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Oracle files to issue $10 billion in stock and $10 billion in bonds to finance AI infrastructure

Oracle on Monday filed with the SEC, planning to issue $10 billion in common stock and $10 billion in senior notes, with proceeds to be used for AI infrastructure buildout and other general corporate purposes; shares fell more than 6% that day after the news was announced. The company had already flagged this round of financing at its investor day last week, and gave a revenue forecast of at least $225 billion for fiscal 2030, while stating that additional capital markets financing during the 2027 to 2030 investment cycle would be limited to this $20 billion. Oracle shares have fallen 33% cumulatively in 2026, and its five-year credit default swap spread has risen to 296.

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A Roundup of the 11 Best Singing Photo Generators of 2026

Robotics & Automation News rounded up the 11 best singing photo generators of 2026 and named freebeat the best overall: its Photo Karaoke turns a single photo into a staged singing clip of up to 30 seconds, while Music Video Agent supports full songs of up to 6 minutes, analyzing 7 types of musical signals including tempo, beat grid, and energy, and achieving about 90% lip-sync accuracy across more than 12 languages. HeyGen is better suited to enterprise digital humans, and Hedra excels at highly expressive close-ups; freebeat's free tier offers 500 lifetime credits, Basic is $6.99/week, and Pro is $34.99/month.

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Hheise online04:48

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After the RTX 5090, the RTX 5080 also sees a major price increase

Nvidia's RTX 5080 graphics card has risen in price by more than 30% over the past two weeks, and it is currently hard to buy one for under 2,000 euros, while the RTX 5090 has climbed to 8,000 euros. The price increase stems from Nvidia's preference, amid the AI boom, for using GPUs such as the GB202 in higher-margin workstation cards like the RTX Pro 6000 (96 GByte), which starts at around 16,500 euros. The rumored new version of the RTX 5080 with 24 GByte of VRAM may not make it in time for CES next January, because manufacturers have not yet received the design materials.

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Hheise online04:48

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Anthropic's prospectus shows a loss of $104 billion for the year, with revenue rising to $33.2 billion

Anthropic's updated prospectus shows a cumulative loss of $104 billion year to date, with revenue for the first nine months rising from $2.5 billion in the same period last year to $33.2 billion. The third quarter loss was $23.3 billion on revenue of $17 billion; the loss mainly came from book adjustments, while the operating loss was $567 million. The company plans to invest $895 billion over the coming years in data centers and infrastructure, of which nearly $450 billion will come due by the end of 2030, and computing power spending in the quarter was about $5 billion.

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Hheise online04:48

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heise smartphone camera Top 10 list: Vivo X500 Pro Max beats Apple and Xiaomi to take first place

The heise best list rates the Vivo X500 Pro Max as the best camera phone, priced at around 1500 euros, equipped with a 2-megapixel telephoto lens developed in partnership with Zeiss, and supporting 4K 240fps video. The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max ranks second at around 1600 euros, featuring three 2-megapixel sensors; the Google Pixel 11 Pro XL becomes the value-for-money champion at 1045 euros. Stiftung Warentest, meanwhile, rates the iPhone 17 Pro Max as the overall winner.

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Hheise online04:48

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SUSE cuts about 10% of global workforce, citing automation and AI

SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen announced in an internal email to 1,900 employees the cut of about 10% of the global workforce, citing that automation and AI are fundamentally changing how software companies work and that demand for some existing roles has dropped sharply. The specific affected positions were not disclosed; affected employees will be notified by Wednesday, and the company plans to explain its fiscal 2027 strategy to the remaining employees on November 16. Previously, in September, SUSE had asked senior employees whether they were willing to leave voluntarily, but the number of volunteers was insufficient.

