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• Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
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• Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes
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| • 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)
• Apple says it will check iCloud items shared to "Anyone with the link" for "harmful content" in 27.3 OS versions, and may delete the content or disable accounts (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
• Meta acquires Conductor, which lets developers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel; CEO Charlie Holtz says the team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs (Madison Mills/Axios)
• Shares of US tech giants jump after Democrats' midterm sweep as investors bet that a Democrat-controlled Congress will slow AI capex that's draining cash flow (Bloomberg)
• Sequoia raised ~$10B in new funds, and announces it is shutting down its Arc accelerator and Scouts program, merging its early-stage and growth teams, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
• Pangram releases Pangram Image 1.0, which it says is state-of-the-art in AI image and AI video detection, and the smaller Image Flash 1.0 for AI video detection (Isaac Kasahara/Pangram)
• Titan OS, which monetizes smart TVs via ads and FAST deals, raised $46M in equity and debt, taking its total funding to $110M, and says it now has 30M users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• Democrats' sweep of Congress raises the likelihood of strong frontier AI legislation passing in early 2027, including mandatory testing and developer liability (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
• CoreWeave's stock and unsecured bonds fall after sweeping Democratic midterm victories, as Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa calls for a data center moratorium (Katherine Schwartz/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Tron, Tether, Binance, and TRM Labs' T3 Financial Crime Unit quietly dissolved in August due to slow response times, after freezing $250M in assets (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)
• Circle reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $875M, driven in part by its ARC token presales, net income up 5% to $226M, and says it is cutting 5% of its employees (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
• TeraWulf secures a credit backstop agreement with Google to support financing for its data center project with Anthropic in Kentucky, set to come online H2 2027 (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
• Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250M in 2026 midterms, but lost 9/12 competitive races called so far, spending $74.7M on losing candidates and $28.3M on winners (Molly White/Citation Needed)
| • 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?
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• 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
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• Meta's Quest 2 and Quest Pro reach 'end of feature development'
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