Browsing: November

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Sources: Anthropic in talks to lease servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its use of Azure since November 2025 (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 21, 2026

The information: Sources: Anthropic in talks to lease servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its use…

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NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from November 2025 to February 2026, exposing the personal data, medical records and fingerprints of more than 1.8 million people (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 19, 2026

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: NYC Health + Hospitals claims hackers accessed its network from November 2025 to February 2026, exposing…

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Snap reports first-quarter revenue up 12% year-over-year to $1.53 billion, in line with estimates, and says it has terminated its $400 million Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops more than 4% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 6, 2026

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Snap reports first-quarter revenue up 12% year-over-year to $1.53 billion, in line with estimates, and says…

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Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as an inflection point for coding, burnout from managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny’s Newsletter)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI buys TBPN, SpaceX’s IPO for $2 trillion? Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure The Big Technology…

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SoftBank’s stock is down about 48% since November 3, as the extent of its involvement in OpenAI comes under increased scrutiny; On Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% following Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Sierra is getting ahead in the AI race | Co-founder Bret Taylor Grit explores what it…

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Suno CEO and Co-Founder Mikey Shulman Says Music Company AI Has Reached 2 Million Paid Subscribers and $300 Million ARR; pitch deck: it had 1 million paying subscribers in November 2025 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 27, 2026

Kristin Robinson / Billboard: Suno CEO and Co-Founder Mikey Shulman Says Music Company AI Has Reached 2 Million Paid Subscribers…

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Sources: Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus project raises tens of billions to buy companies affected by AI; it was valued at ~$30 billion in November 2025 when it raised $6.2 billion (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 27, 2026

Financial Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus project raises tens of billions to buy companies affected by AI; it was valued…

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Binance says it will convert $1 billion of stablecoin reserves held in its SAFU into bitcoin over the next 30 days, as BTC falls to its lowest level since November (Danny Park/The Block)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 30, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Where will we go when the robots take over, with Sari Azout from Sublime A show about…

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Tesla says it agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI for preferred stock as part of xAI’s Series E, despite a shareholder vote in November that failed to gain approval (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Is AI killing software? — With Bret Taylor The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind…

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Billionaire Tom Steyer, running for California governor, says he will vote for the one-time 5% tax on billionaires’ wealth if it makes it onto the November ballot (Eliyahu Kamisher/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 26, 2026

Eliyahu Kamisher / Bloomberg: Billionaire Tom Steyer, running for California governor, says he will vote for the one-time 5% tax…

China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

The bank will deploy more powerful agents this year

Airlines discover the grass isn’t always greener with new engines

Texas Butcherworm Cases Don’t Endanger Food Supply, Brooke Rollins Says

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly launch obesity pills, prepare for Medicare coverage

United CEO rejects airline mergers after US rejection

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Mike Johnson ceded his power as Speaker of the House to Trump

Hakeem Jeffries goes on Fox News and calls them out for ignoring GOP bigots

Trump Melts Down and Leaves to Meet the Press When Asked for Evidence of Election Rigging

Trump holds sit-down event in Wisconsin as apparent decline deepens

Vinyl Equity, an SEC-registered transfer agent that launched a payments platform earlier this year, raised a $20 million Series A round led by Jump Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

In an interview, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, said the company plans its IPO for 2028, regardless of the success of Anthropic and OpenAI’s IPOs (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

US FCC waives deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still scheduled to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Microsoft has disabled more than 70 of its repositories on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Meta invests $115 million in workforce academy, free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees on Meta construction sites (Wall Street Journal)

Browsing: November

Sources: Anthropic in talks to lease servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its use of Azure since November 2025 (The Information)

NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from November 2025 to February 2026, exposing the personal data, medical records and fingerprints of more than 1.8 million people (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Snap reports first-quarter revenue up 12% year-over-year to $1.53 billion, in line with estimates, and says it has terminated its $400 million Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops more than 4% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as an inflection point for coding, burnout from managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny’s Newsletter)

SoftBank’s stock is down about 48% since November 3, as the extent of its involvement in OpenAI comes under increased scrutiny; On Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% following Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)

Suno CEO and Co-Founder Mikey Shulman Says Music Company AI Has Reached 2 Million Paid Subscribers and $300 Million ARR; pitch deck: it had 1 million paying subscribers in November 2025 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

Sources: Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus project raises tens of billions to buy companies affected by AI; it was valued at ~$30 billion in November 2025 when it raised $6.2 billion (Financial Times)

Binance says it will convert $1 billion of stablecoin reserves held in its SAFU into bitcoin over the next 30 days, as BTC falls to its lowest level since November (Danny Park/The Block)

Tesla says it agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI for preferred stock as part of xAI’s Series E, despite a shareholder vote in November that failed to gain approval (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)

Billionaire Tom Steyer, running for California governor, says he will vote for the one-time 5% tax on billionaires’ wealth if it makes it onto the November ballot (Eliyahu Kamisher/Bloomberg)