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Tech18 stories ›

South Korea fines Google and Apple a combined $47.6M over app market payment rules
South Korea's regulator found both companies violated rules on in-app payment steering, marking one of the largest single app-store enforcement actions in Asia.
MacRumors · +5 outlets
Apple holds 'Pro and Tell' event today, expected to unveil touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro
Apple's 'Pro and Tell' event is expected to introduce a redesigned MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, OLED display, and M6 chip.
Engadget · +14 outlets
Jury selection begins in Los Angeles in Meta and Snap youth social media addiction case
Jury selection begins in Los Angeles in a case testing whether social platforms are liable for youth addiction harms.
ABC7 Chicago · +13 outlets
Amazon unveils five new Alexa devices, led by 16-inch Echo Show 16
Amazon announced a broad Alexa hardware refresh spanning speakers, displays, a photo frame, and a smart clock, some with cameras and Wi-Fi extension features.
TechCrunch · +14 outlets
Microsoft earnings to test whether AI investment is paying off
Microsoft's results are being watched as a test of whether massive AI and data center spending is translating into returns.
Yahoo Finance · +14 outlets
SK Hynix posts record quarterly profit as memory supply stays sold out through 2029
SK Hynix's results underscore a memory supply crunch that is expected to keep prices elevated for years.
CNBC · +13 outlets

AI18 stories ›

Trump orders US government to cut ties with Anthropic; Hegseth calls it a supply chain risk
The order directs federal agencies to cut ties with Anthropic over supply chain risk, marking an escalation in the administration's conflict with the AI lab.
Bloomberg.com · +13 outlets
Trump says he will ban use of the terms 'AI' and 'artificial intelligence' in federal materials
Trump says he will stop federal use of the terms AI and artificial intelligence, calling them bad and inaccurate names.
Washington Times · +14 outlets
Anthropic's SEC filing devotes 90 pages to risk ahead of landmark IPO
Anthropic's SEC filing dedicates 90 pages to risk factors as it moves toward what would be a landmark public listing.
TechCrunch · +11 outlets
Nvidia releases open Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe model covering 40 languages
The open speech model handles transcription, speaker recognition and translation, topping several benchmarks but working only on recordings rather than live aud
The Decoder · +8 outlets
House Democrats ask frontier AI companies to report safety incidents to Congress within 48 hours
House Democratic committee leaders are pressing frontier labs to report misalignment and safety incidents within 48 hours.
House.gov · +14 outlets
Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4 real-time world model with native audio and steering
The research preview adds native audio, live dialogue and real-time steering to the interactive world model, with Gemini helping plan events inside the simulati
MarkTechPost · +14 outlets

Media18 stories ›

Meta plans $95B AI infrastructure raise; Nvidia to invest $3B
The raise underscores how AI infrastructure spending is reshaping the balance sheets of major platform companies.
Hindustan Times · +8 outlets
Hasan Piker sues CNN's Scott Jennings for $72.5M over 'manipulated' lynching quote
The suit alleges Jennings aired a manipulated clip portraying the Twitch streamer as endorsing lynching, escalating the fight between political streamers and ca
Deadline · +5 outlets
Skydance offers buyouts and orders five-day office return after Warner Bros. merger
The move follows the Paramount and Warner Bros. merger and signals further cost cuts across David Ellison's studio.
New York Post · +13 outlets
Channel 4 and Disney strike deal to bring Channel 4 shows to Disney+
The agreement gives Channel 4 a major U.S. streaming shopfront and marks a rare licensing pact between a UK public broadcaster and Disney.
Irish Examiner · +10 outlets
William Shatner pays tribute to 'Star Trek' co-star Walter Koenig, dead at 90
Koenig, who played Ensign Pavel Chekov, died at 90, prompting tributes from across the franchise.
Deadline · +14 outlets
Paramount+ orders 'Mushroom Murders' limited series starring Melanie Lynskey
The greenlight extends the true-crime boom, adapting one of Australia's most notorious homicide cases with an Emmy-nominated lead.
The Hollywood Reporter · +10 outlets

