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Singapore-based Video Rebirth, founded by Tencent AI veteran Liu Wei to develop AI video generation models, raised a $50M seed from Qiming, ActozSoft, and more (Bloomberg)

Insiders detail how Nepal's Gen Z protests, born on Discord servers, TikTok feeds, and encrypted messaging apps, ended with an online poll to pick the new PM (Tulsi Rauniyar/Wired)

How "porno-troll" Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (Tarpley Hitt/The Guardian)

A profile of Chen Zhi, chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group, accused by the US and UK of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers (Bloomberg)

How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (New York Times)

Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the US agency's long-term cyber capabilities (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)

A look at US efforts to train workers for semiconductor manufacturing, led by Arizona, which has secured over 60 semiconductor expansion projects since 2020 (Nikkei Asia)

Barclays: hyperscalers have announced a total of 46 GW of AI data center capacity, which at full utilization will consume as much energy as ~44.2M US households (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)

A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)

VW says it is developing an AI chip for advanced driving in China via a JV between its Cariad unit and Horizon Robotics, with deliveries in three to five years (Edward White/Financial Times)

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Google's proposed Epic settlement includes reduced app store fees globally and a new program for alternative app stores to become first-class Android citizens (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Google and Epic Games reach an agreement to settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with proposed changes to Android and Google Play pending US court approval (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Google removed 749M URLs linked to Anna's Archive, a popular shadow library for pirated books, over copyright claims, representing ~5% of all takedown requests (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M+ in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical advisor (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

A look at Fermi, a startup co-founded by ex-US Energy Secretary Rick Perry that aims to build one of the world's largest datacenter campuses in Texas by 2038 (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)

Bitcoin dropped below $100K for the first time since June on November 4; ether also fell as much as 15%, and many altcoins are down 50%+ in 2025 (Bloomberg)

Asian AI-linked companies' shares fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry over stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 13%+ and Advantest drops 8%+ (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)

Sources detail Elon Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw the racy chatbot Ani, employees turned over biometric data to train avatars, and more (Wall Street Journal)

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)