CRYPTON | Crypto, AI & Markets

Commerzbank CEO Bettina Orlopp states the bank is in a "position of strength" ahead of the UniCredit deal, following a 45% profit increase.

Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage, significantly reducing spending on AI for its engineering teams.

AT&T's Connected Life home security system now integrates with Gemini for Home, offering Google Home Premium features like summarizing home events and searching video history.

Politicians including NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan accuse Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly with a plan to turn off Search for schools restricting AI.

Over $900 billion added to the US stock market at open after Democrats won control of both the US House and Senate.

Rivian and Volkswagen are expanding their $5.8 billion joint venture to include an AI assistant, though the financial impact of the expansion was not disclosed.

Meta launches Style Sketch, an AI fashion app that builds a virtual closet from Instagram photos or lets users add items manually via photos, videos, or uploads.

Accenture employee's personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before being identified and patched, per WIRED sources.

Google Gemini now lets users generate, preview, and edit Docs, Sheets, Slides, Markdown, and TXT files in chat, with PDF editing available on web and mobile.

Russia's Ministry of Digital Development split AI and big data into two separate departments, both overseen by Deputy Minister Grigory Borisenko.

Microsoft disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue for the first time, reporting $33.2 billion.

Bloomberg and major trading firms sign deals to gain faster access to President Trump's social media posts.

Consensus projects revenue of $127B–$130B and Google Cloud revenue of $29B–$30B.

Mistral released weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity.

Canton Strategic Holdings plans to launch tokenized stock trading on November 2, offering 24/7 trading and immediate settlement under the SEC innovation exemption.

Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction.

FTC and eight states sued Toast Inc. for allegedly misleading customers with free trials that were difficult to cancel.

Canada’s GFL Environmental Inc. has set November 9 as the deadline for final takeover bids as negotiations reach their final stage.

Dine Brands Global, parent of Applebee's, adopted a poison pill to resist a hostile takeover bid from Cobblers Cove Capital and Arkhouse Management.

Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital agreed to acquire ADT for $7.6 billion in cash.