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Google plans to spend $17B to build its first Wyoming data center, pay for all the power it uses, and form a Community Council to address growth concerns (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)
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Meta rolls out voice mode and expressive avatars in the Muse app, starting in the US, letting users have voice conversations with Muse in real time (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Sources: about 600,000 of Nvidia's H200 chips are stored in Hong Kong awaiting shipment to mainland China, as Beijing withholds approval for large-scale imports (Reuters)
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METR: Anthropic's models are improving about twice as fast as they did between March 2024 and October 2025, with internal AI use driving ~80% of acceleration (Tiffany Li/The Information)
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California's Proposition 40, which proposes a one-time 5% tax on assets of billionaires for healthcare funding, seems headed for defeat as vote counts continue (Los Angeles Times)
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Anthropic launches Personal Finance in Claude, letting users connect bank and credit card accounts via Plaid with read-only access to analyze spending trends (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
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Microsoft rolls out a Xbox PC app with an overhauled design to Xbox Insiders that it says launches up to 60% faster than before (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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OpenAI says GPT-6 Cyber will first launch to a limited number of customers in its Daybreak Red program and has found 81+ "novel" vulnerabilities in Firefox (Djohnson/CyberScoop)
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Marc Lore's Wonder files confidentially for a US IPO; the company, which acquired Grubhub for $650M in 2025, raised $650M at a $9B pre-money valuation in July (Reuters)
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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber, which it says outperforms GPT-6 Astra on cyber benchmarks, is better at finding vulnerabilities, and is less likely to go rogue (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Defense tech startup Shield AI raises $2.5B to help acquire radar company Echodyne, including a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation, up from $12.7B in March (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
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Aina, which raised $5.5M, launches an "AI ring" with a screen, joystick, and mic to let users talk to their AI agents, take notes, control Apple TV, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Sources: Microsoft is tightening oversight of some data center projects, stepping away from those it deems risky, and debating whether to ink new neocloud deals (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
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Greece's parliament approves a 10% capital gains tax on crypto, exempting gains of up to âŹ500 a year, in the country's first comprehensive crypto tax framework (Lefteris Papadimas/Reuters)
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Google, Meta, and TikTok file lawsuits to block a California law that bans online platforms from providing "psychologically exploitative features" to under-16s (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)