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Markets muted in thin trade, hit by data centre glitch

Markets muted in thin trade, hit by data centre glitch

Stock markets were largely flat on Friday, ending a strong week fueled by expectations...

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Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce "partisan animosity" (Stanford University)

Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses...

Stanford University: Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an...

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The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet DMA thresholds; Apple says the services should not be called "gatekeepers" (Reuters)

The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads...

Reuters: The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads and Apple Maps...

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CME Group says futures trading on its markets, including for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, was halted on November 28 due to a cooling issue at CyrusOne's data centers (Reuters)

CME Group says futures trading on its markets, including...

Reuters: CME Group says futures trading on its markets, including for the S&P 500...

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JP Morgan says it will build the biggest office block in London

JP Morgan says it will build the biggest office block in...

Two of Wall Street's biggest banks have announced expansion plans in the UK, a day...

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The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative...

Blake Brittain / Reuters: The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative...

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Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (Wall Street Journal)

Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with...

Wall Street Journal: Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its...

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Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance...

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance...

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More taxes, higher spending: A closer look at Britain's new budget

More taxes, higher spending: A closer look at Britain's...

UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves has announced a new budget that includes more...

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Euroclear warns EU that Russian frozen asset plan could lead to higher borrowing costs

Euroclear warns EU that Russian frozen asset plan could...

The Financial Times is reporting that a depositary firm that holds frozen Russian...

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Teaching financial literacy and entrepreneurship in impoverished areas

Teaching financial literacy and entrepreneurship in impoverished...

How to create economic opportunities in underprivileged areas? John Hope Bryant...

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Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms...

Sam Sabin / Axios: Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms...

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An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US...

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US...

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Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German...

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut...

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Inside Britain's new budget with more taxes and higher spending

Inside Britain's new budget with more taxes and higher...

UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves announced a new budget that includes more taxes...

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Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a...

Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing...

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The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit for accessing social media without parental consent and holds CEOs personally liable for violations (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)

The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit...

Eliza Gkritsi / Politico: The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit...

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Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building...

Paresh Dave / Wired: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building...

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UK's Labour government to present budget under pressure from party base, bond markets

UK's Labour government to present budget under pressure...

UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves will present her second annual budget to parliament...

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Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said its Guangzhou operations had broken even per car, as it targets a 3,000+ global robotaxi fleet in 2026 (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)

Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said...

Linda Lew / Bloomberg: Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said...

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watchTowr: 80K+ sensitive credentials were found via publicly accessible "Recent Links" pages on online code formatting tools JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

watchTowr: 80K+ sensitive credentials were found via publicly...

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: watchTowr: 80K+ sensitive credentials were found...

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Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food pics are burying their real, tested recipes, setting home cooks up for disaster this Thanksgiving (Bloomberg)

Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food...

Bloomberg: Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food pics are burying...

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Volkswagen says it can make new cars entirely in China

Volkswagen says it can make new cars entirely in China

German auto giant Volkswagen has announced the completion of a new R&D centre in...

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Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store their digital assets, for $100M+; PitchBook: Fordefi was last valued at $83M (Fortune)

Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps...

Fortune: Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store...

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OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main...

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text...

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Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in US federal court, alleging Binance facilitated millions in payments to Hamas after October 7 (Financial Times)

Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng...

Financial Times: Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in...

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EU says loosening tech rules 'not up for negotiation' in trade talks with US

EU says loosening tech rules 'not up for negotiation' in...

The EU's antitrust chief, Teresa Ribera, says changing regulations on US tech is...

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EU, US restart trade talks in Brussels

EU, US restart trade talks in Brussels

The EU and the US have restarted their trade negotiations in a bid to settle sticking...

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Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's "dynamic view" option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like...

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like...

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Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro over third-party tools like Cursor, aiming to gather feedback for improvement (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house...

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house...

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India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status...

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EU seeks to deepen trade ties with Africa at summit in Angola

EU seeks to deepen trade ties with Africa at summit in...

The EU and the African Union are marking 25 years of relations with a summit aimed...

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EU, US restart trade talks

EU, US restart trade talks

The EU and the US have restarted their trade negotiations to try and settle sticking...

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AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity (Eric Revell/Fox Business)

AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build...

Eric Revell / Fox Business: AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build...

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Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The...

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The...

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Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings (Aleksandra Sagan/The Logic)

Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme...

Aleksandra Sagan / The Logic: Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud...

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Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M+ seed (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid...

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack...

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Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators to offer policies excluding liabilities tied to businesses deploying AI chatbots and agents (Financial Times)

Major insurers have recently sought permission from US...

Financial Times: Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators...

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Changes to CISA have left some states without support during elections; California said CISA provided little support during the Nov. 4 election on redistricting (Associated Press)

Changes to CISA have left some states without support during...

Associated Press: Changes to CISA have left some states without support during elections;...

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Brussels under fire for softening grip on Big Tech

Brussels under fire for softening grip on Big Tech

The European Commission triggered a political meltdown this week with proposals...

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Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises what data their AI models access during training and to prevent data leakage, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises...

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An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom (James Vincent/Harper's)

An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which...

James Vincent / Harper's: An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which...

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Chip companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and China have been raising pay and bonuses as global competition intensifies for a limited pool of chip engineers (June Yoon/Financial Times)

Chip companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and China have been...

June Yoon / Financial Times: Chip companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and China have...

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How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models...

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged...

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While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)

While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999,...

Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech: While the AI bubble feels like the internet...

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How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)

How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona...

Justine Calma / The Verge: How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona...

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Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul,...

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Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs' focus on spatial intelligence, superintelligence, regulation, AI bubble, US-China AI arms race, more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs'...

Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs'...

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A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building...

Rest of World: A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for...

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Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances (Bloomberg)

Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia...

Bloomberg: Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips...

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Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years ago from Google, plans to step down in December (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years...

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years...

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A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up...

David McCabe / New York Times: A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking...

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Beaujolais Nouveau 2025 goes on sale as French wine producers face mounting challenges

Beaujolais Nouveau 2025 goes on sale as French wine producers...

It's the third Thursday of November, which means this year's Beaujolais Nouveau...

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Asian tech stocks tumble as strong Nvidia results fail to ease AI bubble jitters

Asian tech stocks tumble as strong Nvidia results fail...

Technology firms led an Asian market selloff on Friday, tracking a sharp drop on...

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Challenges facing the World Bank today: High debt, low aid and slow growth

Challenges facing the World Bank today: High debt, low...

The World Bank was created in 1944 with a simple mission: to finance reconstruction...

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GE HealthCare acquires Intelerad, which sells cloud imaging software and digital workflow tools primarily to outpatient and ambulatory sites, for $2.3B (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

GE HealthCare acquires Intelerad, which sells cloud imaging...

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: GE HealthCare acquires Intelerad, which sells cloud imaging...

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The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups via guaranteed "first customer" payments, and estimates its AI market to be worth over £72B (Financial Times)

The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware...

Financial Times: The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups...

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Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company will spend $2B to $3B per year in AI in the next three to five years and is discussing potential investments with Japan (Reuters)

Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company will spend $2B...

Reuters: Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company will spend $2B to $3B per year...

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Beaujolais Nouveau 2025 goes on sale as French wine producers face challenges

Beaujolais Nouveau 2025 goes on sale as French wine producers...

It's the third Thursday of November, meaning this year's Beaujolais Nouveau is out...

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Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in drug discovery, raised $106M led by Bezos Expeditions and Altimeter, bringing its total funding to $150M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in...

Amy Feldman / Forbes: Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in drug...

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OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all logged-in users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, after piloting the feature in select regions (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all logged-in...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all...

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Method Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities, raised $26M across seed and Series A rounds led by a16z and General Catalyst, respectively (Colin Demarest/Axios)

Method Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities,...

Colin Demarest / Axios: Method Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities,...

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Nvidia's upbeat forecast for future demand calms 'AI bubble' fears

Nvidia's upbeat forecast for future demand calms 'AI bubble'...

The world's most valuable company, US chipmaker Nvidia, posted better-than-expected...

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AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users...

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Shipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 vs. 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)

Shipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are set to...

Hideaki Ryugen / Nikkei Asia: Shipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are...

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Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers...

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth...

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Rights groups slam EU for rolling back AI data protection rules

Rights groups slam EU for rolling back AI data protection...

The European Union has proposed plans to ease the bloc's strict data protection...

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Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data...

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data...

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Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product for US users next week in partnership with PayPal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product...

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product...

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Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup...

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI...

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As Europe aims for 'digital sovereignty', biomedical agentic AI could be the next big field

As Europe aims for 'digital sovereignty', biomedical agentic...

"Europe does not want to be the client" of the US or China in the field of technology,...

