IBM and Maersk’s blockchain-enabled supply chain offering TradeLens, launched in 2018, will shut down in Q1 2023; Maersk blames a lack of industry collaboration (Christiana Loureiro/The Block)

Christiana Loureiro / The Block:
Report: several US states are investigating Genesis Global as part of an inquiry into interconnectedness of crypto firms, securities laws violations, and more  —  – States including Alabama are looking into crypto firms and whether they violated securities laws.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on building a supply chain software business, managing large customers, scaling the company, the shipping industry, and more  —  The Flexport CEO’s tweetstorm changed how a major US port moves your stuff  —  Ryan Petersen is currently the CEO of Flexport.

Paul Hill / Neowin:
Amazon announces the US launch of Veeqo, a shipping software that lets sellers connect their sales channels and access discounts on UPS, USPS, DHL, and FedEx  —  Amazon has announced that it’s launching a new version of Veeqo in the United States.  Veeqo is a multichannel shipping service …

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
IBM reports Q3 revenue up 6.5% YoY to $14.11B vs. $13.51B est., with software revenue up 7.5% YoY to $5.81B vs. $5.54B est., and lifts FY 2022 revenue forecast  —  – IBM beat on the top and bottom lines and raised its revenue growth forecast for all of 2022.

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta unveils the $1,499 Quest Pro headset, offering eye and face tracking and color passthrough video for mixed reality, shipping on October 25 in 22 countries  —  Meta has finally announced the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 virtual reality headset it’s been teasing for the past year.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
IBM announces its Osprey quantum processor with 433 qubits, up from 127 qubits in the 2021 Eagle processor, and plans to hit 4,000 qubits by 2025  —  IBM wants to scale up its quantum computers to over 4,000 qubits by 2025 — but we’re not quite there yet.  For now, we have to make do with …