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Thursday

  1. AI Business

    Nvidia Invests $3 Billion in Meta's Muse Agent and Reaches Partnership

    Nvidia has invested $3 billion in Meta's Muse agent and the Muse series models, and the two sides announced that the Muse models (Wonder and Wonder Full) and the agent will run on Nvidia infrastructure. Meta plans to expand its deployment of Nvidia hardware, including using Vera Rubin and Vera CPU for next-generation AI agents, and the two sides are also exploring using Nvidia's OpenShell reference architecture for agent security. Meta's consumer-grade Muse agent has reached 10.9 million downloads and 2.5 million daily active users since its launch on September 8, but it has not yet become a profit engine.

    Nvidia has invested $3 billion in Meta's Muse agent and the Muse series models, and the two sides announced that the Muse models (Wonder and Wonder Full) and the agent will run on Nvidia infrastructure. Meta plans to expand its deployment of Nvidia hardware, including using Vera Rubin and Vera CPU for next-generation AI agents, and the two sides are also exploring using Nvidia's OpenShell reference architecture for agent security. Meta's consumer-grade Muse agent has reached 10.9 million downloa

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  2. Wired AI

    AI Drives a Wave of Formal Verification Startups as &Truth Raises $70 Million

    WIRED reports that generative AI is pushing formal verification toward commercialization. &Truth has raised $70 million and launched publicly, while Harmonic has raised a cumulative $295 million, and its math AI agent Aristotle supports verification of C code and Verilog hardware designs. Stanford researcher Chuyue Sun used AI tools to complete an engineering project in less than half a day at a cost of under $500, whereas three experts working by hand took five months to complete the same work. The report also notes that the technology is still at the prototype stage, that customers' willingness to pay and adoption methods remain unclear, and that Antithesis's Will Wilson calls formal verification a "trap" that can only provide partial guarantees.

    WIRED reports that generative AI is pushing formal verification toward commercialization. &Truth has raised $70 million and launched publicly, while Harmonic has raised a cumulative $295 million, and its math AI agent Aristotle supports verification of C code and Verilog hardware designs. Stanford researcher Chuyue Sun used AI tools to complete an engineering project in less than half a day at a cost of under $500, whereas three experts working by hand took five months to complete the same work.

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  3. Sina Tech

    Driven by AI financing boom, global bond issuance hits record high

    So far this year, global investment-grade and junk bond issuance has raised a total of $6.61 trillion, up 15% year-on-year, surpassing the 2025 record with two months still left in the year. Among this, cloud computing giants and data center developers issued nearly $368 billion in bonds, more than six times the same period last year, accounting for about one-third of the increase in borrowing. Amazon became the world's fourth-largest bond issuer and largest corporate borrower this year, with Alphabet close behind; five of the top ten U.S. corporate issuers are tech companies.

    So far this year, global investment-grade and junk bond issuance has raised a total of $6.61 trillion, up 15% year-on-year, surpassing the 2025 record with two months still left in the year. Among this, cloud computing giants and data center developers issued nearly $368 billion in bonds, more than six times the same period last year, accounting for about one-third of the increase in borrowing. Amazon became the world's fourth-largest bond issuer and largest corporate borrower this year, with Al

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Friday

  1. 9to5Mac

    Reddit will require login to access most content

    Reddit announced it will shift to a logged-in-user-first experience, with most content requiring a login account to access, a major change in its 21-year history. CEO Steve Huffman said the move is intended to improve user experience, strengthen the advertising business, and stop bots from scraping proprietary data. The new experience will begin testing outside the United States this quarter; the homepage and content reached via search engines or shared links will remain accessible, but browsing specific subreddits without logging in will no longer be possible.

