- Leaker Evan Blass offers details on Samsung's upcoming trifold phone: named "Galaxy Z TriFold", 6.5" cover display and 10" total display, and 200MP main camera (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
- SMIC reports Q3 revenue up 9.7% YoY to $2.38B, above $2.35B est., and net profit up 29% YoY to $191.8M, above $161.2M est., as analog chip demand rises (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
- European carmaker officials warn the industry faces "devastating" chip shortages after the Netherlands' Nexperia takeover and is scrambling to find alternatives (Financial Times)
- A Chinese-born businessman who the US and China say ran one of SE Asia's largest scam compounds was extradited to China, three years after his Thailand arrest (Francesca Regalado/New York Times)
- Sources: Tencent and Apple agree to a deal to let Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps, after a year of talks (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
- Philadelphia-based grocery delivery company Gopuff raised $250M led by Eldridge Industries and Valor Equity at an $8.5B valuation, down from $15B in 2021 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
- The EU opens a DMA investigation into Google over allegedly demoting news outlets with promotional content; Google says this is part of its anti-spam efforts (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
- JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $42.1B, above ~$41.4B est., and net income down 55% YoY to ~$745M, as it competes in meal delivery and fast-commerce (Bloomberg)
- Valve says it has stopped production of its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, which it's "no longer manufacturing", after unveiling the Steam Frame (Jay Peters/The Verge)
- Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$27B, above ~$26.6B est., net profit up 19% YoY to ~$8.9B, above ~$8B est., and domestic game revenue up 15% YoY (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
- A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
- Sources: Alibaba is renaming its AI app Tongyi to "Qwen", aiming to make it more like ChatGPT, and adding agentic-AI shopping features for platforms like Taobao (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
- Baidu unveils two AI chips: the M100 for efficient MoE inference, launching in 2026, and the M300 for training super-large multimodal models, coming in 2027 (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
- Attentive.ai, maker of Beam AI for automating preconstruction workflows using AI, raised $30.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing total raised to $48M (Amit Chowdhry/Pulse 2.0)
- Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, quietly opening to some users, and says it's fully functional with select users betting on real contracts (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)