• Software squeezes more data out of Webb Telescope for imaging exoplanets
• Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws
• MAHA lost bigly in the midterms—is it at death's door?
• Gamers go to ridiculous lengths to "improve" GTA VI with Nvidia's DLSS 5
• Statehouse wins give Democrats new power to push clean energy
• Motorola's new Signature 27 has it all if you can stomach the $1,600 price tag
• Agility Robotics' Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot market
• 2026 iPad mini review: Maximizing the mini
• Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe first drive: Where tech and fun collide
• Nintendo's biggest ROM chip supplier is bowing out of the business
• Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones
• Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed
• VMware releases vSphere Express for virtualization on up to 128 cores
• AMD's record quarter: Data center business doubles, while gaming craters
• Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
• After Texas' blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?
• Ted Cruz aims to stack FCC with Republicans before Democrats take Senate control
• People say they want small smartphones—the Enough Phone will put that to the test
• Binance says hackers who stole billions in crypto spent months planning heist
• What I learned driving the Slate electric truck prototype
| • GOP leaders of three House committees ask Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing on his ties with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, reported to be a Chinese asset (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
• California State Senator Scott Wiener, author of AI safety law SB 53, won Tuesday's election to succeed Pelosi in the US House, campaigning on AI regulation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
• METR: Anthropic redacted much of the "most informative" evidence from METR's 100-page report, so readers "must rely on our judgment more than we consider ideal" (@metr_evals)
• Meta President Dina Powell McCormick says building new US data centers will be harder after midterm results, but it will be easier to expand existing projects (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
• Sources: Nvidia approached Apollo about retrofitting some of the 130+ buildings of the PE firm's struggling ISP Brightspeed into a network of small data centers (The Information)
• Google plans to spend $17B to build its first Wyoming data center, pay for all the power it uses, and form a Community Council to address growth concerns (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)
• Meta rolls out voice mode and expressive avatars in the Muse app, starting in the US, letting users have voice conversations with Muse in real time (Jay Peters/The Verge)
• Sources: about 600,000 of Nvidia's H200 chips are stored in Hong Kong awaiting shipment to mainland China, as Beijing withholds approval for large-scale imports (Reuters)
• METR: Anthropic's models are improving about twice as fast as they did between March 2024 and October 2025, with internal AI use driving ~80% of acceleration (Tiffany Li/The Information)
• California's Proposition 40, which proposes a one-time 5% tax on assets of billionaires for healthcare funding, seems headed for defeat as vote counts continue (Los Angeles Times)
• Anthropic launches Personal Finance in Claude, letting users connect bank and credit card accounts via Plaid with read-only access to analyze spending trends (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
• Microsoft rolls out to Xbox Insiders an Xbox PC app that launches up to 60% faster and has a design to match Xbox Cloud Gaming updates on the web and smart TVs (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• OpenAI says GPT-6 Cyber will first launch to a limited number of customers in its Daybreak Red program and has found 81+ "novel" vulnerabilities in Firefox (Djohnson/CyberScoop)
• Marc Lore's Wonder files confidentially for a US IPO; the company, which acquired Grubhub for $650M in 2025, raised $650M at a $9B pre-money valuation in July (Reuters)
• OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber, which it says outperforms GPT-6 Astra on cyber benchmarks, is better at finding vulnerabilities, and is less likely to go rogue (Emma Roth/The Verge)
| • Bose recalls S1 Pro battery packs due to fire and overheating risks
• Google is ditching Firebase Studio soon, and it wants you to use its newer AI tools instead
• A BioWare documentary is set to arrive next year
• TikTok just released a standalone Shop app, but it's not in America just yet
• The Xbox PC app is getting a speed boost
• Warby Parker seemingly spilled the beans on Google's Android XR smart glasses launch
• The FAA is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control
• Google, Meta and TikTok are all suing California to block social media law intended to help kids
• Now Claude can help with your finances too
• iPhone Duo just got a new accessibility feature in iOS 27.3 beta
• Lyft's new subscription bundles in DoorDash's DashPass for $10 per month
• Sony's MDR-3R wired headphones are steeped in retro aesthetics
• Instagram's Edits is now on desktop as a Mac app
• WhatsApp is taking on Partiful with expanded Events feature
• 2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 First Drive: Big displays meet big V8s
• Apple iMac M6 review: Faster, more expensive and deeply in need of a refresh
• MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: Lighter, brighter, but the touchscreen doesn't add much
• MacBook Pro M6 review: A slight upgrade, but still the most accessible MacBook Pro
• Spotify is coming to United's seatback screens
• OpenAI says it will protect local resources and report on the impact of its data centers
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