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Commerce is entering a new era–powered by AI. Introducing PayPal’s agentic commerce services, helping merchants–especially small businesses–thrive in AI-driven shopping. Includes: 💳 agent ready 🛍️ store sync Learn more 👉 https://x.com/PayPal/status/1983633727138812327
SUPER EXCITED to be working with @privy_io on wallets to enable agentic commerce! fun collab between @MaxSegall and @j_schottenstein — crypto + ai agents in 1 household coming together for a partnership 🤝”” / X https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1986507333284061340
🤖 From this week’s issue: Amazon introduced Chronos-2, a foundation model designed to handle arbitrary forecasting tasks — univariate, multivariate, and covariate informed — in a zero-shot manner. https://x.com/dl_weekly/status/1985346603108991015
Bullying is Not Innovation https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/bullying-is-not-innovation
Anthropic projects $70B in revenue by 2028: Report | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/anthropic-expects-b2b-demand-to-boost-revenue-to-70b-in-2028-report/
Okay coolest Adobe Sneaks of the year award goes to Project Light Touch. Adobe calls this “”spatial lighting mode”” — interactively move your light source around within a 3D volume and voila — your image is accurately relit. They’re probably using ML to infer a PBR + depth map https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1983982560054296843
(32) ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqCEHR4wjxg
Shopify says AI traffic is up 7x since January, AI-driven orders are up 11x | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/shopify-says-ai-traffic-is-up-7x-since-january-ai-driven-orders-are-up-11x/
Gigawatt-scale Stargate data center is the largest single investment in Michigan history: https://x.com/gdb/status/1984394938453528684
Advancing Claude for Financial Services \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/advancing-claude-for-financial-services
Google Gemini’s Deep Research can look into your emails, drive, and chats | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/814878/google-ai-gemini-deep-research-personalized
Introducing the File Search Tool in Gemini API https://blog.google/technology/developers/file-search-gemini-api/
Now, Gemini’s Deep Research can pull in info from @Gmail, @GoogleDrive, and Chat when you connect your @GoogleWorkspace account to give you more context-aware reports. To try it, just select “Deep Research” in Gemini on desktop and choose your sources. Coming to mobile soon.”” / X https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/1986472318873555058
We’ve launched the File Search Tool, a fully managed RAG system integrated into the Gemini API that simplifies grounding models with your private data to deliver more accurate, verifiable responses. – $0.15/m tokens for indexing, free storage and embedding generation at query https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1986506204240347520
Google in funding talks with Anthropic at a potential $350 billion valuation – Sherwood News https://sherwood.news/tech/google-in-funding-talks-with-anthropic-at-a-potential-usd350-billion/
xAI Researcher In Talks To Raise $1 Billion For New Frontier Lab Humans& https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025/10/31/xai-researcher-early-googler-in-talks-to-raise-1-billion-at-5-billion-valuation-for-new-frontier-lab/
Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/meta-estimates-that-it-earns-10-of-its-revenue-from-scams-report-says/
Microsoft’s $15.2 billion USD investment in the UAE – Microsoft On the Issues https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/11/03/microsofts-15-2-billion-usd-investment-in-the-uae/
1 million business customers: the fastest-growing business platform in history | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/1-million-businesses-putting-ai-to-work/
Inside OpenAI Chairman’s $10 Billion AI Customer Service Startup Sierra https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/11/05/sierra-bret-taylor-clay-bavor/
Over 1 million business customers are now using OpenAI, the fastest-growing business platform in history. AI is a tool of abundance. The most successful businesses use AI to multiply, not just cut. They’re launching new products faster and tackling many more great ideas that”” / X https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/1986127471063015489
Coca-Cola | Holidays are Coming, Fantastical :90 – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoXX905YK6M
Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay package for Musk | CNN Business https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/business/musk-trillion-dollar-pay-package-vote
Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-tesla-pay-package-vote-9abd5a73?st=d8Surv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&mod=tldr
