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Deals•Oct 29, 2025
Nvidia to Buy $1B of Nokia Shares in Strategic AI and 5G Partnership
Nvidia announced a deal to purchase $1 billion in Nokia shares and partner with the company to develop 'AI native' 5G-Advanced and 6G networks. The announcement coincided with Nvidia crossing a $5 trillion market cap.
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News•Oct 18, 2025
Facebook’s New Button Lets Its AI Look at Photos You Haven’t Uploaded Yet
Meta is rolling out an opt-in Facebook feature in the US and Canada that scans users’ phone camera rolls, uploads unpublished photos to Meta’s cloud, and suggests edits and collages to make images more “shareworthy.” Meta says the uploaded media...
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News•Oct 17, 2025
These AI Glasses Promised to Make Me Smarter, and All I Got Was Clippy for My Face
A Verge review of Halo Glass — an always-listening AI companion running on Even Realities G1 prototype hardware — finds the product underwhelming in practice, plagued by firmware glitches, awkward interaction (you must tilt your head 15–40° to trigger the...
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News•Oct 17, 2025
Anthropic Connects Claude to Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive
Anthropic has integrated its Claude AI assistant with Microsoft 365—including SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook and Teams—allowing Claude to surface and analyze documents, emails, chats and meeting summaries directly in conversations. The Microsoft 365 connector, built on Anthropic’s open-source Model Context Protocol,...
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Deals•Oct 17, 2025
General Intuition Raises $133.7M Seed to Build World Models From Gaming Data
Medal co-founder Pim de Witte spun out AI lab General Intuition and raised a $133.7M seed round to train world models using gaming video data. Lead investor is Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), with participation from General Catalyst and the Raine...
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News•Oct 16, 2025
New York Bans AI-Enabled Rent Price Fixing
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law banning landlords from using AI-enabled price-setting software, making New York the first U.S. state to outlaw algorithmic rent pricing after several city-level bans. The statute not only forbids using such tools to...
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News•Oct 16, 2025
Uber Is Turning Its App Into an AI Training Ground
Uber launched a US pilot letting drivers and couriers earn small payments for AI “microtasks” — like voice recordings, photos and document uploads — positioning its app as a new data-labeling marketplace. Tasks pay small amounts (examples include up to...
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News•Oct 16, 2025
Spotify Says It’s Working with Labels on ‘Responsible’ AI Music Tools
Spotify announced a formal agreement with major labels — Sony, Universal, Warner, Merlin and Believe — to jointly develop “responsible” generative AI music products and to stand up a dedicated research lab and product team. The pact emphasizes upfront deals,...
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Deals•Oct 16, 2025
Uber Acquires Belgian Data-Labeling Startup Segments.ai to Bolster AI Services
Uber has acquired Belgian startup Segments.ai to expand its data-labeling and AI services business, supporting its push into human-in-the-loop and data annotation offerings. The purchase aligns with Uber’s broader strategy to turn its platform and driver network into sources of...
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News•Oct 15, 2025
Major Federation of Unions Calls for ‘Worker-Centered AI’ Future
The AFL-CIO launched a “workers first initiative on AI,” urging employers and policymakers to embed labor protections into AI deployment through stronger collective bargaining, regulation, and worker involvement in development. The federation — representing 63 unions and nearly 15 million...
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News•Oct 13, 2025
OpenAI Partners with Broadcom to Produce Its Own AI Chips
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to produce its own computer chips to power its AI data centers. The deal is the latest in a series of partnerships designed to reduce the company’s reliance on Nvidia and secure enough computing...
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News•Oct 10, 2025
Copilot on Windows Can Now Create Office Documents and Connect to Gmail
Microsoft is updating its Copilot app on Windows to allow it to create documents from a chat session and connect to Gmail and Outlook accounts. The updated Copilot app is rolling out initially to all Windows Insiders, ahead of a...
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News•Oct 9, 2025
OpenAI’s Sora Has Already Hit More than 1 Million Downloads
OpenAI’s social AI video-generating app, Sora, has reached over 1 million downloads in fewer than five days since its launch. That’s according to Sora head Bill Peebles, who said on Wednesday that Sora racked up downloads faster than ChatGPT did...
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News•Oct 9, 2025
The AI Industry Is at a Major Crossroads
Hey there, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at The Verge and your Thursday episode guest host. I’m subbing in for Nilay while he’s still out on parental leave, and I’m excited to keep diving into...
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News•Oct 9, 2025
DC Comics Won’t Support Generative AI: ‘Not Now, Not Ever’
DC wants Superman and other characters under the stewardship of human artists. DC Comics president and publisher Jim Lee said that the company “will not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork,” assuring fans that its future will remain rooted in human creativity....
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News•Oct 9, 2025
OneDrive Is Getting a New Windows App and an AI Photo Agent
Microsoft is getting ready to release a new OneDrive app on Windows next year that will include a photo gallery, people view, AI-powered slideshows, and editing features. It’s part of a number of new features coming to OneDrive in the...
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Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Atlassian Acquires The Browser Company for $610M
Software giant Atlassian acquired The Browser Company for $610 million. The deal, announced prior to this article, brings the AI-powered Dia browser under Atlassian as Dia becomes widely available on macOS.
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