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• Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality
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• Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
• Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over
• Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again
• Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer
• The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises
• Rocket Report: FAA eyes more Starbase traffic; India's Skyroot snares US customer
• Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket
• Googlebook review: Android on a laptop is still Android
• KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell
• Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets
• Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army
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| • Anthropic says it is committing 5% of its shares to a Public Benefit Fund, a wholly owned LLC that can't lobby, plus 2% for every 50% rise in its valuation (Anthropic)
• Sources: Nvidia asked Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron to make base dies for its custom NVHBM memory on TSMC's 3nm process; Samsung agreed, its first use of TSMC (Kyu-Seok Shim/Reuters)
• Sources: HomeView units sat in warehouses for months; Apple plans a Nov. 6 store reset, likely for new Macs; iPhone Duo preorder mess could boost 18 Pro sales (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• An interview with Apple's new VP of the App Store, Carson Oliver, on Apple's gaming vision, Apple Arcade, providing tools for indie game developers, and more (Giovanni Colantonio/Polygon)
• RegLayer: 47+ large US data center projects were delayed, withdrawn, or blocked in 2026; Bernstein says ~35% of the planned US data center pipeline is credible (Financial Times)
• AI debt worries mount as CoreWeave's bond yield tops 15%, insuring SoftBank debt gets pricier, and some Oracle debt trades near 80 to 90 cents on the dollar (New York Times)
• Microsoft cancels its deal to be the anchor tenant and rent 23K Nvidia AI chips at Nscale's Essex, UK, data center, which may not get grid power until the 2030s (James Titcomb/Telegraph)
• Holyvolt, which develops AI tools for making and testing new battery materials, raised $45M from Zone II, CC.VC, and others, a source says at a $245M valuation (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
• Sources: Anthropic is consulting law firms on deal negotiation tactics as it develops AI agents to negotiate on humans' behalf and interact with AI counterparts (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
• GTCR and Elliott agree to acquire and take private CCC, a Nasdaq-listed car insurance software provider, for $4.6B; the deal values CCC at $6.1B including debt (Bloomberg)
• Filing: Disney agreed to hire 60+ staff from Character.AI and pay them ~$180M over three years, plus $30M for retention awards; a bankruptcy judge must approve (Bloomberg)
• An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, plans to make Windows a safer OS to run AI agents, and more (Joanna Stern/The New Things)
• Google says "magic state cultivation" works in practice on its Willow quantum processor, calling it a breakthrough that reduces errors by about 40x (Google)
• Anomaly Innovations, behind coding agent OpenCode, says a breach hit ~1.4% of OpenCode Console users and their API keys, in a "large scale distillation attack" (Walter Schulze/Startup Fortune)
• Turkish police detained Hex and PulseChain founder Richard Heart on Oct. 14, seizing $7M+ in cash and six cold wallets; HEX fell nearly 50% on initial reports (Zack Abrams/The Block)
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