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Workday agrees to acquire C1.ai, formerly known as ConductorOne, which develops enterprise software to manage human and AI agent identities and has raised $111M (Malia Spencer ...

Sources: Apple has hired Scott Tucker, Meta VP and deputy general counsel, as its new litigation chief, as part of a shakeup in its legal team — Apple Inc. has tapped a longtime Meta Platforms Inc.
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Sources detail Nscale's setbacks ahead of an IPO at up to a $35B valuation, including a six-month delay in Norway and penalties owed to Microsoft and ByteDance (Bloomberg)

Anthropic says it is giving employee-like access to METR as part of its pledge to partner with evaluators for assessment of its models and safety practices — Last month, we committed to stronger ...
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Taiwan plans US industrial parks costing $2B to $4B each, starting with a Texas complex costing up to $4B, to build a supply chain for Nvidia, TSMC, and Foxconn (Bloomberg)

Sources detail Nscale's setbacks ahead of an IPO at up to a $35B valuation, including a six-month delay in Norway and penalties owed to Microsoft and ByteDance — One flagship AI data center in Norway ...
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Two US officials and a Western official say the order to limit Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield came from inside the White House (Reuters)

Sources detail Nscale's setbacks ahead of an IPO at up to a $35B valuation, including a six-month delay in Norway and penalties owed to Microsoft and ByteDance — One flagship AI data center in Norway ...
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window — Muse Spark Open is available today and ...
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Bluesky expands Attie, its AI tool for building custom feeds, with a "social vibe coding" feature to create sites, games, quizzes, and more on the AT Protocol (Sarah Perez ...

OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta — As OpenAI has jockeyed with Anthropic to win ...
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TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 50.9% YoY to $46.36B, net income up 68.7% to $23.7B, both above est., marking a sixth straight quarterly profit record on AI demand (Jenny Lee/CNBC)

Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026; 87%+ of the payments were for less than 10 cents — The field of agentic commerce, which ...
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Bloomberg is making its ASKB conversational AI interface available to all Terminal users, letting them integrate their own content with existing financial data (Steven ...

A look at Yoti, a digital ID verification app downloaded by 23M people; its revenue grew from £6.2M in 2022 to £32M+ in 2025, with the UK as its biggest market ...
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Figma announces new features to define how AI agents work on its platform, including Figma Specs, a Markdown editor that lets users define their design language (Ivan Mehta ...

Apple closes above a $5T market cap for the first time, the second company after Nvidia to do so; Apple had crossed $5T six times intraday previously — To power Apple's next phase, CEO John Ternus ...
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A look at Yoti, a digital ID verification app downloaded by 23M people; its revenue grew from £6.2M in 2022 to £32M+ in 2025, with the UK as its biggest market (Financial Times)

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GlobalFoundries plans to build two "essential chip" plants in Malta, New York, backed by up to $21B from Japan; the US will take a 4% stake in GlobalFoundries (Bloomberg)

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports and mashups, many of them built with AI tools — New business unit is charged with testing new ...