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These oven Daily Tick headlines for Thursday, October 30, 2025 I'm Rob Dunwoody. Nvidia 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 U S China discussions on its Blackwell chips, CEO Jensen Huang's projection of $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. Following a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, China's commerce ministry announced it would work with Washington to resolve issues regarding TikTok's US operations divestiture. US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant confirmed China approved the transfer agreement and expects a resolution soon. This comes as a US national security law requires ByteDance to sell TikTok's US operations or face a ban. With China needing to approve the deal's terms for new joint ventures, the lack of immediate specifics raises concerns about potential policy miscalculation risks. WhatsApp is introducing passkey support for encrypted chat backups, allowing users to restore their backups using fingerprints, facial recognition or screen locks. This new feature simplifies the backup restoration process by eliminating the need for users to remember passwords or locate 64 character encryption keys, which were implemented in 2021 to add encryption layers to chat backups. Passkey support will be rolled out in the coming weeks and months, and users can enable encrypted backups in the app's settings under ch. Chat Backup End to end encrypted backup Universal Music Group and Stability AI have partnered to create AI powered music creation tools. This collaboration aims to support artists, producers and songwriters while ensuring proper licensing and commercial safety. This follows UMG's recent copyright settlement and licensing deal with UDIO, demonstrating UMG's commitment to AI innovation and artist rights stability AI, known for its stable audio models, will work with UMG artists to develop tailored tools. Building on his previous collaborations with Electronic Arts and wpp. Both companies are dedicated to using responsibly trained AI models that benefits artists, creative and commercial endeavors. Android users in the US will experience a more open Play Store. This change is due to a court order in Google's legal battle with Epic Games, allowing developers to freely inform users about app availability and pricing outside the Google Play Store, link to external offers and process payments using alternative payment systems like credit card payments or PayPal. Ultimately, this provides provides users with more freedom and potentially better app pricing. Microsoft Azure's Cloud and 365 services experienced a global outage on Wednesday starting around 11:40am Eastern time due to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure front door. This disruption affected various services including Xbox Investor Relations Pages and Alaska Airlines. This incident follows a recent outage at AWS and underscores the critical dependency on cloud infrastructure, with Azure being the second largest cloud provider and all major cloud companies seeing growth from AI workloads. OpenAI Sora 2 video generator has introduced Character Cameos, a new feature that allows users to transform almost anything including pets, illustration and toys into reusable avatars for AI generated videos. This expands upon the existing capability for users to create AI deepfakes of themselves for platform use, and the feature launches with pre made characters as well. Alongside character cameos, Sora 2 also introduced clip stitching and leaderboards showcasing popular videos. Microsoft 365 companion apps including People and Files, are getting expanded Copilot features. Copilot will be integrated into the Calendar Companion, allowing users to manage meetings and chats from the taskbar and receive instant task suggestions. These mini apps aim to boost productivity by providing quick access to WorkSpace resources with CoPilot's AI streamlining workflows and complex inquiries. Google is expanding its AI presence in emerging markets by partnering with Reliance Industries, led by Mukesh Ambani, to bundle its AI Pro subscription with Geo5 plans at no extra cost for 18 months to eligible users. This collaboration announced on Thursday follows a similar move by Perplexity, which teamed up with Reliance's competitor Bharti Airtel to offer free access to Perplexity Pro to its subscribers three months prior. And finally, Nintendo is re energizing Animal New Horizons with a Switch 2 edition and a free update to the original game, both launching on January 15th. The Switch 2 Edition boasts enhanced visuals, mouse controls, an in game megaphone, 12 player, online play and camera play, while the free update introduces a new resort hotel run by Cap' N's family, new themed content and exclusives like SLUMBER island for Nintendo Switch Online members, all playable across both versions. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to DailyTechNews Show.com and if you enjoy the show, remember to tell a friend to check us out. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next time.

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