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Sarah Lane (2:20)

This is the weekend edition of Daily Tech Headlines for the week ending Friday, October 31, 2025. I'm Sarah Lane. Let's catch up on a bit of breaking news and essential news over the past several days. Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon plan to spend roughly 400 billion on AI this year, yet each company says that's still not enough to meet demand. Microsoft says its cloud capacity will lag through mid-2026, Amazon is rushing to expand data centers, and Meta admits its systems are compute starved. Google claims its 91 to 93 billion in capital spending is already generating billions in AI revenue. On the latest earnings news front, Amazon and Google shares rose while Meta and Microsoft fell. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that the company's recent layoffs of about 14,000 corporate workers were driven by a need to restore agility and reduce bureaucracy, not by AI or cost cutting. Speaking on the company's earnings call Thursday, Jassy described the cuts as a cultural reset to make Amazon lean, flat and fast moving after years of rapid expansion. Amazon posted $180.2 billion in quarterly revenue, up 13% year over year, and took a 1.8 billion dollar charge related to severance. Denmark's EU Council presidency is dropping its push for mandatory scanning of online communications for child sexual abuse material or csam, and now supports a voluntary detection system instead. Justice Minister Peter Humble Guard said that the shift follows strong opposition from member states over privacy concerns tied to end to end encryption. The move could help restart stalled negotiations on the long delayed chat control law before current voluntary scanning rules expire in April of 2026. Blue sky announced it's reached 40 million users and is testing a new dislikes feature to refine personalization in its discovery feed. The signal is supposed to help the platform show users less of what they don't want to see, while improving reply ranking and reducing toxic or spammy interactions. Blue sky is also updating reply behavior, moderation tools and feed design, plus a new system mapping social neighborhoods to prioritize posts from closer connections. Samsung announced a partnership with Nvidia for an AI mega factory designed to accelerate its semiconductor manufacturing. This new facility is designed to use more than 50,000 of Nvidia's advanced GPUs to embed artificial intelligence across the entire chip manufacturing process. Samsung also plans to utilize AI in chip development and design, with a goal to produce a new gen of semiconductors, mobile devices and robotics with advanced AI capabilities. Due to a failure in renewing a streaming contract, content from The Walt Disney Company, including channels like ABC and and ESPN, perhaps you heard of them, were removed from Google's YouTube TV on Thursday. YouTube TV stated that despite its best efforts a fair deal could not be reached, resulting in the removal of over 20 channels and Disney content recordings. The existing distribution agreement between the two companies expired on October 30 at 11:59pm Eastern Time, after which the content became unavailable and is still unavailable as of this recording. On October 28th, the US FCC voted 2 to 1 to propose rolling back broadband nutrition label rules that require ISPs to disclose full pricing details, including hidden fees. If adopted, the change would let ISPs hide pass through fees and remove multilingual and accessibility requirements for broadband pricing transparency Netflix is reportedly exploring an acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery's studio and streaming business. Having engaged investment Bank Mollus & Co. As a financial advisor, Moelis and co previously advised Skydance Media on its successful bid for Paramount Global. Netflix has also been granted access to a data room which contains critical financial details necessary for formulating a bid. That's according to multiple sources familiar with the ongoing matter. A little more Nvidia News the company has become the first company to reach a $5 trillion market cap fueled by the AI boom and high demand for its GPUs. Key factors include US China discussions on its Blackwell chips, CEO Jensen Huang's projection of a? 500 billion in AI chip sales and plans for seven new US supercomputers. Nvidia also invested in Nokia for AI native 5G and 6G and committed $100 billion to OpenAI, underscoring broad confidence in AI's transformative industrial impact. Ride Hailing company Uber announced that the San Francisco Bay Area will be the first market for an exclusive new vehicle based on the Lucid Gravity SUV expected to launch late 2026. The new robotaxi was first announced back in July developed with electric car company Lucid and the self driving company Nuro. For more analysis of the tech news of the day and the week, subscribe to Daily Tech News. You can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I am Sarah Lane. Thank you for listening. Enjoy the rest of your weekends and we'll talk to you Monday.