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- Data center shares fall as investors expect slower AI buildout after Democrats win Congress; Hut 8 drops 23%, IREN 11%, Core Scientific 10%, Applied Digital 7% (Reuters) [2d]
- Figma reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $391.4M, above est., gross margin of 80%, below 81% est., and lifts its 2026 revenue outlook; FIG drops 6%+ after hours (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters) [2d]
- Snap reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.72B, in line with est., and DAUs up 4% to 495M, vs. 499M est.; SNAP drops 9%+ after hours (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Arm reports Q2 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.44B, vs. $1.38B est., royalty revenue up 8% to $670M, vs. $720.8M est., and licensing revenue up 50% to $773M (Reuters) [2d]
- Qualcomm reports Q4 revenue down 8% YoY to $10.3B, vs. $10.1B est., and handsets revenue down 26% to $5.14B, vs. $5.25B est.; QCOM drops 5%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Meta raised €9B from its debut euro bond sale that drew a record €53B of orders, paying ~1.4x the risk premium Alphabet offered for similar bonds this week (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap to $200 from $300 and plans cuts to as little as $100, as cost cutting stokes staff fears of layoffs (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Filing: AMD will pay ~$2.9B in cash and stock for AI chip startup Taalas, with $1.4B dependent on unspecified conditions; the deal was announced in August (Murad Hemmadi/Globe and Mail) [2d]
- Apple says it will check iCloud items shared to "Anyone with the link" for "harmful content" in 27.3 OS versions, and may delete the content or disable accounts (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac) [2d]
- Meta acquires Conductor, which lets developers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel; CEO Charlie Holtz says the team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs (Madison Mills/Axios) [2d]
- Shares of US tech giants jump after Democrats' midterm sweep as investors bet that a Democrat-controlled Congress will slow AI capex that's draining cash flow (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sequoia raised ~$10B in new funds, and announces it is shutting down its Arc accelerator and Scouts program, merging its early-stage and growth teams, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Pangram releases Pangram Image 1.0, which it says is state-of-the-art in AI image detection, and Image Flash 1.0, which powers its AI video detection (Isaac Kasahara/Pangram) [2d]
- Titan OS, which monetizes smart TVs via ads and FAST deals, raised $46M in equity and debt, for a total funding of $110M, says it has 30M users, up from 18M YoY (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [2d]
- EloElo Group, the company behind Indian microdrama app Story TV, raised an $80M Series C co-led by NBCUniversal and Hornbill, bringing its total raised to $130M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety) [2d]
- Democrats' sweep of Congress raises the likelihood of strong frontier AI legislation passing in early 2027, including mandatory testing and developer liability (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer) [2d]
- CoreWeave's stock and unsecured bonds fall after sweeping Democratic midterm victories, as Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa calls for a data center moratorium (Katherine Schwartz/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: Tron, Tether, Binance, and TRM Labs' T3 Financial Crime Unit quietly dissolved in August due to slow response times, after freezing $250M in assets (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Circle reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $875M, driven in part by ARC token sales, net income up 5% YoY to $226M, and says it is cutting 5% of its staff (Yueqi Yang/The Information) [2d]
- TeraWulf secures a credit backstop agreement with Google to support financing for its data center project with Anthropic in Kentucky, set to come online H2 2027 (Deborah Sophia/Reuters) [2d]
- Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250M in 2026 midterms, but lost 9/12 competitive races called so far, spending $74.7M on losing candidates and $28.3M on winners (Molly White/Citation Needed) [2d]
- Sources: Singapore-based, Nigeria-focused payments company OPay halts its $300M US IPO hours after pricing it due to 11th-hour inquiries from Chinese regulators (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Revolut hits a $115B valuation, up from $75B in November 2025, after a secondary share sale led by Glade Brook, Coatue, and others, as it plans a US launch (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [2d]
- UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan says AI is set to add £55B to £140B to the economy by 2030, below a £400B estimate from a Google-led report touted by officials (Ben Gartside/Wired) [2d]
- The French Blood Establishment says external providers' blood cold storage units were hacked to raise temperatures, in a wave of refrigeration cyberattacks (Sawdah Bhaimiya/CNBC) [2d]
- Sequoia says it is closing its London office after six years and consolidating operations back to the Bay Area, citing a lack of need for a local presence (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders) [2d]
- Qualcomm signs a multiyear SpaceX deal to supply Dragonwing hardware and network software for "tens of thousands of cell sites" for a US-wide network in 2027 (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Waymo plans to end its exclusive robotaxi partnership with Uber in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028 and switch to its own app to improve consistency for users (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sentra, which helps restrict and monitor data access for AI agents, raised a $150M Series C led by Capital One Ventures, taking its total funding to $250M+ (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) [2d]
