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Microsoft offers buyouts to ~60K workers at VP level and below across teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK; its headcount at the end of June was 223K (Bloomberg)
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Bedrock Robotics, which makes driverless excavators and other autonomous construction machines, raised a $600M Series C at a $4.1B valuation (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
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Instagram is testing Features, a new long-form horizontal video format of up to 90 minutes aimed at podcasters, comedians, and other creators, in the US (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
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S-1: Anthropic warns prospective investors that its AI safety and advocacy stances risk disproportionate and selective targeting from the Trump administration (Maria Curi/Axios)
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Sources: Anthropic is aiming to go public the week of November 16 and could raise ~$100B at a $1.5T to $2T valuation, after initially preparing for October (Wall Street Journal)
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Anthropic's S-1 lists 94 pages of risk factors and warns that the "scale of harm" from a "catastrophic" AI incident might mean it is unable to obtain insurance (Wall Street Journal)
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Anthropic S-1: post-IPO governance will retain Public Benefit Corporation status, giving its seven co-founders 50.1% voting control via a single Class F share (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
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SpaceX agrees to a ~$40B equipment finance lease with Apollo to fund purchases of Nvidia GPUs for its AI initiatives, set to close before the end of 2026 (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
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S-1: Anthropic outlines its mission to revolutionize sectors like medicine and warns its corporate behavior may diverge from traditional profit-maximization (Robert Hart/The Verge)
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Anthropic S-1: of its $80.7B net loss in H1 2026, nearly $9B came from computing power and infrastructure, and it has nearly $800B in commitments over 10 years (Financial Times)
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Anthropic S-1: an $80.7B net loss on revenue of $16.3B in H1 2026, up from a $13B net loss on revenue of $1.2B in H1 2025, and a net revenue retention of 900% (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
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Anthropic's co-founders say they "believe that AI is one of the most consequential technologies in human history", detail its scientific potential, and more (SEC.gov)
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Anthropic files for an IPO on the Nasdaq under the symbol ANT; the number of Class A shares to be offered and the price range is yet to be determined (Anthropic)
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Apple unveils a redesigned iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display, an A20 Pro, a nano-texture display option, and IP67 water resistance, for $699+ from Nov. 6 (Apple)
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California startups have raised a record $385B across seed to growth rounds so far in 2026, or 75%+ of all US startup funding; early and seed stage raised ~$62B (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
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Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers, says it breached Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours using AI agents (Washington Post)
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Meta plans to raise $95B to finance its AI expansion, including a $35B underwritten equity offering, backed by cornerstone investors Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
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The public internet model is effectively dead due to saturation, algorithmic aggregators, and AI security vulnerabilities, and that may open new possibilities (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
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Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses review: no camera is a bonus for some, good audio quality, and Meta AI works well, but lingering privacy concerns and fairly pricey (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
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Modern AI panic reflects "cognitive mercantilism", a zero-sum worldview where intelligence is hoarded as a scarce supply-side commodity managed by elites (Venkatesh Rao/Contraptions)
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Volkswagen's China unit and Xpeng secure approvals to trial autonomous driving systems on public roads in China; VW is testing Level 3 and Xpeng Level 4 (Bloomberg)
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A look at OpenAI's and Anthropic's aggressive price cuts between June and October, driven by low switching costs and heavy competition from open-weight models (Max Woolf's Blog)
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A look at TSMC's initial Phoenix fab, which has achieved chip output rates comparable to its Taiwan facilities, as its Taiwanese engineers teach US workers (New York Times)
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Filing: Chinese PCB maker Dongshan raised ~$1.3B in Hong Kong's biggest IPO in nearly two months, pricing shares at ~$11, or 35% below its Friday Shenzhen close (Bloomberg)
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Elvis Presley's rightsholders sue Anthropic over 274 songs allegedly used to train its models, seeking $41M+; Anthropic says it disagrees and will defend itself (Derrick Bryson Taylor/New York Times)
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Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are expected to report double-digit gains in revenue this week, as investors grow impatient with AI capex and seek returns (Bloomberg)
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Inside Slack's Salesforce culture clash: Benioff had ~1 hour with CEO Butterfield pre-deal and didn't use Slack; Butterfield quit after a Davos celebrity panel (Johnny Rodgers/Building Slack)
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A profile of former Google VP and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, whose startup Dazzle is building an AI assistant to help non-tech enthusiasts with mundane tasks (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
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India's chip design startups near production with government support, but low volumes, high fab costs, and supply chain bottlenecks hinder commercialization (Ananta Agarwal/Nikkei Asia)
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Amazon Bee Frontier review: a simple $75 AI wearable that excels at always-on listening, summarizing conversations, and suggesting follow-up actions (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
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A look at Toyota's robotics expansion, including its Walden spinoff and a $6.4B annual plan to deploy 400K factory robots, as it competes with Tesla and China (Financial Times)
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Report: SK Hynix gained ~$15B from selling down its Kioxia stake earlier this year, and plans to return ~$12B to shareholders via a special dividend (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Report: SK Hynix gained ~$15B from selling down its Kioxia stake earlier this year, and plans to return…
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High-frequency trading firms such as Jane Street are investing in AI and chip startups and neoclouds, and building data centers to gain an edge in the AI era (Bloomberg)
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Sources detail how Ramp investors Joe Lonsdale and Keith Rabois pushed US lawmakers to probe rival Airwallex's China ties after Airwallex scrapped a Ramp deal (Michael Roddan/The Information)
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iPhone Duo teardown: 5/10 repairability, a foldable record, but some screens crack along the fold, possibly because a hinge support bar fails to drop far enough (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News)
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Moderators of r/opensource ban submissions of projects using, made by, or intended for AI, exclude non-English speakers over AI translation concerns, and more (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
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Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in GPU debt, debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center firms, and 200+ neoclouds face "death and consolidation" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
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Data center tenants now demand $5M+ a day in late-delivery fees, up from $1M this spring, spawning new "delay-in-delivery" coverage from brokers like Marsh (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
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The iTunes Store is re-emerging as a venue for big pop stars, including Taylor Swift, to hawk collectibles to superfans and bolster their chart positions (Tom Matsuda/Financial Times)
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Sources: Apple tweaked macOS for its OLED touch MacBook Pro, due Wednesday, with a dynamic interface that adapts to whether touch or the trackpad was last used (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Lawmakers and Hill staffers in both parties say AI leaders are becoming a political liability as they swing between claims of prosperity and existential dangers (Maria Curi/Axios)
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How a Blackstone-led $2.3B private credit loan to CoreWeave in 2023 became a blueprint for chip-backed debt, which is on track to become a $1T market (Bloomberg)
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Baba, which develops AI tools to help Medicare and Medicaid patients connect to care teams and handle advocacy tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by FirstMark (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)
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CapitalOS, which helps vertical software platforms offer spend management, cards, and bill payment tools to SMB customers, raised a $21.9M Series A led by LGVP (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
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Instagram launches an Apple TV app for watching Reels, longer videos, and live shows; the app previously launched on Fire TV, Google TV, and Samsung smart TVs (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
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Kimi K3.1 Pro's debut draws scrutiny over allegations that influencers were asked to promote the model without disclosing a commercial relationship to Moonshot (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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LSEG agrees to acquire Octus, an NY-based provider of credit intelligence, data, and workflow software, from Permira and Octus' management for $3.54B in cash (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)
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A look at Meta's role in Brazil's runoff, where Lula da Silva alleges Meta restricts his content and a court ordered it not to interfere; Meta cites glitches (Augusta Saraiva/Bloomberg)
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Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management)
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