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Sources: industry execs expect only 7-10 of hundreds of neoclouds to survive, as Nvidia supports them with easier credit terms, site finding, and $20B in leases (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
Phoebe Liu / The Information : Sources: industry execs expect only 7-10 of hundreds…
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Anthropic says it's committing 5% of its shares to a Public Benefit Fund, for a total of ~20% with co-founder and staff pledges, plus 2% per 50% valuation rise (Anthropic)
Anthropic : Anthropic says it's committing 5% of its shares to a Public Benefit…
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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)
Kyu-Seok Shim / Reuters : Sources: Nvidia asked Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron to ma…
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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)
Zack Abrams / The Block : Turkish police detained Hex and PulseChain founder Richar…
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MapQuest adds a Surveillance Layer to its mobile app showing license plate readers and cameras from 10+ companies including Flock, using OpenStreetMap data (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable)
Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable : MapQuest adds a Surveillance Layer to its mobile app…
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Sources: SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Universal at an ~$18B equity valuation, as Masayoshi Son explores deploying AI-powered robots (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Unive…
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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group delays the general availability of PostgreSQL 19 after LLM-assisted code reviews uncovered architectural defects (Lindsay Clark/The Register)
Lindsay Clark / The Register : The PostgreSQL Global Development Group delays the g…
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Three CoreWeave co-founders have sold $3.3B in stock since its March 2025 IPO, including $2.4B in 2026 alone; CoreWeave stock fell 60%+ from its June 2025 peak (Dylan Sloan/Bloomberg)
Dylan Sloan / Bloomberg : Three CoreWeave co-founders have sold $3.3B in stock sinc…
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Sunbound, which makes software for handling billing, insurance claims, and payments for senior living operators, raised a $24M Series A led by TTV Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
Ryan Lawler / Axios : Sunbound, which makes software for handling billing, insuranc…
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Elon Musk says the US government owns and controls Starshield systems and "any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Elon Musk says the US government owns and controls Starshiel…
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Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, with features first rolled out in 2024; the launch won't include Siri AI (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in Chin…
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SpaceXSI debuts Grok Voice 3.0, saying it tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index, responds in under a second, and costs less than rivals, at $0.08/min (SpaceXSI)
SpaceXSI : SpaceXSI debuts Grok Voice 3.0, saying it tops Artificial Analysis' …
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Sources: Anduril opens a tender offer of up to ~$1.3B for staff at a ~$90B valuation, available in 16 countries for the first time; it was valued at $61B in May (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: Anduril opens a tender offer of up to ~$1.3B for staff at a ~$…
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Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at $30B+, up from $15B in June (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information : Sources: self-driving simulation software m…
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A Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages after finding Arm breached its architectural license agreement and sought to disrupt Qualcomm's business (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters : A Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages af…
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