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OnePlus debuts the $900+ OnePlus 15, with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 7,300mah battery, and a 6.78" 165Hz screen; the US government shutdown delays a US debut (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

Grayscale files for an IPO, reporting $203.3M in net income on $318.7M in revenue for January to September 2025; the DCG unit has ~$35B in AUM and 40+ products (Isabelle Lee/Bloomberg)

Google launches AI-powered shopping features in the US, including conversational search, side-by-side item comparisons, price tracking, and an agentic checkout (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Dresden-based chip startup Ferroelectric Memory raised €100M, including €77M equity led by HV Capital and DTCF, to commercialize energy-saving memory chips (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

Spotify starts rolling out Recaps, a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what users have listened to so far, in beta on iOS (Elissa Welle/The Verge)

Source: French authorities fully lifted the travel ban on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and removed a requirement for regular police check-ins as of November 10 (Gaspard Sebag/Bloomberg)

Europol, Eurojust, and others dismantle 1,025 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infostealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet, in the latest Operation Endgame phase (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

A look at Indian messaging app Arattai, which officials are backing as a domestic WhatsApp alternative; Arattai maker Zoho says it had 350K sign-ups in October (Financial Times)

AIDOL, one of the first anthropomorphic robots in Russia, face-planted at a demo in Moscow; organizers dragged the robot away and covered it with a black drape (Neil Vigdor/New York Times)

UK-based BNPL startup Zilch raised $176.7M in equity and debt led by KKCG at the same $2B valuation as its 2022 funding, after raising $127M in 2024 (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

AI coding startup Cursor raised a $2.3B Series D co-led by Accel and Coatue at a $29.3B valuation, after raising a $900M Series C at a $9.9B valuation in June (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

Leaker Evan Blass details Samsung's upcoming trifold phone: named "Galaxy Z TriFold", it has a 6.5" cover display, a 10" total display, and a 200MP main camera (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)

SMIC reports Q3 revenue up 9.7% YoY to $2.38B, above $2.35B est., and net profit up 29% YoY to $191.8M, above $161.2M est., as analog chip demand rises (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)

European carmaker officials warn the industry faces "devastating" chip shortages after the Netherlands' Nexperia takeover and is scrambling to find alternatives (Financial Times)

A Chinese-born businessman who the US and China say ran one of SE Asia's largest scam compounds was extradited to China, three years after his Thailand arrest (Francesca Regalado/New York Times)

Sources: Tencent and Apple agree to a deal to let Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps, after a year of talks (Pei Li/Bloomberg)

Philadelphia-based grocery delivery company Gopuff raised $250M led by Eldridge Industries and Valor Equity at an $8.5B valuation, down from $15B in 2021 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)

The EU opens a DMA investigation into Google over allegedly demoting news outlets with promotional content; Google says this is part of its anti-spam efforts (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $42.1B, above ~$41.4B est., and net income down 55% YoY to ~$745M, as it competes in meal delivery and fast-commerce (Bloomberg)

Valve says the company is "no longer manufacturing" its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, released in 2019 for $999, after unveiling the Steam Frame (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$27B, above ~$26.6B est., net profit up 19% YoY to ~$8.9B, above ~$8B est., and domestic game revenue up 15% YoY (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)

Sources: Alibaba is renaming its AI app Tongyi to "Qwen", aiming to make it more like ChatGPT, and adding agentic-AI shopping features for platforms like Taobao (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Baidu unveils two AI chips: the M100 for efficient MoE inference, launching in 2026, and the M300 for training super-large multimodal models, coming in 2027 (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Attentive.ai, maker of Beam AI for automating preconstruction workflows using AI, raised $30.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing total raised to $48M (Amit Chowdhry/Pulse 2.0)

Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, first with select users, and says the exchange is fully functional with some users betting on real contracts (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)

A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy, including OpenAI, data center investments, neocloud renting, GitHub Copilot, MAI models, and the Maia chip (SemiAnalysis)

Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for AGI, Copilot, Microsoft AI, the hyperscale business, the OpenAI partnership, capex, sovereign AI efforts, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

An investigation traces how Shanghai-based AI company INF Tech accessed advanced Nvidia chips at an Indonesian data center despite US export controls (Wall Street Journal)

Foxglove, which is building a data and observability platform for robotics companies, raised a $40M Series B led by Bessemer, bringing its total funding to $58M (Steve Crowe/The Robot Report)

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro launches a federal investigative task force to crack down on overseas crime organizations behind crypto scams targeting Americans (Salvador Rizzo/Washington Post)

Even Realities' G2 glasses hands-on: lighter than the G1, subtle notifications on the lens that cross the eye line, and a "passive wearable" akin to Apple Watch (Fernando Silva/9to5Mac)

GC AI, which provides in-house corporate legal teams with AI tools for common tasks, raised a $60M Series B led by Scale and Northzone at a $555M valuation (Sara Merken/Reuters)

FanDuel and CME Group plan to launch FanDuel Predicts, a prediction market app, in December, bypassing restrictions in US states where gambling is illegal (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Google says it will allow "experienced users" to install Android apps from unverified developers, following backlash against new sideloading restrictions (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Satya Nadella says Microsoft has access to "all" of OpenAI's custom AI chip work and plans to use it to help develop its own in-house chip (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Tavus, which develops enterprise AI agents focused on employee recruitment and training, raised a $40M Series B led by CRV (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Valve's Steam Frame hands-on: the back-mounted battery and 185g visor make it very comfortable, streaming is stable, but the display has poor contrast (UploadVR)

Google launches Cameyo by Google, after acquiring the software virtualization company in June 2024, to help organizations run legacy Windows apps on ChromeOS (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

A Dubai court orders a worldwide freeze on $456M in reserves linked to Justin Sun's bailout of Techteryx's TrueUSD, saying there's evidence of a breach of trust (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's Parallel Web Systems, which is building tools for AI agents to search the web, raised a $100M Series A at a $740M valuation (Tom Dotan/Newcomer)

Cisco reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $14.88B, vs. $14.77B est., net income up 5% to $2.86B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; CSCO jumps 5%+ after hours (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Boston-based Code Metal, which uses AI to help engineers translate code into other languages, raised a $36.5M Series A led by Accel at a $250M valuation (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Visa announces a pilot allowing businesses to send stablecoins payouts directly to users' or workers' crypto wallets (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

Valve's Steam Frame features a replaceable battery strap, dual 2160×2160 LCD panels, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, 16GB of RAM, a microSD slot, and weighs 440g (David Heaney/UploadVR)

Microsoft unveils an AI "super factory", a new class of hubs built for AI training, in Atlanta as part of its Fairwater network of data centers (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.1 Instant, "warmer" and "more conversational", and GPT-5.1 Thinking, "easier to understand and faster", starting with paid ChatGPT users (OpenAI)

OpenAI asks a federal judge to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in NYT's copyright suit, citing privacy concerns (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Valve unveils the second-gen Steam Controller, with a puck that serves as both a low-latency wireless connector and a charging station, launching in early 2026 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Valve unveils Steam Frame, a VR headset that can stream games from a PC or run Windows and Android games locally, expected to launch in 2026 for under $999 (Jay Peters/The Verge)