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UMG partners with AI music generator Udio to launch a subscription service for creating music with licensed songs in 2026, in part to settle a copyright lawsuit (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-30 AI

Disney and YouTube settle their legal dispute over YouTube's hiring in May of former Disney executive Justin Connolly to be global head of media and sports (deadline.com)
2025-10-30 YouTube

New China Law Fines Influencers If They Discuss 'Serious' Topics Without a Degree (slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 China

CoreStory, whose AI platform automates generating documentation for legacy code bases, raised a $32M Series A led by Tribeca, NEA, and SineWave (siliconangle.com)
2025-10-30 AI

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 Becomes First Enterprise Linux With Built-In Agentic AI (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 Linux AI

Samsung reports Q3 revenue up 8.85% YoY to ~$60.5B, vs. ~$60.4B est., and operating profit up 32.9% YoY to ~$8.57B, vs. ~$7.9B est., more than doubling from Q2 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-30 Samsung

Sources: Consensys, maker of crypto wallet MetaMask, plans to go public, with JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs leading its IPO; Consensys was valued at $7B in 2022 (www.axios.com)
2025-10-30 IPO JPMorgan Goldman

US Startup Substrate Announces Chipmaking Tool That It Says Will Rival ASML (slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 Startup

Sources: OpenAI is preparing for an IPO that could value it at ~$1T and has looked at raising $60B+, filing as soon as H2 2026 and listing in 2027 (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-30 IPO

Malicious NPM packages fetch infostealer for Windows, Linux, macOS (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-30 Linux

Crypto media company Blockworks is closing its newsroom, launched in 2021, and will focus on software and data, continuing its main newsletters and podcasts (www.thestreet.com)
2025-10-30

Nvidia Takes $1 Billion Stake In Nokia (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 Nvidia Nokia

Grammarly Rebrands To 'Superhuman,' Launches a New AI Assistant (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 AI

Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.51B, Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 1% (variety.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft Xbox

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 150M DAUs, up from 100M+ in December 2024, and Meta has rolled out ads globally in the Threads feed with plans to add video ads (www.engadget.com)
2025-10-30 Zuckerberg

Character.AI To Bar Children Under 18 From Using Its Chatbots (slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 AI chatbot

Sources: Mastercard is in late-stage talks to acquire the crypto and stablecoin infrastructure startup Zerohash for between $1.5B and $2B (fortune.com)
2025-10-30 Startup

Microsoft's OpenAI investment resulted in a $3.1B hit to Q1 net income; Productivity and Business Processes revenue, with Office and LinkedIn, grew 17% to $33B (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft LinkedIn

Microsoft reports Q1 Azure and other cloud services revenue up 40% YoY, vs. 38.4% est., and capital expenditures at $34.9B, vs. $30.34B est. (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft

FCC's Gomez Slams Move To Revise Broadband Labels as 'Anti-Consumer' (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-30

WordPress security plugin exposes private data to site subscribers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-30 WordPress

Meta reports Reality Labs Q3 revenue of $470M vs. $316M est., and a $4.4B operating loss vs. $5.1B est.; Reality Labs has lost $70B+ since 2020 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-30

eBay reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $2.82B, vs. $2.73B est., GMV up 10% to $20.1B, and forecasts Q4 profit below estimates; EBAY drops 6%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-30 eBay 4Q

Sources: YouTube reorganizes its leadership team, with three product teams reporting to CEO Neal Mohan, and announces a “voluntary exit program” for US staff (sources.news)
2025-10-30 YouTube

Alphabet reports Google Cloud Q3 revenue of $15.15B vs. $14.74B est., and raises 2025 capex forecast to $91B-$93B, after projecting $85B in July (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-30 Google Alphabet

Windows is the Problem With Windows Handhelds (games.slashdot.org)
2025-10-30

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q3 ad revenue rose 15% YoY to $10.26B, vs. $10.01B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $74.18B, up from $65.85B a year ago (variety.com)
2025-10-30 Google YouTube Alphabet

Meta recorded a one-time income tax charge of $15.93B related to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill and expects 2025 capex of $70B-$72B, up from a $66B-$72B forecast (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-30 Trump Tax

Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results (s206.q4cdn.com)
2025-10-30 Alphabet

Meta Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results (www.prnewswire.com)
2025-10-30

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