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DoorDash pulls support for a GOP bill that would have limited DC's ability to write its own tax laws after widespread calls for locals to boycott the service (Martin Austermuhle/The Washington Sun)
Anthropic urges Australia to consider "conditional approval" for Big Tech to train models on copyrighted works, giving copyright holders a choice to opt out (Josh Butler/The Guardian)
SoftBank made the final $10B investment in its $30B pledge to OpenAI's last funding round; source: Nvidia also made its final $10B investment in the round (The Information)
A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for its IPO as soon as the week of November 9, putting it in line to begin trading before Thanksgiving (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
Sony launches Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a "new performance tier of AI upscaling" for the standard PS5 developed in collaboration with AMD (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Gavin Newsom vetoes a CA bill banning secret recording with smart glasses in private places, saying its definition of wearable recording devices was too broad (Sophie Austin/Associated Press)
OpenAI says it "parted ways" with three researchers for violating its "handling sensitive" info policies; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization (Wall Street Journal)
Memo: Ryan Roslansky, who was promoted from LinkedIn CEO to the head of Office and Teams in 2025, is leaving, triggering another Microsoft executive reshuffle (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Sources: Anthropic has taken the unusual step of ending customers' discounts, which typically reach ~15%, once they hit the usage limits, forcing renegotiations (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
Volantis, which aims to use vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, like those used by the iPhone's Face ID, to connect AI chips and memory chips, raised $88M (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
In a Q&A, Trump discusses Dario Amodei's views as differing much from "what is portrayed in the media", meetings with AI leaders, "Super Intelligence", and more (Time)
Miami-based Doxx.net, whose platform enables serverless P2P calling, messaging, and file transfers for humans and AI agents, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Samsung quietly raises US prices for most of its Galaxy S26 lineup by $100 and the 1TB Galaxy S26 Ultra by $200; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 are unchanged (Adrian Diaconescu/PhoneArena)