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DeepSeek reportedly raises nearly $15 billion in major China AI round
DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based AI startup, reportedly secured about 100 billion yuan in a funding round, one of China’s largest. The company initially aimed for 50 billion yuan but later raised its target to 80 billion…
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Scale AI launches UAE entity at Dubai AI Festival
Scale AI formally established its UAE entity on October 26, 2026, during the Dubai AI Festival. The new operation is based at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), providing a permanent foothold for the…
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Tesla aims to shift profits from cars to AI and software
Elon Musk’s Tesla is pivoting toward AI and software as its next profit driver, according to Ars Technica. While car sales still account for 75% of Tesla’s revenue, the company is betting on recurring revenue from…
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Jane Street invests in AI chip startups and builds data centers
High‑frequency trading firm Jane Street is expanding its AI capabilities by funding emerging AI and chip startups and by constructing its own data‑center facilities. The move reflects a broader trend among quantitative…
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SoftBank reportedly plans $50 billion tech investment in Malaysia
SoftBank Group plans to invest $50 billion in Malaysia, according to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who cited a Bloomberg report. The investments would focus on artificial intelligence, new technologies, and data…
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Coupang and OpenAI co-host AI grand prix singapore 2026 hackathon
The overnight AI Grand Prix Singapore 2026 was held at Carousell Campus from 24 to 25 October. Sixty participants, chosen from 150 applicants, tackled three Codex‑based challenges: Game Hack, Spot the Mismatch, and…
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The Pitfall of the '3 Months Free' Android Offer I Discovered After Switching to Google AI Pro: Why Are YouTube Premium Lite Benefits Not Immediately Available?
The author subscribed to Google AI Pro, a Google One plan costing about 2,900 yen per month, which offers Gemini 4 Argon, 5TB of cloud storage, and YouTube Premium Lite as a bonus. During the Android‑exclusive 3‑month…
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Avanade names Ben Beath chief ai officer
Avanade names Ben Beath as Chief AI Officer Beath has been with Avanade since 2018, most recently serving as AI Acceleration Lead and co-lead of its AI Transformation Office ... The Idea of an Invincible Leader Is a…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI demand is soaring but financing lags
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated at the GTC Berlin event on October 22, 2026, that demand for specialized AI cloud providers (neoclouds) is extremely strong, describing it as 'off the charts,' but that the working…
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Blackstone-led $2.3B loan to CoreWeave in 2023 became blueprint for chip-backed debt market
A $2.3 billion private credit loan led by Blackstone to CoreWeave in 2023 has become a template for financing backed by graphics processing units, a market Bloomberg reports is on track to reach $1 trillion. The deal…
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Microsoft reorganizes into agents and infra segments, Nadella says
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company is restructuring its business around AI agents, model choice, and cost efficiency. In his annual letter, Nadella revealed the creation of two new reporting…
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Nvidia named better buy than Micron as AI memory demand grows
A market analysis compares Nvidia and Micron, two key beneficiaries of the AI boom. Nvidia supplies the GPUs used for model training and inference, while Micron provides the essential memory and storage. Over the past…
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OpenAI nears $30B funding round at $1.25T valuation led by UAE investors and Coatue
OpenAI is close to finalizing a funding round of up to $30 billion at a pre-money valuation of $1.25 trillion, according to multiple reports citing people familiar with the deal. Investors from the United Arab Emirates…
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Nathan Chen leaves Moonshot AI, denies joining Anthropic
Nathan Chen, a 17-year-old researcher, announced on October 15 that he has left Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based company behind the Kimi chatbot. Chen joined Moonshot at age 16 while in high school and contributed to the…
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Alphabet says Google Cloud revenue up 82% to $24.8B, Gemini hits 950M users
Alphabet’s cloud division posted a striking 82% year‑over‑year revenue increase last quarter, reaching $24.8 billion. That compares with $13.6 billion in the same quarter a year earlier, adding $11.2 billion of new…