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French court rejects Perrier 'natural water' lawsuit against Nestlé

French court rejects Perrier 'natural water' lawsuit against...

A French court has rejected a demand by a consumer protection group to remove Perrier...

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Investors await Nvidia results amid AI bubble fears

Investors await Nvidia results amid AI bubble fears

European markets stabilised on Wednesday morning after losses sustained over concerns...

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A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes 3,000 AI-made podcasts per week and has 400K subs; an episode needs only 20 listeners to turn a profit (Tess Patton/The Wrap)

A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes...

Tess Patton / The Wrap: A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes...

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Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab in Singapore, collaborating with institutions across the Asia-Pacific in education, public services, and more (Lila Ibrahim/Google DeepMind)

Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab in Singapore,...

Lila Ibrahim / Google DeepMind: Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab...

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Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B valuation, up from the $113B it reported after merging with X in March 2025 (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B...

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TotalEnergies buys €5.1 billion stake in Kretinsky's power generation business

TotalEnergies buys €5.1 billion stake in Kretinsky's power...

France's TotalEnergies has struck a partnership deal with Czech billionaire Daniel...

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Questions over artificial intelligence boom lead to global market selloff

Questions over artificial intelligence boom lead to global...

European and Asian equities traded lower this Tuesday, following in the footsteps...

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As Europe aims for "digital sovereignty", biomedical agentic AI could be the next big field

As Europe aims for "digital sovereignty", biomedical agentic...

"Europe does not want to be the client" of the US or China in the field of technology,...

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French court rejects Perrier "natural water" lawsuit against Neslé

French court rejects Perrier "natural water" lawsuit against...

A French court has rejected a demand by a consumer protection group to remove Perrier...

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Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to invest up to $5B and $10B, respectively, in Anthropic (Microsoft)

Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new...

Microsoft: Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft...

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Agentio, which uses AI to help brands automate and scale campaigns with YouTube creators, raised a $40M Series B led by Forerunner at a $340M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Agentio, which uses AI to help brands automate and scale...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Agentio, which uses AI to help brands automate and scale...

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Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian IPO, giving it a ~$5B market cap; it was last valued at $2.8B in 2024 when it raised a $210M Series B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian...

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AI pioneer Yann Le Cun reportedly quits Meta over the future of intelligence

AI pioneer Yann Le Cun reportedly quits Meta over the future...

Reports suggest Yann Le Cun, one of the "godfathers of AI", is leaving Meta after...

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TotalEnergies buys €5.1 billion stake in Daniel Kretinsky's power generation business

TotalEnergies buys €5.1 billion stake in Daniel Kretinsky's...

France's TotalEnergies has struck a partnership deal with Czech billionaire Daniel...

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Artificial Analysis announces AA-Omniscience, a benchmark for knowledge and hallucination across 40+ topics; Claude 4.1 Opus takes first place in its key metric (@artificialanlys)

Artificial Analysis announces AA-Omniscience, a benchmark...

@artificialanlys: Artificial Analysis announces AA-Omniscience, a benchmark for...

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Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5B and is aiming for a valuation of at least $50B (The Information)

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks...

The Information: Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential...

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Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise money at a valuation of more than $130B, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1B Series K at a $100B valuation (The Information)

Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise money at a valuation...

The Information: Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise money at a valuation of...

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AI pioneer Yann Le Cun allegedly quitting Meta over the future of intelligence

AI pioneer Yann Le Cun allegedly quitting Meta over the...

Reports suggest Yann Le Cun, one of the "godfathers of AI", is leaving Meta after...

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Diplomatic spat with China threatens Japanese tourism industry

Diplomatic spat with China threatens Japanese tourism industry

A dust-up over comments on Taiwan made by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi...

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Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)

Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining...

Zoë Schiffer / Wired: Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining...

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Voize, an ambient AI voice company targeting skilled nursing facilities, raised a $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital and plans a US launch in Q1 2026 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

Voize, an ambient AI voice company targeting skilled nursing...

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Voize, an ambient AI voice company targeting skilled...

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In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference...

Ben Bergman / Business Insider: In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI...

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Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B valuation, following a ~$130M raise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial and US VC firms (Nikkei Asia)

Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn...

Nikkei Asia: Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B...

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Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly leaning on Google's new DeepMind prediction model, though questions about its methods remain (Eric Holthaus/The Guardian)

Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly...

Eric Holthaus / The Guardian: Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are...

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BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating "phantom debt" (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing...

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25%...

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AI pioneer Yann Le Cun is quitting Meta over the future of intelligence

AI pioneer Yann Le Cun is quitting Meta over the future...

Reports suggest Yann Le Cun, one of the "godfathers of AI", is leaving Meta after...

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A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)

A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in...

Heather Knight / New York Times: A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage...

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Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)

Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven...

Valida Pau / The Information: Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven...

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Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value the company at ~€8B; Vinted says it expects 2025 revenue to cross €1B+, up from €813M in 2024 (Financial Times)

Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value...

Financial Times: Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value the...

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Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to...

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The current AI strategies of China and the US are complementary, as unlike the US, China isn't "AGI-pilled" yet, focusing on embodied AI and open source models (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)

The current AI strategies of China and the US are complementary,...

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: The current AI strategies of China and the US are...

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Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack breakthroughs using its tools, noting that white-hat hackers report modest gains from AI-aided hacking (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack...

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack...

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COP30 in Brazil & the Global South: Tackling climate change without the US

COP30 in Brazil & the Global South: Tackling climate change...

The week, we head to Belem in Brazil where COP30, the UN's annual climate summit,...

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JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid, covering 95%+ of third-party data pulls, and will receive payment for access to customer data (Hugh Son/CNBC)

JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like...

Hugh Son / CNBC: JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid,...

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Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve claims it denied discounts to conservative religious nonprofits; OpenAI and Asana also made deals (Jeff Green/Bloomberg)

Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve...

Jeff Green / Bloomberg: Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve...

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Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their "AI-driven impact", which will be a "core expectation" of their performance from 2026 (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)

Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their...

Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on...

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How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the strain of AI's increased energy demand with their promises of net-zero carbon emissions (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)

How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the...

Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing...

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Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing more than $250B in market value gains following the announcement of its OpenAI deals in September (Financial Times)

Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing...

Financial Times: Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing...

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Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73, up 9.5% from the ~$2.49 IPO price, after a $440M IPO earlier this week that was 2x oversubscribed (Soumyajit Saha/Nikkei Asia)

Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73,...

Soumyajit Saha / Nikkei Asia: Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted...

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US federal employees go back to work after longest shutdown in history

US federal employees go back to work after longest shutdown...

Federal agencies have started reopening after the longest-ever US government shutdown......

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Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or "self-contained" experiences built with web tech like HTML5 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced...

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The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling that it abused its dominance by charging unfairly high App Store fees; a lawyer calculates damages at £1B (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling...

Sam Tobin / Reuters: The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling that...

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Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company Helix Nano to focus on preventing AI-enabled bioweapons development, raised a $15M seed led by OpenAI (Deepa Seetharaman/Reuters)

Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company Helix...

Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters: Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company...

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The hard task of rebooting the US government after 43-day shutdown

The hard task of rebooting the US government after 43-day...

After President Donald Trump signed a bill into law on Wednesday that funds the...

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Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for AGI, Copilot, Microsoft AI, the hyperscale business, the OpenAI partnership, capex, sovereign AI efforts, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for AGI, Copilot,...

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for...

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A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy, including OpenAI, data center investments, neocloud renting, GitHub Copilot, MAI models, and the Maia chip (SemiAnalysis)

A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy, including OpenAI,...

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy, including OpenAI, data center...

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Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, quietly opening to some users, and says it's fully functional with select users betting on real contracts (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)

Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, quietly...

Denitsa Tsekova / Bloomberg: Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, quietly...

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AI chip rush: From Nvidia's triumph to Musk's megaplan

AI chip rush: From Nvidia's triumph to Musk's megaplan

From Nvidia's record-breaking demand to Elon Musk's latest factory ambitions, the...

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Powered by AI, the era of humanoid robots is here

Powered by AI, the era of humanoid robots is here

US firm 1X Home Robots says its first "housekeeping robot" NEO can be ready to start...

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Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or ~2,000 employees, after completing its $35B acquisition of engineering design firm Ansys earlier in 2025 (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or...

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or...

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Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) hands-on: better hardware and software, Alexa+ is an improvement, but no camera cover and ads are coming later (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) hands-on:...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11...

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Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driverless rides on freeways, available 24/7 in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles for users who opt in (Zoe Thomas/Bloomberg)

Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driverless...

Zoe Thomas / Bloomberg: Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driverless...

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AI's insatiable appetite for cash, energy and data: Bubble ahead?

AI's insatiable appetite for cash, energy and data: Bubble...

Could the artificial intelligence boom already be running out of road? We examine...

