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Sources: Francisco Partners is in talks to acquire Jamf, which provides remote device management tools, taking it private; Jamf has a market cap of ~$1.5B (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

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GitHub updates VS Code with Plan Mode for building step-by-step project approaches, MCP Registry integration, definable project rules via AGENTS.md, and more (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

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Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, is set to raise $250M at a $4B+ valuation (Bloomberg)

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SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $17.02B, vs. $17.22B est, operating profit up 62% YoY to $7.92B, a record, boosted by demand for its HBM chips for AI (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

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Celebrity video shoutout app Cameo sues OpenAI for trademark infringement, alleging Sora's "cameo" feature is likely to cause confusion and dilute its brand (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing "graphic violence" and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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During Nvidia's first ever GTC conference in Washington, DC, Jensen Huang praised Trump's policies and emphasized themes of patriotism and US national interests (Wall Street Journal)

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Myanmar shut down a major online scam center in mid-October as part of operations that began in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling (Associated Press)

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Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPad Air with OLED screens; the iPad mini will likely arrive first, as early as 2026 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

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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)

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A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026 (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)

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Jensen Huang says its Blackwell GPUs are now in full production in Arizona, after being solely manufactured in Taiwan previously (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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Sam Altman says OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4T on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30GW of data center capacity (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Uber plans a fleet of 100,000 autonomous vehicles powered by Nvidia's new Drive AGX Hyperion 10, starting in 2027 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Oppo launches €999 Find X9 and €1,299 Find X9 Pro in the UK and EU, with 7,025mAh and 7,500mAh silicon-carbon batteries and a MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chip (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Nvidia unveils BlueField-4 data processing unit, combining a 64-core Grace CPU and ConnectX-9 SuperNIC for 800 Gbps of network throughput, launching in 2026 (Dylan Martin/CRN)

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Sources: Polymarket plans to return to the US with a focus on sports betting; initial trading is likely by the end of November, but won't be broadly available (Bloomberg)

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Nvidia unveils NVQLink, a high-speed interconnect that Jensen Huang says is the "Rosetta Stone connecting quantum and classical supercomputers" (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

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Nvidia and HPE plan to build two new Vera Rubin-based supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, for national security and scientific research (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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