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CATALYST FOUND: DoorDash is buying Instacart for about $17B, which would combine the two biggest grocery delivery apps in the US.
CATALYST FOUND: Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon, just two weeks after its last top model. It's now #1 on Artificial Analysis's main AI model ranking and leads tests on finding, exploiting and patching security holes.
CATALYST FOUND: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs bills banning AI chatbots from using “unsafe features” with minors.
CATALYST FOUND: Oracle stock jumps 11% after it pledges to cap new financing at $20B through fiscal 2030.
Oracle expects free cash flow to top $30B in fiscal 2029.
CATALYST FOUND: Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook Pro is bringing back the glowing Apple logo for the first time since 2016.
Available from November 6, starting at $2,899 for the 14-inch and $3,399 for the 16-inch.
CATALYST FOUND: Apple just announced its first touchscreen MacBook Pro at its "Pro and Tell" event. It has a tandem OLED display, M5 Pro or M5 Max chips and a Dynamic Island, and it starts at US$2,899 for the 14-inch or US$3,399 for the 16-inch.
CATALYST FOUND: General Compute raises $100M. The San Francisco startup rents out specialized chips for running AI models from its own data centres, and the round values it at $800M.
CATALYST FOUND: Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4. It's an AI model that builds interactive scenes you can steer in real time, now with sound and dialogue.
CATALYST FOUND: Apple's OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro could start at $2,899, a $400 increase over the current model.
The 16-inch model could start at $3,399.
CATALYST FOUND: Apple just announced an M6 MacBook Pro and a new iMac. Both ship the day before Apple's "Pro and Tell" event, where a touchscreen MacBook Pro is expected.
CATALYST FOUND: Instagram is testing long-form videos up to 90 minutes, called "Features," in a push against YouTube.
CATALYST FOUND: OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model built for computer use across apps, priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens.
CATALYST FOUND: Apple unveils the iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display, A20 Pro chip and IP67 water resistance, starting at $699, $100 more than the current model.
CATALYST FOUND: Anthropic just filed for its IPO and plans to list on Nasdaq as ANT. It's the biggest AI company yet to head for public markets.
CATALYST FOUND: Jack Dorsey's Block unveils Dessa, a voice AI trained only on recorded human conversations with no text, which runs locally on high-end Macs.
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
CATALYST FOUND: The largest layoff announcements of 2026 so far:
30,000 - UPS
30,000 - Oracle
16,000 - Amazon
15,000 - Omnicom
CATALYST FOUND: Polymarket fires CMO Matthew Modabber after an internal investigation into several episodes.
The board reportedly saw him as a hurdle to a possible IPO. CEO Shayne Coplan, his friend since high school, initially pushed back.
CATALYST FOUND: The Browser Company will shut down Arc on December 22, 2026, more than a year after halting development to focus on its AI browser Dia.
Atlassian bought the company in September 2025 for $610M in cash.
We've decided to sunset Arc on December 22, 2026.
That's not an easy sentence to write. We spent years building Arc and celebrating each and every release along the way: we have so much pride and love for what we made alongside the Arc community.
Our priority is to deliver best-in-class security for our members. Keeping a browser secure takes constant, dedicated work that is only increasing in the age of AI. Dia was built from the ground up to meet today’s security standards, so that's where our engineering and security teams will focus moving forward.
We've worked to make switching to @diabrowser as easy as possible for Arc members. Here's how:
· Your passwords, bookmarks, extensions and history come over to Dia seamlessly.
· Spaces, Folders, and Tab Groups are in Dia and import over with your data intact.
· Dia now surpasses Arc benchmarks in stability, speed, and security.
· The browser features you use in Arc are free in Dia, and the AI is optional.
Thank you for using Arc, for pushing us to make it better, and for building alongside us. The team that made Arc is the same team behind Dia, and some of our most ambitious work is just ahead. We'd love for you to be there with us when it lands.