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- Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback on its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower valuation of $16B to $19B, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: industry execs expect only 7-10 of hundreds of neoclouds to survive, as Nvidia supports them with easier credit terms, site finding, and $20B in leases (Phoebe Liu/The Information) [2d]
- Anthropic says it is committing 5% of its shares to a Public Benefit Fund, a wholly owned LLC that can't lobby, plus 2% for every 50% rise in its valuation (Anthropic) [2d]
- Sources: Nvidia asked Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron to make base dies for its custom NVHBM memory on TSMC's 3nm process; Samsung agreed, its first use of TSMC (Kyu-Seok Shim/Reuters) [2d]
- Sources: HomeView units sat in warehouses for months; Apple plans a Nov. 6 store reset, likely for new Macs; iPhone Duo preorder mess could boost 18 Pro sales (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- An interview with Apple's new VP of the App Store, Carson Oliver, on Apple's gaming vision, Apple Arcade, providing tools for indie game developers, and more (Giovanni Colantonio/Polygon) [2d]
- RegLayer: 47+ large US data center projects were delayed, withdrawn, or blocked in 2026; Bernstein says ~35% of the planned US data center pipeline is credible (Financial Times) [2d]
- AI debt worries mount as CoreWeave's bond yield tops 15%, insuring SoftBank debt gets pricier, and some Oracle debt trades near 80 to 90 cents on the dollar (New York Times) [2d]
- Microsoft cancels its deal with Nscale to serve as the anchor tenant and rent 23K Nvidia AI chips at a planned data center facing repeated delays in Essex, UK (James Titcomb/Telegraph) [2d]
- Holyvolt, which develops AI tools for making and testing new battery materials, raised $45M from Zone II, CC.VC, and others, a source says at a $245M valuation (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune) [2d]
- Sources: Anthropic is consulting law firms on deal negotiation tactics as it develops AI agents to negotiate on humans' behalf and interact with AI counterparts (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) [2d]
- GTCR and Elliott agree to acquire and take private CCC, a Nasdaq-listed car insurance software provider, for $4.6B; the deal values CCC at $6.1B including debt (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Filing: Disney agreed to hire 60+ staff from Character.AI and pay them ~$180M over three years, plus $30M for retention awards; a bankruptcy judge must approve (Bloomberg) [2d]
- An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, plans to make Windows a safer OS to run AI agents, and more (Joanna Stern/The New Things) [2d]
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- Ukrainian combat FPV drone simulator Remote Reaper hits Steam 1.0 with real-world EW jamming and vehicle weak spots [1d]
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- Save 15% on this Orico Obook Ryzen 7 6800H laptop, down to $587 — but you have to pre-order it before 10/23 to get the discount [2d]
- I’ve played the first 45 minutes Final Fantasy VII Revelation [2d]
- How to watch Snapped: Killer Moms online — stream the true crime series for FREE [2d]
- 'The GPU never reads the same text twice': Belgian startup Corbenic wants to turn your server's SSD into AI memory, but its 14x speedup owes more to reading less [2d]
- PhoneBot uses an old $50 Android smartphone brain with its cameras as eyes — tech Frankenstein is an open source humanoid robot platform for makers [2d]
- Behold, Intel plans a 480GB GPU, a video card with more memory than the average laptop SSD has storage — but of course it's for AI, and curiously, it will use LPPDR5X, not even GDDR7 [2d]
- Fake VPN download site steals administrator credentials to give attackers direct access to corporate networks — but delivers official signed software so victims never suspect a thing [2d]
- Sony ULT Tower 7 review: a top-class party speaker with pounding bass [2d]
- How to watch Chargers vs Chiefs for FREE: live stream NFL Week 6 game online from anywhere [2d]
- iPhone Duo demand means you probably can't get Apple's foldable in store [2d]
- Lavazza Tabli review: eco-friendly coffee tablets make quick, delicious espresso [2d]
- Where to watch You Can See Everything — can I stream it yet? release dates [2d]
- MobLand season 2 episode 6 release date and time on Paramount+ [2d]
- Startup makes tiny 'benchtop' fusion devices for more efficient reactors [2d]
- How well do you know the classic TV show Lost? Take the quiz now [2d]
- Leeds vs Man Utd live streams [2d]
- LiberNovo Omni Pro Dynamic Ergonomic Office Chair review [2d]
- Dreame’s self-heating travel espresso machine is a winner [2d]
- EA Sports FC 27 review: come for The Grounds, stay for Career [2d]
- Watch England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka tri-series: Streams [2d]
- Watch South Africa vs Australia 2026 2nd Test: Live Streams [2d]
- How to watch Fiji vs Cook Islands for FREE: Live streams for Rugby League World Cup 2026 game [2d]
- 'This computer is going to be incredible': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains why the new Surface Laptop Ultra is "really a work of love" [2d]
- Someone got Blu-ray's Dolby Atmos TrueHD sound working on the Apple TV 4K, through quite the hack [2d]
- Our top earbuds of 2026 so far: all the buds that wowed us in testing [2d]
- The US Air Force is spending millions on data collected by massive autonomous weather balloons [2d]
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