Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years ago from Google, plans to step down in December (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years ago from Google, plans to step down in December — Airbnb
Maxima, whose AI platform automates accounting tasks like reconciliation and journal entry, raised $41M in seed and Series A rounds at a $143M valuation (Aditya Soni/Reuters)
Aditya Soni / Reuters: Maxima, whose AI platform automates accounting tasks like reconciliation and journal entry, raised $41M in seed and Series A rounds at
Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain users’ permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.1 Instant, "warmer" and "more conversational", and GPT-5.1 Thinking, "easier to understand and faster", starting with paid ChatGPT users (OpenAI)
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The UK is investigating whether ~700 of its Chinese-made Yutong electric buses can be remotely deactivated; Norway found that Yutong can render buses inoperable (Financial Times)
Financial Times: The UK is investigating whether ~700 of its Chinese-made Yutong electric buses can be remotely deactivated; Norway found that Yutong can render buses
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
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Trump decided not to discuss Nvidia’s AI chip exports to China during his October 30 meeting with Xi Jinping following opposition from his top advisers (Wall Street Journal)
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Microsoft’s Q1 earnings, showing that it had a $3.1B net loss from its OpenAI stake, imply OpenAI lost $11.5B during the quarter based on Microsoft’s 27% stake (Matt Rosoff/The Register)
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China claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind energy and cooled by seawater (Anna Lagos/Wired)
Anna Lagos / Wired: China claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind
Glasgow-based Chemify, which combines AI with robotics and chemistry to rapidly make novel molecules for pharmaceutical companies, raised a $50M Series B (Alex Scott/Chemical & Engineering News)
Alex Scott / Chemical & Engineering News: Glasgow-based Chemify, which combines AI with robotics and chemistry to rapidly make novel molecules for pharmaceutical companies, raised