- AI sales automation startup Nooks secures a $500M commitment from General Catalyst's CVF, which will take a share of the returns generated by the capital (Reuters) [2d]
- Uber reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $14.8B, Gross Bookings up 20% to $59.8B, trips up 16% to 4B, and plans to scale its autonomous fleet to 2,000+ in 2027 (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) [2d]
- US voters in 29+ jurisdictions overwhelmingly pass data center bans or restrictions; S&P says 145+ US projects were delayed or canceled through early August (Washington Post) [2d]
- HP names former GSK CEO Emma Walmsley as its new CEO, effective January 4, permanently filling the role after HP's Enrique Lores departed in February 2026 (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Democrats running on AI regulation and anti-data center platforms won key races, including Sherrod Brown in Ohio, as leadership signals aggressive AI oversight (Politico) [2d]
- OpenAI acquires developer tools startup Pierre Computer for an undisclosed amount and plans to integrate Pierre's Code Storage feature directly into Codex (Madison Mills/Axios) [2d]
- How to watch Big John’s Bosh! Family online for free – stream reality series from anywhere [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, November 5 (game #1746) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, November 5 (game #1243) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, November 5 (game #977) [2d]
- SteelSeries Rival Pro Mini review: S-tier performance in a compact package [2d]
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 creative director says the game's advanced animation system is an 'evolution' of the melee system that initially 'sounded pretty much impossible' — 'Our big concern was: is this not responsive enough?' [2d]
- Windows 11's taskbar still can't be dragged — here's why that's the case [2d]
- Experts warn building new data centers across the US could wipe out the last 15 years of greenhouse gas progress [2d]
- Garmin's COO on when it might kill the beloved MIP watch display for good [2d]
- The Pentagon wants to buy an Australian-made 'kamikaze' suicide drone armed with a shotgun [2d]
- Hacker steals millions by scamming high-stakes online poker games with this devious malware attack [2d]
- Leak TruStream review: a gifted network audio player that just lacks a bit of dynamic headroom [2d]
- SpaceX is snapping up hundreds of homes near its new flagship AI data center — but only if the owners agree to one incredible catch [2d]
- Foxconn reveals bid to grab 50% of the global AI server market within the next few years [2d]
- SpaceX joins forces with Qualcomm to build Starlink Mobile 5G network [2d]
- Global data breaches jump 13% as UK leaks more than double — and Ukraine rockets up the rankings [2d]
- Our top Apple iMac alternative from HP drops by $1,350 — but the price cut definitely won't last [2d]
- Utah starts enforcing adult site age checks—but its VPN crackdown stays on ice [2d]
- Three years after the Online Safety Act, could the under-16 social media ban put VPNs back in the firing line? [2d]
- IOI says talent for Hitman World of Assassination Elusive Targets like JackSepticEye are found first, before a location is decided that 'thematically suits the talent' and with a story that 'synergizes with the talent in tone and genre' [2d]
- Putin says Russian companies can now use foreign data centers following wave of major Ukraine drone strikes [2d]
- AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton says we may have been 'better off' without AI [2d]
- Fresh wave of affordable electric motorcycles revealed at EICMA show [2d]
- Singapore Airlines says 46,000 booking records hit following Amadeus breach [2d]
- Dyson W1 PencilWash review: a terrific lightweight power mop with marathon runtime [2d]
- Ninja's most viral kitchen gadgets are up to 33% off: big deals on the Double Stack, Creami and more [2d]
- CrowdStrike launches 'AI kill switch' it claims can stop rogue agents and more [2d]
- Why coding agents aren’t delivering the promised gains for engineering – yet [2d]
- Gemini can redesign entire presentations with one prompt [2d]
- How to watch Fenerbahce vs Liverpool for FREE: Live streams [2d]
- Nintendo Switch 2 - Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition restocks live — latest updates as more consoles are expected this week [2d]
- The Honor Magic 9 Pro Max wants to turn you into an Oscar-winning film director [2d]
- Microsoft boasts Windows 11 is now up to 40% faster for multi-tasking [2d]
- Top password manager mSecure tells users to change passwords immediately [2d]
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 composer says to capture the tone of multiplayer maps, 'you have to play a lot of multiplayer' as 'it's a completely different vibe from the campaign' — 'I was trying to capture forward momentum and pure adrenaline' [2d]
- Google won't let schools that opt-out of AI use search [2d]
- Canva reveals major restructuring potentially affecting over a thousand jobs [2d]
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- UK policing minister promises new facial recognition laws after criticisms [2d]
- Hackers target French blood banks in latest freezer attack amid UK warnings [2d]
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- Currys expands its Black Friday sale with dozens of new offers — I've picked the 21 best from Ninja, Samsung, Shark, Acer, Dyson, Sony, and more [2d]
- Honor is reportedly testing a phone with a record 15,000mAh battery [2d]
- 'The goal can’t simply be AI usage': New report finds people using AI are working up to 90 minutes extra every day [2d]
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- Disneyland Is Training a Class of AI Robot Interns [2d]
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- PlayStation’s Early Black Friday Sale Is Here With Up to 70% Off Games, Plus Deals on PS5 Accessories [2d]
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- Microsoft Teams Hack Report Shows Old-School Attacks Are Still a Thing [2d]
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