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The US sanctions eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes for the North Korean government (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)

Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to include Reddit and Kick, which join Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and YouTube (Clare Armstrong/ABC)

Sources: Netflix has sent out dozens of requests to agents at WME, UTA, and CAA for video podcast creators, and plans to launch video podcasts in early 2026 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)

Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, vs. $6.09B est., and forecasts Q2 profit below estimates; SMCI drops 9%+ after hours (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Match reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $914M, vs. $915M est., net income up 18% to $161M, paying users down 5% to 14.5M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

AMD reports Q3 revenue up 36% YoY to $9.24B, vs. $8.7B est., Data Center revenue up 22% to $4.3B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below the highest projections (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $1.05B, MAUs up 12% to 600M, vs. 590M est., but forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; PINS drops 20% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Apple says Live Translation on AirPods will expand to the EU next month; the first iOS 26.2 beta, seeded to developers on Tuesday, brings the feature to the EU (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

A joint Databroker Files investigation shows commercially traded mobile phone location data allows the tracking of millions of Europeans, including EU officials (netzpolitik.org)

Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of "bullying" after receiving "an aggressive legal threat" demanding Comet not make purchases on users' behalf (CNBC)

OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android, including in the US, Canada, and Japan; the app reached 1M+ downloads in the five days after its September iOS launch (Emma Roth/The Verge)

IBM plans to cut "a low single-digit percentage" of its workforce in Q4, affecting thousands of staffers; it employed ~270K workers as of the end of 2024 (Bloomberg)

Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics, which is building AI models to enable human-like robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks, raised a $16M seed (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Amazon sent a cease-and-desist to Perplexity, demanding it to stop letting Comet make purchases on users' behalf, accusing it of computer fraud (Bloomberg)

Sequoia announces that Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will be elevated to firm stewards, succeeding Roelof Botha, who led Sequoia solo since 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)

Source: Anthropic projects revenues of up to $70B in 2028, up from ~$5B in 2025, and expects to become cash flow positive as soon as 2027 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Google unveils Project Suncatcher to launch two solar-powered satellites, each with four TPUs, into low Earth orbit in 2027, as it seeks to scale AI compute (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Paris prosecutors open a probe into TikTok's algorithm and compliance with requirements to police and report suicide content, after a French government report (Gaspard Sebag/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple plans to launch a low-cost laptop powered by an iPhone chip in H1 2026 to rival Chromebooks, aimed at students and casual users, codenamed J700 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

European law enforcement arrests nine suspects involved in an alleged crypto fraud ring that stole €600M+ via fake investment platforms promising high returns (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Spotify says it now has nearly 500K video podcasts and more than 390M users have now streamed a video podcast on its platform, up 54% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Tel Aviv-based Daylight, whose AI-native platform autonomously identifies and contains cyber threats, raised a $33M Series A, bringing its total funding to $40M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Beacon Software, which acquires niche software businesses and transforms them with AI, raised a $250M Series B led by GC, Lightspeed, and D1 at a $1B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Instacart launches an AI shopping assistant as part of its white-label e-commerce service, which powers the online shopping sites for some grocery chains (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

WhatsApp launches an Apple Watch app that lets users get call notifications, read full messages, and record and send voice messages (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Amazon rolls out Alexa+ to Amazon Music for iOS and Android, letting Alexa+ Early Access users request obscure information or complex music recommendations (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

AWS says it is developing Fastnet, a subsea cable buried ~1.5m deep and with a capacity over 320Tbps, aiming to debut in 2028 to connect Maryland and Ireland (Emily Forlini/PCMag)

Jimmy Wales says Wikipedia's "Gaza genocide" page fails to meet its neutrality standards; the article is listed as "protected" until 21:47 UTC on November 4 (Xander Elliards/The National)

A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)

Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $2.84B, vs. $2.76B est., GMV up 32% YoY to $92B, and expects Q4 revenue up in the mid-to-high 20% range, vs. 23.4% est. (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

The UK's High Court rules against Getty in its lawsuit against Stability AI over its image generator; the judge calls the ruling "extremely limited in scope" (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

Uber reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $13.5B, Gross Bookings up 21% to $49.7B, trips up 22% to 3.5B, and $1.1B operating income, vs. $1.6B est.; UBER drops 5%+ (Financial Times)

Goldman Sachs: just 33 US counties accounted for ~72% of all US data center capacity as of July; buildouts like AWS' in Oregon have transformed tiny communities (David Uberti/Wall Street Journal)

Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to €4.3B, above €4.23B est., subscribers up 12% YoY to 281M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 713M, and a €582M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

How Portugal is investing ~4.6% of its GDP around the port of Sines, seeking to transform it from a tourism-reliant economy into a tech and industrial hub (Sofia Horta e Costa/Bloomberg)

Chainalysis CEO Jonathan Levin says DeFi platforms' rapid growth leaves their users' assets at risk of attack; DefiLlama says $140B+ is held on DeFi protocols (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaround, AI for drivers, paying drivers more, Uber, partnering with Tensor for autonomous vehicles, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nintendo reports Q2 revenue up 90% YoY to ~$3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., ~$667M net profit, vs. ~$412M est., and expects 19M Switch 2 sales by March 2026, up from 15M (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Grab reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $873M, vs. 869M est., and a $136M adjusted EBITDA, helped by group food orders, shared rides, and more; GRAB drops 5%+ (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

Sources: China offers to cut data center power bills by up to 50% for Alibaba, ByteDance, and others if they use domestic chips like Huawei's over foreign ones (Financial Times)

Sources: WeRide is set to raise ~$308M in its Hong Kong listing, planning to price shares at ~$3.48 each, representing a ~4% discount to its Monday Nasdaq close (Bloomberg)

Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)

Augmented Intelligence, which is building neuro-symbolic AI models, raised $20M in a bridge SAFE round at a $750M valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$60M (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

DeFi protocol Balancer says its V2 Composable Stable Pools suffered an exploit, which security experts estimate resulted in total losses worth about $128M (Ryan S. Gladwin/Decrypt)

Anthropic announces a deal with Cognizant, under which Cognizant will deploy Claude to its 350,000 employees and co-sell Claude models to its business customers (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

US federal prosecutors allege that three cybersecurity professionals carried out ransomware attacks on at least five US companies in 2023 using ALPHV ransomware (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)

Apple releases version 26.1 of its full family of OSes, including a "tinted" option for the Liquid Glass design to reduce transparency and increase contrast (John Voorhees/MacStories)

Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 63% YoY to $1.18B, above $1.09B est., US government revenue up 52% YoY to $486M, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Deel names ex-Credit Karma CEO Joe Kauffman as CFO ahead of a potential IPO, replacing Philippe Bouaziz, CEO Alex Bouaziz's father, who becomes executive chair (Michael Roddan/The Information)

Apple refreshes the web version of the App Store, letting users view and search for apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, TV, Watch, and Vision Pro (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)