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Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approval for paid deployment of its steering wheel-free robotaxi and can deploy up to 2,500 per year through 2028 (Abhirup Roy/Reuters)

Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approv...

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K2 Space, which builds satellites for tasks like data-heavy communications and may power space-based data centers, raised a $500M Series D at a $6.8B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

K2 Space, which builds satellites for tasks like d...

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Sources: TSMC is developing advanced AI chip packaging tech, internally called "EMIB-like", similar to Intel's Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge technique (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Sources: TSMC is developing advanced AI chip packa...

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London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a ...

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Google-backed nuclear fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1B, after raising a $1.8B Series B in 2021 and $863M in 2025, and plans a 2030s launch (Zachary Skidmore/DatacenterDynamics)

Google-backed nuclear fusion company Commonwealth ...

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Google integrates Nano Banana 2 into Google Earth via a new Create Image button, letting users prompt visual alterations of locations or infographics (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

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Filing: Meta reports $279B in future lease agreements in Q2 related to AI data centers that are not reflected on its balance sheet, up 53% from the prior period (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Filing: Meta reports $279B in future lease agreeme...

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Intercontinental Exchange agrees to acquire electronic fixed-income trading platform MarketAxess for ~$6B in cash, a 33% premium, set to close in H1 2027 (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

Intercontinental Exchange agrees to acquire electr...

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Sources: Amazon staff find cases of "catastrophically expensive" AI costs due to a lack of controls, like $1.8M on Claude to match author details with listings (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

Sources: Amazon staff find cases of "catastrophica...

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LinkedIn says it will keep GPU investment, compute, and storage capacity flat during FY 2027 after doubling GPU efficiency in the past six months (Paresh Dave/Wired)

LinkedIn says it will keep GPU investment, compute...

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Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro is leading a technological overhaul of Disney+ to close the gap with Netflix and YouTube, including new features like vertical videos (Bloomberg)

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro is leading a technological...

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An AI avatar of Brazil's jailed ex-president Jair ...

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How compute could become over 10x costlier as AI capabilities and monetization outpace supply, and a look at the implications if Anthropic hits $1T in revenue (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

How compute could become over 10x costlier as AI c...

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ExploitGym creator and Berkeley researcher Jingxuan He says other AI models have tried to cheat but OpenAI's "was at a much larger scale than we'd encountered" (Bloomberg)

ExploitGym creator and Berkeley researcher Jingxua...

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The EU formally launches a bidding process to develop AI Gigafactories, expecting to unlock ~€30B of investment, closing on November 12 with awards in July 2027 (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

The EU formally launches a bidding process to deve...

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OpenAI says using its Responses API harness with GPT-5.6 Sol tripled its ARC-AGI-3 score and used fewer tokens, after Sol with the official harness scored 7.8% (OpenAI)

OpenAI says using its Responses API harness with G...

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Innolight, China's leading maker of optical transceivers, closes 2% below its Hong Kong IPO price after raising ~$6.8B, the city's biggest listing since 2019 (Bloomberg)

Innolight, China's leading maker of optical transc...

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Sources: ex-OpenAI executive Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout (Financial Times)

Sources: ex-OpenAI executive Leopold Aschenbrenner...

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