Elon Musk describes AI as a “”supersonic tsunami”” that will overtake digital jobs “”like lightning.”” He expects physical jobs, like cooking, plumbing, and electrical work, to exist for much longer. He predicts that ultimately AI and robots combined will make working optional. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1985404620391514377
The fight over what a product manager does is going to among the first major AI organizational design problems faced by companies. It is a job right at the center of what AI can do with first pass coding, marketing, design, ideation, etc. Who will own which pieces up for grabs.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1984682445946421505
This is the headline: K2 reasoning allegedly cost $4.6M to train. https://x.com/dbreunig/status/1986633012336099835
1/ AI agents can now pay with stablecoins. We’ve teamed up with @LangChainAI, the leading agent framework, to seamlessly provision wallets for agents so they can transact onchain. Stablecoins are programmable money. Privy makes them safe for agents to use. Here’s how 👇 https://x.com/privy_io/status/1986503492547039502
Perplexity Assistant will be able to join your meetings soon https://www.testingcatalog.com/perplexity-assistant-will-be-able-to-join-your-meetings-soon/
AI Agents will completely transform how we interact with corporate knowledge by applying reasoning across multiple data sources. Here’s an example of ChatGPT’s new knowledge feature to pull information from Box and Gmail to combine it an answer a question. https://x.com/levie/status/1981479811500724297
Say hello to Pinterest Assistant: Revolutionizing the way you shop online | Pinterest Newsroom https://newsroom.pinterest.com/news/pinterest-assistant-revolutionizing-the-way-you-shop-online/
In discussions of AI and jobs, we put too much emphasis on the technology and not enough on the corporate leaders who are actually making decisions about what they want to do with AI It is a time where CEO vision matters a lot, and you can see a contrast in Amazon and Walmart https://x.com/emollick/status/1983879487390728248
New offices in Paris and Munich expand Anthropic’s European presence \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/new-offices-in-paris-and-munich-expand-european-presence
We looked at OSWorld, a popular evaluation of AI computer use capabilities. Our findings: tasks are simple, many don’t require GUIs, and success often hinges on interpreting ambiguous instructions. The benchmark is also not stable over time. See thread for details! https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1985441059032478172
Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26787
After 8 AI rollouts on the shop floor: The real dealmaker isn’t management. It’s the shift leader. I used to think success depended on having good data, strong algorithms, and buy-in from the C-suite. Reality? None of that matters if the shift leader isn’t on board. Here’s”” / X https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1984258994848899433
An interesting trend we’re noticing at Stripe: US startups are pulling ahead of their peers elsewhere. These charts show averaged revenue growth for software startups in each location. US startups typically grow somewhat faster than those elsewhere. However, since mid-2023, US https://x.com/patrickc/status/1985468907747172552
Auth0 | Customer Identity Trends 2025: AI meets customer identity https://auth0.com/resources/whitepapers/ciam-trends-2025-ai-chapter
I’d rather hire someone that took some big swings and missed than someone who played it safe and nailed it.”” / X https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1983914541215109251
IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products – IKEA Global https://www.ikea.com/global/en/newsroom/retail/the-new-smart-home-from-ikea-matter-compatible-251106/
We’re hiring an engineer dedicated to one of the most important projects in the Transformers team: 📣 scaling the testing and CI 📣. With projects like transformers, PyTorch, or vLLM growing in size and scope, the testing setup and CI grow alongside it. A few numbers to put it”” / X https://x.com/LysandreJik/status/1985362598045635037
We’re announcing our first restricted donations from labs to support building ARC-AGI-3 – @ndea: @mikeknoop @fchollet – @xai: @elonmusk – @Googleorg: @divy93t – @NousResearch: @theemozilla, @rogershijin – @PrimeIntellect: @willccbb Launching Q1 ’26″” / X https://x.com/GregKamradt/status/1985804827063210244
Big news: Scale is growing 🌍 We’re expanding our global footprint with new offices in New York City, London, Washington, D.C., and St. Louis. This growth reflects our investment in our people and our mission to build reliable AI systems for the world’s most important https://x.com/scale_AI/status/1985749172923088944
There will be no federal bailout for AI. The U.S. has at least 5 major frontier model companies. If one fails, others will take its place.”” / X https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/1986476840207122440
It is crazy that just ~2 years ago OAI board approached Dario to be CEO after firing Sam.
