• 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
• The DEA banned a drug some opioid users called a miracle
• California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws
• Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
• NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms
• Buttons are back and storage is king when it comes to car interiors
• Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
• Another child dies of measles as CDC reportedly holds up health alert
• Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes
• This space company is betting its future on a propellant available everywhere
| • OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs (OpenAI)
• AppLovin reports Q3 revenue up 55% YoY to $2.18B, above $2.07B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; APP surges 20%+ after hours (William Gavin/MarketWatch)
• Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she is joining OpenAI to lead product manangement for core products; Wu was the product lead for Claude Code (Stephen Council/Business Insider)
• Sources: Goldman Sachs and Apollo are in talks with investors to sell portions of SpaceX's ~$40B chip financing, asking some for up to $500M before syndication (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Anthropic and AP struck a licensing deal just before the midterms, marking the first time Anthropic paid a digital news publisher to license content (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
• OpenAI launches Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API, saying it generates images 50% faster, and adds animated GIF creation from prompts or photos (Emma Roth/The Verge)
• Sources: Google DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise ~$5B at a ~$50B valuation; the AI drug discovery startup last raised $2.1B in May (Bloomberg)
• Data center shares fall as investors expect slower AI buildout after Democrats win Congress; Hut 8 drops 23%, IREN 11%, Core Scientific 10%, Applied Digital 7% (Reuters)
• Figma reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $391.4M, above est., gross margin of 80%, below 81% est., and lifts its 2026 revenue outlook; FIG drops 6%+ after hours (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
• Snap reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.72B, in line with est., and DAUs up 4% to 495M, vs. 499M est.; SNAP drops 10%+ after hours (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
• Arm reports Q2 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.44B, vs. $1.38B est., royalty revenue up 8% to $670M, vs. $720.8M est., and licensing revenue up 50% to $773M (Reuters)
• Qualcomm reports Q4 revenue down 8% YoY to $10.3B, vs. $10.1B est., and handsets revenue down 26% to $5.14B, vs. $5.25B est.; QCOM drops 8%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
• Meta raised €9B from its debut euro bond sale that drew a record €53B of orders, paying ~1.4x the risk premium Alphabet offered for similar bonds this week (Bloomberg)
• Sources: Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap to $200 from $300 and plans cuts to as little as $100, as cost cutting stokes staff fears of layoffs (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• Filing: AMD will pay ~$2.9B in cash and stock for AI chip startup Taalas, with $1.4B dependent on unspecified conditions; the deal was announced in August (Murad Hemmadi/Globe and Mail)
| • Snap has more than 30 million paid subscribers across Snapchat+ and other plans
• Pangram expands its AI detection tools to video and images
• Xbox is testing two new controller options for Cloud Gaming
• Nintendo's main Switch cartridge supplier is leaving the ROM business
• God of War Laufey is delayed until May 20
• Redditor uses AI to get Switch games running natively on Apple TV
• Bluetooth is going to get a lot faster in 2027
• Elon Musk spent nearly $500 million on the midterms and lost big-time
• Americans overwhelmingly voted against data centers in the midterms
• Apple Music's upcoming feature will let you record yourself doing karaoke
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time review: A masterpiece reborn
• Binance attackers used fake job interviews to pull off $6.3 billion crypto heist
• Valve just changed its Steam release rules amid a flood of AI games
• iPad mini OLED vs. iPad mini: What's new?
• Your phone's apps could have more permissions than they need – here's how to check
• Your desktop's front USB ports may be slowing down every device you plug into them
• Arkane and its Blade game may end up at Ubisoft as Xbox considers offers
• What made Nothing's CMF Phone 2 Pro so much cheaper than others?
• NVIDIA's controversial DLSS 5 is coming to RTX Remix to 'enhance' older games
• Here's how to adjust Apple AirPods for small ears
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