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Gates Retreats From 'Doomsday' Climate View, Prioritizes Aid To Poorest Countries (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 Climate

Nvidia opens at a $5T market cap, becoming the first company to hit the milestone, climbing 5% in early trading; NVDA is up 50% in 2025 and 1,275% since 2022 (www.ft.com)
2025-10-30 Nvidia

Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations (apnews.com)
2025-10-30 China Republican

YouTube is using AI to upscale videos uploaded at between 240p and 720p to HD on TV screens, but users can opt out, and plans 4K upscaling “in the near future” (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-30 AI YouTube

Character.ai plans to limit under-18s to two hours of conversations per day, gradually reducing the time limit before banning them completely from November 25 (t.co)
2025-10-30 AI

Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone writing tool Grammarly still exists (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-30

Senator Blocks Trump-Backed Effort To Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 Trump

The US FCC votes 3-0 to tighten restrictions on telecom equipment from Chinese companies on its Covered List, including Huawei and ZTE, to close loopholes (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-30 China

Grokipedia hands-on: many articles clone Wikipedia, but deviate significantly on topics conflicting with Elon Musk's worldview; at times, it is overtly racist (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-30 Elon Musk Racism

Uber plans to launch its first robotaxi in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2026, built on Lucid's Gravity SUV, after testing 100 cars in the coming months (apnews.com)
2025-10-29 Uber San Francisco

OpenAI releases gpt-oss-safeguard, its open-weight reasoning models for safety classification tasks, available in 120B and 20B parameters, under Apache 2.0 (openai.com)
2025-10-29

Hear the difference — upgrade to open-box Sony WH-1000XM6 for 22% off (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-29 Sony

PitchBook: Nvidia invested in 59 AI startups in 2025 so far, including 10 in the past two months, surpassing 55 investments in 2024 and 12 investments in 2022 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 Startup AI Nvidia

Etsy appoints Chief Growth Officer Kruti Patel Goyal as its new CEO, starting January 1, 2026, replacing Josh Silverman after eight years in the role (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29

10 Truly Evil People Who Used Halloween as the Perfect Cover (listverse.com)
2025-10-29

Big Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 146 meetings with EU officials (corporateeurope.org)
2025-10-29

Jensen Huang says the US needs “finesse” to maintain its AI lead over China and Nvidia is an “awkward place” as President Trump meets Xi Jinping later this week (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 Trump China AI Nvidia

Early Reports Indicate Nvidia DGX Spark May Be Suffering From Thermal Issues (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-10-29 Nvidia

Internal memo: Amazon makes “significant role reductions” to its game division and will cut down on big budget titles, as it focuses on Luna and casual games (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 Amazon Budget

Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are laying off tens of thousands of white collar workers, as executives hope AI can handle their workload (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-29 Amazon AI

IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, designed to run on consumer hardware and even in web browsers (venturebeat.com)
2025-10-29 IBM AI

A look at the FGC-9, a 3D-printed semiautomatic gun created by a German incel that scholars and lawmakers say is the most popular “ghost gun” outside the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 Germany

Sources: OpenAI's restructuring, approved by California's AG, paves the way for an IPO as soon as 2027; Sam Altman says an IPO is likely but gave no timeframe (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-29 IPO California

After Nvidia GTC, Jensen Huang says “I don't believe we're in an AI bubble” and that Nvidia expects to sell 20M Blackwell chips, up from 4M Hopper chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 AI Nvidia

French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation (www.politico.eu)
2025-10-29 France Tax

US FEC filings and public statements: a handful of crypto super PACs have amassed ~$263M ahead of the 2026 midterms; Fairshake remains the biggest at $141M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29

Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience (www.adweek.com)
2025-10-29 AI Reddit

China Pushes Boundaries With Animal Testing to Win Global Biotech Race (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-29 China Biotech

A survey of 16K+ creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more (news.adobe.com)
2025-10-29

USC sues Google in Texas federal court, alleging that Google Earth, Maps, and Google Street View violate its patents for overlaying 2D images onto 3D models (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-29 Google Texas

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