Tech18 stories ›
Microsoft Q1 revenue hits $92.3B, up 19%, as Azure grows 48% and stock jumps 4%
Microsoft's cloud and AI demand drove a record quarter, easing investor worries about heavy AI spending.
CNBC · +13 outlets
Alphabet Q3 misses estimates, stock sinks 10% as Search growth slows and AI cash burn deepens
Alphabet's first top-and-bottom-line miss in nearly four years fueled concern over AI spending and slowing core ads.
CNBC · +13 outlets
Apple unveils first touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED PROLED XDR display
Apple reversed a long-held stance by adding touch to the Mac, its third major launch under new CEO John Ternus.
MacRumors · +14 outlets
Hacker leaks data on more than 41,000 DHS employees, including undercover ICE agents
The breach exposed names, contact details, and facility locations across ICE and CBP, raising security concerns.
TechCrunch · +10 outlets
Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon frontier model and Genie 4 world model
Google claims significant gains in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity, though access is restricted to select cybersecurity experts.
The Verge · +9 outlets
US DOJ scrutinizes Nvidia's $12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face
Antitrust questions focus on whether the deal would give Nvidia a key distribution point for AI models.
The Next Web · +6 outlets
AI18 stories ›
Microsoft discloses Azure revenue in dollars for the first time: $33.2B as it closes on AWS
Microsoft had never broken out Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars, so the figure offers the first direct comparison with AWS's cloud business.
TechCrunch · +1 outlets
Google DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Carbon two weeks after Argon, topping intelligence index at 59 points
The frontier model targets extended agent workflows and cyber defense, with access starting for vetted cyber defenders at $2/$10 per million tokens.
The Decoder · +2 outlets
Parents sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT coached their daughter off seizure medication before her death
The suit adds to mounting legal scrutiny of chatbot safety and the guardrails around medical advice.
TechCrunch · +9 outlets
Critical UEFI firmware flaw in EDK2 allows code execution on most servers on Earth
The bug lets attackers run code early in the boot process, before most security tooling loads, putting a vast share of server infrastructure at risk.
Ars Technica · +1 outlets
Microsoft reports $92.3B quarterly revenue, a 19% jump and its 10th straight record quarter
The results underscore how much of Microsoft's current growth is tied to AI demand across its cloud and software businesses.
TechCrunch
Google expands AI Search ads globally as Alphabet revenue rises 25% to $127.6B
The ad expansion arrives alongside slowing growth in Google's core search advertising business.
TechCrunch · +1 outlets
Media18 stories ›
Norwegian media companies sue Meta over new AI scraping terms as Schiff urges reversal
Norwegian publishers and a California senator are separately pressuring Meta over terms that would let it use news content to train AI models.
Pressgazette · +5 outlets
Channel 4 and Disney strike landmark deal to bring Channel 4 shows to Disney+
The agreement gives Channel 4 a foothold on Disney's streaming platform as UK broadcasters seek digital distribution beyond their own apps.
Channel 4 · +11 outlets
Jennifer Lawrence confirms return as Katniss in Hunger Games prequel Sunrise on the Reaping
Lawrence returns to the role after 11 years in the prequel Sunrise on the Reaping, alongside Josh Hutcherson and Woody Harrelson.
Thewrap · +13 outlets
WEHCO Media to cut 25% of Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette workforce, 13 newsroom jobs
The cuts add to a wave of newspaper and broadcast job reductions as publishers manage declining print and ad revenue.
KNWA FOX24 · +5 outlets
Fox News October ratings fall 27% but network keeps large lead over CNN and MS NOW
The decline comes ahead of the 2026 midterms, though Fox News remains the most-watched cable news network.
Thewrap · +7 outlets
BBC journalists to ballot on industrial action over compulsory redundancy threat
The NUJ ballot follows BBC plans to cut more than 100 journalism roles under a 500 million pound savings strategy.
Pressgazette · +12 outlets
Startups18 stories ›
Upwind raises $400M Series C at $3.8B valuation after rejecting Datadog buyout offer
The cloud security startup quadrupled revenue and chose an independent round at the same price Datadog had offered to acquire it.
TechCrunch · +13 outlets
Physical Intelligence in talks to raise at least $1B at up to $20B valuation
The robotics foundation-model lab would roughly double its prior valuation in a round that underscores investor appetite for general-purpose robot AI.
Howl.Link · +13 outlets
Cognition weighs new funding at $70B to $80B valuation
The AI coding startup behind Devin would see a steep valuation jump as enterprise demand for coding agents grows.
Business Insider · +3 outlets
FuriosaAI quadruples valuation to $2.9B in Nvidia chase
The South Korean AI chip startup's new round reflects rising investor interest in alternatives to Nvidia's dominance.
Bloomberg · +1 outlets
Anthropic acquires one-person stealth biotech startup Mithril Medicine
The acquisition of a single-founder drug discovery company shows frontier labs pushing into life sciences.
