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X is rolling out a redesigned web app country by country for signed-in users, with a single unified server, saying it improves load times over slow connections (Jay Peters/The Verge)

X is rolling out a redesigned web app country by c...

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Sources: at Jensen Huang's election event, tech executives expressed concern over anti-data center results; OpenAI discussed resetting its 2027 capacity plans (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: at Jensen Huang's election event, tech ex...

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Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says his P(doom) is "close to zero", arguing that future AI risks stem from closed frontier AI labs, not open-source systems (Will Knight/Wired)

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says his P(doom)...

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Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for automating advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60/1M output (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-p...

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Nintendo reports Q2 net profit down 16% YoY to $468M, as rising Switch 2 component costs cut into its margins; Switch 2's H1 FY 2027 sales fell 37% YoY to 6.49M (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Nintendo reports Q2 net profit down 16% YoY to $46...

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An interview with two Nintendo producers on the new Ocarina of Time remake for the Switch 2, which has modernized gameplay mechanics like full camera control (Andrew Webster/The Verge)

An interview with two Nintendo producers on the ne...

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OpenAI pledges to change how it handles data center deals, including avoiding nondisclosure agreements and cutting power usage, after Democrats' midterm wins (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

OpenAI pledges to change how it handles data cente...

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Sunil Mittal, founder of India's second-largest telco Airtel, says Airtel-backed OneWeb can build a satellite-internet network independent of the US and China (Aryan Gupta/Bloomberg)

Sunil Mittal, founder of India's second-largest te...

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Sony reports Q2 revenue of ~$21.7B, operating profit of $3.94B, both above est., and 2.6M PS5 sales, as GTA VI sparks a US sales jump, especially of the PS5 Pro (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Sony reports Q2 revenue of ~$21.7B, operating prof...

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OpenAI President Greg Brockman says H1 2026 was "pretty rough", but agentic coding tools, GPT-5.6 Sol, and ChatGPT Work drove a "revenue inflection" in Q3 (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI President Greg Brockman says H1 2026 was "p...

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Adzuna: UK entry-level job postings mentioning AI are up ~3x since early 2025; Indeed says one in six vacancies in AI-exposed fields now mentions AI, up 2x YoY (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)

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Pro-AI PAC Leading the Future ended the midterms with $20M+ in its bank, from ~$100M, after focusing on safe bipartisan candidates; its riskier bets fell flat (Tess Owen/Wired)

Pro-AI PAC Leading the Future ended the midterms w...

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Chinese chipmakers' aggressive hiring of experienced engineers is increasingly at odds with efforts to protect trade secrets in Taiwan and South Korea (Jenny Lee/CNBC)

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Sources: China's export curbs on critical metals have disrupted supplies of micro drill bits made mainly from tungsten carbide, used in PCBs and chip substrates (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Sources: China's export curbs on critical metals h...

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Sources and company memo: Chinese NAND flash maker YMTC has put its Shanghai IPO on hold as China tightens share sale approvals; YMTC sought to raise ~$4.9B (Reuters)

Sources and company memo: Chinese NAND flash maker...

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Sources: Microsoft rejects an option to more than double its Texas data center contract with Nscale, dealing a fresh blow to Nscale's ambitions for a $35B IPO (Financial Times)

Sources: Microsoft rejects an option to more than ...

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Microsoft previews using smartphones as controllers for Xbox Cloud Gaming on supported smart TVs and direct Wi-Fi cloud gaming support for the Nano Controller (XBOX Wire)

Microsoft previews using smartphones as controller...

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Source: Meta has decided to stop using fruit for its AI model codenames, as they didn't suit its lofty AI ambitions; its latest model was named "Watermelon" (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)

Source: Meta has decided to stop using fruit for i...

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