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Friend of The Verge Casey Newton has some thoughts on the Amazon v. Perplexity web browser battle about AI agents: Perplexity wants to encourage people to use their agents in order to build its own business, but this screws basically every business that runs on web pages, including Amazon. (Humans can look at ads, sign up for newsletters, engage in curiosity-oriented browsing, etc.) Perplexity is a known bad actor. I hope Jeff Bezos eats them alive.

Whether you should, or would, clone a pet is not the point of People’s article about Tom Brady’s cloned dog Junie.

The outlet will move under Vogue.com, and editor-in-chief Versha Sharma will depart the company. Teen Vogue has carved out a niche in recent years as a youth-focused news outlet with a progressive/leftist perspective. It’s not clear whether the outlet will keep that identity, but leadership says Teen Vogue will focus on “career development, cultural leadership and other issues that matter most to young people.”

The ex-Intel CEO said in a recent speech that he believes Jesus appeared “because of the Roman roads.” Now, his mission is to work on tech that would “...hasten the coming of Christ’s return,” with a startup that filed for its IPO this week.

Samsung and Nvidia just announced a new “AI megafactory” powered by more than 50,000 Nvidia chips, where AI “analyzes, predicts and optimizes” every step of semiconductor manufacturing, from initial designs to final quality control.

The company announced a third quarter profit of KRW 688.9 billion (around $480 million) despite losses of about half that from its TV division, which it hopes to fix through “advancements in advertising.”

Reporting its best quarterly financials in over three years, Samsung has its chip business to thank. It’s making bank on memory chips for the AI industry, and will focus next year on mass producing top spec HBM4 chips to keep that success going.

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, just released its Q3 2025 earnings report (pdf), reporting revenue is up by 16 percent from the same period last year, at $102 billion for three months, compared to $88.2 billion in 2024 and $76.6 billion in 2023.

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is weirdly confident he’ll get regulatory approval to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, unlike other suitors. Why? Because big daddy Larry is good friends with Donald Trump, who’s making it known that “US antitrust concerns and personal gripes will be a major stumbling block for rival bidders.”

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Remember how Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff suddenly looooved Donald Trump? It turns out Salesforce is trying to sell an AI product to ICE. Two things: 1. This is how the gangster tech era works. 2. If I were a betting woman, I’d put money down that Agentforce is floundering. Certainly it’s been expensive marketing it.

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The Internet darling valued at $100 billion in 2001 when it merged with Time Warner is for sale by Apollo Global Management for about 1 percent of that. Italy’s Bending Spoons is said to be interested, owner of WeTransfer, Evernote, Komoot, and Vimeo.

That’s according to a report from Semafor, which says the discussions are still at an “early stage.” Intel doesn’t have the technology to support AMD’s most advanced processors, which are mostly produced by the Taiwan-based TSMC, Semafor reports.