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Google AI search cuts publisher traffic, WSJ reports
The relationship between Google and online publishers has shifted significantly since the launch of AI Overviews in 2024. This feature places AI-generated summaries at the top of search results, often reducing the need…
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Eric Schmidt says China trails US by 6 months but may win AI race
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Alphabet, stated on the In Good Company podcast that China lags behind the United States in artificial intelligence by approximately six months. However, he warned that the US is effectively…
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Baba raises $40M Series A led by FirstMark for Medicare AI tools
Applied AI company Baba has secured $40 million in Series A funding to expand its platform for Medicare and Medicaid patients. FirstMark Capital led the round, joined by CVS Health Ventures, Valtruis, and returning…
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Motley Fool analysts debate AI bubble risk and corporate debt levels
Motley Fool contributors Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Jon Quast debated on a podcast whether the artificial intelligence market is forming a bubble. The discussion highlighted remarks from investor Ray Dalio, who…
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Opinion: Apple and Alphabet offer resilient long-term AI exposure
An opinion piece argues that Berkshire Hathaway holdings Apple and Alphabet represent dependable long-term investments amid questions about whether heavy corporate artificial intelligence spending can sustain its…
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Nvidia invests $2B in Marvell via NVLink Fusion
Nvidia has made a $2 billion equity investment in Marvell Technology, effective March 31, 2026, as part of the NVLink Fusion initiative. The article describes this move not as a simple component purchase but as an…
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SpaceX plans 440,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin computers for AI training
SpaceX reported its first quarterly profit, with net income reaching $4.4 billion and revenue up 161%. The company's AI division, now named SI or Super Intelligence, saw sales jump 835% year over year, driven by…
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Character.ai files for bankruptcy; Relay shuts down
TechCrunch AI publishes a running list of AI projects that have failed, pivoted, or been abandoned. Recent additions include Character.ai, which filed for bankruptcy five years after launch, and Relay, a workflow…
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Anthropic backers' stakes worth up to $17 billion ahead of $2 trillion IPO
Anthropic is slated for a public listing this year, possibly valued at as much as $2 trillion. Even before the IPO, its private market valuation sits at $965 billion, making existing investor stakes worth billions.…
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Socceroo Cristian Volpato licenses AI likeness to Callandor
Australian footballer Cristian Volpato has signed a deal with California-based company Callandor to license his AI likeness, voice, and biometric data. The agreement grants Callandor exclusive rights to create and…
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Nvidia's financing role faces first major stress test as credit markets tighten
nvidia has built a vast financing network to support ai cloud builders, offering guarantees and backstops that can reach up to $105 billion for openai’s ohio data center and $36 billion in off‑balance‑sheet agreements…
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Meta reports negative free cash flow, citing AI funding needs
Wall Street experienced volatility last week as investors grew concerned about the financing required for the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom. Meta Platforms reported negative free cash flow for the first…
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Vibe coding with Opus 5.5 may trigger GTA 6 fade trade
The rise of vibe coding, where users describe software in plain language for AI to build, has intensified following the release of Anthropic's Opus 5.5. This development has caused a sell-off in video game stocks as…
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Nvidia stock rises to $221.30 as AI demand fuels earnings
Nvidia shares climbed 2.23% to $221.30 after the company reported fiscal second‑quarter 2027 revenue of $96.2 billion, a 106% increase year over year. The Data Center division contributed $89 billion of that total,…
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Anthropic plans November IPO as OpenAI delays to 2027
Anthropic is preparing for an initial public offering as early as mid-November, having confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC in June and reporting third-quarter revenue of $16.8 billion. The company aims to go…
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Meta reports third-quarter 2026 revenue of $64.6 billion, up 26% year-over-year