Startups18 stories ›

Upwind raises $400M Series C at $3.8B valuation as revenue quadruples
The cloud security startup more than doubled its valuation in a round that underscores sustained investor appetite for AI-driven security tooling.
HackerNoon · +11 outlets
Nvidia leads $14M Series B in Indian AI inference startup Simplismart
The Bengaluru company, which helps firms run AI models on fewer GPUs, reportedly drew Nvidia's backing at roughly a $100 million valuation.
AI Insider · +15 outlets
Physical Intelligence in talks to raise at least $1B at up to $20B valuation
The robotics AI startup is seeking to roughly double its valuation in a round that signals continued enthusiasm for physical AI.
Howl.Link · +13 outlets
AI coding startup Cognition weighs funding at $70B to $80B valuation
A new round at that level would make the maker of Devin one of the most valuable private AI software companies.
Business Insider · +1 outlets
Anthropic's IPO set to deliver huge returns, with Amazon positioned for the largest windfall
Note conversions reveal Amazon's ownership stake as investors and co-founders brace for outsized payouts from the listing.
TechCrunch · +14 outlets
Hyphenate raises $45M for AI agents that automate corporate finance
The startup, founded by Microsoft alumni, is betting AI agents can take over finance workflows in the office of the CFO.
n24.com.tr · +14 outlets

Business18 stories ›

Anthropic files for IPO, warning some AI risks may be uninsurable
The Claude maker's filing frames AI risk and governance questions that could shape scrutiny of the largest tech listing attempt to date.
CNBC · +14 outlets
Stocks hold near records as Wall Street awaits Fed decision and Alphabet, Microsoft earnings
Two of the largest companies in the world and the Fed's rate path land the same afternoon, making the session a test for the market's AI-led rally.
CNBC · +15 outlets
SK Hynix posts record quarterly profit, lifting AI stocks and memory peers
Blowout memory results reinforced hopes that AI hardware demand remains strong heading into the Fed decision and megacap earnings.
CNBC · +14 outlets
Dropbox to cut about 9% of workforce, co-CEO Alkarmi tells staff in memo
The cloud storage company is profitable but cited hard choices on spending, adding to a year of broad tech job cuts.
Business Insider · +7 outlets
Nelson Peltz's Trian offers $1.4 billion to buy Wendy's, shares jump 15%
The bid follows a rough two-year stretch for the burger chain as consumers eat out less often.
CNBC · +6 outlets
Death toll in Spain high-speed train collision rises above 60
The crash near Toledo is the second deadly high-speed rail accident in Spain this year, after a January collision in Andalusia killed 46.
Ft · +13 outlets

Science18 stories ›

OpenAI says AI produced new results in math and physics, refuting a long-held computer science conjecture
If confirmed, the result would challenge the exponential time hypothesis and a 30-year-old assumption in computational complexity theory, and it marks a notable
Newscientist · +14 outlets
Study finds nearly 75 percent of NFL players who died in recent years had CTE
The finding adds to the body of evidence linking repeated head impacts in football to chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
The Boston Globe · +10 outlets
NASA officially ends the Swift space telescope mission after a failed rescue attempt
Swift spent over two decades detecting gamma-ray bursts, and the mission's end closes an era in high-energy astronomy.
FOX Weather · +13 outlets
Researchers control the magnetic nuclear spin of a single atom using radio waves
The Delft result overturns the expectation that nuclear spin coupling could not be manipulated this way, a step toward atomic-scale quantum control.
Phys · +14 outlets
James Webb telescope finds the most distant ring galaxy yet, hinting at a rare early collision
The object formed about 2 billion years after the Big Bang, offering a rare view of galaxy assembly in the early universe.
Live Science · +4 outlets
Chemists isolate long-sought molecules with boron-oxygen triple bonds after a 60-year search
The stable boron-oxygen triple bond had eluded synthesis for decades and could inform new main-group chemistry and materials design.
Phys · +2 outlets

