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GM plans to switch from the NYSE to Nasdaq on November 17 as part of its push under Tesla veteran Sterling Anderson to use AI to speed up its development cycle (Financial Times)
 Microsoft and others scramble to patch 'HTTP2Shell' flaw which could be the next PHP-level issue — Node.js problem may also affect millions of sites
Avante, which builds an AI platform to help companies manage employee healthcare and other benefits, raised a $30M Series A, following a $10M seed in 2024 (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
 Proton has launched its Black Friday VPN prices – and they might have restored my faith in this year's deals
Apple says it is "aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number" of iPhone Duos and affected users can contact AppleCare for a replacement (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
 Always late for meetings or failing at life goals? This affordable planning app was made for you
The iTunes Store is re-emerging as a venue for big pop stars, including Taylor Swift, to hawk collectibles to superfans and bolster their chart positions (Tom Matsuda/Financial Times)
 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says a forgotten 1950s European alliance secretly secured Taiwan’s chip empire — decades later, an island hardly bigger than Maryland dominates 90% of the advanced chip market
 After parting ways with Xbox, I pray that Double Fine is working on more games like Psychonauts 2 — one of the best platformers since Super Mario Odyssey
A look at Alpha School, a network of private schools that claims to teach kids 2x as fast using AI; data shows ~50% of K-8 students missed this goal in math (Dana Goldstein/New York Times)
 Apple Watch Ultra 4 review: Another triumph
Global PC shipments fell 21% YoY in Q3 to 57M units, as memory and other costs pushed prices up; Lenovo retained its market leadership despite a 23% decline (Minsoo Kang/Counterpoint Research)
Kimi unveils K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, and K3.1 Pro Highspeed, with full weights to be released by November 4 (Kimi)
Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
The PHP Foundation says its patches for the RCE vulnerabilities are limited to PHP 8.2 and newer, leaving legacy deployments dependent on third-party vendors (Wired)
Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI staff of three AI endgames: an IAEA-style regulator, a CERN-like lab merger, or one lab using RSI to "melt everyone else's GPUs" (The Information)
 Russian bot activity plunged 84% after Ukraine hit Yandex data centers, but the bots were back at full strength within two days
Sources: DeepSeek and Huawei are collaborating on future AI chip designs; DeepSeek plans to start using Ascend 950DT for pre-training as soon as 2026's end (The Information)
 Behold, Intel plans a 480GB GPU, a video card with more memory than the average laptop SSD has storage — but of course it's for AI, and curiously, it will use LPPDR5X, not even GDDR7