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Sources: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer clashed with colleagues on internal forums over topics like gender and Gaza; moderators deleted some of his comments (The Information)

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Microsoft, Meta, and sources say, Google will not publish diversity reports and data this year; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released diversity data this year (Paresh Dave/Wired)

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Study: Polymarket's trading volume has been artificially inflated by wash trading, accounting for 25% of all buying and selling over the past three years (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)

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Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation, operated out of Germany, to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity (Reuters)

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China is allowing Nexperia to export chips again, according to officials from several auto companies; shares in Wingtech, Nexperia's Chinese parent, surged 10%+ (Bloomberg)

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, accusing the company of "flagrantly ignoring" safety laws and calling it a "breeding ground for predators" (Osmond Chia/BBC)

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Sources: the Netherlands is prepared to drop the ministerial order that gave it control of Nexperia if China allows exports of its critical chips again (Bloomberg)

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Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to about 20 of them (Adam Zsolt Wagner/@azwagner_)

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Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death lawsuits, claim ChatGPT encouraged dangerous discussions, leading to suicides and harmful delusions (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)

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Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla is "probably going to have to build a gigantic chip fab" for AI chips and "maybe, we'll do something with Intel" (Sayantani Ghosh/Reuters)

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Draft proposal: the EU weighs a pause and simplification of parts of the AI Act, with a decision expected on November 19, amid pressure from Big Tech and the US (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

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TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025 (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)

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Cloudflare warns the US government that site-blocking efforts in Europe and Asia to combat online piracy are creating digital trade barriers for US providers (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

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An Oxford Internet Institute study of 445 AI benchmarks finds many tests lack clear aims and comparable statistical methods, potentially exaggerating AI claims (Jared Perlo/NBC News)

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Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

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Sources: the White House has told others in the government it won't allow Nvidia to sell its scaled-down AI chip B30A to China, despite Trump's hints he might (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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Tow Center identifies eight X bot accounts that use X's AI Note Writer API to write between 5% to 10% of the Community Notes visible to the public each day (C.J. Robinson/Columbia Journalism Review)

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Block reports Q3 revenue up 2.3% YoY to $6.1B, below $6.3B est., adjusted EPS below est., and a $461.6M net income, up from $283.8M; XYZ drops 11%+ after hours (Dean Seal/Dow Jones Newswires)

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Affirm reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $933M, vs. $883M est., GMV up 42% to $10.8B, vs. $10.38B est., and profit above estimates; AFRM jumps 11%+ after hours (Reinhardt Krause/Investor's Business ...)

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The US Congressional Budget Office says it has identified a security incident; sources say the CBO has been hacked by a suspected foreign actor (Washington Post)

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Meta launches Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI-generated videos, in Europe through the Meta AI app, following its US debut six weeks earlier (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Tesla shareholders approve a $1T pay package for Elon Musk that requires him to hit a series of milestones and expand Tesla's market cap to $8.5T over 10 years (Becky Peterson/Wall Street Journal)

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Airbnb reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.1B, vs. $4.08B est., Nights and Seats booked up 9% to 133.6M, vs. 131.75M est., forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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DoorDash's stock fell 17%+ on Thursday, marking its worst trading day ever, amid concerns over its 2026 spending plans for new products like autonomous delivery (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Take-Two delays the release of GTA VI by six months to November 2026, reports Q2 net bookings up 33% YoY to $1.96B, vs. $1.72B est.; TTWO drops 6%+ after hours (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

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Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting "hundreds of billions by 2030" (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)

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The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

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A US judge sentences Keonne Rodriguez, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to five years in prison for helping to launder hundreds of millions (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI releases a blueprint the company hopes lawmakers will use in crafting safety standards for teens using AI, with five suggestions for AI companies (Ashley Gold/Axios)

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David Sacks says there will be "no federal bailout for AI", as the US has at least five major AI companies and "if one fails, others will take its place" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)

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Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which also gets prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket for future event analysis, first in the US (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)

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Datadog's stock jumps 15%+ after it reported Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $885.7M, above $852.8M est., and forecasted Q4 revenue at $912M to $916M, above $877M est. (Jaures Yip/CNBC)

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking a government "backstop" for its infrastructure deals, saying her use of the word "muddied the point" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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DualBird, which has created a plug-in for rewritable hardware that accelerates data workloads, raised an $8.5M seed and a $16.5M Series A led by Lightspeed (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Truffle Security, whose open-source tool detects, verifies, and remediates exposed secrets like API keys, raised a $25M Series A led by Intel Capital and a16z (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

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Duolingo's stock falls 25%+ after the company said it expects bookings to range between $329.5M and $335.5M this quarter, falling short of a $344.3M estimate (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Synchron, whose brain implant is inserted through the circulatory system, avoiding invasive brain surgery, raised a $200M Series D at a nearly $1B valuation (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)

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Fomo, a consumer crypto trading app, raised a $17M Series A led by Benchmark, taking its total funding to $19M, and reports $20M to $40M in daily trading volume (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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LA-based Metropolis, which operates parking lots that use AI and computer vision, raised $1.6B, including a $500M Series D led by LionTree at a $5B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative restructures to focus on AI and science, led by Biohub research centers, and acquires AI startup Evolutionary Scale's team (New York Times)

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British Airways owner IAG signs a deal with SpaceX for Starlink Wi-Fi across all five carriers in the airline group, coming to 500+ Boeing and Airbus aircraft (Kate Duffy/Bloomberg)

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft plans to focus on superintelligence that prioritizes human control; he will lead a new superintelligence team (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman lays out the company's plans to develop AI self-sufficiency from OpenAI, like releasing its own voice, image, and text models (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

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Investigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe right-wing politicians and encourages nationalism (Sky News)

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Google says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is more than 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip config (CNBC)

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Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo Ventures and releases a new Mercury coding model (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

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Docs: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its 2024 revenue, or $16B, came from ads for scams and banned goods, including ~$7B from "higher risk" ads (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)

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SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's unpaired AWS-3 licenses for $2.6B in stock, after EchoStar sold WS-4 and H-block licenses to SpaceX for $17B in September (Bloomberg)

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