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China's 'Singles' Day' goes big, but physical stores are left behind

China's 'Singles' Day' goes big, but physical stores are...

Chinese consumers, anxious about the slowing economy and worn out by endless retail...

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IEA reports shows rising demand for electricity, need for energy diversity

IEA reports shows rising demand for electricity, need for...

The International Energy Agency (IAE) released its annual World Energy Outlook this...

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Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with the Switch 2 (Financial Times)

Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital...

Financial Times: Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition...

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The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks, including regulating companies providing services to private and public sector organizations (Catarina Demony/Reuters)

The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks,...

Catarina Demony / Reuters: The UK proposes laws to protect public services from...

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Australia's spy chief said Chinese state hackers probed telecom networks and critical infrastructure; Australia lost $8B+ last year to espionage (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)

Australia's spy chief said Chinese state hackers probed...

Kirsty Needham / Reuters: Australia's spy chief said Chinese state hackers probed...

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Senators pass shutdown-ending bill, lifting US and European markets

Senators pass shutdown-ending bill, lifting US and European...

After US senators managed to pass a bill that could end what has been the longest...

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Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds are investing ~$3B in a New Mexico-based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl expands into AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds are investing...

Miles Kruppa / The Information: Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds...

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A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100+ actresses and 25TB+ of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted...

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+...

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Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage customer-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (Steven Scheer/Reuters)

Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage...

Steven Scheer / Reuters: Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage...

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Sachin Katti, Intel's CTO and AI officer, says he is leaving the company to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts (CRN)

Sachin Katti, Intel's CTO and AI officer, says he is leaving...

CRN: Sachin Katti, Intel's CTO and AI officer, says he is leaving the company to...

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Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, a suite of AI models providing automatic speech recognition capabilities for more than 1,600 languages (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition,...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition,...

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Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to $50.6M, vs. $46.2M est., net loss of $159.5M, up from $90.2M a year ago; GEMI drops 5%+ after hours (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to...

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to...

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An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after spending ~10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list (Joe Tidy/BBC)

An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav...

Joe Tidy / BBC: An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov,...

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Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to help boost its Copilot chatbot; Sensor Tower says Copilot has 99M downloads since launch, far below ChatGPT's 1.4B (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)

Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to help boost...

Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to help boost...

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Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on "the woke left and the woke right", being patriotic, the Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on "the woke left and the...

Steven Levy / Wired: Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the woke...

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The UK is investigating whether ~700 of its Chinese-made Yutong electric buses can be remotely deactivated; Norway found that Yutong can render buses inoperable (Financial Times)

The UK is investigating whether ~700 of its Chinese-made...

Financial Times: The UK is investigating whether ~700 of its Chinese-made Yutong...

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Zurich-based DeepJudge, which builds customized search indexes for law firms that plug into AI tools like ChatGPT, raised a $41M Series A at a $300M valuation (Alicia Park/Forbes)

Zurich-based DeepJudge, which builds customized search...

Alicia Park / Forbes: Zurich-based DeepJudge, which builds customized search indexes...

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Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers find and build proposals for government contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Catalyst Investors (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers...

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Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone industrial AI and robotics company; Mind Robotics raised a $115M seed led by Eclipse (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone industrial...

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone industrial...

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The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 (Sebastian Pellejero/Reuters)

The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K...

Sebastian Pellejero / Reuters: The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models...

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Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help...

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help...

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Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)

Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining...

Jonathan Burgos / Forbes: Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining...

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Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally (Peter Landers/Wall Street Journal)

Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are...

Peter Landers / Wall Street Journal: Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider...

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As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm (Janne Knodler/Bloomberg)

As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered...

Janne Knodler / Bloomberg: As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of...

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CoinGecko: crypto market cap falls to $3.5T from October's $4.4T peak, on track to erase its 2025 gains; crypto ETFs had $700M of net outflow over the past week (Bloomberg)

CoinGecko: crypto market cap falls to $3.5T from October's...

Bloomberg: CoinGecko: crypto market cap falls to $3.5T from October's $4.4T peak,...

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In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success, a senior researcher told a state-run conference he was pessimistic about AI's impact on humanity (Reuters)

In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success,...

Reuters: In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success, a senior researcher...

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An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more (Brie Wolfson/Colossus)

An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely...

Brie Wolfson / Colossus: An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely...

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Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972.9K and a net loss of $55M, up from $19M in Q3 2024; its stock is down 70% from a January high (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972.9K...

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to...

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A Delaware federal jury rules that GoDaddy owes patent owner Express Mobile $170M for violating its rights in website-building technology; GoDaddy will appeal (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

A Delaware federal jury rules that GoDaddy owes patent...

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A Delaware federal jury rules that GoDaddy owes patent...

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Neobank Mercury says it has hit $650M in annualized revenue, up from $500M by end of 2024, and has been GAAP profitable on net income and EBITDA for three years (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Neobank Mercury says it has hit $650M in annualized revenue,...

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Neobank Mercury says it has hit $650M in annualized revenue,...

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ADIPEC 2025: Betting on sustained demand for oil

ADIPEC 2025: Betting on sustained demand for oil

This week, we're heading to the Abu Dhabi Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC...

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TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025 (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)

TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create...

Dan Whateley / Business Insider: TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI...

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Draft proposal: the EU weighs a pause and simplification of parts of the AI Act, with a decision expected on November 19, amid pressure from Big Tech and the US (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

Draft proposal: the EU weighs a pause and simplification...

Barbara Moens / Financial Times: Draft proposal: the EU weighs a pause and simplification...

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Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla will likely need to build "a gigantic chip fab" for AI chips and "maybe, we'll do something with Intel" (Sayantani Ghosh/Reuters)

Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla will likely...

Sayantani Ghosh / Reuters: Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla will likely...

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Google review blackmail targets small businesses across Europe

Google review blackmail targets small businesses across...

Small businesses worldwide are being targeted by scammers using fake Google Maps...

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US Supreme Court expresses scepticism over Trump's reciprocal tariffs

US Supreme Court expresses scepticism over Trump's reciprocal...

On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court's chief justices heard arguments over the legality...

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking a government "backstop" for its infrastructure deals, saying her use of the word "muddied the point" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking...

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking...

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Datadog's stock jumps 15%+ after it reported Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $885.7M, above $852.8M est., and forecasted Q4 revenue at $912M to $916M, above $877M est. (Jaures Yip/CNBC)

Datadog's stock jumps 15%+ after it reported Q3 revenue...

Jaures Yip / CNBC: Datadog's stock jumps 15%+ after it reported Q3 revenue up 28%...

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Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which also gets prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket for future event analysis, first in the US (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)

Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which...

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance,...

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Google says Gemini Deep Research can now directly draw on information stored in users' Gmail, Drive, and Chat to create reports (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google says Gemini Deep Research can now directly draw...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says Gemini Deep Research can now directly draw on...

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an "IPO is not on the cards right now", and that OpenAI hopes the US government might backstop the financing of data center deals (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an "IPO is not on the cards...

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on...

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Sens. Mark Warner and Josh Hawley introduce a bipartisan bill that would require companies and US agencies to submit quarterly reports on AI-related job impacts (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Sens. Mark Warner and Josh Hawley introduce a bipartisan...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Sens. Mark Warner and Josh Hawley introduce a bipartisan bill...

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Canada unveils ambitious new budget to respond to US tariff shock

Canada unveils ambitious new budget to respond to US tariff...

Canada's Liberal government unveiled new federal budget plans in the House of Commons...

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A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports Interactive, which has ~280 full-time staff and licenses its scouting data to 40+ teams, as it releases FM26 (Chris Allnutt/Financial Times)

A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports Interactive,...

Chris Allnutt / Financial Times: A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports...

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Research: AI's ability to complete long and complex software engineering tasks doubles every 6-7 months, but there is a "messiness tax" for real-world tasks (Boaz Barak/Windows On Theory)

Research: AI's ability to complete long and complex software...

Boaz Barak / Windows On Theory: Research: AI's ability to complete long and complex...

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Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically-made AI chips (Reuters)

Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring...

Reuters: Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center...

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Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, vs. $6.09B est., and forecasts Q2 profit below estimates; SMCI drops 9%+ after hours (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, vs....

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, vs. $6.09B...

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Sources: Netflix has sent out dozens of requests to agents at WME, UTA, and CAA for video podcast creators, and plans to launch video podcasts in early 2026 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)

Sources: Netflix has sent out dozens of requests to agents...

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: Sources: Netflix has sent out dozens of...

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Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to include Reddit and Kick, which join Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and YouTube (Clare Armstrong/ABC)

Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to...

Clare Armstrong / ABC: Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to...

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Starbucks sells majority stake in China business amid competition from local rivals

Starbucks sells majority stake in China business amid competition...

