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Amazon opens Project Rainier, an $11B AI data center on 1,200 acres in Indiana that trains and runs Anthropic's AI models using 500K+ Amazon Trainium 2 chips (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Jamf says PE firm Francisco Partners agreed to take the device management software maker private in an all-cash deal valued at ~$2.2B, set to close in Q1 2026 (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

Amazon's $100 Echo Dot Max and $220 Echo Studio review: the devices run Alexa+, which works well, and have good audio quality, but the Studio is underwhelming (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

YouTube is using AI to upscale videos uploaded at between 240p and 720p to "HD" and plans to offer 4K upscaling "in the near future"; users can opt out (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Nvidia opens at a $5T market cap, becoming the first company to hit the milestone, climbing 5% in early trading; NVDA is up 50% in 2025 and 1,275% since 2022 (Financial Times)

Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations (Associated Press)

Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone writing tool Grammarly still exists (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Character.ai plans to limit under-18s to two hours of conversations per day, gradually reducing the time limit before banning them completely from November 25 (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Grokipedia hands-on: many articles clone Wikipedia, but deviate significantly on topics Elon Musk cares about, with inaccuracies on some scientific topics (The Verge)

The US FCC votes 3-0 to tighten restrictions on telecom equipment from Chinese companies on its Covered List, including Huawei and ZTE, to close loopholes (David Shepardson/Reuters)

Uber plans to launch its first robotaxi in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2026, built on Lucid's Gravity SUV, after testing 100 cars in the coming months (Dee-Ann Durbin/Associated Press)

OpenAI releases gpt-oss-safeguard, its open-weight reasoning models for safety classification tasks, available in 120B and 20B parameters, under Apache 2.0 (OpenAI)

PitchBook: Nvidia invested in 59 AI startups in 2025 so far, including 10 in the past two months, surpassing 55 investments in 2024 and 12 investments in 2022 (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)

Etsy appoints Chief Growth Officer Kruti Patel Goyal as its new CEO, starting January 1, 2026, replacing Josh Silverman after eight years in the role (Bloomberg)

Big Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 146 meetings with EU officials (Corporate Europe Observatory)

Jensen Huang says the US needs "finesse" to maintain its AI lead over China and Nvidia is an "awkward place" as President Trump meets Xi Jinping later this week (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are laying off tens of thousands of white collar workers, as executives hope AI can handle their workload (Wall Street Journal)

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)