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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Tech has bought itself a more moderate San Francisco• Power and Influence: San Francisco's new mayor vows ‘city is open for business’• Media: How tech’s conservative shift went unnoticed for so long • Plus: How Stevie Wonder still wows; a fertile drama in Leningrad; and the witch is back.Most of the major AI companies choose to play it safe on Election Night. Google prevented Gemini from making any replies about the election, while OpenAI pushed off re
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Valve has created a PC-based game console that lives under your TV. The Steam Machine takes everything that's great about the Steam Deck and adds the raw power to compete with the latest PlayStation and Xbox consoles. It also puts a huge amount of pressure on Microsoft to perfect its Windows and Xbox combination, as […] Read more ›
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Kaspersky launches antivirus software for Linux, starting at $59.99 per year for one device, with a special first-year price of $38.99 for the basic plan. Read more ›
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Microsoft Windows president faces withering criticism in response to boasts that 'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS.' Read more ›
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Meg Wheeler shares how she teaches her son about money using an allowance system focused on financial skills, not chores. Read more ›
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A few new features are coming to the Uber app, including one that could make it simpler to pick someone up or cover their ride. The new “Send a Ride” feature allows you to pay for someone else’s Uber ride directly from the app. You set the number of rides and spending limit, then send […] Read more ›
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Dbrand did the thing: it announced a Portal Companion Cube skin for Valve’s boxy new Steam Machine, allowing you to turn the new PC / console hybrid into a facsimile of gaming’s most loyal sidekick. The Companion Cube skin is limited edition, and will release some time in 2026, though we don’t know if it […] Read more ›
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Valve isn’t just looking for more powerful chips. It needs something truly spectacular. Read more ›
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Red Dead Redemption has been rated by the ESRB for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Switch 2, suggesting a remaster is very much on the way. Read more Read more ›
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Spotify is launching a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what you’ve already heard without needing to rewind. The company likens the feature, called Recaps, to a “previously on” segment at the start of episodes in a TV series. Recaps will be available automatically in the iOS app for a limited number of English-language […] Read more ›
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The most fascinating thing about Valve's newly-announced Steam Machine, in a sense, is its status as a halfway house. It is certainly one thing, but it is also clearly pressing at becoming another. Maybe it is neither? Is this a new category emerging? Or is it simply lines that were once indelible now becoming scuffed, worn, and permeable? Read more Read more ›
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My large family uses a healthshare, but I wanted to explore the marketplace. The plans looked affordable, but I then realized they won't work for us. Read more ›
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Disney said that it "cannot predict how long this service blackout will last," referencing its long-running dispute with YouTube TV. Read more ›
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Dresden-based semiconductor innovator FMC has raised €100 million to reduces the energy demand of AI data centres with its sustainable and cost-efficient memory chip – ranking among the largest raise of its kind in the semiconductor industry. The €77 million in equity comes from FMC’s oversubscribed Series C financing round, led by HV Capital and ... Read more ›
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Google is infusing artificial intelligence into just about every part of how people shop online — including having an AI tool call local stores on a human’s behalf and purchase items automatically. Beginning Thursday (and ahead of the holiday shopping season) Google users in the US will have access to a slew of new AI […] Read more ›
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In August, Google announced that it will implement a new safety feature that would require developers to verify their identities if they want Android users to be able to sideload their apps. Now, the company has started inviting developers that distribute exclusively outside of the Play Store to the early access of the identity verification feature in Android Developer Console. Google has also revealed in the same announcement that despite... Read more ›
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Walt Disney Co. reported flat revenue and slightly lower operating income in the September quarter, as a sharp slump at most of its TV networks offset growth in its streaming business and theme parks operation. Disney stock was trading down 8% on Thursday. Disney’s entertainment ... Read more ›
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AMD chipset driver possibly shortens SSD life, behavior alarms users — incessant log file writes observed every time a window is moved or resized. Read more ›
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Meta wants creators using Instagram's new app Edits. We spoke with a Meta exec about the app's growth. Read more ›
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Chinese companies are launching open-source AI models built to power coding assistants as cheaper alternatives to those available from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Late last month, Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax launched M2, a new open-source large language model developed primarily for coding and AI agents. In a post on X, MiniMax noted that the price of M2 is just 8% of that of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model. (M2 costs $1.20... Read more ›
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On a quiet September morning, Alex Leithiser was out in the woods somewhere in the South on a secret mission: to break into a data center. First, he slipped through a small gap in the facility’s barbed wire fence, and as soon as he hit the ground, he switched clothes, pulling a fresh set from a small backpack. With cameras and alarms all over the data center, Leithiser hoped to... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he doesn’t want the government to bail them out if the company fails. “If we screw up and can’t fix it, we should fail, and other companies will continue on doing good work and servicing customers,” Altman said in an X post on Thursday. Altman also said that OpenAI ... Read more ›
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I’ve been hearing a lot about how intense competition is for Series A investments lately. Investors that typically look to invest in more mature startups, say at the Series B or above rounds, are crowding into Series A rounds for fear of missing the next major winner.Like much else these days, artificial intelligence gets the credit (or blame) for this new dynamic. Venture capitalists are watching revenues triple or quadruple... Read more ›
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Apple is delaying the release of the second-generation iPhone Air to work on a redesign of the device and make it more appealing to consumers, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The redesign could include a second camera lens, an attempt to address one of consumers’ main ... Read more ›
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We’ve finally learned the result of a controversial, long-awaited vote that’s generated reams of punditry and put Wall Street on edge. No, I’m not talking about the mayoral election in New York City—I’m talking about the Tesla shareholder vote on Elon Musk’s gigantic compensation package. Musk won with over 75% of the vote, Tesla said at its annual meeting at the company’s Gigafactory in Texas on Thursday. The package will... Read more ›
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The White House has told others in the federal government it won’t allow Nvidia to sell its latest scaled-down AI chips to China, despite President Donald Trump’s hints over the summer that he might allow the company to do so, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The decision is a major blow to the AI chip giant, which has seen its revenue from China shrivel this year... Read more ›
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Before Sequoia Capital’s leader Roelof Botha announced he was stepping down from the position, partners Alfred Lin, Pat Grady and Andrew Reed came to him to talk about his time at the firm. Botha had only held the top-most job at the firm for three years, taking over from long-time leader Doug Leone just as startup valuations were convulsing from a historic series of rate hikes. Botha, after talking to... Read more ›
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Blue Owl Capital, one of Wall Street’s biggest private lenders, is ramping up its big bet on artificial intelligence with a roughly $3 billion investment in a New Mexico data center that’s part of OpenAI’s Stargate project, said a person with knowledge of the deal. Blue Owl, which has nearly $300 billion in assets, has emerged as a crucial investor in AI infrastructure, taking on the riskiest slices of big... Read more ›
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Two longtime vehicle manufacturing leaders at Tesla said separately on Sunday that they’re leaving the company. One of the executives, Siddhant Awasthi, worked as program manager for Cybertruck and oversaw the production ramp of the electric truck. Awasthi, an eight year Tesla veteran, also ... Read more ›
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