Satya Nadella participated in a Q&A discussing business models for AGI, Copilot, Microsoft AI, the hyperscale business, the OpenAI partnership, capex, sovereign AI efforts, and related topics.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-13
Satya Nadella business models for AGI Copilot Microsoft AI hyperscale business OpenAI partnership capex sovereign AI efforts
Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for AGI, Copilot, Microsoft AI, the hyperscale business, the OpenAI partnership, capex, sovereign AI efforts, and more
Dwarkesh Podcast · 2025-11-13 · #5
Sources report Tencent and Apple struck a deal for Apple to handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps after more than a year of talks.
rumored 1 article 2025-11-13
Tencent Apple WeChat mini games and apps payments 15% cut
Sources: Tencent and Apple signed a deal to let Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps, after over a year of talks
Bloomberg · 2025-11-13 · #1
Commentators state that CoreWeave's primary customers include OpenAI, Microsoft (largely for OpenAI), Google (renting capacity), Meta, and NVIDIA.
rumored 1 article 2025-11-12
CoreWeave OpenAI Microsoft Google Meta NVIDIA
CoreWeave's stock closed down 16.31% after CEO Mike Intrator noted delays at a data center provider that Jim Cramer implied is Core Scientific; CORZ fell 10%+
CNBC · 2025-11-12 · #41
KT's sovereign cloud platform is built on Microsoft Azure.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-12
KT Azure
South Korea's KT launches a sovereign cloud platform for Korean enterprises, built on Azure with encrypted in-memory processing and strict local data governance
The Korea Herald · 2025-11-12 · #35
Anthropic is partnering with Fluidstack to develop the data centers.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-12
Anthropic Fluidstack data centers
Anthropic plans to spend $50B on a US AI infrastructure buildout, starting with Texas and New York data centers in partnership with Fluidstack, opening in 2026
CNBC · 2025-11-12 · #1
The survey sampled 9,000 music listeners across eight countries.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-12
Deezer Ipsos 9,000 music listeners eight countries
Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can't distinguish AI-generated music, 73% support clear labelling of AI tracks, and more
Reuters · 2025-11-12 · #8
Apple enters its first fashion collaboration since its 2015 deal with Hermès by partnering with Issey Miyake.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Apple Issey Miyake
Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150+ iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, in Apple's first fashion deal since Hermès' in 2015
Vogue · 2025-11-11 · #3
Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Microsoft AI self-sufficiency
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build “frontier-grade research capability” and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency
Business Insider · 2025-11-11 · #11
Microsoft will invest $10 billion to build a data center park in Sines, Portugal, in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Microsoft Start Campus Nscale Sines, Portugal
Microsoft says it will spend $10B to build a data center park in Sines, Portugal, in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale
Bloomberg · 2025-11-11 · #28
Inrupt is associated with and advances the Solid open-source web protocol.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Inrupt Solid
Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more
The Verge · 2025-11-11 · #13
Season 2 employed 10–15 AI tools from companies like Runway for many scenes, including battle sequences.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-10
Amazon House of David (Season 2) 10-15 AI tools Runway
Amazon's House of David Season 2 had 350 to 400 AI-generated shots, up from 70+ in Season 1, using 10 to 15 tools from companies like Runway, drawing criticism
Wired · 2025-11-10 · #12
Palantir provides technology to the Israeli military.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-10
Palantir Israeli military
Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the woke right”, patriotism, Russia's Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more
Wired · 2025-11-10 · #11
Palantir supplies technology and services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-10
Palantir ICE
Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the woke right”, patriotism, Russia's Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more
Wired · 2025-11-10 · #11
Microsoft is recruiting and paying popular U.S. lifestyle influencers (e.g., Alix Earle) to promote its Copilot chatbot to younger users.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-10
Microsoft Copilot Alix Earle lifestyle influencers
Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to promote its Copilot chatbot; Sensor Tower says Copilot has had 99M downloads since launch, far below ChatGPT's 1.4B
Bloomberg · 2025-11-10 · #14
Other countries are looking to China for driverless technology.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-09
Other countries Chinese driverless technology
Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally
Wall Street Journal · 2025-11-09 · #5
Vast Data signs a $1.17 billion AI deal with CoreWeave.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-08
Vast Data CoreWeave $1.17B AI deal
Vast Data, which develops data storage tools, inks a $1.17B AI deal with CoreWeave; Vast Data, valued at $9.1B in 2023, said it reached $200M ARR by Jan. 2025
Reuters · 2025-11-08 · #12
Tucows is the domain registrar for archive.today (archive.is).