Biotech18 stories ›

Moderna, Merck personal cancer vaccine cuts melanoma recurrence risk 42% in Phase 3 trial
The personalized mRNA vaccine's Phase 3 readout is the first late-stage proof that individualized cancer vaccines can work, opening a race to extend the approac
Bioengineer.org · +15 outlets
Lilly's retatrutide beats Ozempic on blood sugar and weight in Phase 3 diabetes study
The head-to-head win strengthens expectations that the triple-agonist retatrutide will become a major growth driver in the obesity and diabetes market.
STAT · +11 outlets
FDA unveils draft guidance creating approval pathway for personalized gene therapies
The framework would let developers of individualized, patient-specific gene therapies usher multiple variants through a single trial and approval, a shift rare
Biopharmadive · +11 outlets
Artiva shuts down autoimmune cell therapy work, lays off 94% of staff after patient deaths
The move makes Artiva the third company lately to report fatal events in autoimmune cell therapy, a setback for applying cancer strategies to autoimmune disease
Biopharmadive · +7 outlets
STAT investigation: Epic's EHR dominance chokes health tech and AI innovation
STAT found Epic selectively withholds patient data access from rival developers, drawing antitrust scrutiny over how its grip shapes provider technology choices
STAT
Ferring to acquire next-gen IVF startup Gameto for up to $1.4B
The deal gives Ferring rights to technology aimed at simplifying the lengthy and burdensome in vitro fertilization process.
Biopharmadive · +2 outlets

Climate18 stories ›

UK chancellor announces 'radical reform' shake-up of clean energy plans
The UK government is overhauling its clean energy policy framework, a change officials describe as radical reform of the country's plans.
BusinessGreen · +6 outlets
Antarctic sea ice decline since 2016 is triggering global ocean changes, study finds
Researchers documented a sharp salinity increase in a vast ocean layer, describing a dramatic shift in a key part of Earth's climate system.
Insideclimatenews · +8 outlets
IRENA chief: global clean energy additions set to slow in 2026, first drop in five years
The IRENA chief attributes the expected slowdown to grid bottlenecks and trade constraints, and says tripling capacity by 2030 may still fall short.
Green Building Africa · +12 outlets
Greenland ice sheet shrinks for 30th year in a row
The ice sheet has now lost more ice than it gained for 30 consecutive years, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
Carbonbrief · +7 outlets
CATL advances 20 Ah solid-state EV batteries, targeting 500 Wh/kg and 2027 production
The world's largest battery maker aims to begin small-scale production of the solid-state cells in 2027.
Electrek · +9 outlets
Mexico: Brazil's Lula wins re-election, climate advocates warn fight far from over
Environmentalists celebrate Lula's narrow win over right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro as a win for the Amazon, but note a rightward-shifted Congress leaves Ind
Insideclimatenews · +5 outlets

Games18 stories ›

EA shuts down BioWare, studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age
The closure follows BioWare's recent disappointments and EA's acquisition by a consortium including Saudi Arabia's government.
Kotaku · +14 outlets
GTA 6 PS5 download size revealed as 210GB ahead of November 19 launch
The enormous install size puts further pressure on console storage during an ongoing memory supply crunch.
Eurogamer · +14 outlets
Rockstar Games UK staff set union recognition vote during GTA 6 launch month
A successful vote would create the largest recognised union in the UK video games industry.
Rockpapershotgun · +14 outlets
Report: Mass Effect: Universe devs scrubbed diversity from demos to avoid EA pushback
Former BioWare staff describe removing Pride imagery as the cancelled Mass Effect project and the studio were wound down.
Kotaku · +1 outlets
GTA 6 sets record for video game purchase intent, Circana data shows
The tracking data underscores expectations that GTA 6 will be one of the biggest entertainment launches ever.
Gamespot · +12 outlets
Valve says it is working on Steam's AI slop problem but puts onus on developers
The Steam business team said it has a significant number of people investigating AI clones and Next Fest flooding.
Kotaku · +14 outlets