US coffee chain Starbucks has announced it is forming a joint venture with asset...

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Grab reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $873M, vs. 869M est., and an adjusted EBITDA of $136M, helped by offerings like group food orders and cheaper shared rides (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

Grab reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $873M, vs. 869M est.,...

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Grab reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $873M, vs. 869M est.,...

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Nintendo reports Q2 revenue up 90% YoY to $3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., net profit of ~$667M, vs. ~$412M est., and expects 19M Switch 2 sales by March 2026, up from 15M (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Nintendo reports Q2 revenue up 90% YoY to $3.7B, vs. ~$3B...

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Nintendo reports Q2 revenue up 90% YoY to $3.7B, vs. ~$3B...

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Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaround, AI, paying drivers more, Uber, partnership with Tensor for autonomous vehicle tech, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaround,...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaround,...

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Shein bans sex dolls after France threatens to block market access

Shein bans sex dolls after France threatens to block market...

Chinese e-commerce giant Shein has come under renewed pressure in France, just days...

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Sources: Trump decided not to discuss Nvidia's AI chip exports to China during his October 30 meeting with Xi Jinping following opposition from his top advisers (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Trump decided not to discuss Nvidia's AI chip...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Trump decided not to discuss Nvidia's AI chip exports...

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France threatens to ban Shein and refers it to Paris prosecutor after an investigation found that sex dolls "resembling children" were being sold on the site (Liz Alderman/New York Times)

France threatens to ban Shein and refers it to Paris prosecutor...

Liz Alderman / New York Times: France threatens to ban Shein and refers it to Paris...

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Apple launches the App Store on the web, with dedicated pages for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, TV, Watch, and Vision (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple launches the App Store on the web, with dedicated...

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple launches the App Store on the web, with dedicated...

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French government threatens to ban Shein if child-like sex dolls reappear

French government threatens to ban Shein if child-like...

The French finance ministry says it will ban Chinese e-commerce giant Shein if child-like...

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Sources: Pony AI plans to raise $863M in its November 6 Hong Kong IPO by selling 48.3M shares at ~$17.88 each, below its October 31 Nasdaq close at $18.68 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Pony AI plans to raise $863M in its November 6...

Bloomberg: Sources: Pony AI plans to raise $863M in its November 6 Hong Kong IPO...

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Cologne-based Octonomy, which helps companies deploy AI in complex workflows, raised a $20M seed led by Macquarie Capital, bringing its total raised to $25M (Amelia Isaacs/Pathfounders)

Cologne-based Octonomy, which helps companies deploy AI...

Amelia Isaacs / Pathfounders: Cologne-based Octonomy, which helps companies deploy...

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A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997 research paper, which argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts (Steven Levy/Wired)

A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a...

Steven Levy / Wired: A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997...

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Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic death threats, posting hyper-realistic AI-generated images and sounds to social media platforms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)

Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic...

Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: Online harassers are using AI tools to create more...

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An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and OnlyFans, to verify the ages of their users will go into effect on November 12 (Jackson Chen/Engadget)

An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub,...

Jackson Chen / Engadget: An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub,...

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Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain drain that increased during the war in Gaza and tax breaks for investors in Israeli funds and tech firms (James Shotter/Financial Times)

Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain drain...

James Shotter / Financial Times: Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain...

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How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto (Anatoly Kurmanaev/New York Times)

How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins...

Anatoly Kurmanaev / New York Times: How the Venezuelan government is using crypto...

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Nexperia's China unit says it has "sufficient inventories" to sustain order fulfillment "through year-end and beyond", after the parent suspended wafer supplies (Reuters)

Nexperia's China unit says it has "sufficient inventories"...

Reuters: Nexperia's China unit says it has “sufficient inventories” to sustain order...

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Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80+ countries, raised a €30M Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves...

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software...

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ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast available on host Pat McAfee's X account, as Disney and YouTube TV continue to spar over a new carriage deal (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast available...

Brian Steinberg / Variety: ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast available...

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Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unmanned drone, flying it "semi-autonomously", as the US Air Force plans swarms of unmanned jet drones (David Jeans/Reuters)

Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unmanned...

David Jeans / Reuters: Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unmanned...

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Turkish state media reports that Faruk Fatih Ozer, the former CEO of failed crypto exchange Thodex, has been found dead in his prison cell (Baris Balci/Bloomberg)

Turkish state media reports that Faruk Fatih Ozer, the...

Baris Balci / Bloomberg: Turkish state media reports that Faruk Fatih Ozer, the...

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China to ease export ban of Nexperia semiconductors to Europe

China to ease export ban of Nexperia semiconductors to...

China said Saturday it will exempt some Nexperia computer chips from an export ban...

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Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin infra startup BVNK in a ~$2B deal; Coinbase expects to close the deal later this year or early 2026 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin...

Bloomberg: Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin infra startup...

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New York-based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform for government agencies to offer services like utility billing, raised a $21M Series A led by NEA (Chris Metinko/Axios)

New York-based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform...

Chris Metinko / Axios: New York-based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform...

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Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, letting them keep the debt off their balance sheets (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs...

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs...

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Why fair trade still matters when coffee and cocoa prices are high

Why fair trade still matters when coffee and cocoa prices...

Volatile weather affecting harvests, uncertainty in global trade and rising production...

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Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool...

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Sources: ex-xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B at a $5B valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that is better at collaborating with humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Sources: ex-xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B...

Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: ex-xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B at a...

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Pony.ai becomes the first company to receive a citywide robotaxi permit for Shenzhen, allowing self-driving taxis to operate beyond pilot zones (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Pony.ai becomes the first company to receive a citywide...

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Pony.ai becomes the first company to receive a citywide robotaxi...

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OpenAI starts to sell extra credits for Sora, which currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day; 10 video gens will retail for $4 through Apple's App Store (Anna Washenko/Engadget)

OpenAI starts to sell extra credits for Sora, which currently...

Anna Washenko / Engadget: OpenAI starts to sell extra credits for Sora, which currently...

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Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.3B vs. $1.25B est., forecasts Q4 sales above est., agrees to buy identity platform Stytch; TWLO jumps 8%+ after hours (Chris Ciaccia/Seeking Alpha)

Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.3B vs. $1.25B...

Chris Ciaccia / Seeking Alpha: Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.3B vs....

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Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $562M, vs. $544.6M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue of $589M, vs. $580M est.; NET jumps 9%+ after hours (Reinhardt Krause/Investor's Business ...)

Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $562M, vs....

Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily: Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 31%...

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US Federal Reserve lowers rates again, but cautions another cut in December is far from certain

US Federal Reserve lowers rates again, but cautions another...

The US Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates for the second time this year,...

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Trump-Xi summit yields tariff cut, one-year deal on rare earth minerals

Trump-Xi summit yields tariff cut, one-year deal on rare...

A rare meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in...

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Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 48% YoY to $1.36B, DAUs up 70% YoY to 151.5M, above 132.3M est., and bookings up 70% YoY to $1.9B, above $1.7B est. (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 48% YoY to $1.36B, DAUs up...

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 48% YoY to $1.36B,...

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Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth" and AI Mode has 75M DAUs (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)

Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first...

Kendra Barnett / Adweek: Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first...

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OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including "character cameos" to create AI deepfakes of pets, illustrations, and more, clip stitching, and leaderboards (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including "character...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including “character...

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US Federal Reserve cuts rates again but cautions another in December is far from certain

US Federal Reserve cuts rates again but cautions another...

The US Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates for the second time this year,...

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Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.51B, Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 1% (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.51B,...

Jennifer Maas / Variety: Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.51B,...

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Crypto media company Blockworks is closing its newsroom, launched in 2021, and will focus on software and data, continuing its main newsletters and podcasts (Pooja Rajkumari/TheStreet)

Crypto media company Blockworks is closing its newsroom,...

Pooja Rajkumari / TheStreet: Crypto media company Blockworks is closing its newsroom,...

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Sources: OpenAI is preparing for an IPO that could value it at ~$1T and has looked at raising $60B+, filing as soon as H2 2026 and listing in 2027 (Reuters)

Sources: OpenAI is preparing for an IPO that could value...

Reuters: Sources: OpenAI is preparing for an IPO that could value it at ~$1T and...

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IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, designed to run on consumer hardware and even in web browsers (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models...

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Internal memo: Amazon makes "significant role reductions" to its game division and will cut down on big budget titles, as it focuses on Luna and casual games (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Internal memo: Amazon makes "significant role reductions"...

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Internal memo: Amazon makes “significant role reductions”...

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Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are laying off tens of thousands of white collar workers, as executives hope AI can handle their workload (Wall Street Journal)

Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are...

Wall Street Journal: Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are laying...

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Public concern for climate change drops amid war and conflict

Public concern for climate change drops amid war and conflict

A new survey shows a sharp slide in public concern for climate change, with war...

