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Amazon reported booming cloud revenue but otherwise missed expectations

TechCrunch Oct 30, 2026, 12:20 AM (1 hour ago)

The biggest ouch of the report was its negative free cash flow of $2.4 billion.

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Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant

Rivian doesn’t disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.

TechCrunch 2 hours ago

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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.

TechCrunch 2 hours ago

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GM to pay $220 million to resolve claims it sold driving habits data

General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims that it illegally sold driver and location information to data brokers, as reported earlier by Reuters.

The Verge 3 hours ago

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Baseten’s joey-1 makes AI decisions for a penny per million tokens

Baseten released joey-1, a 2B open-weights “decision model” that returns an answer and a probability rather than text. It costs $0.01 per million tokens and answers in about 20ms, Baseten says. It joins the larger mammoth-1 and elephant-1 launched last week.

The Next Web 4 hours ago

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DoorDash Plans to Acquire Grocery Delivery Service Instacart in $17B Deal

When the deal is complete, both companies are expected to continue operating separately.

CNET 4 hours ago

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FuriosaAI raises $620m at a $2.9bn valuation for its Nvidia rival chips

FuriosaAI, a Seoul-based maker of AI inference chips, has raised $620m in a Series D round. The round values it at about $2.9bn. South Korea’s National Growth Fund put in $280m, making it the largest investor. The company announced the round in a press release and a blog post.

The Next Web 4 hours ago