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UUnite.AI04:47

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ON1 brings Photo RAW 2027 to Mac and Windows with built-in local AI tools

On November 2, 2026, ON1 released Photo RAW 2027 for Mac and Windows, adding a new RAW processing engine, an improved NoNoise AI model, and an AI Culling Assistant available only in the MAX version. ON1 says photographers in blind tests preferred the 2027 engine over the 2026 engine by about 3 to 1, and preferred its straight-out-of-camera results over Lightroom Classic by about 2 to 1. The standard version is a one-time purchase price of $99.99, and the MAX version is $149.99; both include free updates for the 2027 version, and the mobile version will launch several weeks after the desktop version.

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UUnite.AI04:47Research

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Stony Brook University Study: Physicians Prefer AI-Generated Discharge Summaries in 95% of Cases

A retrospective study from Stony Brook University showed that, among the 60 internal medicine inpatient cases evaluated, physician reviewers preferred AI-generated discharge summaries in 95% of cases. Published in npj Digital Medicine, the study found that AI summaries averaged 4.71 points for overall quality versus 3.16 for human-written summaries, 4.62 versus 3.73 for factual accuracy, and 4.69 versus 3.42 for completeness. The study also noted that both types of summaries contained errors, and that the high ratings do not prove better patient outcomes; the authors emphasized that physician verification is still required before use.

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UUnite.AI04:47

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Microsoft and Lumen Expand Joint Sales to Jointly Advance Enterprise AI Networking

On November 2, 2026, Microsoft and Lumen Technologies announced the expansion of their joint sales partnership, bringing Lumen's cloud networking and application connectivity capabilities into Azure and the Microsoft Marketplace, and aligning network transformation with Azure modernization and AI infrastructure planning ahead of time. The Alkira cloud networking service under Lumen Connect is now available for purchase in the Microsoft Marketplace, and the two parties also plan to explore combining AI-ready connectivity with Microsoft's agent governance and security capabilities. The listing of Lumen's full suite of cloud networking capabilities on Azure and the related agent governance work remain in the planning stage.

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UUnite.AI04:47

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Larridin Completes $30 Million Series A Funding to Measure AI Spending and Workforce Impact

Larridin has completed a $30 million Series A funding round led by Pelion Ventures, bringing total funding to $47 million, to measure how AI spending translates into actual work output by employees and software agents. Its Workflow Intelligence platform collects application usage metadata through a browser extension and desktop agent, and has measured over 2 billion AI sessions and tracked more than 82,000 workflows. The company reports that customer teams achieved an average measurable output increase of 47%, with median first-year AI spending optimization of $2.4 million.

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UUnite.AI04:47Product release

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Anthropic Launches Message Threads Beta for Long-Running Agents

On November 2, 2026, Anthropic launched the public Beta of message threads. After a Messages API application sends the full conversation for the first time, subsequent requests only need to send new messages. Anthropic says that with the feature enabled by default for most Claude Code users, median time to first token for requests of 500,000 to 1 million tokens dropped by about 35%. Threads expire five minutes after the last request, content is stored only in memory and retained for at most one hour, zero data retention and HIPAA scenarios are not supported, and applications still need to save the full conversation themselves for replay.

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UUnite.AI04:47Product release

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xAI Launches Data Bot in Grok Bot, Providing Teams with Shared Data Analysis Skills

On November 2, 2026, xAI launched Data Bot in Grok Bot. Built by the SpaceXSI data science team, it handles warehouse queries and analysis work and outputs results in each user's preferred format. The bot maintains a set of shared skills covering metric definitions, A/B testing, visualization, dashboards, and data engineering, along with shared memory that stores operational knowledge; new memories require approval by a Team Bot administrator. xAI estimates that in the week before launch, Data Bot took on about 70 hours of work that would otherwise have belonged to the data science team, while complex analysis remains the responsibility of that team.

