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Chinese chipmakers' aggressive hiring of experienced engineers is increasingly at odds with efforts to protect trade secrets in Taiwan and South Korea (www.cnbc.com)
1 day ago China Korea Taiwan

Sources and company memo: Chinese NAND flash maker YMTC has put its Shanghai IPO on hold as China tightens share sale approvals; YMTC sought to raise ~$4.9B (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago China IPO Shanghai

Sources: Microsoft rejects an option to more than double its Texas data center contract with Nscale, dealing a fresh blow to Nscale's ambitions for a $35B IPO (www.ft.com)
1 day ago Microsoft IPO Texas

Microsoft previews using smartphones as controllers for Xbox Cloud Gaming on supported smart TVs and direct Wi-Fi cloud gaming support for the Nano Controller (news.xbox.com)
1 day ago Microsoft Xbox

Source: Meta has decided to stop using fruit for its AI model codenames, as they didn't suit its lofty AI ambitions; its latest model was named “Watermelon” (www.businessinsider.com)
1 day ago AI

Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli startup Clutch Security, which develops software for tracking passwords used by AI agents, for ~$500M (www.theinformation.com)
1 day ago Israel Startup AI

Sources: China has told SoftBank it will not allow the $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division to go ahead; China is the division's biggest market (www.ft.com)
1 day ago China Robot

Vietnam Jails Pirate Football Streamers For Up To a Year (yro.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Vietnam

Berlin-based Pliant raised an $80M Series C led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest, as it opens its B2B payments infrastructure to AI agents (thenextweb.com)
1 day ago Germany AI

OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs (openai.com)
1 day ago Linux

AppLovin reports Q3 revenue up 55% YoY to $2.18B, above $2.07B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; APP surges 20%+ after hours (www.morningstar.com)
1 day ago 4Q

Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she is joining OpenAI to lead product manangement for core products; Wu was the product lead for Claude Code (www.businessinsider.com)
1 day ago

Sources: Goldman Sachs and Apollo are in talks with investors to sell portions of SpaceX's ~$40B chip financing, asking some for up to $500M before syndication (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Goldman SpaceX

Sources: Anthropic and AP struck a licensing deal just before the midterms, marking the first time Anthropic paid a digital news publisher to license content (www.adweek.com)
1 day ago

OpenAI launches Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API, saying it generates images 50% faster, and adds animated GIF creation from prompts or photos (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago

Axon Sued Over AI-Powered License Plate Reader Network (yro.slashdot.org)
1 day ago AI

Sources: Google DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise ~$5B at a ~$50B valuation; the AI drug discovery startup last raised $2.1B in May (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Google Startup AI

Data center shares fall as investors expect slower AI buildout after Democrats win Congress; Hut 8 drops 23%, IREN 11%, Core Scientific 10%, Applied Digital 7% (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago AI Democrat

Figma reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $391.4M, above est., gross margin of 80%, below 81% est., and lifts its 2026 revenue outlook; FIG drops 6%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago

OpenAI Says ChatGPT Is Catching Up to Google In Search (tech.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Google

Netflix Launches First AI-Branded Content Recommendations Feature on TVs (entertainment.slashdot.org)
1 day ago AI Netflix

Snap reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.72B, in line with est., and DAUs up 4% to 495M, vs. 499M est.; SNAP drops 9%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago

Vercel rolls out new protection against stolen session cookie attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
1 day ago

Arm reports Q2 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.44B, vs. $1.38B est., royalty revenue up 8% to $670M, vs. $720.8M est., and licensing revenue up 50% to $773M (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago

Qualcomm reports Q4 revenue down 8% YoY to $10.3B, vs. $10.1B est., and handsets revenue down 26% to $5.14B, vs. $5.25B est.; QCOM drops 5%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago 4Q

Zyxel fixes zero-day exploited to hack nearly 1,000 network switches (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
1 day ago

Waymo Cuts Ties With Uber, Will Serve Riders Directly (tech.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Uber

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Alphabet

OpenAI Acquires Pierre Computer to Supercharge Codex (developers.slashdot.org)
1 day ago

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago AI Apple Layoffs

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