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Internal memo: Amazon makes "significant role reductions" to its game division and will cut down on big budget titles, as it focuses on Luna and casual games (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, designed to run on consumer hardware and even in web browsers (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

A look at the FGC-9, a 3D-printed semiautomatic gun created by a German incel that scholars and lawmakers say is the most popular "ghost gun" outside the US (Samanth Subramanian/Bloomberg)

French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation (Politico)

Sources: OpenAI's restructuring, approved by California's AG, paves the way for an IPO as soon as 2027; Sam Altman says an IPO is likely but gave no timeframe (Wall Street Journal)

After Nvidia GTC, Jensen Huang says "I don't believe we're in an AI bubble" and that Nvidia expects to sell 20M Blackwell chips, up from 4M Hopper chips (Bloomberg)

US FEC filings and public statements: a handful of crypto super PACs have amassed ~$263M ahead of the 2026 midterms; Fairshake remains the biggest at $141M (Bloomberg)

Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

A survey of 16K+ creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more (Adobe Newsroom)

USC sues Google in Texas federal court, alleging that Google Earth, Maps, and Google Street View violate its patents for overlaying 2D images onto 3D models (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

All three major South Korean telcos, SK Telecom, KT Telecom, and now LG Uplus, have reported cybersecurity incidents to the government over the past six months (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Ripple's shares trade between $135 and $170 in private markets, up ~2x to 3x since early 2025, valuing the company at $22B-$30B after several major acquisitions (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)

Palantir announces a partnership to use Nvidia's chips and software to help its customers speed up decision making in complex fields such as logistics (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

CrowdStrike and Nvidia announce a partnership expansion to deepen the use of each other's technologies for creating and deploying AI agents for cybersecurity (Kyle Alspach/CRN)

EV maker Lucid partners with Nvidia to develop a fully autonomous vehicle platform, starting with building more ADAS tech for Lucid's existing Gravity SUV (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)

Eli Lilly partners with Nvidia to build what the companies say will be the most powerful supercomputer run by a pharma company, powered by 1,000+ Blackwell GPUs (Wall Street Journal)

SK Hynix says its DRAM, NAND, and HBM production capacity for next year "has been sold out" and that it would set up a production system to meet OpenAI's demand (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

Sublime Security, which uses AI agents to protect against phishing and other email threats, raised a $150M Series C, bringing its total funding to $240M+ (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)

Foxconn says it plans to deploy Nvidia's Isaac GR00T N model of humanoid robots at its factory in Houston, Texas, which produces AI servers for Nvidia (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

Memo: California's AG says OpenAI's restructuring has "no impact" on other cases, likely referring to Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over its restructuring (Rocket Drew/The Information)

Sources: Francisco Partners is in talks to acquire Jamf, which provides remote device management tools, taking it private; Jamf has a market cap of ~$1.5B (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

GitHub updates VS Code with Plan Mode for building step-by-step project approaches, MCP Registry integration, definable project rules via AGENTS.md, and more (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, is set to raise $250M at a $4B+ valuation (Bloomberg)

SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $17.02B, vs. $17.22B est, operating profit up 62% YoY to $7.92B, a record, boosted by demand for its HBM chips for AI (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

Celebrity video shoutout app Cameo sues OpenAI for trademark infringement, alleging Sora's "cameo" feature is likely to cause confusion and dilute its brand (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing "graphic violence" and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods (Emma Roth/The Verge)

During Nvidia's first ever GTC conference in Washington, DC, Jensen Huang praised Trump's policies and emphasized themes of patriotism and US national interests (Wall Street Journal)

Myanmar shut down a major online scam center in mid-October as part of operations that began in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling (Associated Press)

Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPad Air with OLED screens; the iPad mini will likely arrive first, as early as 2026 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

China claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind energy and cooled by seawater (Anna Lagos/Wired)

A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026 (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)

Jensen Huang says its Blackwell GPUs are now in full production in Arizona, after being solely manufactured in Taiwan previously (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Sam Altman says OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4T on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30GW of data center capacity (Ina Fried/Axios)

Uber plans a fleet of 100,000 autonomous vehicles powered by Nvidia's new Drive AGX Hyperion 10, starting in 2027 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Oppo launches €999 Find X9 and €1,299 Find X9 Pro in the UK and EU, with 7,025mAh and 7,500mAh silicon-carbon batteries and a MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chip (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Nvidia unveils BlueField-4 data processing unit, combining a 64-core Grace CPU and ConnectX-9 SuperNIC for 800 Gbps of network throughput, launching in 2026 (Dylan Martin/CRN)

Sources: Polymarket plans to return to the US with a focus on sports betting; initial trading is likely by the end of November, but won't be broadly available (Bloomberg)

Nvidia unveils NVQLink, a high-speed interconnect that Jensen Huang says is the "Rosetta Stone connecting quantum and classical supercomputers" (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Nvidia and HPE plan to build two new Vera Rubin-based supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, for national security and scientific research (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

Skyworks buys rival Qorvo for ~$9.76B in a cash-and-stock deal, forming a $22B combined company that supplies radio-frequency chips to Apple and others (Reuters)

Western Union plans to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, that is built on the Solana blockchain and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, in H1 2026 (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

GitHub plans to launch Agent HQ, a hub to let developers access third-party AI coding agents, including Claude and OpenAI's Codex, in the coming months (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Blackstone partners with Humain to invest about $3B in building and operating data centers and AI infrastructure across Saudi Arabia, set to open in 2026 (Bloomberg)

A recording of Nvidia's GTC October 2025 Keynote with CEO Jensen Huang (NVIDIA on YouTube)

Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments, files to go public via a SPAC started by Cantor Fitzgerald, valuing Securitize at $1.25B pre-money (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)

Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Nokia for a 2.9% stake in the company, an apparent vindication of its pivot from mobile networking to AI; NOK jumps 20%+ (Jillian Deutsch/Bloomberg)

Mem0, which aims to build a "memory passport" so users' AI memory can travel across their devices, apps, and agents, raised $24M, including a $20M Series A (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Truth Social launches Truth Predict, a prediction market platform in partnership with Crypto.com to let users trade on major current events like elections (Financial Times)

Palo Alto Networks launches Cortex AgentiX, AI agents that can be deployed across various security vendor platforms to automate cybersecurity actions (Samantha Subin/CNBC)