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Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPad Air with OLED screens; the iPad mini will likely arrive first, as early as 2026 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook Air,...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook Air,...

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Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as part of operations starting in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling (Associated Press)

Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October...

Associated Press: Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as...

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During Nvidia's first ever GTC conference in Washington, DC, Jensen Huang praised Trump's policies and emphasized themes of patriotism and US national interests (Wall Street Journal)

During Nvidia's first ever GTC conference in Washington,...

Wall Street Journal: During Nvidia's first ever GTC conference in Washington, DC,...

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Musk launches AI-powered Grokipedia to challenge ‘left-biased’ Wikipedia

Musk launches AI-powered Grokipedia to challenge ‘left-biased’...

After months of delays to "purge out the propaganda", Elon Musk on Monday announced...

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Argentina midterm elections seen as confidence vote for Milei's economic reforms

Argentina midterm elections seen as confidence vote for...

Even if Argentinian President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza party is still short...

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Could US trade deals push ASEAN countries into the arms of China?

Could US trade deals push ASEAN countries into the arms...

Several trade deals and frameworks between the US and Southeast Asian countries...

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NXP reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.17B, vs. $3.16B est., automotive revenue flat YoY to $1.83B, and expects above estimates Q4 revenue of $3.20B to $3.40B (Juby Babu/Reuters)

NXP reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.17B, vs. $3.16B...

Juby Babu / Reuters: NXP reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.17B, vs. $3.16B est.,...

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EU officials are scrambling to resolve a growing trade clash with China over rare earths and chips, as the bloc gets caught between Beijing and Washington (Financial Times)

EU officials are scrambling to resolve a growing trade...

Financial Times: EU officials are scrambling to resolve a growing trade clash with...

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Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby completes a secondary share sale of existing shareholders' stakes, valuing it at $4.5B ahead of a possible IPO (Reuters)

Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby completes a secondary share...

Reuters: Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby completes a secondary share sale of existing...

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Argentina midterm elections seen as confidence vote for Milei's economic refoms

Argentina midterm elections seen as confidence vote for...

Even if Argentine President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza party is still short...

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Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from the process and its financials remain dire, following Amazon abandoning a 2024 bid; IRBT drops 33%+ (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from...

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Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate staff, or ~30,000 people, its largest layoffs since 2022, to reduce costs and address pandemic overhiring (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate staff,...

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate staff,...

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Sources: SAP is considering a new bid for accounting software company BlackLine, after its previous bid of nearly $4.5B was rejected in June (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

Sources: SAP is considering a new bid for accounting software...

Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: SAP is considering a new bid for accounting software...

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A look at Cal State's plans to become an "AI-empowered" university via partnerships with Amazon and a $16.9M deal to provide ChatGPT Edu to students and staff (New York Times)

A look at Cal State's plans to become an "AI-empowered"...

New York Times: A look at Cal State's plans to become an “AI-empowered” university...

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Sixty-five countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite privacy and security concerns from tech companies and activists (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)

Sixty-five countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share...

Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: Sixty-five countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share...

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Papers, patents, and tenders show China's military is integrating DeepSeek and Qwen models in weapons like AI-powered drones, and continues to use Nvidia chips (Reuters)

Papers, patents, and tenders show China's military is integrating...

Reuters: Papers, patents, and tenders show China's military is integrating DeepSeek...

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Nigerian regulator wants more control of TikTok: 'It eats our youth's time'

Nigerian regulator wants more control of TikTok: 'It eats...

Nigeria’s technology regulator says the country must wield more power over TikTok,...

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Sources: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs hires Mikhail Shapiro, who works on noninvasive techniques for neural imaging and control (Alex Heath/Sources)

Sources: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup...

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge...

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Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing...

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing...

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Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, where sources say Sam Altman largely relied on his executive team, with little input from outside advisors (Financial Times)

Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, where...

Financial Times: Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, where sources...

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Austin-based Roller, a provider of venue management software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to over $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Austin-based Roller, a provider of venue management software,...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Austin-based Roller, a provider of venue management software,...

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Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones, raised $60M in seed and Series A rounds led by Caffeinated Capital and Convective Capital (Christopher Marquis/Forbes)

Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones,...

Christopher Marquis / Forbes: Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting...

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Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently...

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which...

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A look at AI startups aiming to address loneliness among the elderly; a study predicts the AI market for aging and elderly care will grow to over $43B in 2025 (Forbes)

A look at AI startups aiming to address loneliness among...

Forbes: A look at AI startups aiming to address loneliness among the elderly; a...

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Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M+ accounts, for ~$90M (CTech)

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic,...

CTech: Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines...

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Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks (The Information)

Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music...

The Information: Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text...

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Sources detail how Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others brokered a call between SF Mayor Daniel Lurie and Trump to stop National Guard deployment (Wall Street Journal)

Sources detail how Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff,...

Wall Street Journal: Sources detail how Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff,...

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Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined in January, has left; X's CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki left in early October after less than a year in the role (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined in...

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who...

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Oreo maker Mondelez has spent $40M+ on an AI tool, developed with Publicis and Accenture, to cut costs for the production of marketing content by 30% to 50% (Jessica DiNapoli/Reuters)

Oreo maker Mondelez has spent $40M+ on an AI tool, developed...

Jessica DiNapoli / Reuters: Oreo maker Mondelez has spent $40M+ on an AI tool, developed...

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$70 billion needed to rebuild Gaza, says UN

$70 billion needed to rebuild Gaza, says UN

This week, Charles Pellegrin talks to Jaco Cilliersd, the UN development programme's...

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UK prosecutors say the ringleader of a 2024 arson attack on Ukraine-linked businesses in London discussed kidnapping Revolut's Russia-born CEO Nikolay Storonsky (Michael Holden/Reuters)

UK prosecutors say the ringleader of a 2024 arson attack...

Michael Holden / Reuters: UK prosecutors say the ringleader of a 2024 arson attack...

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HP plans to build millions of computers in Saudi Arabia by 2030, primarily for export to MENA, as part of the kingdom's plans to boost manufacturing and exports (Matthew Martin/Semafor)

HP plans to build millions of computers in Saudi Arabia...

Matthew Martin / Semafor: HP plans to build millions of computers in Saudi Arabia...

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Sources: banks are preparing to launch a $38B debt sale to fund Oracle data centers, including $23.25B for a Texas data center and $14.75B for a Wisconsin site (Jeannine Amodeo/Bloomberg)

Sources: banks are preparing to launch a $38B debt sale...

Jeannine Amodeo / Bloomberg: Sources: banks are preparing to launch a $38B debt...

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Trump pardon's Binance founder Chanpeng Zhao

Trump pardon's Binance founder Chanpeng Zhao

US President Donald Trump has issued a pardon for the founder of Binance, the world's...

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Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its global workforce and expects the layoffs to cost $160M to $180M; it had 36,100 employees as of the end of July (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)

Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its global...

Nick Turner / Bloomberg: Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its global...

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EA strikes a partnership with Stability AI to build game developer tools that serve as "smarter paintbrushes" (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

EA strikes a partnership with Stability AI to build game...

Jennifer Maas / Variety: EA strikes a partnership with Stability AI to build game...

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Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft won't provide erotica AI services and that "other companies will build that", after Sam Altman said ChatGPT would offer erotica (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft won't provide erotica AI...

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft won't provide erotica...

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French court rules TotalEnergies misled consumers in greenwashing trial

French court rules TotalEnergies misled consumers in greenwashing...

A French court on Thursday ruled oil and gas giant TotalEnergies had engaged in...

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US takes aim at Russia's war chest with sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil

US takes aim at Russia's war chest with sanctions on Rosneft...

The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it was placing Russia’s two...

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Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by UAE-based Stone Venture without disclosing its valuation, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026 (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by UAE-based...

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by...

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AI creative studio Wonder Studios, backed by OpenAI and Google DeepMind execs, raised a $12M seed led by Atomico and aims to release its first content in 2026 (Najat Kantouar/Wall Street Journal)

AI creative studio Wonder Studios, backed by OpenAI and...

Najat Kantouar / Wall Street Journal: AI creative studio Wonder Studios, backed...

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Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in its Quark app, powered by Qwen 3, and plans to open pre-sales for its $660 Quark AI Glasses on October 24 (Reuters)

Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in...

Reuters: Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in its Quark app, powered...

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A look at Italy's economy as Giorgia Meloni marks three years in office

A look at Italy's economy as Giorgia Meloni marks three...

It's been three years since Giorgia Meloni became Italy's prime minister.  During...

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IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1B est., and Hybrid Cloud (Red Hat) revenue up 14%, below 16% est.; IBM drops 5%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1B...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1B...

