Sources say Nvidia is in talks to buy Arm. Music Videos are coming to Facebook in a bigger way. The iPhone is delayed a tiny bit. A run-down of the earnings reports: TLDR: Apple made a ton of money when people thought they wouldn’t but Alphabet shrunk for the first time ever. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Nvidia in talks to buy Arm from SoftBank for more than $32bn (Financial Times)
• Facebook Is Set to Finally Get the Rights to Show Music Videos (Bloomberg)
• Apple confirms short release delay for this year's iPhones (Axios)
• Comment: Analysts half-right about AAPL’s Q3 … but so wrong! (9to5Mac)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions

• Philosophers On GPT-3 (updated with replies by GPT-3) (Daily Nous)
• Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams (Kislay Verma)
• Tech Sector Feeling COVID-19’s Economic Pain (Indeed Hiring Lab)
• The Gig Economy Is Failing. Say Hello to the Hustle Economy. (OneZero)
• Car Companies Want to Monitor Your Every Move With Emotion-Detecting AI (Motherboard)

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