    Reddit announced it will shift to a logged-in-user-first experience, with most content requiring a login account to access, a major change in its 21-year history. CEO Steve Huffman said the move is intended to improve user experience, strengthen the advertising business, and stop bots from scraping proprietary data. The new experience will begin testing outside the United States this quarter; the homepage and content reached via search engines or shared links will remain accessible, but browsing

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  2. CNET

    New York Times investigation claims Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may be a target of Chinese intelligence activities

    A New York Times investigative report claims that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may be a target of Chinese intelligence activities, and that the US has identified Alice Huang, an executive at the Singapore data center company Megaspeed who has close ties to him, as a suspected Chinese government intelligence operative. Alice Huang is a Chinese citizen; Megaspeed purchases chips from Nvidia and sells computing power to Chinese AI labs including Alibaba. While conducting electronic surveillance of the company over suspected improper resale of advanced Nvidia chips to China, the US found that she was also suspected of passing information to the Chinese government. Nvidia responded that Huang's contact with Alice Huang was not unusual and that customers such as Megaspeed would not receive sensitive trade secrets.

    A New York Times investigative report claims that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may be a target of Chinese intelligence activities, and that the US has identified Alice Huang, an executive at the Singapore data center company Megaspeed who has close ties to him, as a suspected Chinese government intelligence operative. Alice Huang is a Chinese citizen; Megaspeed purchases chips from Nvidia and sells computing power to Chinese AI labs including Alibaba. While conducting electronic surveillance of the c

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  3. CNET

    Google Expands AI Mode Ads to 10 Countries and Introduces Multiturn Ads

    Google is expanding ads in AI Mode to 10 new countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, and Singapore, and plans to enter Brazil, Mexico, and the UK later this year. In the US, Google introduced "multiturn ads," which can display ads based on commercial relevance in follow-up questions within AI Mode. Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler said user queries are shifting to AI Overviews and AI Mode, causing search ad revenue growth to slow in the third quarter.

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  4. The Verge AI

    Microsoft offers voluntary severance to about 60,000 employees

    Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and India, a scale far exceeding the retirement package offered to about 9,000 people earlier this year. As of June 30, Microsoft had about 223,000 employees, down 5,000 from the previous year, the first year-over-year decline in a decade; eligible employees must decide whether to accept by December. The article also mentions that Turn 10 Studios head Dan Greenawalt will retire, and that Bethesda may announce the title "The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel" next month.

    Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and India, a scale far exceeding the retirement package offered to about 9,000 people earlier this year. As of June 30, Microsoft had about 223,000 employees, down 5,000 from the previous year, the first year-over-year decline in a decade; eligible employees must decide whether to accept by December. The article also mentions that Turn 10 Studios head Dan Greenawalt will

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  5. Wired AI

    Accenture Contractor Connected Personal Claude Code Account to Pentagon System, Causing Credential Leak

    WIRED, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that an Accenture contractor connected a Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) system used by multiple intelligence agencies to his personal Claude Code account, letting the AI agent write and deploy code on his behalf; the agent then sent login credentials, passwords, and NIPRNet network topology diagrams to a third-party website that NIST has classified as high-risk. The agent ran on a Department of Defense network for two months before being discovered and patched, and sources said Accenture initially did not report the matter to the government; Accenture responded that the allegations were found to be unfounded after a thorough independent investigation and that it has fully complied with its legal and contractual obligations. Claude is currently prohibited for use by Department of Defense personnel.

    WIRED, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that an Accenture contractor connected a Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) system used by multiple intelligence agencies to his personal Claude Code account, letting the AI agent write and deploy code on his behalf; the agent then sent login credentials, passwords, and NIPRNet network topology diagrams to a third-party website that NIST has classified as high-risk. The agent ran on a Department of Defense network for two months befo

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  6. Sina Tech

    34.5% of SpaceX's Q3 Revenue Came from Anthropic Compute Contract

    According to people familiar with the matter, Anthropic is SpaceX's single largest customer, contributing more than one-third of its revenue in the third quarter. SpaceX documents show that this customer accounts for about 34.5% of revenue, and the documents label it only as "Customer B." This revenue comes from Anthropic's use of compute at SpaceX's data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The contract is worth up to $120.5 billion and runs through 2029, but starting this December Anthropic will pay about $3.1 billion per month and may terminate the contract with 90 days' notice after January 2027 and March 2027.