Meta earnings put Big Tech’s AI spending bet under the microscope Meta's Q3 2026 earnings test Big Tech's AI bet, with capex projected at $41 billion to $42 billion and a potential $10 billion legal charge. Meta…
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OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to add AI coordination for drug development
On October 20, 2026 OpenAI announced it had acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharmaceutical teams coordinate the many decisions and dependencies that follow drug discovery. The company’s technology uses…
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Utopai raises $60M at $1B valuation for AI film projects
Utopai, an AI-focused film studio, has secured $60 million in new funding at a valuation of $1 billion. The company states it currently has more than 20 projects in development. This investment highlights a growing…
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AI neoclouds raise $6.6B in 2026 as Nvidia CEO says capital demand exceeds supply
Venture investment in AI neoclouds — companies that rent GPU access for AI workloads — hit $6.6 billion across 58 deals in 2026 through October, PitchBook data shows. That tops every prior year and is 51% above 2025's…
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Neoclouds CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN fall sharply as AI infrastructure faces pressure
Neoclouds CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN all fell sharply this week, with losses for October exceeding 30% each, according to the article. CoreWeave's credit default swap spreads widened past 11%, a level generally viewed…
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Higgsfield extends Series B with TCV and NVIDIA investment after $1B annualized revenue
AI video and image generation startup Higgsfield has extended its Series B funding round with new investments from TCV and NVIDIA. The San Francisco-based company, co-founded by Alex Mashrabov, Yerzat Dulat, and Mahi…
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Scalpers charge $448 extra for Apple iPhone Duo in Beijing
Apple's first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, launched in China on Friday with strong initial demand, leading to scalpers offering customers an extra 3,000 Chinese yuan ($448) to buy their devices immediately. Alex…
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Microsoft may rely on security and custom chips to revive cloud margins
Analyst commentary on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) notes a split market view: investors are losing confidence in the AI trade while enterprise AI adoption speeds up. The author believes Microsoft is positioning its security…
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Oracle commits $1 billion to partner ecosystem over four years
Oracle announced a $1 billion, four‑year investment in its partner ecosystem at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas on October 23, 2026. The funding will expand Oracle PartnerNetwork benefits, adding resources for training,…
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Anthropic and Hg agree to launch AI consultancy in Europe by end of 2026
Anthropic and London-based private equity firm Hg have agreed to launch an independent AI consultancy by the end of 2026, with hubs in London and Berlin, to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses.…
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Microsoft shares fall 1.66% as AI spending reaches $115.95 billion
Microsoft reported a mixed fourth‑quarter performance that sent its stock down 1.66% to $524.10, erasing an early climb above $532. The company disclosed $115.95 billion in property and equipment spending for fiscal…
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Nokia's AI & Cloud revenue rises 123% after Nvidia backs AI-RAN partnership
Nokia (NOK) is shifting from its historic phone business to AI networking equipment, leveraging a $1 billion investment from Nvidia that gave the chipmaker a 2.9% stake. The two firms are developing AI‑radio access…
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Opinion: Google One AI Plus may offer better value than $20 AI Pro
The author compares Google’s One AI Pro plan, which costs $20 a month and provides 5 TB of cloud storage, with the lower‑priced AI Plus tier that offers 2 TB. Recent changes to the One plans added the Spark‑now‑Task…
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Meta raises 2026 AI spending floor to $135B and plans nonvoting Class C shares
Meta Platforms on October 21 raised the lower end of its 2026 capital expenditure forecast by $5 billion to a range of $135 billion to $145 billion, citing AI infrastructure and development of its Muse consumer AI…
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Experts doubt Anthropic report on AI-driven work changes
Anthropic released a report saying its Claude AI agents have taken over many tasks, with agents logging more work hours than humans from May 2026. The company claims employees now spend about 22% of their time managing…
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Infosys reports AI revenue at 10.5% of Q2 sales, up 29% quarter‑on‑quarter