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UUnite.AI04:47Product release

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Sierra restructures the Agent Studio workflow around Ghostwriter

On November 2, 2026, Sierra announced a redesign of Agent Studio around its agent-building tool Ghostwriter, integrating troubleshooting, journey editing, and testing into a single conversation, with evidence, suggested changes, and test results kept together for teams to review before going live. Ghostwriter was launched on March 25, 2026, and initially could read SOPs, customer service call transcripts, photos of whiteboard sketches, process documents, recordings, and natural language instructions to identify key behaviors and edge cases; on September 28, 2026, it was expanded into a proactive collaborating member that resides in Slack and Teams. The new version supports maintaining context across journeys, simulations, and dashboards; each session is a chat thread containing conversation and changes, changes must be reviewed and merged, and sessions can be shared or forked; Agent Studio can also group related agents into the same project for unified testing and release, and offers line-by-line diffs, automated Agent Checks, peer review and a Reviewer role, staged releases, and rollback-capable immutable snapshots.

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TThurrott04:46Product release

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OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs

OpenAI plans to simplify the ChatGPT app design by merging the Chat and Work tabs, and has notified users via email. After the merge, users can bring in files and plugins in the same place, allowing ChatGPT to build websites, create presentations, or perform web operations on their behalf; Codex will remain in the desktop app's mode selector, but will share the same quota pool with ChatGPT. This interface adjustment will first roll out to a small number of users, and the shared token quota for ChatGPT and Codex will take effect for Plus, Pro, and Business users in December.

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99to5Mac04:44

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iOS 27.2's New Messages Feature Suggested Actions Can Be Customized

iOS 27.2 adds a new Suggested Actions feature to the Messages app, which can directly generate action suggestions such as adding calendar events or to-do reminders below messages. This feature is powered by Apple Intelligence and requires an AI-compatible iPhone to use. Users can turn each of the five categories of suggestions on or off separately in Settings, and all are enabled by default.

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99to5Mac04:44Product release

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OpenAI will retire ChatGPT Classic on January 30, 2027, and is testing Chat and…

OpenAI is notifying ChatGPT Classic users that the app will be retired on January 30, 2027; chat history will be preserved through the migration, and users are being guided to download the new desktop app. OpenAI will also test a merged Chat and Work experience with a small group of users in the coming weeks, allowing conversational features and Work's advanced capabilities to be used in the same interface, while Codex remains a separate experience within the desktop app. During the transition, OpenAI plans to introduce shared usage quotas for ChatGPT and Codex, replacing the previous separate limits.

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TThe Decoder04:42

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Engineer Venkatesh Rao: AI Elites May Hoard Intelligence Like Mercantilists Hoarded Gold

Engineer Venkatesh Rao wrote in a blog post on Contraptions, comparing the current fear of AI to mercantilism: many elites view intelligence as a scarce and dangerous resource, advocating that it be managed by experts, kept at a high price, and that rivals' access to it be restricted; some AI executives also use safety concerns to seek political influence. He believes AI will make people think more rather than less, and that the political focus should be on fair access to AI, rather than protecting traditional knowledge jobs.

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TThe Decoder04:42

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Goldman Sachs revokes AI coding tool access for traders and bankers, keeping it only for engineers

Goldman Sachs has barred most employees from using advanced AI coding tools such as Claude Code and GitHub, with only engineers allowed to continue using them, based on internal guidance from October. Traders and bankers had used these tools for several months to monitor trading flows and generate content, and the tightening is reported to have caused internal dissatisfaction. Goldman Sachs spokesperson Nick Carcaterra said the reasons include various factors such as productivity and risk management, that the trial phase has ended, and that the tools will be reserved only for those best suited to long-term use.

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Sierra Redesigns Agent Studio Around Ghostwriter

Sierra has redesigned Agent Studio, threading Ghostwriter throughout the entire interface so users can troubleshoot issues, modify journeys, run simulations, and test fixes within the same conversation. Each work item corresponds to a conversation, and changes remain within the conversation until review and merge, with support for sharing and forking; related agents can be grouped into the same project for unified testing and publishing, and it provides line-by-line diffs, Preview Chat, Simulations, and release approval with controlled rollout.

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Muse shows all the patches released since launch

Muse posted that some patches go into the app, while some patches are sewn onto the sash, and showed a video listing every item it has released since launch.

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