Techmeme
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman says H1 2026 was "pretty rough", but agentic coding tools, GPT-5.6 Sol, and ChatGPT Work drove a "revenue inflection" in Q3 (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)
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Adzuna: UK entry-level job postings mentioning AI are up ~3x since early 2025; Indeed says one in six vacancies in AI-exposed fields now mentions AI, up 2x YoY (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)
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Pro-AI PAC Leading the Future ended the midterms with $20M+ in its bank, from ~$100M, after focusing on safe bipartisan candidates; its riskier bets fell flat (Tess Owen/Wired)
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Chinese chipmakers' aggressive hiring of experienced engineers is increasingly at odds with efforts to protect trade secrets in Taiwan and South Korea (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
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Sources: China's export curbs on critical metals have disrupted supplies of micro drill bits made mainly from tungsten carbide, used in PCBs and chip substrates (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
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Sources and company memo: Chinese NAND flash maker YMTC has put its Shanghai IPO on hold as China tightens share sale approvals; YMTC sought to raise ~$4.9B (Reuters)
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Sources: Microsoft rejects an option to more than double its Texas data center contract with Nscale, dealing a fresh blow to Nscale's ambitions for a $35B IPO (Financial Times)
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Microsoft previews using smartphones as controllers for Xbox Cloud Gaming on supported smart TVs and direct Wi-Fi cloud gaming support for the Nano Controller (XBOX Wire)
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Source: Meta has decided to stop using fruit for its AI model codenames, as they didn't suit its lofty AI ambitions; its latest model was named "Watermelon" (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)
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Sources: China has told SoftBank it will not allow the $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division to go ahead; China is the division's biggest market (David Keohane/Financial Times)
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Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli startup Clutch Security, which develops software for tracking passwords used by AI agents, for ~$500M (Valida Pau/The Information)
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Berlin-based Pliant raised an $80M Series C led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest, as it opens its B2B payments infrastructure to AI agents (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)
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OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs (OpenAI)
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AppLovin reports Q3 revenue up 55% YoY to $2.18B, above $2.07B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; APP surges 20%+ (William Gavin/MarketWatch)
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Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she is joining OpenAI to lead product manangement for core products; Wu was the product lead for Claude Code (Stephen Council/Business Insider)