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An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more (Brie Wolfson/Colossus)

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In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success, a senior researcher told a state-run conference he was pessimistic about AI's impact on humanity (Reuters)

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CoinGecko: crypto market cap falls to $3.5T from October's $4.4T peak, on track to erase its 2025 gains; crypto ETFs had $700M of net outflow over the past week (Bloomberg)

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Vast Data, which develops data storage tools, inks a $1.17B AI deal with CoreWeave; Vast Data, valued at $9.1B in 2023, said it reached $200M ARR by Jan. 2025 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

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Nasdaq had its worst 5-day run since April, falling 3% for the week as the combined market value of eight most valuable AI-related stocks fell by about $800B (Financial Times)

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A US judge declares a mistrial after a jury couldn't reach a verdict on two brothers charged in 2024 for allegedly stealing $25M in crypto from Ethereum traders (Bloomberg)

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Google introduces Nested Learning, a new ML approach for continual learning that views models as nested optimization problems to enhance long context processing (Google Research)

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Sources: Samsung is in talks with Barclays to launch a consumer credit card in the US; it's also exploring a high-yield savings account, BNPL product, and more (AnnaMaria Andriotis/Wall Street Journal)

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Halo Infinite is about to get its last major update

The Verge - All Posts

Did the government shutdown delay your flight?

Vox - All

Fantastic Four: First Steps, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, and the best movies on streaming this week

Polygon - All

Weekly Podcast: Arc Raiders, Dispatch, And Game Of The Year Catch-Up

Game Informer

France's Finance Ministry halts the suspension proceedings of Shein that was initiated on November 5 after Shein withdrew illicit products from its platform (Inti Landauro/Reuters)

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Acorn 8.3 With Liquid Glass

Michael Tsai

White Label Gemini on Private Cloud Compute

Michael Tsai

iOS 26.2: App Marketplaces and Browser Choice in Japan

Michael Tsai

MainActor.assumeIsolated, Preconcurrency, and Isolated Conformances

Michael Tsai

All playable characters in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment

Polygon - All

The best Xbox Game Pass games to play this weekend (Nov. 7-9, 2025)

Polygon - All

Tahoe’s Terrible Icons

Daring Fireball