• T-Mobile illegally imposed 50 GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says
• Anduril says its first satellite can see adversaries maneuver in orbital night
• NASA's secret weapon in the lunar space race may be ... procurement reform?
• Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI
• Trump admin loses fight to spy on random journalists’ LinkedIn DMs
• Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.
• Apple is shuttering its 28-year-old online community forum
• IBM to offer access to a dual-processor quantum system in 2027
• Trump wanted little Kei trucks for America, Toyota makes it happen
• Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of Signal
• 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
| • OKX and ICE's joint venture OKXICE plans to launch a US tokenized stock venue on November 23 and list 70+ assets; 56 of the 62 companies it targeted objected (Scott Patterson/Bloomberg)
• AWS releases AWS Emulator, a free tool that simulates 200+ of its services locally, saying AI agents wrote it and its team hasn't written or reviewed any code (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
• Google launches Gemini Decisions API, powered by its new Gemini Decision 1 model, to return predefined answers with confidence scores, at $0.10/1M input tokens (Google)
• United Airlines says it will prevent personal AI assistants from booking tickets, citing data privacy risks and possible FAA and DOT rule violations (Alison Sider/Wall Street Journal)
• Silicon Valley's herd mentality in cozying up to Trump backfired as Democrats may seek retribution, China closes the AI gap, and anti-Big Tech sentiment grows (Nick Clegg/The Atlantic)
• IBM unveils the Quantum Nighthawk r3, its next-gen processor designed to execute 10,000 quantum operations across 520 qubits to tackle more complex computations (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
• Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition is in talks to raise at least $1.5B led by General Catalyst at a ~$30B pre-money valuation (Bloomberg)
• Memo: Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering Santosh Janardhan plans to leave in early 2027 and Dave Brown will become head of infrastructure (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
• Imprint, which helps companies offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $130M led by Khosla Ventures at a ~$1.9B valuation (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
• Tel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform designed for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across a Series A and a seed (Tim Keary/Forbes)
• Google DeepMind launches AlphaGenome 2, trained on 100M+ cell profiles across 68 tissues to predict the effects of genetic variants, for non-commercial research (Robert Hart/The Verge)
• Plurai, founded by former Nexar staffers to use synthetic data and digital twins of corporate IT environments to assess AI agents, raised a $13M seed (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
• Rox, which develops AI agents to automate customer research and outreach, raised a $100M Series B co-led by General Catalyst and March at a $1.3B valuation (Morgan Chittum/Fortune)
• After the US midterms, Palantir CEO Alex Karp pivots toward Democrats, describing his philosophy as "progressive" and praising Trump for saying ICE went too far (Politico)
• An analysis of 42 interviews since 2022: after US chip restrictions, Jensen Huang's public rhetoric became more admiring of China and critical of export rules (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)
| • United is restricting AI agents from booking flights
• Google brings the Gemini app to Apple CarPlay
• ByteDance is reportedly working on its own AI agent
• How many SpaceX Starship rocket tests have failed?
• Cash App founder's killer gets 16 years to life in prison
• Peacock is redesigning its mobile app to focus more on vertical videos
• Roku will stop selling smart home devices and refocus on streaming
• Europe wants to ban 'dark patterns' in apps and loot boxes for minors
• Microsoft's Automatic Super Resolution is now officially out for the ROG Xbox Ally X
• A Grok vibe-coding agent leaked sensitive SpaceXSI data
• 2027 Chevrolet Bolt review: RIP to the GOAT of low-cost electric motoring
• Apple is shutting down its online Support Community on November 20
• Lucid CEO says the company didn't know where its own cars were
• Samsung Gallery now syncs with Google to back up your photos
• What is the average lifespan of recordable Blu-ray discs?
• Why your Roku might be plugged into the wrong HDMI port
• 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
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