    According to people familiar with the matter, Anthropic is SpaceX's single largest customer, contributing more than one-third of its revenue in the third quarter. SpaceX documents show that this customer accounts for about 34.5% of revenue, and the documents label it only as "Customer B." This revenue comes from Anthropic's use of compute at SpaceX's data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The contract is worth up to $120.5 billion and runs through 2029, but starting this December Anthropic will pay

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  7. Wallstreetcn

    Amazon Q3 Earnings: AWS Revenue Up 39.3%, AI Capital Expenditures Turn Free Cash Flow Negative

    Amazon's net sales in Q3 2026 grew 12% year-over-year to $201.94 billion, slightly below expectations, while AWS net sales grew 39.3% year-over-year to $45.98 billion, the highest single-quarter growth rate in nearly five years. Purchases of property and equipment for the quarter reached $77.26 billion, about 1.2 times the year-ago period, and free cash flow swung from an inflow of $14.79 billion in the year-ago period to an outflow of $42.36 billion. The company maintained its full-year 2026 cash capital expenditure guidance of approximately $220 billion unchanged, and the stock fell as much as more than 10% in after-hours trading following the earnings release.

    Amazon's net sales in Q3 2026 grew 12% year-over-year to $201.94 billion, slightly below expectations, while AWS net sales grew 39.3% year-over-year to $45.98 billion, the highest single-quarter growth rate in nearly five years. Purchases of property and equipment for the quarter reached $77.26 billion, about 1.2 times the year-ago period, and free cash flow swung from an inflow of $14.79 billion in the year-ago period to an outflow of $42.36 billion. The company maintained its full-year 2026 ca

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  8. Wallstreetcn

    Anthropic Reportedly SpaceX's Largest Single Customer, Contributing Over One-Third of Q3 Revenue

    According to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, Anthropic is currently SpaceX's largest single customer, contributing more than one-third of SpaceX's revenue in the third quarter, exceeding the share from the U.S. federal government. SpaceX documents show that about 34.5% of revenue that quarter came from a single AI division customer, "Customer B." Anthropic has committed to paying SpaceX up to $120.5 billion over the contract term through 2029, equivalent to about $3.1 billion per month starting this December, but it can terminate the contract with 90 days' notice after January and March 2027.

    According to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, Anthropic is currently SpaceX's largest single customer, contributing more than one-third of SpaceX's revenue in the third quarter, exceeding the share from the U.S. federal government. SpaceX documents show that about 34.5% of revenue that quarter came from a single AI division customer, "Customer B." Anthropic has committed to paying SpaceX up to $120.5 billion over the contract term through 2029, equivalent to about $3.1 billion

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  9. Wallstreetcn

    Nvidia Plans to Provide Credit Guarantee for Nscale's Over $5 Billion Data Center Construction Financing

    Nvidia is in talks with emerging AI cloud service provider Nscale to provide over $5 billion in credit guarantees for the debt financing of a 460-megawatt data center Nscale plans to build in West Virginia, USA; the agreement has not yet been signed. The data center will serve Anthropic, with the two parties having signed a $45 billion lease contract, and the facility will be equipped with Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs. The guarantee takes the form of a residual value guarantee and covers the data center facility itself rather than the lease or the chips. To date, Nvidia has provided approximately $170 billion in credit support and investment to customers including emerging cloud providers.

    Nvidia is in talks with emerging AI cloud service provider Nscale to provide over $5 billion in credit guarantees for the debt financing of a 460-megawatt data center Nscale plans to build in West Virginia, USA; the agreement has not yet been signed. The data center will serve Anthropic, with the two parties having signed a $45 billion lease contract, and the facility will be equipped with Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs. The guarantee takes the form of a residual value guarantee and covers the data cent

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  10. Wallstreetcn

    Amazon Earnings Call: AWS Expected to Grow Over 40% in 2027 and 2028, 2026 Capex Around $220 Billion

    Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on the Q3 earnings call that AWS third-quarter revenue grew 39.3% year over year to $45.98 billion, and is expected to grow over 40% in both 2027 and 2028, becoming a business with annual revenue exceeding one trillion dollars in the next 5 to 10 years. The company maintained its expectation of about $220 billion in cash capital expenditure for 2026, most of which will go to AWS, and expects spending to increase significantly in 2027. On Bedrock, spending by Fortune 500 companies grew nearly 7x year over year and total tokens grew nearly 17x, revenue commitments for Trainium and Graviton grew more than 20x year over year, and Trainium is planned to be sold externally by the end of 2027.

    Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on the Q3 earnings call that AWS third-quarter revenue grew 39.3% year over year to $45.98 billion, and is expected to grow over 40% in both 2027 and 2028, becoming a business with annual revenue exceeding one trillion dollars in the next 5 to 10 years. The company maintained its expectation of about $220 billion in cash capital expenditure for 2026, most of which will go to AWS, and expects spending to increase significantly in 2027. On Bedrock, spending by Fortune 50

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  11. Wallstreetcn

    Amazon, Intel, and Alphabet earnings miss expectations, global tech stocks fall collectively

    Earnings from Amazon, Intel, and Alphabet successively missed expectations, triggering a collective slump in global tech stocks. Nasdaq 100 index futures extended losses to 2%, and South Korea's KOSPI index fell 4.5% and triggered the SIDECAR mechanism to suspend program selling. Intel plunged 23% after hours, Amazon fell about 7.3% after hours, and Alphabet tumbled 13% in the previous trading session, its largest single-day drop. Market attention is focused on capital expenditures: Amazon's third-quarter spending on equipment and property exceeded $77 billion, and free cash flow over the past 12 months was negative $42.4 billion. CEO Andy Jassy said capital expenditures will increase significantly in 2027.

    Earnings from Amazon, Intel, and Alphabet successively missed expectations, triggering a collective slump in global tech stocks. Nasdaq 100 index futures extended losses to 2%, and South Korea's KOSPI index fell 4.5% and triggered the SIDECAR mechanism to suspend program selling. Intel plunged 23% after hours, Amazon fell about 7.3% after hours, and Alphabet tumbled 13% in the previous trading session, its largest single-day drop. Market attention is focused on capital expenditures: Amazon's thi

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  12. Wallstreetcn

    Century-Old Law Firm Weil Gotshal Dissolves, Legal AI Startup Crosby Submits Letter of Intent to Acquire

    Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has announced its dissolution, and legal AI startup Crosby has submitted a letter of intent to acquire its internal data, trademarks and brand, and to recruit some of its lawyers. According to The Information, what Crosby values is non-client-specific data such as the firm's M&A agreement templates and contract templates for each stage of negotiations, which can be used for model fine-tuning. Crosby has been founded for less than two years, has raised more than $80 million, and is valued at $400 million; its AI agents connect to the underlying models of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

    Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has announced its dissolution, and legal AI startup Crosby has submitted a letter of intent to acquire its internal data, trademarks and brand, and to recruit some of its lawyers. According to The Information, what Crosby values is non-client-specific data such as the firm's M&A agreement templates and contract templates for each stage of negotiations, which can be used for model fine-tuning. Crosby has been founded for less than two years, has raised

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  13. Cailian Press

    Oracle and Google Share Prices Diverge: Capital Expenditure Expectations Move in Opposite Directions

    On October 28, Oracle's share price surged 10.73%, while Google's parent company Alphabet plunged more than 10% in premarket trading on October 29. Oracle expects capital expenditure to peak in fiscal years 2027 to 2028 and decline in fiscal year 2029, with free cash flow turning positive in the second half of fiscal year 2028 and exceeding $30 billion in fiscal year 2029; Google's third-quarter revenue and profit both fell short of expectations, recording negative free cash flow for two consecutive quarters. Oracle also said it needs to raise up to an additional $20 billion over the remainder of fiscal year 2027, split evenly between debt financing and equity financing.

