Trump and Xi dial back tariffs, dodge the Blackwell question
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Trump and Xi cut tariffs 10% and paused rare earth controls for a year. Soybean orders resumed. Nvidia's Blackwell speculation collapsed. The one-year truce relieves immediate pressure but sidesteps structural forces driving U.S.-China decoupling.
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Threads now lets you approve and filter your replies
Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Threads now lets you approve and filter your replies.
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Swedish legaltech Legora raises $150M Series C
Lucy Adams / tech - Legal technology company Legora has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round, valuing the company at $1.8 billion. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existi...
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Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong third-quarter results
cnbc - Meta's results raised skepticism over the payoff from its aggressive artificial intelligence spending plans and overshadowed strong results.
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WhatsApp will let you use passkeys for your backups
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - WhatsApp is rolling out passkeys for backups, which is great news for anyone who has been on the platform for years. This will add another layer of security to anything that's been backed up, including chats, photos, voice notes and more.It's also conveni…
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Here’s how chipmaker Nvidia became the world’s first $5T company
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Nvidia has made history as the first company ever to surpass a $5 trillion market capitalisation, closing at…
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Microsoft Azure Meltdown Exposes Critical Cloud Risk
Datamation Staff / datamation - The outage disrupted major products from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems used by airlines, banks, and retailers.
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Monzo CEO Passes Torch to Google Vet Diana Layfield
PYMNTS / pymnts - U.K. digital bank Monzo is getting a new chief executive from the ranks of Big Tech. Diana Layfield, former general manager of search international and growth at Google, will become Monzo’s CEO in February, the company’s current head said in a memo sent t…
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OpenAI adds reusable ‘characters’ and video stitching to Sora
Jess Weatherbed / theverge - OpenAI’s Sora app will now let you turn almost anything into a reusable avatar for its AI-generated videos. These “character cameos” are one of several new features that have been added to the Sora 2 video generator, alongside clip stitching and leaderboa…
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Proton’s new Data Breach Observatory shines a light into the dark web
Ian Barker / betanews - Date breaches affecting businesses and online services are ever more frequent and can affect anyone who is unfortunate enough to be a customer or supplier. Finding out the facts about a breach can be tricky, however, as information is heavily reliant on s…
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OpenAI eyes $1T IPO next year. Here’s what you need to know.
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - AI giant OpenAI is reportedly preparing for one of the most ambitious stock market debuts in history, a…
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Meta Shares Fall on Higher Expense Guidance Despite Record Revenue
Meghan Bobrowsky / wsj - The company said its sales were $51.2 billion in the period for a year-over-year growth rate of 26%, ahead of analyst expectations.
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Alphabet/Google Earnings Jump 16 Percent to $102.3 Billion
Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Alphabet/Google reported that it earned a net income of $35 billion on revenues of $102.3 billion in the quarter ending September 30, 2025.The post Alphabet/Google Earnings Jump 16 Percent to $102.3 Billion appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / techcrunch - Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of invol…
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Microsoft powers past estimates on a day its cloud stumbled, but shares still slip
Shannon Carroll / qz - Microsoft beat expectations with $77.7 billion in revenue and a 40% Azure surge, but shares slipped after hours as investors seemed fixated on margins
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YouTube adds automatic AI upscaling for low-res videos
engadget - YouTube is rolling out some updates aimed at making visuals look better on its TV apps, including automatic AI video upscaling. To begin with, YouTube plans to upscale videos that were uploaded in under 1080p to an HD resolution. It aims to support 4K ups…
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The Phone 3a Lite brings Nothing’s unique look and feel to an entry-level price point
John Kanellakos / pocket-lint - Nothing's new entry-level Phone 3a Lite is an affordable and familiar handset package, but it sacrifices some software elegance along the way.
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Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia to Take On ‘Propaganda’ Wikipedia
Jon Swartz / techstrong - Is the world ready for Grokipedia? Elon Musk, xAI's billionaire founder, thinks so. This week, he unveiled Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia positioned as an alternative to Wikipedia amid ongoing conservative criticism of the established plat…
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Bending Spoons to acquire early internet pioneer AOL
John Reynolds / tech - Bending Spoons, the acquisitive Italian software conglomerate, is acquiring AOL, one of the internet’s most well known early companies.Bending Spoons is buying AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by priva...
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Microsoft hit with Azure, 365 outage ahead of quarterly earnings report
cnbc - Microsoft users reported outages for Azure and 365 services a week after many customers of Amazon Web Services suffered hours of downtime.
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