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-07
Tucows archive.today
The FBI subpoenaed archive.today's domain registrar, Tucows, on October 30, demanding info about the archiving site's owner as part of a criminal investigation
404 Media · 2025-11-07 · #36
Musk says it is 'worth having discussions' and that Tesla may 'do something with Intel' regarding chip production.
rumored 1 article 2025-11-07
Elon Musk Tesla Intel
Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla is “probably going to have to build a gigantic chip fab” for AI chips and “maybe, we'll do something with Intel”
Reuters · 2025-11-07 · #2
Researchers (including Javier Gómez-Serrano, Terence Tao, and Bogdan Georgiev of Google DeepMind) tested AlphaEvolve on 67 mathematical problems and documented the outcomes.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-07
Researchers Javier Gómez-Serrano Terence Tao Bogdan Georgiev Google DeepMind AlphaEvolve 67 mathematical problems
Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI coding agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to ~20 of them
@azwagner_ · 2025-11-07 · #5
Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to build and operate a Europe-led satellite constellation out of Germany to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-07
Vodafone AST SpaceMobile Europe-led satellite constellation satellite-to-smartphone connectivity Germany
Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation, operated out of Germany, to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity
Reuters · 2025-11-07 · #25
Fastbreak AI provides AI-based sports scheduling optimization tools to the NBA, NHL, and other leagues/clients.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-07
Fastbreak AI NBA NHL
Fastbreak AI, which provides AI-based sports scheduling optimization tools to the NBA, NHL, and others, raised $40M led by Greycroft and GTMfund
Bloomberg · 2025-11-07 · #24
TuSimple transferred autonomous-driving intellectual property to Chinese partners.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-06
TuSimple Chinese partners
Sources, public records, and documents detail TuSimple's downfall, after it transferred autonomous driving IP to Chinese partners despite a 2022 CFIUS agreement
Bloomberg · 2025-11-06 · #20
IAG signs a deal with SpaceX's Starlink to provide Wi-Fi across all five carriers in the IAG airline group, making service available on 500+ aircraft.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-06
IAG SpaceX's Starlink
British Airways owner IAG signs a deal with SpaceX's Starlink for Wi-Fi across all five carriers in the airline group, making it available in 500+ aircraft
Bloomberg · 2025-11-06 · #39
Snap and Perplexity agree to integrate Perplexity's search engine/chatbot into Snapchat beginning in 2026.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-06
Snap Perplexity Snapchat Perplexity search engine
Snap announces a deal to incorporate Perplexity's search engine into Snapchat from 2026; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity
Bloomberg · 2025-11-06 · #51
Microsoft has formed a team led by Mustafa Suleyman to build top AI systems and distance the company from longtime partner OpenAI as it seeks greater independence.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-06
Microsoft Mustafa Suleyman OpenAI
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman lays out the company's plans to develop AI self-sufficiency from OpenAI, like releasing its own voice, image, and text models
Wall Street Journal · 2025-11-06 · #6
Perplexity will pay Snap $400M in a combination of cash and equity as part of the deal to incorporate its search engine into Snapchat.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-06
Perplexity Snap
Snap announces a deal to incorporate Perplexity's search engine into Snapchat from 2026; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity
Bloomberg · 2025-11-06 · #51
Pat Grady and Alfred Lin plan to deepen Sequoia Capital's focus on AI, according to sources.
rumored 1 article 2025-11-06
Pat Grady Alfred Lin Sequoia Capital AI
Sources: Sequoia's Pat Grady and Alfred Lin plan to deepen the VC firm's AI focus and reframe its image as less politically partisan, after Roelof Botha's exit
Bloomberg · 2025-11-06 · #41
Sports Interactive licenses its scouting data to more than 40 teams.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-05
Sports Interactive scouting data 40+ teams
A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports Interactive, which has ~280 full-time staff and licenses its scouting data to 40+ teams, as it releases FM26
Financial Times · 2025-11-05 · #29
Cariad (Volkswagen unit) and Horizon Robotics are developing the AI chip via a joint venture.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-05
Cariad Horizon Robotics AI chip development
VW says it is developing an AI chip for advanced driving in China via a JV between its Cariad unit and Horizon Robotics, with deliveries in three to five years
Financial Times · 2025-11-05 · #44
Nvidia joins the India Deep Tech Alliance as a strategic technical advisor.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-05
Nvidia India Deep Tech Alliance
Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M+ in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical advisor
TechCrunch · 2025-11-05 · #47