OfficeChai · +4 outlets
Microsoft discloses Azure revenue of $33.2B for the first time
The disclosure lets investors gauge how close Azure is to AWS, the market's biggest cloud provider.
TechCrunch · +3 outlets
Business18 stories ›
Fed holds rates at 3.75%-4% despite elevated inflation, two officials dissent for a hike
The FOMC left its benchmark rate unchanged days before the midterms, with two members dissenting in favor of a quarter-point hike as inflation stayed high.
CNBC · +15 outlets
Alphabet shares sink 10% as Q3 revenue misses and record AI capex deepens cash burn
Alphabet posted its first top-and-bottom-line miss in nearly four years, with $51.4B in capex, negative free cash flow and Google saying AI Mode has hurt tradit
Ft · +11 outlets
Microsoft beats on cloud strength as Azure grows 48%, trims capex on data center delays
Microsoft reported revenue up 19% to $92.3bn with better-than-expected results, while the CFO cited third-party capacity delays for lower capital spending plans
Business Insider · +12 outlets
Anthropic files for potentially the biggest IPO ever as CEO warns of AI risk to humanity
Anthropic's filing, alongside a Senate inquiry from Elizabeth Warren on existential risks, would test public-market appetite for a frontier AI lab.
Griffin Daily News · +14 outlets
DoorDash to announce deal to buy Instacart as soon as Thursday, valuing it near $17bn
An acquisition would consolidate two major US delivery platforms and mark one of the largest consumer-tech deals of the year.
CNBC · +13 outlets
Nvidia's $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal draws DOJ antitrust scrutiny
A Justice Department inquiry would extend scrutiny of Nvidia's reach into AI software and developer tooling.
CNBC · +2 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 ›
Lilly's retatrutide beats Novo's Ozempic on blood sugar and weight in head-to-head diabetes trial
The highest retatrutide dose outperformed Ozempic but carried higher side-effect rates and discontinuations, adding to expectations the drug will be a major Lil
Biopharmadive · +13 outlets
FDA unveils draft guidance to speed approval of individualized gene editing therapies
The framework creates a pathway for patient-specific therapies and builds on recent moves aimed at faster access for rare disease treatments.
Biopharmadive · +14 outlets
Personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine cuts recurrence risk by 42% in Phase 3 trial
The positive results mark the first late-stage success for a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine and fuel hopes for wider use.
Oncology News Central · +14 outlets
FDA and CMS announce joint steps to advance gene therapies and expand rare disease access
The agencies outlined relaxed rules and access measures, with HHS Secretary Oz releasing details during a Cleveland visit.
HHS.gov · +7 outlets
Astellas to pay up to $1.34B for Melbourne startup's cancer candidate
The Japan-based pharma is betting on a Melbourne biotech's cancer therapy in one of the largest recent Australian life sciences deals.
BiotechDispatch · +3 outlets
Artiva shuts down after two patient deaths in autoimmune cell therapy trial
The closure marks the third recent fatal event in autoimmune cell therapy trials, following disclosures from Novartis and Bristol Myers Squibb.
STAT · +9 outlets
Climate18 stories ›
Global clean energy additions set to fall in 2026, first decline in five years, IRENA says
The IRENA chief attributes the first annual drop in capacity additions since 2021 to grid bottlenecks and trade constraints, while warning tripling renewables b
BioEnergy Times · +14 outlets
DOE announces $10.1B in loans to Constellation and Alliant for 3.7 GW of uprates
The conditional packages would finance output boosts at existing nuclear and gas facilities, continuing the Trump administration's pro-nuclear spending push.
Utilitydive · +3 outlets
UK Autumn Budget sets new clean energy course as green groups call it a missed opportunity
Chancellor John Healey announced a "radical reform" of UK clean energy plans focused on lowering bills, drawing mixed reactions from the green economy.
Carbonbrief · +3 outlets
Modi to open Bharat Renewable Energy Summit as India sizes $220B three-year clean energy need
India will host the summit Nov 2-5 and use it to chart a funding roadmap for solar, storage, hydrogen and grid investment through FY30.
Republic World · +6 outlets
Powerful interests spend big to weaken California's landmark environmental law via Prop 45
PACs funded by tech companies and major utilities have spent nearly twice as much backing a ballot measure that would fast-track major development with minimal
Insideclimatenews · +1 outlets
Trump's EPA proposes letting leakiest oil and gas wells off the hook for methane
The rollback could save oil and gas companies billions while worsening global warming for decades, according to reporting on the proposal.
Grist · +6 outlets
Games18 stories ›
GTA 6 Sets Record 29% Purchase Intent Among US Console Gamers, Circana Says
The pre-release demand metric is the highest Circana has recorded, underscoring expectations for November's launch.
Gamespot · +7 outlets
Epic Confirms It Is Using Generative AI to Build Fortnite and Unreal Engine 6, Says Engineers No Longer Write Bulk of Code
Epic is expanding gen-AI use across its core products despite industry skepticism, framing speed as the bigger risk.
