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Wabi, a "YouTube for apps" launched by Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda that lets users create mini apps via prompting, raised a $20M pre-seed from angel investors (TechCrunch)

Netflix rolls out a new ad metric called monthly active viewers, or MAV, and says it has 190M such viewers across the 12 countries where it offers an ad tier (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)

OpenAI says it now has 1M+ business customers globally, with ChatGPT for Work seats up 40% in two months to 7M+ and ChatGPT Enterprise seats up 9x YoY (OpenAI)

Pinterest's stock fell 20%+ on November 5 after the company forecast Q4 revenue below est., as advertising took a hit from larger retailers dealing with tariffs (Jaures Yip/CNBC)

Amazon opens a micro-fulfillment center in a Pennsylvania Whole Foods, operated by robots and employees; customers can scan and order 12K items from the aisles (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

France begins the process to suspend Shein, giving the company 48 hours to show it has scrubbed its site of illegal products, like sex dolls resembling children (Wall Street Journal)

A Chinese court sentences five top members of a Myanmar mafia to death, convicting 21 in total, as Beijing continues its crackdown on online scam operations (Koh Ewe/BBC)

Sony rolls out PlayStation Portal cloud streaming, letting PlayStation Premium Plus members stream select titles without a PS5 connection, in testing since 2024 (Ash Parrish/The Verge)

Google says Maps will get Gemini instead of Assistant on Android and iOS, offering a "hands-free, conversational driving experience", in the "coming weeks" (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Crypto company Ripple raised $500M from Citadel, Fortress, and others at a $40B valuation and says payments made on its platform passed $95B so far in 2025 (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

Q&A with Sam Altman on managing OpenAI's growth, delegating work, hiring hardware talent, GPT-6 enabling scientific research, AI's societal challenges, and more (Tyler Cowen/Conversations with Tyler)

Giga, which develops voice-based AI agents for customer support, raised a $61M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and Nexus (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)

Reevo, which aims to use AI to help bring products to market, raised $80M, split across a $10M seed and $70M Series A led by Kleiner, at a $500M valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Letter: the MPA sent Meta a cease-and-desist over Instagram's use of "PG-13" for teen content restrictions, calling it "literally false and highly misleading" (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)

Shein opens a store in Paris, its first physical outlet, on the top floor of the historic BHV Marais department store, as politicians and retailers protest it (Jenny Che/Bloomberg)

Sources: Deutsche Bank is exploring strategies to hedge its exposure to data centers, like shorting AI stocks, after extending billions in debt to hyperscalers (Financial Times)

Netherlands-based Nebius unveils Token Factory, a platform to let companies use open source AI models like GPT-oss, in a bid to compete with AWS and Azure (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Armis, which helps businesses secure and manage IoT devices, raised $435M at a $6.1B valuation led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, up from $4.2B in October 2024 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

XPeng says it plans to launch three self-developed robotaxis in 2026, the first Chinese EV maker to do so, using in-house chips and its own software system (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Motorola Edge 70 review: the new £699 ultra-thin device has a silicone back and great battery life, but the OS is full of ads; the phone won't launch in the US (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically made AI chips (Reuters)

Research: AI's ability to complete long and complex software engineering tasks doubles every 6-7 months, but there is a "messiness tax" for real-world tasks (Boaz Barak/Windows On Theory)

A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports Interactive, which has ~280 full-time staff and licenses its scouting data to 40+ teams, as it releases FM26 (Chris Allnutt/Financial Times)

YouTube confirms it removed 700+ videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)

Sources: Roelof Botha was asked to step aside after some Sequoia partners raised concerns about his leadership; Botha had declined to comment on Shaun Maguire (Wall Street Journal)

Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport says the US DOJ concluded its review of Google's planned $32B acquisition; the FTC website dated the early termination to October 24 (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)

UK retailer M&S reports a £135.6M profit hit in H1 2025 after a cyber attack in April, which it attributes to DragonForce, and claimed £100M from its insurers (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)

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)