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Tesla posted a highlight reel showing off its robotaxi navigating real-world road conditions, including robotaxis getting in the way.
  • Tesla posted footage of its robotaxi driving without a safety driver ahead of its Q3 earnings call.
  • Two of the clips included footage of a Waymo robotaxi and Avride encroaching on Tesla's path.
  • The clips showed the Tesla

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Meta wants to continue its "founder-led model" — so it's creating a new stock class.
  • Meta established a new class of stock to ensure Mark Zuckerberg stayed as CEO.
  • The stock class will "continue the founder-led model that has driven the company," Meta said in its third-quarter earnings.
  • Zuckerberg has taken a leading position in Meta's AI era.

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Tesla's earnings call was on Wednesday, a day after Elon Musk said on SpaceX's earnings call that he'd back a merger.
  • Tesla is facing some profitability headwinds.
  • Its operating income fell 56% year over year as AI and research and development costs climbed.
  • The company is still in the green, and it surprised earlier this month by delivering 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
  • Meta's AI agent, Muse, is unprofitable due to "very high compute costs," CEO Mark Zuckerberg says.
  • Meanwhile, Meta expects Reality Labs, its AI glasses division, to lose $15 billion next year.
  • The social media giant has a plan to fix that.

Meta says some of its biggest cash incinerators could finally start turning profits.

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Two actors have been cast in the "Fourth Wing" adaptation.
  • The "Fourth Wing" TV show has its Violet and Xaden.
  • Amazon MGM Studios and Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society are adapting Rebecca Yarros' series.
  • Amazon announced in October that the show had found its two lead actors.

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Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee compensation, with trading beginning in 2027.

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Walmart is adding tools it says will make AI agent shopping easier.
  • Walmart is rolling out two new tools to help third-party AI agents shop on behalf of customers.
  • The company says the tools give people more control of their bots, and help bots be more accurate.
  • Walmart's move contrasts with Amazon's approach, after it blocked Meta's agent Muse from its site.

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A prototype of Tesla's Optimus robot.
  • Tesla has begun production of its humanoid robot, Optimus, in Fremont, California.
  • The company said the current manufacturing process is "suitable for a commercial product."
  • Elon Musk has previously said scaling up Optimus production will be "agonizingly slow."

Tesla has begun producing its long-awaited humanoid robot


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