Infosys posted Q2 revenue of $5,145 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, with a 21.0% operating margin. AI‑related revenue represented 10.5% of total sales and grew 29% from the prior quarter, according to…
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Google's TPU sales could reach $75 billion in 2027, analyst predicts
Alphabet's Tensor Processing Units, originally built to cut Google's own AI compute costs, are being positioned as a commercial product. Evercore ISI analyst Georgia Anderson predicts the chips could generate $75…
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Pathos AI, which uses AI to develop oncology drugs, raised a $237M Series E at a $3B post-money valuation, up from a $1.6B valuation in May 2025
Pathos AI announced on Friday that it closed a $237 million Series E financing, bringing its post‑money valuation to $3 billion, up from $1.6 billion in May 2025, according to Axios via Techmeme. The round size and…
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ARK Invest buys 38,110 Meta shares across three ETFs amid AI spending concerns
ARK Invest added 38,110 Meta Platforms (META) shares on Thursday, splitting the purchase among its ARK Innovation ETF (28,069 shares), ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (7,018 shares) and ARK Fintech Innovation ETF…
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Latent Space reports AI security breach wave and dozens of model releases
A rapid 48‑hour wave of AI‑accelerated vulnerability disclosures overwhelmed defenders, with critical flaws reported in PHP (PHP2Shell RCE), GitLab (CVSS 10), Node.js, and NGINX. Supply‑chain incidents included a…
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Tom Lee says tech selloff near bottom, recommends buying Nvidia and crypto
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee told CNBC that the recent tech selloff is close to bottoming and that investors should buy into the weakness, highlighting Nvidia, the Magnificent Seven, software, crypto, financials and cyclical…
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Indian workers film hand tasks for AI data, earning $5‑$10 per day
In Bengaluru, 22‑year‑old barber Mohammed Ashim has begun wearing a head‑mounted camera that records only his hands while he cuts hair. The footage, with faces blurred, is sold to robotics and "physical AI" firms.…
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Z.ai hires Chinese security researcher Chen, known as Guhe, to boost AI cybersecurity
Z.ai announced that Chen, a Chinese security expert known online as Guhe, has joined its Beijing team to strengthen the company’s cybersecurity work. The move was shared on social media last week, with Chen saying he…
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Meta's Muse AI agent reaches 10.9 million downloads amid declining ChatGPT usage
Meta's Muse AI agent has achieved 10.9 million downloads since its September 8 launch, with over 10.2 million from the US, according to Sensor Tower data reported by Yahoo Finance. The app reached 2.5 million daily…
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A16z rebrands Crypto fund as a16z Frontier and adds AI, robotics focus
Andreessen Horowitz announced Thursday that its a16z Crypto fund is being renamed a16z Frontier and its investment mandate is broadened to include artificial intelligence, robotics, and other emerging technologies.…
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OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to expand Rosalind life sciences tools
OpenAI announced on October 20, 2026, that it has acquired Orchestra Bio, a startup founded around 2022 that builds AI agents to help pharmaceutical companies manage drug development programs. The Orchestra team and…
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AI stocks tumble worldwide as oil prices surge to $113.17 per barrel
AI‑focused equities led a sharp market pullback on Thursday, dragging the S&P 500 down 1.2% to 7,663.43 and the Nasdaq composite down 2.6% to 26,008.86, while the Dow Jones added 11 points to 52,867.98. Nvidia fell…
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QumulusAI expands equipment lease financing with Tech Finance Co. to $123.6 million
QumulusAI, an Atlanta‑based AI cloud infrastructure provider, has increased its equipment lease financing with Tech Finance Co. (TFC) to roughly $123.6 million, up from the $26 million announced in May 2026. The new…
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Meta moves Q3 earnings report to October 21, citing Muse AI enthusiasm
Meta announced that its third‑quarter earnings release will be issued on October 21, a full week ahead of the originally scheduled date. The company framed the early filing as a historically bullish signal, pointing to…
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CrowdStrike expands NVIDIA AI security pact, stock up 4%
CrowdStrike announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA that ties its newest AI threat‑detection tool directly into NVIDIA’s secure software and hardware. The partnership aims to let corporate security teams stop…
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