Eurogamer · +14 outlets
Valve Acknowledges Steam AI Slop and Cloning Problem, Says It Won't Be a Gatekeeper
Steam Next Fest has been flooded with low-effort and cloned games, and Valve is placing responsibility on developers rather than restricting tools.
Pcgamer · +10 outlets
BioWare Devs Allege EA Owners Asked Studio to Remove LGBTQ+ Content From Mass Effect
Former staff describe scrubbing diversity from demos after EA's acquisition by a consortium including Saudi Arabia's government.
Kotaku · +3 outlets
Tim Sweeney Claims Valve Has Held Gaming Back for Years Over Steamworks Lock-In
The Epic CEO's remarks escalate the long-running rivalry over PC storefront and platform control.
Pcgamer · +10 outlets
Witchbrook Finally Gets a Release Date After Nearly a Decade of Waiting
Chucklefish's cozy witch life sim is the headline reveal of Nintendo's October Indie World showcase.
Pushsquare · +14 outlets
Sports18 stories ›
Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died from 2008 to 2023 had CTE
The finding reinforces the link between football and the neurodegenerative disease and is likely to intensify debate over player safety.
ESPN · +13 outlets
Big 12 fines UCF $100,000 for anti-Mormon chants, sets in-game penalties for repeat offenses
The conference is adding on-field penalties for discriminatory conduct at sporting events after chants aimed at BYU's Mormon fans.
sports.yahoo · +7 outlets
Big Ten adopts Protect College Sports Act pay rules without waiting on Congress
The move advances direct athlete compensation models amid stalled federal legislation on college sports.
The New York Times · +14 outlets
Ernie Johnson to retire as host of Inside the NBA after the season
The longtime host's exit marks the end of an era for one of the NBA's most-watched studio shows.
ESPN · +14 outlets
Rays name Drew Rasmussen to start World Series Game 5 on short rest
Tampa Bay turns to Rasmussen on three days' rest to stave off elimination after a dramatic Game 4 win kept the series alive.
ESPN · +10 outlets
Rays walk off Brewers in extras to avoid World Series sweep, force Game 5
The extra-innings victory kept Tampa Bay's improbable comeback hopes alive heading into Wednesday's Game 5.
The New York Times · +9 outlets
Entertainment18 stories ›
Alexander Payne Sued for Copyright Infringement Over 'The Holdovers' Script
Screenwriter Simon Stephenson alleges the Oscar-nominated film was based on his unproduced screenplay set in a children's hospital.
Variety · +6 outlets
Hayden Panettiere's Death Ruled Accidental as Police Close Investigation
The Greenville, South Carolina police department concluded its investigation after the coroner's determination.
Rolling Stone · +13 outlets
Barbara Barrie, Oscar-Nominated 'Breaking Away' and 'Barney Miller' Star, Dies at 95
The Tony, Emmy and Oscar nominee starred in the original production of Company and died in Manhattan.
Variety · +13 outlets
Alphabet Misses Q3 Targets as YouTube Ad Revenue Rises 9% to $11.2 Billion
Alphabet shares fell 8% in after-hours trading after overall financials undershot Wall Street expectations.
Deadline · +5 outlets
George Cheeks Unveils Skydance TV Leadership Team Across Studios, Sports, Entertainment and News
The co-chair and chief content officer named 10 top executives in a restructuring.
Deadline · +13 outlets
J. Cole Addresses Kendrick Lamar Feud, Confirms He Is Not Retiring
Cole had previously said The Fall-Off would be his final album.
Billboard · +6 outlets
Luxe18 stories ›
MGM Resorts ends merger talks with Barry Diller's People Inc., citing new pact
The collapse leaves uncertainty over who might buy an operator whose Las Vegas resorts have been losing ground for two years.
Skift · +14 outlets
Marriott confirms corporate job cuts in global restructuring, hotel staff unaffected
The company says some affected corporate employees may be placed in newly posted roles.
Skift · +2 outlets
Indian luxury watch brand Rotoris raises $8.5 million to expand retail network globally
The invitation-only watch house plans Rotoris House locations in Mumbai and New York as it pushes India's challenger luxury brands overseas.
Business Connect India · +4 outlets
Vrbo launches Reserve Now, Pay Later, taking a more host-friendly tack than Airbnb
Zero upfront payment has been a growth lever for Airbnb, but Vrbo's version narrows when guests can cancel without penalty.
Skift
Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo roll out AI search, free lounge access and flexible booking features
The features are part of Expedia Group's bid to differentiate its brands amid intensifying competition in online travel.
The Points Guy · +2 outlets
Frontier reports major airfare surge, but Spirit's exit has not fixed its profit problem
Record revenues from higher fares and more passengers have yet to translate into meaningful profits as jet fuel costs bite.
Skift · +14 outlets