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Tenstorrent Raises $1.5B and More Than Doubles Its Valuation
The Toronto-based AI chip company is now valued at $6.2 billion, and Bloomberg reported it held takeover talks with Intel and Qualcomm before raising instead. Read our full story →
Anthropic Sets Aside 5% of Its Stock for the Public
The new fund is an LLC, not a nonprofit, and Anthropic hasn’t said how much it could be worth or who will oversee it. Read our full story →
How Jennifer Aniston’s LolaVie brand grew sales 40% with CTV ads
For its first CTV campaign, Jennifer Aniston’s DTC haircare brand LolaVie had a few non-negotiables. The campaign had to be simple. It had to demonstrate measurable impact. And it had to be full-funnel.
LolaVie used Roku Ads Manager to test and optimize creatives — reaching millions of potential customers at all stages of their purchase journeys. Roku Ads Manager helped the brand convey LolaVie’s playful voice while helping drive omnichannel sales across both ecommerce and retail touchpoints.
The campaign included an Action Ad overlay that let viewers shop directly from their TVs by clicking OK on their Roku remote. This guided them to the website to buy LolaVie products.
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The DTC beauty category is crowded. To break through, Jennifer Aniston’s brand LolaVie, worked with Roku Ads Manager to easily set up, test, and optimize CTV ad creatives. The campaign helped drive a big lift in sales and customer growth, helping LolaVie break through in the crowded beauty category.
Musk and Anthropic Both Promise the Public a Piece of AI
NBC News looks at two separate promises to share the gains from the AI boom, one from Elon Musk and one from Anthropic. Read the original story →
SpaceX and Tesla Report as Merger Talk Grows
Barclays says a deal could be announced before Tesla’s Dec. 3 shareholder meeting, though neither company has committed to one, and SpaceX reports Tuesday after spending $15.8 billion on AI last quarter. Read the story →
One Hacker, AI Agents and a Few Thousand Dollars
A Reuters exclusive describes how a single hacker used AI agents to break into the websites of more than 100 companies. Read the exclusive →
Nvidia’s CEO Tells German Manufacturers to Adopt AI
He argues that digital technology won’t replace heavy industry, so the factories stay and the way they run changes. Read the original story →
Stockholm’s Vessla Exits Stealth With €2.94M
The pre-Seed startup builds AI agents for property companies that handle maintenance requests, supplier contact and invoicing, and it says it already works with large Nordic property owners. Read the original story →
📈 AI Stocks to Watch
NVDA $217.13 | -4.86% this week | Next earnings: Nov. 18
MSFT $533.59 | -0.13% this week | Next earnings: Oct. 28
GOOGL $344.18 | -1.72% this week | Next earnings: Oct. 28
Prices as of Monday’s close. Source: StockAnalysis.com. Not investment advice.
📚 From the AI Knowledge Hub
AI Headshot Generators: Bias, Privacy & Real Costs — Pricing from about $25 to $99, a 2026 University of Washington study on skin-tone bias, and how recruiters react once they learn a photo is AI-generated.
Biggest AI Companies in the World, Ranked by Value — Nvidia to OpenAI and Anthropic ranked by market cap, valuation and revenue, with sourced figures dated October 2026.
How to Make Money With ChatGPT: What Actually Works — Four routes compared by startup cost, time to first income and scale, plus why none of them is truly passive.
📢 The Signal Behind the Noise
Money is the thread through today’s stories. Investors are paying $6.2 billion for an alternative to Nvidia, and Anthropic and Musk are each promising the public a share of AI’s gains. SpaceX’s $15.8 billion in AI spending last quarter shows what that growth costs. The hacking story is the other side of the ledger, since AI agents are cheap enough for one person to use against more than 100 companies. All three stocks above gained on Monday but are still down on the week.
