Tech

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on the cards right now”, and that OpenAI hopes the US government will “backstop” financing of its data center deals (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-7 IPO

Investigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe politicians and encourages nationalist sentiment (news.sky.com)
2025-11-7 Elon Musk

Manufacturer Bricks Smart Vacuum After Engineer Blocks It From Collecting Data (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-11-7

Internal documents: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its annual ad revenue, or $16B, came from fraudulent ads, including $7B from “higher risk” ads (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-7

Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo and releases an update to its Mercury coding model (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-7 AI

SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's unpaired AWS-3 licenses for $2.6B in stock, after EchoStar sold WS-4 and H-block licenses to SpaceX for $17B in September (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6 SpaceX

Sources: Shein told investors in August that it expects $2B in net income in 2025 despite US tariffs and forecasts mid-teen percentage growth in full-year sales (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6

Get started in coding and using ChatGPT with this $35 course deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-6

Sources and documents: Google plans to build an AI data center on Australia's remote Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with its DOD earlier in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-6 Australia Google AI

Research: US companies announced 153,074 job cuts in October, the most in 20+ years and up 3x on October 2024, as AI reshapes industries and cost-cutting rises (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6 AI

Sources: Sequoia's Pat Grady and Alfred Lin plan to deepen the firm's AI focus and reframe its image as less politically partisan, after Roelof Botha's exit (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6 AI

Rockstar says it fired dozens of staff last week due to “distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum”, disputing union allegations (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6

China Delays Shenzhou-20 Crew Return After Suspected Space Debris Impact (science.slashdot.org)
2025-11-6 China

Huawei unveils the ~$590 Mate 70 Air, a 6.6mm thick smartphone set to compete with the $999 iPhone Air, with a 7" display and HarmonyOS, shipping November 11 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6 iPhone

Jensen Huang warns “China is going to win the AI race”, after the US kept a ban on high-end AI chip sales to China, and says the West is held back by “cynicism” (t.co)
2025-11-6 China AI Ban

Sandworm hackers use data wipers to disrupt Ukraine's grain sector (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-6 Ukraine

Sources, public records, and documents detail TuSimple's downfall, after it transferred autonomous driving IP to Chinese partners despite a 2022 CFIUS agreement (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6 China

Universe Expansion May Be Slowing, Not Accelerating, Study Suggests (science.slashdot.org)
2025-11-6

The AI boom is driving coordinated innovation in the US as it builds fabs and energy infrastructure that could have lasting value even if the bubble bursts (stratechery.com)
2025-11-6 Energy AI

License plate surveillance company Flock Safety faces bipartisan pressure from lawmakers and local organizers over its data handling and cybersecurity practices (arstechnica.com)
2025-11-6

Microsoft built a simulated marketplace to test hundreds of AI agents, finding that businesses could manipulate agents into buying their products and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-6 Microsoft AI

Sources: SoftBank explored a potential takeover of Marvell earlier this year to merge it with Arm, in what would have been the chip industry's largest-ever deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6

Sony unveils the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark dataset to test the fairness of computer vision models, saying it was compiled in a fair and ethical manner (www.theregister.com)
2025-11-6 Sony

Shares of Pony.ai and WeRide fell as much as 15% in their Hong Kong trading debut; Pony.ai raised ~$863M in the secondary offering and WeRide raised ~$309M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6 Hong Kong AI

Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley's new startup Hopscotch Labs releases BeeBot, which combines AI, audio, and location-based social features, on the App Store (www.engadget.com)
2025-11-6 Startup AI

Nexperia says it suspended wafer supplies to its China factory because the local unit refused to make payments and has ignored global management's instructions (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6 China

Researchers used AI to design functional antibodies from scratch, suggesting that AI tools could speed up antibody discovery without the need for animal testing (www.ft.com)
2025-11-6 AI

Source: Google is in early talks to deepen its strategic investment in Anthropic that could value the AI company at more than $350B (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-11-6 Google AI

Sources: Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, for as much as $600M (www.ft.com)
2025-11-6 Startup

Inside Kalshi's NYC HQ on election night, as it handled ~$100M in trades on the mayoral race that day, calling it for Mamdani 36 minutes before any media outlet (sources.news)
2025-11-6

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