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Techmeme - 2025-11-04T20:05:49-05:00

Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 9%+, Advantest 7%+ (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC) - 2025-11-04T20:05:02-05:00

Sources detail Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw the design of the racy chatbot Ani, employees turned over biometric data to train avatars, more (Wall Street Journal) - 2025-11-04T19:50:01-05:00

The US sanctions eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes for the North Korean government (Tim Starks/CyberScoop) - 2025-11-04T18:30:01-05:00

Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to include Reddit and Kick, which join Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and YouTube (Clare Armstrong/ABC) - 2025-11-04T17:35:02-05:00

Sources: Netflix has sent out dozens of requests to agents at WME, UTA, and CAA for video podcast creators, and plans to launch video podcasts in early 2026 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter) - 2025-11-04T17:25:03-05:00

Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, vs. $6.09B est., and forecasts Q2 profit below estimates; SMCI drops 9%+ after hours (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-04T17:10:01-05:00

Match reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $914M, vs. $915M est., net income up 18% to $161M, paying users down 5% to 14.5M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates (Kritika Lamba/Reuters) - 2025-11-04T16:55:00-05:00

AMD reports Q3 revenue up 36% YoY to $9.24B, vs. $8.7B est., Data Center revenue up 22% to $4.3B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below the highest projections (Ian King/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-04T16:45:01-05:00

Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $1.05B, MAUs up 12% to 600M, vs. 590M est., but forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; PINS drops 17%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) - 2025-11-04T16:25:04-05:00

Apple says Live Translation on AirPods will expand to the EU next month; the first iOS 26.2 beta, seeded to developers on Tuesday, brings the feature to the EU (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) - 2025-11-04T15:40:01-05:00

A joint Databroker Files investigation shows commercially traded mobile phone location data allows the tracking of millions of Europeans, including EU officials (netzpolitik.org) - 2025-11-04T15:15:01-05:00

Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of "bullying" after receiving "an aggressive legal threat" demanding Comet not make purchases on users' behalf (CNBC) - 2025-11-04T14:40:00-05:00

OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android, including in the US, Canada, and Japan; the app reached 1M+ downloads in the five days after its September iOS launch (Emma Roth/The Verge) - 2025-11-04T14:10:03-05:00

IBM plans to cut "a low single-digit percentage" of its workforce in Q4, affecting thousands of staffers; it employed ~270K workers as of the end of 2024 (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-04T14:05:02-05:00

Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics, which is building AI models to enable human-like robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks, raised a $16M seed (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) - 2025-11-04T13:35:01-05:00