Thread by @ArfurRock on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1984037162216825007.html
Big Short’ Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting | LBC https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/big-short-michael-burry-ai-bubble-5HjdGLY_2/
Forecasts of AI & Economic Growth | Tom Cunningham – Tom Cunningham https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2025-10-19-forecasts-of-AI-growth.html
Talking to many companies, I suspect we are barely starting to see the impact of AI in their actual operations. Large organizations take time to move, ChatGPT is under 3 years old, and adopting AI requires experiments & change. But increasingly seeing real use cases scaling now.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1985360735833104464
interesting post from @boazbaraktcs: https://x.com/sama/status/1985841697067319510
The big article on data centers in the New Yorker is pretty good, which I wasn’t expecting given the reaction on X. Lots of good and bad: and covering both bubble & non-bubble arguments. It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center” https://x.com/emollick/status/1985195665132040621
Of the many processes impacted by AI, innovation/design thinking seems like a key one in need of urgent change. Some aspects remain (building empathy), but many of the constraints change dramatically with AI (as our research shows). Careful thought needed to define a new process. https://x.com/emollick/status/1984653211936993723
Google announces support for JSON Schema and implicit property ordering in Gemini API. https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-api-structured-outputs/
We just shipped some nice Gemini API updates for developers using Structured Outputs. The API now supports: – $ ref for recursive schemas – anyOf union types – min + max numerical constraints – null types – property ordering adherence And much more!”” / X https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1986128461728260210
congrats to llama 3 large for winning the LLM trading contest by not participating https://x.com/yifever/status/1986064968262062088
Leaving Meta and PyTorch https://soumith.ch/blog/2025-11-06-leaving-meta-and-pytorch.md.html
Leaving Meta and PyTorch I’m stepping down from PyTorch and leaving Meta on November 17th. tl;dr: Didn’t want to be doing PyTorch forever, seemed like the perfect time to transition right after I got back from a long leave and the project built itself around me. Eleven years https://x.com/soumithchintala/status/1986503070734557568
How we built a custom vision LLM to improve document processing at Grab https://engineering.grab.com/custom-vision-llm-at-grab
what is ocr? – introspection ft. harsehaj https://harsehaj.substack.com/p/ocr-models-explained
A thing often in common among great startup investors, founders, and researchers: Trading making a lot of small mistakes in exchange for getting a few giant wins. (Surprisingly many people seem to prefer a few big mistakes in exchange for a lot of small wins.)”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1986204243997688184
Sam Altman says ‘enough’ to questions about OpenAI’s revenue | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/sam-altman-says-enough-to-questions-about-openais-revenue/
Gemini Canvas now supports slide creation and can be integrated with Google Slides. https://x.com/arrakis_ai/status/1983508958657892435
Netflix in talks to license video podcasts from iHeartMedia, report says | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/netflix-in-talks-to-license-video-podcasts-from-iheartmedia-report-says/
People who’ve never set foot in a factory will never understand. I watched this three times. https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1984538292927521273
The “AI will replace radiologists” prediction remains a rich example. A lot of folks have pointed out the problems with confusing a task (“reading a scan”) with a job (“radiologist”) with many tasks. That is true. But there was a human problem. Radiologists rejected (pre-LLM) AI”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1984696156140470530
Leading AI Researcher Is Raising $1 Billion to Build AI Models With EQ – Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/researcher-raising-1-billion-to-build-ai-models-with-eq-2025-10
A tale in three acts: https://x.com/sama/status/1984023663642087831
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