code.