OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition
OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition

OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, with access shutting off on 12 November and its forthcoming Astra model withheld. Cursor and SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 together in July, which is available in…

Tim Draper, the SpaceX and Tesla investor, is selling his $7.9M private island in Tanzania
Tim Draper, the SpaceX and Tesla investor, is selling his $7.9M private island in Tanzania

Tim Draper is selling his island in Lake Tanganyika for $7.9M or best offer, announcing it himself on X and inviting offers directly by email. The ECB reported this month that EU venture capital funds hold around 150B euros against roughly 930B euros i…

Lambda inks $1B private debt for Nvidia chip deal
Lambda inks $1B private debt for Nvidia chip deal

Lambda has raised about $1B of private short-dated debt arranged by JPMorgan to buy Nvidia GPUs that Microsoft will lease, according to Bloomberg. The same structure funds Nebius, which borrowed $775M against its own chips and holds a five-year Microso…

France’s Pasqal is public, with $360M and a valuation of about 100 times revenue
France’s Pasqal is public, with $360M and a valuation of about 100 times revenue

Pasqal began trading on Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker PSQL, five months after announcing it would go public through a special purpose acquisition company. Shares surged on the debut, according to Reuters. The merger with Bleichroeder Acquisition Co…

Google stops demoting EU publishers under its spam policy from Sunday
Google stops demoting EU publishers under its spam policy from Sunday

From Sunday, a European news publisher that runs sponsored content on its site will no longer be at risk of a manual demotion in Google Search. Google confirmed the change on Friday, and Reuters reported that it is designed to settle a European Commiss…

Nvidia ships first H200 chips to China, but expects no data-centre revenue from them
Nvidia ships first H200 chips to China, but expects no data-centre revenue from them

Nvidia shipped its first H200 processors to China under a new US licensing scheme, and they accounted for less than 1% of $89B in quarterly data centre revenue. Its $108B forecast for the current quarter assumes no data centre computing revenue from Ch…

US judge strikes down Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as illegal retaliation
US judge strikes down Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as illegal retaliation

A federal judge has voided the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, finding that the label was punishment for the company’s public criticism of the Trump administration rather than a security assessment. US Dist…

Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension
Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension

Anthropic has built a browser directly into Claude Cowork, opening it in a side panel when a prompt needs the web instead of using its Chrome extension. It is on by default for Enterprise, Pro, Max and Team users, who can switch back in settings. Anthr…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority

More than 100 organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging businesses and governments to make cyber defence an immediate leadership priority and fix weaknesses in their own software. The EU’s Cyber R…

UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028
UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028

Daniel Dines has published The Work That Remains, arguing that enterprises should let AI agents prepare work while humans own consequential decisions and deterministic automation carries them out. He stakes the framework on a dated prediction and names…