• Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.
• Apple is shuttering its 28-year-old online community forum
• IBM to offer access to a dual-processor quantum system in 2027
• Trump wanted little Kei trucks for America, Toyota makes it happen
• Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of Signal
• Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions
• The US military seems to be getting nervous about the launch supply crunch
• Ring cameras go mobile as Amazon debuts AI-powered security drone and robot
• Democrats oppose plan to stack FCC with Republicans, plan probes of Chairman Carr
• Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI
• What happens to mathematics when AI becomes an oracle?
• Google Fi adds support for a second 5G network, won't say which one
• Pixel phones getting new icon styles, Create My Widget, and more in November Pixel Drop
• Free video-streaming service Tubi lets users share curated watchlists now
• Steam Deck performance gets a reality check with Valve's new FPS data
• High oil prices have led to a dip in global carbon emissions
• One space station company sues another for copying its work
• DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"
• Nvidia has a Jensen Huang problem—and no obvious successor
• FDA warns GLP-1 drugs may pose risk of rare condition that causes vision loss
| • United Airlines says it will prevent personal AI assistants from booking tickets, citing data privacy risks and possible FAA and DOT rule violations (Alison Sider/Wall Street Journal)
• Silicon Valley's herd mentality in cozying up to Trump backfired as Democrats may seek retribution, China closes the AI gap, and anti-Big Tech sentiment grows (Nick Clegg/The Atlantic)
• IBM announces the Quantum Nighthawk r3, its next-gen processor designed to execute 10,000 quantum operations across 520 qubits to tackle more complex problems (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
• Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition is in talks to raise at least $1.5B led by General Catalyst at a ~$30B pre-money valuation (Bloomberg)
• Leaked memo: Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering Santosh Janardhan plans to leave in early 2027; he will be succeeded by Dave Brown (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
• Imprint, which helps companies offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $130M led by Khosla Ventures at a ~$1.9B valuation (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
• Tel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform optimized for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across Series A and seed (Tim Keary/Forbes)
• Google DeepMind launches AlphaGenome 2, trained on 100M+ cell profiles across 68 tissues to predict the effects of genetic variants, for non-commercial research (Robert Hart/The Verge)
• Plurai, founded by former Nexar staffers to use synthetic data and digital twins of corporate IT environments to assess AI agents, raised a $13M seed (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
• Rox, which develops AI agents to automate customer research and outreach, raised a $100M Series B co-led by General Catalyst and March at a $1.3B valuation (Morgan Chittum/Fortune)
• After the US midterms, Palantir CEO Alex Karp pivots toward Democrats, describing his philosophy as "progressive" and praising Trump for saying ICE went too far (Politico)
• An analysis of 42 interviews since 2022: after US chip restrictions, Jensen Huang's public rhetoric became more admiring of China and critical of export rules (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)
• Sources: Anthropic's IPO draws multiple times the orders for the shares available; a source says Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon have a livestream event on Friday (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
• Salt Lake City-based energy storage startup Torus raised a $500M Series C led by Magnetar to build shipping container-sized AI data centers at 1MW to 20MW sizes (Mark Chediak/Bloomberg)
• London-based AI chip startup Fractile raised $720M from Thrive, Founders Fund, and others, sources say at a $7B post-money valuation, up from ~$1.1B in May (George Hammond/Financial Times)
| • Peacock is redesigning its mobile app to focus more on vertical videos
• Roku will stop selling smart home devices and refocus on streaming
• Europe wants to ban 'dark patterns' in apps and loot boxes for minors
• Microsoft's Automatic Super Resolution is now officially out for the ROG Xbox Ally X
• A Grok vibe-coding agent leaked sensitive SpaceXSI data
• 2027 Chevrolet Bolt review: RIP to the GOAT of low-cost electric motoring
• Apple is shutting down its online Support Community on November 20
• Lucid CEO says the company didn't know where its own cars were
• Samsung Gallery now syncs with Google to back up your photos
• What is the average lifespan of recordable Blu-ray discs?
• Why your Roku might be plugged into the wrong HDMI port
• iFixit teardown shows how Apple's glowing PROLED MacBook logo works
• How to get this Siri camera upgrade for your iPad before its public release
• NVIDIA shareholders are suing the company and CEO Jensen Huang
• How SCSKiller is trying to fix shader stuttering in PC games
• These Xiaomi phones are no longer getting support with the latest HyperOS 4 update
• Meta warns some of its AI glasses may get 'too warm' if they get wet
• The Disney+ app on Meta Quest now includes 3D movies
• What is the 'Dead Internet Theory' and should humanity be worried?
• The best-selling game console of all time is over 25 years old
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