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SAP reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to €9.08B, cloud revenue up 22% to €5.29B, below €5.33B est., and current cloud backlog up 23% to €18.84B (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

SAP reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to €9.08B, cloud revenue...

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: SAP reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to €9.08B, cloud...

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Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI and autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on...

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Is TikTok luring children to death?

Is TikTok luring children to death?

New research shows that children who go onto the social media app TikTok and make...

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Warner Bros. Discovery open for sale after failed Paramount takeover bids

Warner Bros. Discovery open for sale after failed Paramount...

US entertainment giant Warner Bros. Discovery has said it is exploring a potential...

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Keycard, which lets enterprises manage AI agent access to internal systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $8M seed led by a16z and boldstart (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Keycard, which lets enterprises manage AI agent access...

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Keycard, which lets enterprises manage AI agent...

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Electricity demand from data centers powering the AI boom has caused a gas turbine supply crunch, as the US becomes the epicenter of new gas-fired power plants (Financial Times)

Electricity demand from data centers powering the AI boom...

Financial Times: Electricity demand from data centers powering the AI boom has caused...

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EBU/BBC study: 45% of responses from top AI assistants misrepresented news content with at least one significant issue and 31% showed serious sourcing problems (Olivia Le Poidevin/Reuters)

EBU/BBC study: 45% of responses from top AI assistants...

Olivia Le Poidevin / Reuters: EBU/BBC study: 45% of responses from top AI assistants...

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Crown jewels stolen from the Louvre estimated at €88 million

Crown jewels stolen from the Louvre estimated at €88 million

The jewellery stolen from the Louvre in Paris on Sunday is valued at 88 million...

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Google launches new features for its Google AI Studio developer platform, including a revamped "Build" tab to vibe code AI apps (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)

Google launches new features for its Google AI Studio developer...

Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: Google launches new features for its Google AI...

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OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas' opt-in browser memories feature can remember key details from users' web browsing to improve chat responses and offer suggestions (OpenAI)

OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas' opt-in browser memories feature...

OpenAI: OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas' opt-in browser memories feature can remember...

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First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain...

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as...

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Amazon Web Services starts to recover after major outage

Amazon Web Services starts to recover after major outage

Hit by a major outage, Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it found significant errors...

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US, Australia ink rare earths deal to curb reliance on China amid rising trade tensions

US, Australia ink rare earths deal to curb reliance on...

Washington and Canberra have signed a new agreement to strengthen cooperation on...

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Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins VC firm Benchmark as general partner, following a slew of personnel departures at Benchmark (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins...

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner...

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To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree...

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's...

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Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models (Michael Beltran/Rest of World)

Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup...

Michael Beltran / Rest of World: Some Japanese stores are using robots from the...

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Amazon web services start to recover after major outage

Amazon web services start to recover after major outage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it found significant errors in its Domain Name System,...

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Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering...

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for...

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CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers (David Pan/Bloomberg)

CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner expands...

David Pan / Bloomberg: CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner expands...

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LangChain, whose open-source framework connects AI apps to real-time data, raised a $125M Series B led by IVP at a $1.25B valuation (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

LangChain, whose open-source framework connects AI apps...

Sharon Goldman / Fortune: LangChain, whose open-source framework connects AI apps...

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Chinese leaders meet to formulate country's next five-year plan

Chinese leaders meet to formulate country's next five-year...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Communist Party elites are in Beijing for the Fourth...

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Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20 required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims...

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system...

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A look at Opera's Neon, a $20-per-month agentic AI browser that can take over browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI chatbots can be confusing and unreliable (The Verge)

A look at Opera's Neon, a $20-per-month agentic AI browser...

The Verge: A look at Opera's Neon, a $20-per-month agentic AI browser that can take...

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Counterpoint: iPhone 17 series outsold iPhone 16 by ~14% in the first 10 days of sales in the US and China; base iPhone 17 sales doubled over iPhone 16 in China (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

Counterpoint: iPhone 17 series outsold iPhone 16 by ~14%...

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Counterpoint: iPhone 17 series outsold iPhone 16 by ~14%...

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China and the Netherlands wrestle to control key chipmaker Nexperia

China and the Netherlands wrestle to control key chipmaker...

Major chipmaker Nexperia is being torn apart by a tug-of-war between China and the...

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ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most...

Zeyi Yang / Wired: ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular...

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Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions to the American Federation of Teachers to build AI training hubs aimed at educating 400,000 teachers (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)

Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions...

Jocelyn Gecker / Associated Press: Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing...

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China says the NSA has been hacking its National Time Service Center, which provides high precision time services for the government and others, since 2023 (Bloomberg)

China says the NSA has been hacking its National Time Service...

Bloomberg: China says the NSA has been hacking its National Time Service Center,...

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US military has adopted an aggressive push to embrace AI; the top US Army commander in South Korea says "Chat and I" have become "really close lately" (Business Insider)

US military has adopted an aggressive push to embrace AI;...

Business Insider: US military has adopted an aggressive push to embrace AI; the...

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A profile of Anton Pavlovsky, CEO of Kyiv-based Headway Inc, which develops gamified educational apps and has 160M users across its five-product portfolio (Martina Di Licosa/Forbes)

A profile of Anton Pavlovsky, CEO of Kyiv-based Headway...

Martina Di Licosa / Forbes: A profile of Anton Pavlovsky, CEO of Kyiv-based Headway...

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How Robinhood is expanding beyond commission-free trading into retirement accounts, tokenized equities, and sports betting, with some 27M people using its app (Bloomberg)

How Robinhood is expanding beyond commission-free trading...

Bloomberg: How Robinhood is expanding beyond commission-free trading into retirement...

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Inside the discussions between OpenAI and talent agencies about the video app Sora; some agents say studios have been too reluctant to challenge tech giants (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)

Inside the discussions between OpenAI and talent agencies...

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: Inside the discussions between OpenAI and...

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The AI boom has pushed SF's residential rents up by the most in the US over the past year, as AI companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees (Natallie Rocha/New York Times)

The AI boom has pushed SF's residential rents up by the...

Natallie Rocha / New York Times: The AI boom has pushed SF's residential rents up...

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An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be used by crawlers (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)

An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the...

Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the...

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S&P cuts France’s credit rating to A+ over political instability risking deficit

S&P cuts France’s credit rating to A+ over political instability...

S&P Global on Friday downgraded France from AA to A+ in a surprise update on the...

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US jury finds French bank BNP Paribas liable for damages for enabling Sudan atrocities

US jury finds French bank BNP Paribas liable for damages...

A New York jury on Friday found BNP Paribas liable for more than $20 million in...

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Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)

Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies;...

Kendra Barnett / Adweek: Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies;...

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Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video falsely depicting Chuck Schumer saying on camera comments he made in a print interview on the government shutdown (Thomas Beaumont/Associated Press)

Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video falsely...

Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press: Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video...

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Google says North Korea hackers are using "EtherHiding" to embed malware on blockchains, the first time it has seen a nation-state threat actor using the method (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Google says North Korea hackers are using "EtherHiding"...

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Google says North Korea hackers are using “EtherHiding”...

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The vagina business: The rise of femtech

The vagina business: The rise of femtech

It's an industry tipped to be worth more than a trillion dollars in the coming decade. Femtech refers...

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Renewable energy output overtakes coal, with China leading the way

Renewable energy output overtakes coal, with China leading...

This week, we take a look at the renewable energy sector, specifically in China...

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Anthropic's Skills for Claude, which are conceptually very simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Anthropic's Skills for Claude, which are conceptually very...

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Anthropic's Skills for Claude, which are...

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Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, letting parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and sending them "insights" from teens' chats (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, letting...

Robert Hart / The Verge: Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, letting...

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EssilorLuxottica stock jumps 10%+ after reporting Q3 revenue up 11.7% YoY to €6.9B, with wearables like Ray-Ban Meta contributing 4 percentage points to growth (CNBC)

EssilorLuxottica stock jumps 10%+ after reporting Q3 revenue...

CNBC: EssilorLuxottica stock jumps 10%+ after reporting Q3 revenue up 11.7% YoY...

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A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's investments in GitHub and Stripe and its role in reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO in November 2023 (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)

A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's...

Jeremy Stern / Colossus: A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's...

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Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies that work with Flock request footage from Ring doorbell users (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement...

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement...

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Aboon, an AI-powered platform for financial advisers to help business owners launch and manage 401(k) plans, raised a $17.5M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures (Davis Janowski/WealthManagement.com)

Aboon, an AI-powered platform for financial advisers to...

Davis Janowski / WealthManagement.com: Aboon, an AI-powered platform for financial...

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‘New common sense’: Oxfam calls on governments to do more to tax the rich

‘New common sense’: Oxfam calls on governments to do more...