Sports18 stories ›

Rays walk off Brewers in 12 innings to win World Series Game 4, avoid sweep
Tampa Bay's extra-inning rally cuts Milwaukee's series lead to 3-1 and forces a Game 5 at Tropicana Field.
ESPN · +14 outlets
Brewers host Rays in World Series Game 5 with Jacob Misiorowski on the mound
Milwaukee turns to its hardest-throwing starter for a second chance at the franchise's first championship, with Tampa Bay's pitching plan unsettled.
CBS Sports · +13 outlets
Colts trade DeForest Buckner and Quenton Nelson, signaling rebuild; Jonathan Taylor buzz grows
Indianapolis is moving veterans to contending teams under Carlie Irsay-Gordon ahead of the Nov. 10 deadline, with the star running back's future the next questi
ESPN · +6 outlets
Chiefs sign former Ravens kicker Justin Tucker to practice squad as Harrison Butker struggles
Kansas City adds the five-time All-Pro (his first team since 2024) while starter Harrison Butker has converted 11 of 16 field goals this season.
CBS Sports · +14 outlets
Valkyries lead Dream 3-2 as WNBA Finals Game 6 moves to a 12:30 p.m. matinee
Golden State can clinch the title in Atlanta, where the Dream sold out State Farm Arena but objected to the early tip time, which dropped tickets as low as $32.
sports.yahoo · +14 outlets
All Copa del Rey matches postponed after fatal high-speed train crash in Spain
Twenty-four first-round fixtures scheduled for Wednesday were suspended as a mark of respect after more than 30 people were killed near Madrid.
ESPN · +14 outlets

Entertainment18 stories ›

Jay-Z Confirmed for Super Bowl 2027 Halftime Show at SoFi Stadium; Goodell Says He Wanted It
Jay-Z will headline the Super Bowl LXI halftime show on Valentine's Day 2027 in Inglewood, California, with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell saying the Roc Nation
Pitchfork · +13 outlets
Jennifer Lawrence Confirms Hunger Games Return in Sunrise on the Reaping, Reunites With Co-Stars
Lawrence will reprise Katniss Everdeen for the first time in 11 years in the prequel, calling the reunion with Josh Hutcherson and Woody Harrelson emotional.
The Hollywood Reporter · +12 outlets
Russell Brand Testifies in Rape Trial, Says People Have Abandoned Him
The former actor and comedian maintained his sexual encounters were consensual as multiple women accuse him of assault spanning a decade.
Rolling Stone · +13 outlets
Kathleen Kennedy Replaces Peter Rice as Head of Ceremonies and Content for LA28 Olympics
The veteran producer and former Lucasfilm president takes over opening and closing ceremony duties for the Los Angeles 2028 Games.
The Hollywood Reporter
Peter Medak, Director of The Changeling and The Krays, Dies at 88
The Hungarian-born director of The Ruling Class and Romeo Is Bleeding died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a six-decade career.
Variety · +10 outlets
Jafar Panahi Faces Five-Year Prison Sentence in Iran After Releasing It Was Just an Accident
The Oscar-nominated, Palme d'Or-winning filmmaker has also been banned from travel and social media for two years.
Indiewire · +6 outlets

Luxe18 stories ›

Chinese shoppers pull back on luxury spending, squeezing major fashion houses
Weaker Chinese demand is pressuring the world's biggest luxury groups, a key risk for the sector's growth outlook.
CNA · +5 outlets
Etihad launches daily A380 service to Bangkok, featuring a three-room luxury suite
Etihad is deploying its A380 superjumbo on the Bangkok route, putting one of the industry's most opulent onboard products on a daily schedule.
Travel Daily Media · +14 outlets
Air France expands La Première first class cabin to more U.S. routes
Air France is widening its most exclusive cabin offering as premium demand splits the airline market into haves and have-nots.
Upgraded Points · +12 outlets
JetBlue to launch BlueFirst domestic first class in December 2026, doubling down on premium
JetBlue says it will keep investing in first class seats, lounges and Fort Lauderdale growth despite cost pressures.
The Points Guy · +12 outlets
Qatar Airways CEO says a new first class cabin is 'under serious design'
The Gulf carrier is signaling continued investment at the top of the premium cabin market as rivals push luxury hard.
Executive Traveller · +14 outlets
Saudi Arabia shrinks giga project budgets while hotel developers keep building luxury pipelines
A mismatch between trimmed state spending and continued luxury hotel construction raises questions about oversupply and cost inflation.
Skift · +1 outlets