Big Tech buybacks fall 83% as AI spending eats the cash, Reuters reports
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle handed 9.3% of the cash their businesses made back to shareholders. That covers the first nine months of 2026.
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Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a
Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, multiple sources reported Friday. Anthropic so far has
AO3 Fan Fiction Site Is Hacked and Could Be Offline for Weeks
Home to tales inspired by the likes of “Harry Potter” and “Heated Rivalry,” the archive was taken down after “an intrusion,” one of its founders
Nvidia in talks to guarantee debt for Nscale’s Anthropic data centre
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee billions of dollars of debt for Nscale, the UK AI cloud company. The money would build a West Virginia
Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
US President Tweety McTreason has ordered trade talks on robot imports. A Commerce Department investigation found that foreign-made robots and industrial machinery threaten national security.
OpenAI cuts its funding round target to $20bn, FT reports
OpenAI has cut the target for its latest funding round by $10bn, to about $20bn. The Financial Times reported the cut on Friday 30 October
John Ternus tells WIRED Apple won’t ship AI for AI’s sake
Apple wants people to love its products without having to think about whether AI made them work, chief executive John Ternus told Steven Levy for
Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
Flying across several time zones often causes jet lag, a feeling when the body insists it’s the middle of the night while the clock says
The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
In May 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration released a lengthy briefing document on an experimental medication for a rare autoimmune form of vasculitis
How Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Went Down
A war room. A global conference call. A founder who live-posted about the largest crypto heist in history. Inside a frantic 24 hours at the
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic back one AI training opt-out
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honour one shared AI training opt-out in robots.txt. It lets a website keep its content out of generative AI
Sam Altman meets Samsung’s presidents days after his DRAM remark
Samsung hosted OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman for talks with about 50 of its presidents on Saturday. Two days earlier, a podcast went out in
Anthropic denies breach as tampered Claude Code extension hits Cursor users
A tampered copy of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension sat in Cursor’s extension marketplace for about 11 hours on Thursday 29 October. It reached up to