Reintroducing a wealth tax has become a particularly divisive issue in France’s...

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Trump says India's Modi has pledged to stop buying Russian oil

Trump says India's Modi has pledged to stop buying Russian...

US President Donald Trump says Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed that India...

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Kraken acquires Small Exchange, a US-licensed futures exchange, from the IG Group, for $32.5M in cash and $67.5M in Kraken parent's Payward stock (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Kraken acquires Small Exchange, a US-licensed futures exchange,...

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Kraken acquires Small Exchange, a US-licensed futures...

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Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M+ paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and...

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Japanese chip material maker Tekscend rose 13% on its Tokyo debut after raising $1B in its IPO; Tekscend makes photomasks to transfer tiny circuits onto wafers (Yasutaka Tamura/Bloomberg)

Japanese chip material maker Tekscend rose 13% on its Tokyo...

Yasutaka Tamura / Bloomberg: Japanese chip material maker Tekscend rose 13% on its...

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'It's a new common sense' Oxfam calls on governments to do more to tax the rich

'It's a new common sense' Oxfam calls on governments to...

Reintroducing a wealth tax has been a particularly divisive issue in the ongoing...

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Viven, which builds AI "digital twins" that grant employees access to crucial information when coworkers are unavailable, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Viven, which builds AI "digital twins" that grant employees...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Viven, which builds AI “digital twins” that grant employees...

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Sam Altman says OpenAI is "not the elected moral police of the world" after receiving backlash for saying ChatGPT will allow "erotica for verified adults" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Sam Altman says OpenAI is "not the elected moral police...

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Sam Altman says OpenAI is “not the elected moral police of...

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David Sacks says Anthropic is running a "regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering", responding to Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark's post on AI policy (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)

David Sacks says Anthropic is running a "regulatory capture...

Dave Lee / Bloomberg: David Sacks says Anthropic is running a “regulatory capture...

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How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs (Reuters)

How AI is upending India's business process management...

Reuters: How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs...

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Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others (Mother Jones)

Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company...

Mother Jones: Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia...

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SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the "physical AI" era (Chris Bryant/Bloomberg)

SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another...

Chris Bryant / Bloomberg: SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another...

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French PM Lecornu pledges to suspend 2023 pension reform

French PM Lecornu pledges to suspend 2023 pension reform

In the face of an unprecedented political crisis, France's re-appointed prime minister...

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Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak its search results to show vertical search engines in their own box on Search (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak...

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak its...

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Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection...

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Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year...

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Trio of researchers share Nobel in economics for ‘explaining innovation-driven growth’

Trio of researchers share Nobel in economics for ‘explaining...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and...

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US-China trade tensions escalate as tit-for-tat port fees come into effect

US-China trade tensions escalate as tit-for-tat port fees...

Port fees imposed by China and the US took effect on Tuesday, adding a new front...

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Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compile a vast collection of private data, including T-Mobile users' calls and texts, sent by satellites unencrypted (Wired)

Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compile a vast...

Wired: Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compile a vast collection of...

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Nvidia says it is donating the Vera Rubin NVL144 server rack architecture to the Open Compute Project and outlines its vision for "gigawatt AI factories" (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Nvidia says it is donating the Vera Rubin NVL144 server...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia says it is donating the Vera Rubin NVL144 server...

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Dealroom: 230+ European defense tech startups have launched since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, driven by interest in drones, as investors foresee a shake-out (Sylvia Pfeifer/Financial Times)

Dealroom: 230+ European defense tech startups have launched...

Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times: Dealroom: 230+ European defense tech startups...

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Trio of researchers share Nobel in economics for "explaining innovation-driven growth"

Trio of researchers share Nobel in economics for "explaining...

The 2025 Nobel economics prize went to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt...

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Apple says that its Apple TV+ streaming service has been renamed Apple TV, "with a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Apple says that its Apple TV+ streaming service has been...

Eric Slivka / MacRumors: Apple says that its Apple TV+ streaming service has been...

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Apple says iPhone Air will go on sale in China on October 22, after initially delaying the launch due to regulatory issues with the device's eSIM-only design (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

Apple says iPhone Air will go on sale in China on October...

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple says iPhone Air will go on sale in China on October...

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Sources: Raymond Zage and James Lu, who control most of Grindr, are in talks to take it private after a Temasek unit sold shares pledged for personal loans (Liz Hoffman/Semafor)

Sources: Raymond Zage and James Lu, who control most of...

Liz Hoffman / Semafor: Sources: Raymond Zage and James Lu, who control most of Grindr,...

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Meta and Fortnite bring AI video game characters to the mainstream

Meta and Fortnite bring AI video game characters to the...

We're used to video game characters repeating the same lines of scripted dialogue....

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Gaza's economy and infrastructure in ruins after two years of siege

Gaza's economy and infrastructure in ruins after two years...

Long reliant on humanitarian aid due to the Israeli blockade, Gaza’s economy is...

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Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek and Doubao for therapy to save time and money, while avoiding stigma around mental health (Yi-Ling Liu/Rest of World)

Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek...

Yi-Ling Liu / Rest of World: Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like...

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The Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker Nexperia under the Goods Availability Act to safeguard chip supply for European industries (Financial Times)

The Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned Dutch...

Financial Times: The Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker...

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John Searle, known for "the Chinese Room" thought experiment on AI consciousness, died on Sept. 16 at 93; his UCB tenure ended over alleged sexual harassment (Alex Traub/New York Times)

John Searle, known for "the Chinese Room" thought experiment...

Alex Traub / New York Times: John Searle, known for “the Chinese Room” thought experiment...

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Meta and Fortnite push AI video game characters into the mainstream

Meta and Fortnite push AI video game characters into the...

We're used to video game characters repeating the same lines of scripted dialogue....

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A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is now worth $1B+ following ICE's $2B investment, as its rivalry with Kalshi intensifies (Forbes)

A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated...

Forbes: A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is...

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How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women (Zilan Qian/ChinaTalk)

How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms...

Zilan Qian / ChinaTalk: How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms...

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Sources: Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paired with Mac and a lighter UI with iPhone; Apple may unveil M5 iPad, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro this week (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paired...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paired...

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AMD's SVP of AI Vamsi Boppana says the company's AI software, designed with input from OpenAI, helped secure the multi-billion dollar deal with OpenAI (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

AMD's SVP of AI Vamsi Boppana says the company's AI software,...

Richard Nieva / Forbes: AMD's SVP of AI Vamsi Boppana says the company's AI software,...

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Sources: Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments, is in talks to go public via a SPAC started by Cantor Fitzgerald at a $1B+ valuation (Bloomberg)

Sources: Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes...

Bloomberg: Sources: Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments,...

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Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's...

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Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables browser notifications from websites users haven't interacted with recently, on Android and desktop (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables...

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Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B+ in liquidations, 10x+ the liquidations during the FTX crash (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra...

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra...

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Thoughts on The Curve conference, where prominent figures debated about AI progress, and why automating research engineers is plausible within years (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects)

Thoughts on The Curve conference, where prominent figures...

Nathan Lambert / Interconnects: Thoughts on The Curve conference, where prominent...

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Trump threatens to impose additional 100% tariff on China and scrap Xi talks

Trump threatens to impose additional 100% tariff on China...

US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to place an additional 100 percent...

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Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer vision startup Prompt AI; it was approached by other potential suitors, including xAI and Neuralink (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer...

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer vision...

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Filing: corporate travel and expense management software maker Navan plans to raise up to $960M in a US IPO and is targeting a valuation of up to $6.45B (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)

Filing: corporate travel and expense management software...

Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters: Filing: corporate travel and expense management software...

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Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens processed across its services this summer, up from 980T monthly tokens announced in July (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillion monthly...

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillion...

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Will sexually explicit AI girlfriends take over our love lives? Papers on love and AI

Will sexually explicit AI girlfriends take over our love...

PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, October 8, 2025: France's political misfortunes continue...

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Gold reaches record highs and threatens supremacy of US dollar

Gold reaches record highs and threatens supremacy of US...

The price of an ounce of gold soared past $4,000 on Tuesday, as investors move towards...

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Outgoing French PM says he will present draft budget next Monday

Outgoing French PM says he will present draft budget next...

France's caretaker Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu says he'll present a draft budget bill...

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China further tightens export rules for rare earth elements crucial to tech sector

China further tightens export rules for rare earth elements...

China's commerce ministry has announced it is imposing new rules limiting the export...

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Ferrari unveils chassis of its first electric car, but financial outlook disappoints

Ferrari unveils chassis of its first electric car, but...

Ferrari has unveiled technology – new powertrain and chassis – that will power its...

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Milei's shock therapy for Argentina: Economic miracle or mirage?

Milei's shock therapy for Argentina: Economic miracle or...

