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Source: Google is in early talks to deepen its strategic investment in Anthropic that could value the AI company at more than $350B (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

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Sources: Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, for as much as $600M (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)

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Inside Kalshi's NYC HQ on election night, as it handled ~$100M in mayoral race trades that day, calling it for Zohran Mamdani 36 minutes before any media outlet (Alex Heath/Sources)

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A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his role in the company's $1.4T infrastructure buildout that OpenAI thinks is required to reach AGI (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

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Sandbar unveils the $249+ Stream Ring, an AI-powered smart ring for transcribing audio notes into text via an app, available to preorder, shipping summer 2026 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

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Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M+ to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)

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Sens. Mark Warner and Josh Hawley introduce a bipartisan bill that would require companies and US agencies to submit quarterly reports on AI-related job impacts (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an "IPO is not on the cards right now", and that OpenAI hopes the US government might backstop the financing of data center deals (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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Google says Gemini Deep Research can now directly draw on information stored in users' Gmail, Drive, and Chat to create reports (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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AppLovin reports Q3 revenue up 68% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.34B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EBITDA above estimates; APP jumps 6%+ after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

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Figma reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $274.2M, vs. $265.2M est., adjusted operating margin of 12%, vs. 6.5% est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Robinhood reports Q3 revenue up 100% YoY to $1.27B, vs. $1.19B est., transaction-based revenue up 129% to $730M, vs. $739M est., and net income up 271% to $556M (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Quantinuum unveils Helios, a quantum computer with 98 physical qubits, from which it can deliver 48 logical error-corrected qubits, an impressive 2:1 ratio (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

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Bumble reports Q3 revenue down 10% YoY to $246.2M, total paying users down 16% to 3.6M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; BMBL falls 15%+ after hours (Reuters)

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DoorDash reports Q3 revenue up 27% YoY to $3.45B, vs. $3.36B est., and total orders up 21% to 776M, vs. 770.13M est.; DASH drops 18%+ after hours (Chris Eudaily/CNBC)

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Lyft reports Q3 revenue of $1.69B, up 10.7% YoY, vs. 11.5% est., adjusted EBITDA of $138.9M, vs. $140M est., and forecasts Q4 gross bookings above estimates (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

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Qualcomm reports Q4 revenue up 10% to $11.27B, vs. $10.79B est., handsets revenue up 14% to $6.96B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Ari Levy/CNBC)

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Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)

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Snap reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $1.51B vs. $1.49B est., DAUs up 8% to 477M vs. 476M est., and announces a $500M share buyback; SNAP jumps 23%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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Arm reports Q2 revenue up 34% YoY to $1.14B, royalty revenue up 21% YoY to $620M, vs. $586M est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; ARM jumps 4%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)

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Sources: data center startup Crusoe is arranging an employee share sale involving ~$120M worth of shares that values it at ~$13B, up from $10B+ just weeks ago (The Information)

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Sources: Apple plans to pay Google about $1B per year for a 1.2T-parameter Gemini model to help power the new Siri, which is on track for next spring (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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A look at Bret Taylor's AI agent startup Sierra as it launches new products; source: Sierra is on track to exceed $100M in annualized revenue by January 2026 (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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