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Techmeme - 2025-10-21T23:35:49-04:00

Sources: Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale resigned after the firm refused to discipline partner Shaun Maguire over his comments calling Zohran Mamdani "an Islamist" (Financial Times) - 2025-10-21T23:35:01-04:00

Samsung says it's working on smart glasses built on top of Android XR in partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, during its Worlds Wide Open event (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET) - 2025-10-21T23:15:01-04:00

Samsung's Galaxy XR headset includes an Explorer Pack that bundles a year of Google AI Pro, YouTube Premium, Play Pass, and more with purchases through year-end (Matt Horne/Android Authority) - 2025-10-21T23:05:01-04:00

Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy XR: micro-OLED displays are good, eye tracking works well, lighter than the Vision Pro, Android XR looks a lot like visionOS (The Shortcut) - 2025-10-21T22:55:01-04:00

Galaxy XR is the first Android XR headset and features Gemini Live that understands your surroundings and lets users interact with apps hands-free (Shahram Izadi/The Keyword) - 2025-10-21T22:30:01-04:00

Samsung unveils the Galaxy XR headset, with Android XR, 4K micro-OLED displays, a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip, and an external battery pack, available for $1,799 (Bloomberg) - 2025-10-21T22:10:01-04:00

In an experiment, GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp expressed secular, Western liberal values regardless of the language of the questions (Kelsey Piper/The Argument) - 2025-10-21T21:15:00-04:00

Polymarket and Kalshi surpassed $2B in notional trading volume in the week ending Oct. 19, exceeding the previous peak during the 2024 US presidential election (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) - 2025-10-21T19:25:01-04:00

Findem, an AI-powered talent acquisition startup, raised $51M in equity and debt, including a $36M Series C led by SLW, taking its total funding to $105M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) - 2025-10-21T18:20:58-04:00

Sources: Anthropic is in discussions with Google about a deal that would provide Anthropic with computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars (Bloomberg) - 2025-10-21T18:00:01-04:00

Filing: Satya Nadella's total pay for fiscal 2025 rose nearly 22% YoY from $79.1M to $96.5M, including $84.2M in stock awards; MSFT is up ~23% so far in 2025 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) - 2025-10-21T17:40:02-04:00

Meta forms a JV with Blue Owl to fund the $27B, 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, its largest ever private capital deal; Meta will retain a ~20% equity (Reuters) - 2025-10-21T17:05:48-04:00

Filings: Meta spent the most on US lobbying in Q3, spending $5.8M, followed by Amazon, Google, Apple; Anthropic, Nvidia, and a16z hit $1M+ for the first time (Ashley Gold/Axios) - 2025-10-21T17:00:51-04:00

Texas Instruments reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.74B, vs. $4.64B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and profit below estimates; TXN drops 8%+ after hours (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters) - 2025-10-21T16:40:01-04:00

DraftKings acquires predictions platform Railbird as it prepares to launch its mobile platform DraftKings Predictions in the coming months (Contessa Brewer/CNBC) - 2025-10-21T16:30:06-04:00