    On October 28, Oracle's share price surged 10.73%, while Google's parent company Alphabet plunged more than 10% in premarket trading on October 29. Oracle expects capital expenditure to peak in fiscal years 2027 to 2028 and decline in fiscal year 2029, with free cash flow turning positive in the second half of fiscal year 2028 and exceeding $30 billion in fiscal year 2029; Google's third-quarter revenue and profit both fell short of expectations, recording negative free cash flow for two consecu

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  14. Cailian Press

    Cohere Pursues Funding of Up to $5 Billion, Pre-Money Valuation Reaches $20.5 Billion

    Canadian AI model developer Cohere is pursuing a funding round of up to $5 billion, with a pre-money valuation of $20.5 billion, roughly three times that of a year ago. The company said it has completed the first closing, with investors including the Canadian government and Nvidia making funding commitments, among which the Canadian government agreed to invest up to C$1.6 billion (about $1.14 billion). Cohere plans to keep its headquarters in Canada and expects to invest about $1.2 billion in the country by 2030 to build new computing infrastructure.

    Canadian AI model developer Cohere is pursuing a funding round of up to $5 billion, with a pre-money valuation of $20.5 billion, roughly three times that of a year ago. The company said it has completed the first closing, with investors including the Canadian government and Nvidia making funding commitments, among which the Canadian government agreed to invest up to C$1.6 billion (about $1.14 billion). Cohere plans to keep its headquarters in Canada and expects to invest about $1.2 billion in th

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Wednesday

  1. Data Center Knowledge

    Oracle Cloud to Offer Google TPU and Inference Chips from OpenAI, Cerebras, and Others

    Oracle announced that it will deploy Google TPU on OCI, along with inference chips from OpenAI, Cerebras, SambaNova, and Positron AI, giving customers more computing options beyond Nvidia GPUs. Oracle says it will become the first hyperscale cloud provider other than Google Cloud to offer TPU; TPU and the Cerebras wafer-scale engine are planned to launch in 2027, and Positron Atlas is already available. At the same time, Oracle is expanding its partnership with Nvidia, with the Vera Rubin NVL72 system and Vera CPU now generally available on OCI.

    Oracle announced that it will deploy Google TPU on OCI, along with inference chips from OpenAI, Cerebras, SambaNova, and Positron AI, giving customers more computing options beyond Nvidia GPUs. Oracle says it will become the first hyperscale cloud provider other than Google Cloud to offer TPU; TPU and the Cerebras wafer-scale engine are planned to launch in 2027, and Positron Atlas is already available. At the same time, Oracle is expanding its partnership with Nvidia, with the Vera Rubin NVL72

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  2. 404 Media

    Meta updates its commercial terms to allow using user content to train AI; UK and EU users can object

    Meta updated its commercial terms this month to allow it to use content from associated domains, web pages, or URLs to develop, improve, research, train, and maintain Meta products, sparking discontent among artists and small business owners who rely on Instagram and Facebook. The effective date was postponed from October 30 to November 20, and Meta subsequently removed the word "train" from the list of permitted uses and limited the uses to "advertising and business products." UK and EU users can currently submit an objection form in the Instagram Privacy Center, and some users say they have received emails from Meta confirming that their objections were approved; these options do not appear in the United States and other places.

    Meta updated its commercial terms this month to allow it to use content from associated domains, web pages, or URLs to develop, improve, research, train, and maintain Meta products, sparking discontent among artists and small business owners who rely on Instagram and Facebook. The effective date was postponed from October 30 to November 20, and Meta subsequently removed the word "train" from the list of permitted uses and limited the uses to "advertising and business products." UK and EU users c

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  3. 404 Media

    UK and EU users can object to Meta using their content to train AI

    Meta updated its terms for business accounts to allow it to use content from linked websites and pages to develop, improve, and train AI, sparking dissatisfaction among small businesses and artists who use Instagram. UK and EU users can currently submit an objection form in the Instagram Privacy Center, and some users say they have received emails from Meta approving their objections. The terms were originally set to take effect on October 30 but were changed to November 20 after objections, and Meta also removed the word "train" from the permitted uses and narrowed the scope to advertising and commercial products.

    Meta updated its terms for business accounts to allow it to use content from linked websites and pages to develop, improve, and train AI, sparking dissatisfaction among small businesses and artists who use Instagram. UK and EU users can currently submit an objection form in the Instagram Privacy Center, and some users say they have received emails from Meta approving their objections. The terms were originally set to take effect on October 30 but were changed to November 20 after objections, and

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