Thursday, October 30, 2025

In Detail Full day, Thursday, October 30, 2025, Timezone: America/Chicago

Amazon beats the Street's expectations as its cloud finds altitude

Shannon Carroll / qz - AWS grew 20% to $33 billion, its fastest pace in over a year — still trailing Microsoft’s 40% and Google Cloud’s 34%, but closing the gap

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Universal Music and AI song tool Udio settle lawsuit and partner on new platform, sparking backlash

techxplore - Universal Music Group and AI song generation platform Udio have settled a copyright infringement lawsuit and agreed to team up on new music creation and streaming platform, the two companies said in a joint announcement.

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Navan Raises $923 Million in Travel Management Platform IPO

PYMNTS / pymnts - Business travel and expense management software company Navan raised $923 million upon going public. The company’s shares opened at $22 each Thursday (Oct. 30), below an initial public offering (IPO) of $25, per a Bloomberg News report, which listed Navan…

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Animal Crossing Prepares Big Move to Nintendo Switch 2 This January

John Quintet / iphoneincanada - Nintendo is bringing Animal Crossing: New Horizons to the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2, launching January 15, 2026, alongside a free content update for all players on both the original Switch and Switch 2 systems. The Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of Animal Cro…

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Bending Spoons raises $710M at $11BN, one day after buying AOL

John Reynolds / tech - Bending Spoons, the Italian tech conglomerate which typically acquires and tries to revive tech brands, has raised $710m in an equity fundraising round at an $11bn valuation, it said today.The announc...

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Trump and Xi dial back tariffs, dodge the Blackwell question

Marcus Schuler / implicator - Trump and Xi cut tariffs 10% and paused rare earth controls for a year. Soybean orders resumed. Nvidia's Blackwell speculation collapsed. The one-year truce relieves immediate pressure but sidesteps structural forces driving U.S.-China decoupling.

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Threads now lets you approve and filter your replies

Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Threads now lets you approve and filter your replies.

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Swedish legaltech Legora raises $150M Series C

Lucy Adams / tech - Legal technology company Legora has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round, valuing the company at $1.8 billion. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existi...

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Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong third-quarter results

cnbc - Meta's results raised skepticism over the payoff from its aggressive artificial intelligence spending plans and overshadowed strong results.

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WhatsApp will let you use passkeys for your backups

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - WhatsApp is rolling out passkeys for backups, which is great news for anyone who has been on the platform for years. This will add another layer of security to anything that's been backed up, including chats, photos, voice notes and more.It's also conveni…

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Microsoft Azure Meltdown Exposes Critical Cloud Risk

Datamation Staff / datamation - The outage disrupted major products from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems used by airlines, banks, and retailers.

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OpenAI adds reusable ‘characters’ and video stitching to Sora

Jess Weatherbed / theverge - OpenAI’s Sora app will now let you turn almost anything into a reusable avatar for its AI-generated videos. These “character cameos” are one of several new features that have been added to the Sora 2 video generator, alongside clip stitching and leaderboa…

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Proton’s new Data Breach Observatory shines a light into the dark web

Ian Barker / betanews - Date breaches affecting businesses and online services are ever more frequent and can affect anyone who is unfortunate enough to be a customer or supplier. Finding out the facts about a breach can be tricky, however, as information is heavily reliant on s…

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OpenAI eyes $1T IPO next year. Here’s what you need to know.

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - AI giant OpenAI is reportedly preparing for one of the most ambitious stock market debuts in history, a…

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