Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Reddit rolls out a dual-feed homepage, with For You and Following feeds, joining TikTok, Instagram, and others in offering a recommendation-driven feed — Reddit is the latest social platform to adopt the “For You” feed popularized by TikTok. The company announced on Wednesday that users …
Calder McHugh / Politico:
OpenAI says it's launching an election “war room” ahead of the US midterms to identify potential spread of misinfo or other efforts to disrupt the elections — OpenAI is standing up an election “war room” ahead of the midterms, the company exclusively told Decoded by POLITICO.
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, and Granary v2, its open-source speech dataset — Nvidia Corp. today released a leaderboard-winning open artificial intelligence model for multilingual audio transcription and translation …
Rocket Drew / The Information:
Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike — Large companies have learned over the past couple years that they can get more mileage out of AI agents by rethinking their processes from scratch …
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters:
Dropbox plans to cut ~6% of its staff, or ~200 jobs, costing $27M to $33M in severance and related costs, and says CTO Ali Dasdan will step down on November 18 — File hosting service Dropbox (DBX.O) said on Wednesday it would cut its global workforce by about 9% to align investments …
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
X adds an intrusive promotional animation of an arm reaching across the screen to direct users to a “promote” post button, targeting verified and Premium users — You have to hand it to X's latest promotional gimmick. — After Elon Musk warned that …
Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg:
Chinese PCB maker Dongshan rises on its Hong Kong debut, after raising ~$1.3B in an IPO, below its $3B goal, at a $30B valuation, amid a tricky IPO market — Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing Co. shares erased an opening slide to trade higher in their first day of trading in Hong Kong …
Nena Farrell / Wired:
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft review: premium feel, lightweight, nice colors, and snappy performance, but expensive after price increases — The latest generation of Kindle's 7-inch e-readers have a new look and new accessories. But are they worth the upgrade given Amazon's new Kindle prices?
@artificialanlys:
Artificial Analysis launches the Intelligence Index v5, with new coding and science benchmarks, built on private datasets; Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 58 — Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, featuring 2 new benchmarks and 3 upgrades. For the first time, the majority of the Index is built on private datasets The Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index is our composite measure of model capabilities across tasks reflecting real-world u...
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk:
Google unveils Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC), a digital-asset custody and security service in private preview, set for commercial availability in early 2027 — Google to showcase a new security system designed to help banks and other financial institutions safeguard and move cryptocurrencies …
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Samsung unveils the $229 Galaxy Buds On, its first open-fit, C-shaped cuff earbuds to compete with Sony and Bose, designed with AI's help, shipping November 6 — Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its first pair of cuff-style earbuds, adding to a growing category that includes products from Sony Group Corp. …
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:
Etsy reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $692.5M, above $668M est., net income of $853.5M after selling Depop, and gross merchandise sales up 9% YoY to $2.65B — The online marketplace operator's revenue rose 11% to 692.5 million in the third quarter — Etsy logged higher sales in the third quarter …
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Amazon unveils the $500 Echo Show 16, the $200 Echo Time alarm, and the $200+ Alexa Photo Frame, raises smart speaker prices, and previews Alexa Home Map — With its latest devices, including a smart bedside alarm clock, Amazon looks to cement Alexa's presence in every room of the home
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Meta quietly launched Waddle World, a Tamagotchi-like, AI pet-rearing game, in the Philippines in September, calling it a “daily journal disguised as a pet” — But it's only available in the Philippines for now. — Looks like a big part of Meta's AI strategy is to rely on …
Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg:
Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads reports Q3 revenue up 1,774% YoY to ~$240M and a ~$7.4M net profit; Moore is building a domestic 100K-GPU cluster with JD.com — AI chipmaker Moore Threads Technology Co. said sales grew 1,774% in the three months through September, buoyed …
Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic's seven cofounders remain extremely influential and personally tight; Daniela Amodei, who runs operations, is seen as a good balance to Dario — Anthropic's seven billionaire co-founders are set to gain collective control over one of the world's biggest companies following …
Sarah Brager / San Francisco Chronicle:
A US federal grand jury indicts OpenAI engineer and Saudi national Abdulrahman “Abdul” Alfozan on a felony charge of interception of oral communications — The OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a conference room in San Francisco used by company executives was indicted Tuesday, according to a court filing.
Marissa Newman / Bloomberg:
AI and cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security raised $400M led by Bessemer at a $3.8B valuation, up from $1.5B in January, for $830M in total funding — Upwind Security, a San Francisco-based startup offering cybersecurity for artificial intelligence and cloud applications …
Financial Times:
How the UK's Slough, a town on the borders of west London, became the largest data center hub in Europe, hosting 40+ facilities, as locals seek more benefits — The UK council overseeing Europe's data centre capital has asked companies to provide more benefits for local people …
Dawn Kopecki / Reuters:
Email: a hacker attack forced the FEC to temporarily take its filing system offline around 10pm ET on Monday, blocking groups from submitting reports — The US Federal Election Commission's website was targeted by a hacker or hackers, according to an email seen by Reuters …