Was the "Argentina miracle" that Javier Milei boasted about really a miracle? As...

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Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt, tied to the Nvidia GPUs that xAI plans to use in Colossus 2; Nvidia is investing as much as $2B (Bloomberg)

Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt,...

Bloomberg: Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt, tied to the...

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A profile of Josh Wallace Kerrigan, also known as Neural Viz, an independent creator using Midjourney, Runway, and other AI tools to create a cinematic universe (Christopher Beam/Wired)

A profile of Josh Wallace Kerrigan, also known as Neural...

Christopher Beam / Wired: A profile of Josh Wallace Kerrigan, also known as Neural...

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Anthropic plans to open its first Indian office in Bengaluru in early 2026; Dario Amodei is visiting India to meet government officials and potential partners (Anthropic)

Anthropic plans to open its first Indian office in Bengaluru...

Anthropic: Anthropic plans to open its first Indian office in Bengaluru in early...

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'There's gonna have to be a compromise' on French budget, Prof. Antonio Fatas says

'There's gonna have to be a compromise' on French budget,...

With markets under pressure amid French political turmoil in the wake of Prime Minister...

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EU proposes halving steel import quota and doubling out-of-quota tariffs to 50%

EU proposes halving steel import quota and doubling out-of-quota...

The European Commission has moved to cut free-trade quotas by 47% for steel and...

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Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between 7% and 9%, up from its prior forecast of 3% to 4%, citing demand for AI infrastructure (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between 7%...

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JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to...

Caleb Mutua / Bloomberg: JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to...

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FurtherAI, which uses AI to automate insurance tasks such as claims processing, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $30M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

FurtherAI, which uses AI to automate insurance tasks such...

Chris Metinko / Axios: FurtherAI, which uses AI to automate insurance tasks such...

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Google launches a dedicated AI bug bounty program that offers security researchers up to $30,000 for finding vulnerabilities in its AI products (Elissa Welle/The Verge)

Google launches a dedicated AI bug bounty program that...

Elissa Welle / The Verge: Google launches a dedicated AI bug bounty program that...

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Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps healthcare companies compile feedback from patients and doctors, for $6.75B including debt (Financial Times)

Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps...

Financial Times: Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps healthcare...

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Apps in ChatGPT could be OpenAI's most ambitious platform play to date, drawing parallels with Facebook's 2007 efforts to become a platform via social graph (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Apps in ChatGPT could be OpenAI's most ambitious platform...

Casey Newton / Platformer: Apps in ChatGPT could be OpenAI's most ambitious platform...

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Will TikTok deal affect pro-Palestinian speech on platform?

Will TikTok deal affect pro-Palestinian speech on platform?

This week on FRANCE 24's media show Scoop we look at the future of TikTok. US President...

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From Bollywood to Hollywood, artists push back against AI

From Bollywood to Hollywood, artists push back against...

It's artificial intelligence versus the entertainment industry, as Bollywood stars...

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AstraZeneca signs $555mn AI deal to develop gene-editing therapies (Financial Times)

AstraZeneca signs $555mn AI deal to develop gene-editing...

Financial Times: AstraZeneca signs $555mn AI deal to develop gene-editing therapies ...

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The Paris prosecutor's office refers a probe into Apple's Siri recordings to the Office for Combating Cybercrime, after a human rights organization's complaint (Bloomberg)

The Paris prosecutor's office refers a probe into Apple's...

Bloomberg: The Paris prosecutor's office refers a probe into Apple's Siri recordings...

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Verizon names Dan Schulman as CEO, replacing Hans Vestberg effective immediately; Schulman was PayPal CEO, and Vestberg will help manage the transition (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)

Verizon names Dan Schulman as CEO, replacing Hans Vestberg...

Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: Verizon names Dan Schulman as CEO, replacing Hans Vestberg...

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Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular open-source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular...

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular open-source...

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Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for athletes and coaches, raised $40M led by Bluestone Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $51M (Jessica Golden/CNBC)

Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for...

Jessica Golden / CNBC: Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for...

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PitchBook: US VCs have invested ~$14.2B in European AI startups so far in 2025, with founders saying US investors better fit the sector's high upfront costs (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)

PitchBook: US VCs have invested ~$14.2B in European AI...

Anvee Bhutani / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: US VCs have invested ~$14.2B in...

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A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English-language corporate press releases and 14% of UN press releases involved LLM-assisted writing (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)

A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English-language...

AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English-language...

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How Ordos, a coal-rich northern Chinese city, has become a testing ground for self-driving trucks after turning into a ghost town due to 2012's coal price crash (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)

How Ordos, a coal-rich northern Chinese city, has become...

Kinling Lo / Rest of World: How Ordos, a coal-rich northern Chinese city, has become...

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PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the first nine months of 2025, just over half of 2024's total, amid uncertainty due to US tariff policies (Pak Yiu/Nikkei Asia)

PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the...

Pak Yiu / Nikkei Asia: PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the...

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OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in distress; ChatGPT will route such sensitive parts of conversations to the model (@openai)

OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support...

@openai: OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in...

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A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's stablecoin duopoly, such as intermediaries like exchanges and DeFi protocols exploring their own stablecoins (Nic Carter/Murmurations II)

A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's stablecoin...

Nic Carter / Murmurations II: A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's stablecoin...

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Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open-source quantization method that it claims can reduce LLM memory use by 60-70% without significant quality loss (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open-source quantization...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open-source quantization...

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Will TikTok deal affect Pro-Palestinian speech on platform?

Will TikTok deal affect Pro-Palestinian speech on platform?

This week on FRANCE 24's media show Scoop we look at the future of TikTok. US President...

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Singapore dollar-pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinbase, giving the city-state a head start over Hong Kong in launching a local currency-linked stablecoin (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)

Singapore dollar-pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinbase,...

Dylan Loh / Nikkei Asia: Singapore dollar-pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinbase,...

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Kioxia, whose stock has more than tripled since its public debut in Tokyo last December, expects NAND storage demand to grow by ~20% annually amid the AI boom (Bloomberg)

Kioxia, whose stock has more than tripled since its public...

Bloomberg: Kioxia, whose stock has more than tripled since its public debut in Tokyo...

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Inside the aftermath of FTX's collapse, law firm Sullivan & Cromwell's role, and an interview with SBF, who is preparing to appeal his conviction in November (Mother Jones)

Inside the aftermath of FTX's collapse, law firm Sullivan...

Mother Jones: Inside the aftermath of FTX's collapse, law firm Sullivan & Cromwell's...

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US government shuts down, casting uncertainty over American economy

US government shuts down, casting uncertainty over American...

The US federal government entered a shutdown at midnight on October 1, leaving as...

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Trump warns of 'irreversible' actions in case of US government shutdown

Trump warns of 'irreversible' actions in case of US government...

As the US Senate prepared to vote again on a stopgap bill to keep the government...

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US shutdown blame game: Republicans and Democrats trade accusations over funding halt

US shutdown blame game: Republicans and Democrats trade...

The United States has ambled into another government shutdown as Republicans and...

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'Zucman tax': Calls to tax the ultra-rich grow louder in France

'Zucman tax': Calls to tax the ultra-rich grow louder in...

This week, we focus on the Zucman tax. Named after French economist Gabriel Zucman,...

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Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more (Lex Fridman)

Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship,...

Lex Fridman: Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using...

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Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation of defense tech investors and startups like Helsing, applying a profit-driven model to Europe's military buildup (Patricia Cohen/New York Times)

Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation of defense...

Patricia Cohen / New York Times: Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation of...

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Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedding Project, a vector-based semantic search database with nearly 120M entries, to make data accessible to AI (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedding Project,...

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedding...

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Trump warns of "irreversible" actions in case of government shutdown

Trump warns of "irreversible" actions in case of government...

As the US Senate prepared to vote again on a stopgap bill to keep the government...

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President Trump signs an executive order directing his administration to invest $50M in AI-driven pediatric cancer research (Tina Reed/Axios)

President Trump signs an executive order directing his...

Tina Reed / Axios: President Trump signs an executive order directing his administration...

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The FTC sues Zillow and Redfin, alleging they violated antitrust laws when Zillow paid Redfin $100M to stop competing against it in online rental listings (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

The FTC sues Zillow and Redfin, alleging they violated...

Jody Godoy / Reuters: The FTC sues Zillow and Redfin, alleging they violated antitrust...

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Anthropic's System Card: Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to recognize many alignment evaluation environments as tests and would modify its behavior accordingly (Celia Ford/Transformer)

Anthropic's System Card: Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to...

Celia Ford / Transformer: Anthropic's System Card: Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to...

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US government shutdown looms, potentially delaying key economic reports

US government shutdown looms, potentially delaying key...

As an October 1 deadline fast approaches for the US Congress to agree on a spending...