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Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with the Switch 2 (Financial Times)

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Google unveils new features for Pixel phones, including AI-powered notification summaries, notification prioritization, and AI photo edits in Messages (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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SoFi launches SoFi Crypto, saying it is the first nationally chartered bank in the US to offer crypto trading to consumers, rolling out in phases (James Hunt/The Block)

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China says the December 2020 theft of 127,272 bitcoin, now worth ~$13B, from Chinese mining pool LuBian is likely a "state-level hacker operation" led by the US (Bloomberg)

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CoreWeave closed down 16% after CEO Mike Intrator admitted delays at a data center developer that Jim Cramer implied may be Core Scientific; CORZ fell 10%+ (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Threads adds new features for podcasters, as it tries to become the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Coinbase confirms that it has called off acquisition talks with stablecoin infra startup BVNK; reports previously put the acquisition price around $2B (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a "secure, fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average more than 35% and AI data center revenue growth will average 80% over the next three to five years (Ian King/Bloomberg)

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ElevenLabs launches Iconic Voice Marketplace for licensing AI versions of famous voices, including Michael Caine's; Matthew McConaughey invests in the company (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Sony says PlayStation 5 has sold a total of 84.2M units since launch, including 3.9M units sold in Q2, up from 3.8M a year ago (Steve Dent/Engadget)

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Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a "help me edit" feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)

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Amazon says ads on Prime Video reach 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

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A UK judge sentences a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a $5.6B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K BTC (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)

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Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Brave CBO Brian Brown says the company passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1 and its browser had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Lighter raises $68 million at a $1.5 billion valuation as VC bets flood back into perp DEX infrastructure: report (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

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Amsterdam-based Wonderful, which helps companies manage client-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email in any language, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (Steven Scheer/Reuters)

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A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100+ actresses and 25TB+ of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

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Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds invested ~$3B in a New Mexico-based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl ramps up its AI bet (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build "frontier-grade research capability" and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

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Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Sea reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $6B, above $5.65B est., a $375M net income, below $433M est., and Shopee revenue up 35% YoY to $4.3B and GMV up 28% YoY (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

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Nebius signs a ~$3B, five-year deal to provide Meta with AI infrastructure and reports a $100.4M net loss in Q3, up from $39.7M in Q3 2024; NBIS is up 250%+ YTD (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

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Oura CEO Tom Hale says the Finnish smart ring startup expects "maybe close" to $2B in sales in 2026, is on track for $1B in 2025, and has "no news on an IPO" (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)

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Sources: the EU plans to designate WhatsApp's Channels as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, meaning it must meet moderation and transparency standards (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

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Microsoft says it will spend $10B to build a data center park in Sines, Portugal, in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg)

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An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds (Financial Times)

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How US-based ACE, led by the MPA, took down illegal sports streamer Streameast, which had 136M global users per month, £4.9M in ad revenue, and ~£150K in crypto (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)

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Sources: Apple may add a second camera to the next iPhone Air, possibly set for spring 2027 alongside the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e, to address user complaints (The Information)

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How China ramped up its AI development from spring 2024 to catch the US, including via relaxed regulations, huge government funding, and a domestic chip focus (Wall Street Journal)

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Asahi says shipment levels are at just 10% of normal after a cyberattack in early October, and it is processing orders manually, ahead of a busy December period (Bloomberg)

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A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal (Reuters)

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Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150+ iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, in Apple's first fashion deal since Hermès' in 2015 (Vogue)

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SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake, or ~32M shares, in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B, above est. (David Keohane/Financial Times)

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Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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Google, Temasek, and Bain: private funding for SE Asia's digital economy grew 15% YoY to $7.7B in the year to June, below 25% global growth and 2021's $27B peak (Jun Yuan Yong/Reuters)

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Bengaluru-based digital lending startup Finnable raised about $28.19M in August 2025 co-led by Z47 and TVS Capital, bringing its total raised to about $60.9M (Alenjith K Johny/The Economic Times)

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Sony reports Q2 revenue up 4.6% YoY to ~$20.3B, net profit up 6.7% to ~$2.02B, 3.9M of PS5 units sold, and raises FY operating profit forecast by 7.5% to ~$9.3B (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)

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Financial documents: Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses that year before turning a profit in 2030 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to $50.6M, above $46.2M est., and net loss of $159.5M, up from $90.2M in Q3 2024; GEMI drops 5%+ (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

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Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, a suite of AI models providing automatic speech recognition capabilities for more than 1,600 languages (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti says he is leaving the company after four years to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts (CRN)

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The US Treasury and IRS issue guidance allowing crypto products to offer staking rewards under a new safe harbor (Sander Lutz/Decrypt)

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CoreWeave reports Q3 revenue up 134% YoY to $1.36B, above $1.29B est., a $110M net loss, and forecasts FY revenue below estimates; CRWV drops 5%+ (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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eToro reports Q3 net income up 48% YoY to $57M, adjusted EBITDA up 43% to $78M, above estimates, and announces a $150M share buyback; ETOR closed up 8% (CoinDesk)

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Meta plans to discontinue Facebook's Like and Share buttons for external sites in February 2026 as usage "naturally declined as the digital landscape evolved" (Anna Washenko/Engadget)

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Sources: C3.ai is exploring options, including a potential sale and raising funds from private investors, after Thomas Siebel stepped down as CEO in July (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

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Neros, which makes low-cost, military FPV drones in the US, raised $75M led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $121M, and won a US Army contract (Farah Stockman/New York Times)

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