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OpenAI and AWS sign a seven-year deal in which OpenAI will pay $38B for AI compute, including training its models using Amazon's data centers and using its CPUs (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria is stepping down after 11 years, replaced by Cloudflare President of Product & Engineering Chirantan Desai, effective November 10 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Job listings show AI groups like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere have stepped up hiring for forward-deployed engineers to help businesses adopt their AI models (Financial Times)

Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain drain that increased during the war in Gaza and tax breaks for investors in Israeli funds and tech firms (James Shotter/Financial Times)

An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and OnlyFans, to verify the ages of their users will go into effect on November 12 (Jackson Chen/Engadget)

Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic death threats, posting hyper-realistic AI-generated images and sounds to social media platforms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)

A profile of David Bailey, Trump's informal crypto advisor who organizes the Bitcoin Conference, as he seeks to turn a Utah health clinic into a bitcoin bank (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)

AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI's Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or alternate reporting instead (Columbia Journalism Review)

Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80+ countries, raised a €30M Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Nexperia's China unit says it has "sufficient inventories" to sustain order fulfillment "through year-end and beyond", after the parent suspended wafer supplies (Reuters)

Analysis: sports volumes on Kalshi approach $1B a week, with open interest in sports contracts regularly above $100M, significantly higher than other categories (Financial Times)

How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto (Anatoly Kurmanaev/New York Times)

Oxford Economics: the AI boom is lifting global trade, with ~60% of US data center capex spent on imported IT gear, mainly from Taiwan, South Korea, and Vietnam (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

Big Tech's dominance on the S&P 500 is becoming more extreme; the eight biggest tech stocks account for 60% of the gains since the market bottomed in April 2025 (George Steer/Financial Times)

How Google Cloud has become one of Alphabet's fastest-growing businesses under Thomas Kurian, driven by investments in AI, data centers, custom chips, and more (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)

A profile of Aaron Greenspan, who has spent years on a crusade to expose what he believes are financial problems at Tesla and at big tech companies (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Microsoft's AI tools still lag behind OpenAI's, as Microsoft struggles to create a cohesive AI experience and add new features by integrating OpenAI models (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

Grokipedia content often closely mirrors Wikipedia except for some political topics but its use of AI makes it better than Wikipedia on obscure entries (Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider)

The White House says China has agreed to effectively end rare earth export controls issued in 2025 and 2022, and will also close probes of US chip companies (Hadriana Lowenkron/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Sam Altman and Satya Nadella about the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, OpenAI's restructuring and $100B revenue target for 2027, $3T AI buildout, more (@bg2pod)

Turkish state media reports that Faruk Fatih Ozer, the former CEO of failed crypto exchange Thodex, has been found dead in his prison cell (Baris Balci/Bloomberg)

Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unmanned drone, flying it "semi-autonomously", as the US Air Force plans swarms of unmanned jet drones (David Jeans/Reuters)

ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast available on host Pat McAfee's X account, as Disney and YouTube TV continue to spar over a new carriage deal (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

MediaTek says it is on track to generate $1B in revenue from its data center AI accelerator ASIC chips in 2026, after reporting Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $4.64B (Reuters)

Singapore seizes more than $115M in assets linked to Cambodia's Prince Group, which the US and UK accuse of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers (Bloomberg)

China says it will allow some Nexperia semiconductor chip exports to resume to ease critical supply shortages impacting global auto production (Financial Times)

Nvidia says it will supply 260K+ of its most advanced AI chips to the South Korean government and major companies, including Samsung, Naver, and SK Group (Reuters)

Despite the hype around large AI models, many companies like Meta are using small models for routine tasks, finding them more practical and cost-effective (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Shares of Seagate and Western Digital have sharply outperformed the broader market in 2025, surging ~200% on AI-related infrastructure demand for hard drives (Shashwat Chauhan/Reuters)

Vista Equity Partners buys a majority stake in Nexthink, which uses AI to let businesses track employees' device and app performance, valuing Nexthink at $3B (Paula Doenecke/Bloomberg)

Vodafone agrees to acquire Skaylink, a German company specializing in managing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure and AWS, for €175M from PE firm Waterland (Yamini Kalia/Reuters)

NEC to buy US-listed CSG, a SaaS provider of customer care and billing services for telcos and other companies, for ~$2.9B in a deal expected to close in 2026 (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)

Mumbai-based Snapmint, a BNPL partner to brands that lets consumers pay in monthly instalments via India's UPI, raised a $125M Series B led by General Atlantic (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)

Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, letting them keep the debt off their balance sheets (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

New York-based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform for government agencies to offer services like utility billing, raised a $21M Series A led by NEA (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin infra startup BVNK in a ~$2B deal; Coinbase expects to close the deal later this year or early 2026 (Bloomberg)

In its Q3 earnings, Alphabet said the profit included "net gains on equity securities of $10.7B," in part from a private company, which sources say is Anthropic (Bloomberg)

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Brian Armstrong ended Coinbase's Q3 earnings call by saying certain words that Kalshi and Polymarket users had wagered would be mentioned during the call (Bloomberg)

Microsoft's Q1 earnings, showing that it had a $3.1B net loss from its OpenAI stake, imply OpenAI lost $11.5B during the quarter based on Microsoft's 27% stake (Matt Rosoff/The Register)

Archy, which offers AI-powered dental practice management software, raised a $20M Series B led by TCV, bringing its total funding to $47M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Lettuce Financial, which offers an accounting, payroll, benefits, and tax compliance service for one-person businesses, raised $28M led by Zeev (Elaine Pofeldt/Forbes)

Tether reports that it has generated profits of over $10B during the first three quarters of 2025 and it has issued an additional $17B in USDT during Q3 (RT Watson/The Block)

Human Interest, a 401(k) platform for SMBs that aims to cut down on administrative work, raised $100M+ at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.3B in 2024 (Dan Primack/Axios)

In their latest earnings reports, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have announced plans to increase their AI spending in 2026 to a combined $400B (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

Pony.ai becomes the first company to receive a citywide robotaxi permit for Shenzhen, allowing self-driving taxis to operate beyond pilot zones (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Sources: ex-xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B at a $5B valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that is better at collaborating with humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)