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The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

A US judge sentences Keonne Rodriguez, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to five years in prison for helping to launder hundreds of millions (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)

OpenAI releases a blueprint the company hopes lawmakers will use in crafting safety standards for teens using AI, with five suggestions for AI companies (Ashley Gold/Axios)

David Sacks says there will be "no federal bailout for AI", as the US has at least five major AI companies and "if one fails, others will take its place" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)

Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which also gets prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket for future event analysis, first in the US (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)

Datadog's stock jumps 15%+ after it reported Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $885.7M, above $852.8M est., and forecasted Q4 revenue at $912M to $916M, above $877M est. (Jaures Yip/CNBC)

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking a government "backstop" for its infrastructure deals, saying her use of the word "muddied the point" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

DualBird, which has created a plug-in for rewritable hardware that accelerates data workloads, raised an $8.5M seed and a $16.5M Series A led by Lightspeed (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Truffle Security, whose open-source tool detects, verifies, and remediates exposed secrets like API keys, raised a $25M Series A led by Intel Capital and a16z (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duolingo's stock falls 25%+ after the company said it expects bookings to range between $329.5M and $335.5M this quarter, falling short of a $344.3M estimate (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Synchron, whose brain implant is inserted through the circulatory system, avoiding invasive brain surgery, raised a $200M Series D at a nearly $1B valuation (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)

Fomo, a consumer crypto trading app, raised a $17M Series A led by Benchmark, taking its total funding to $19M, and reports $20M to $40M in daily trading volume (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

LA-based Metropolis, which operates parking lots that use AI and computer vision, raised $1.6B, including a $500M Series D led by LionTree at a $5B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative restructures to focus on AI and science, led by Biohub research centers, and acquires AI startup Evolutionary Scale's team (New York Times)

British Airways owner IAG signs a deal with SpaceX for Starlink Wi-Fi across all five carriers in the airline group, coming to 500+ Boeing and Airbus aircraft (Kate Duffy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft plans to focus on superintelligence that prioritizes human control; he will lead a new superintelligence team (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman lays out the company's plans to develop AI self-sufficiency from OpenAI, like releasing its own voice, image, and text models (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

Investigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe right-wing politicians and encourages nationalism (Sky News)

Google says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is more than 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip config (CNBC)

Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo Ventures and releases a new Mercury coding model (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Docs: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its 2024 revenue, or $16B, came from ads for scams and banned goods, including ~$7B from "higher risk" ads (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)

SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's unpaired AWS-3 licenses for $2.6B in stock, after EchoStar sold WS-4 and H-block licenses to SpaceX for $17B in September (Bloomberg)

Sources: Shein told investors in August that it expects $2B in net income in 2025 despite US tariffs and forecasts mid-teen percentage growth in full-year sales (Bloomberg)

Sources and documents: Google plans to build an AI data center on Australia's remote Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with its DOD earlier in 2025 (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)

Research: US companies announced 153,074 job cuts in October, the most in 20+ years and up 3x on October 2024, as AI reshapes industries and cost-cutting rises (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg)

Sources: Sequoia's Pat Grady and Alfred Lin plan to deepen the firm's AI focus and reframe its image as less politically partisan, after Roelof Botha's exit (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

Jensen Huang warns "China is going to win the AI race", after the US kept a ban on advanced AI chip sales to China, and says the West is held back by "cynicism" (Financial Times)

Rockstar says it fired dozens of employees last week for "distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum", disputing union allegations (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Huawei unveils the ~$590 Mate 70 Air, a 6.6mm thick smartphone set to compete with the $999 iPhone Air, with a 7" display and HarmonyOS, shipping November 11 (Bloomberg)

Sources, public records, and documents detail TuSimple's downfall, after it transferred autonomous driving IP to Chinese partners despite a 2022 CFIUS agreement (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)

The AI boom is driving coordinated innovation in the US as it builds fabs and energy infrastructure that could have lasting value even if the bubble bursts (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

License plate surveillance company Flock Safety faces bipartisan pressure from lawmakers and local organizers over its data handling and cybersecurity practices (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

Microsoft built a simulated marketplace to test hundreds of AI agents, finding that businesses could manipulate agents into buying their products and more (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Sources: SoftBank explored a potential takeover of Marvell earlier this year to merge it with Arm, in what would have been the chip industry's largest-ever deal (Bloomberg)

Sony unveils the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark dataset to test the fairness of computer vision models, saying it was compiled in a fair and ethical manner (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Pony.ai's and WeRide's shares fell as much as 15% in their Hong Kong trading debuts; Pony.ai raised ~$863M in the secondary offering, and WeRide raised ~$309M (Bloomberg)

Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley's new startup Hopscotch Labs releases BeeBot, which combines AI, audio, and location-based social features, on the App Store (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Nexperia says it suspended wafer supplies to its China factory because the local unit refused to make payments and has ignored global management's instructions (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)

Researchers used AI to design functional antibodies from scratch, suggesting that AI tools could speed up antibody discovery without the need for animal testing (Financial Times)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)