• 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
• Polestar has a new look with its Formula 2030 concept
• Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand
• Review: Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is good, but it's missing all the exciting stuff
• DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger
• Man who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues Kalshi for offering illegal gambling
| • An analysis of the tech job market in late 2026: product managers seem to be benefiting most in the AI era, demand for engineers is plateauing, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)
• Sources: Anthropic's bankers are weighing plans to raise its IPO price following heavy demand, which could increase the valuation target to $1.5T or more (Financial Times)
• A deep dive into AMD's Zen 6 EPYC Venice: it uses TSMC's N2P, the 9686F often beats Nvidia's Vera, a dual 9996 is up to 93% faster than a dual Zen 5 9965, more (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)
• NY-based Daylight, which provides AI-powered managed security, raised an $80M Series B led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, sources say at a ~$400M valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)
• In a report, Railway says it believes the October hack targeted AI provider keys for resale, and unauthorized spend on the stolen keys was estimated at ~$740K (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
• Leaked documents: OpenAI's adjusted operating margin improved from -150% to -109% from Q2 to Q3 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
• Coframe, which uses AI to make websites that test and personalize themselves for each visitor, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $35M (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
• Sources and records: 11+ NSA and US Cyber Command personnel died by suicide over the 12 months to September, prompting White House and Congressional questions (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
• CoreWeave reports Q3 revenue up 168% YoY to $3.66B, vs. $3.55B est., a $132.5B revenue backlog, and lifts its 2026 guidance; CRWV jumps 5%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
• Sources: the US Commerce Dept. delayed new Entity List additions for two months, leaving off Megaspeed despite four other US agencies pushing for its inclusion (Financial Times)
• Source: OpenAI told investors on Tuesday that its revenue jumped 50% to around $10B in Q3, up from 17% growth in Q2 (The Information)
• S-1: Nvidia plans to invest ~$10B in Anthropic after its IPO, or ~10% of the total new cash Anthropic is expected to raise in November, including in its IPO (Cory Weinberg/New York Times)
• Graphon, which wants to resolve AI agent memory limitations by mapping connections across docs, videos, and images, raised a $35M Series A led by RRE Ventures (Shubhangi Goel/Business Insider)
• Lawsuit filing: Point72's quant unit Cubist claims its fired lead research analyst used Claude and Codex to steal source code before leaving for a competitor (Bloomberg)
• SpaceX announces Starlink Mini 2 with a swappable battery that it says can operate for over four hours without an external power source, reportedly for $999 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
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• 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
• New York will independently test AI models
• How much did the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 cost in 2020 vs 2026?
• Google's impressive Rambler dictation tech is now available on Pixel 10 devices too
• Here's what to look for so you don't get scammed by a fake GPU
• NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 has presets you should know about
• Polestar is banned in the US, but we still want its latest concept car
• Google turns Gemini towards medical paperwork
• Anthropic takes on Google and Microsoft with Claude Sheets
• Google Fi announces super network automatic carrier switching for improved speed and reception
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