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The US' new 400-page chip export rules show officials are open to chip sector input on ways to keep sending AI chips to China for small and medium-sized systems — While stripping China's access to key U.S. artificial intelligence chips, the Biden administration's sweeping new rules …
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon introduces Sequoia, AI and robotics capabilities for its warehouses that cut order fulfilling time by up to 25% and identify inventory up to 75% faster — Company to use new AI systems at its fulfillment facilities that will work alongside employees
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces the launch of drone deliveries of medicines purchased through Amazon Pharmacy for customers in College Station, Texas — Amazon's Prime Air drone service has been slow to take off for the company, with limited operations in just two locales a whole decade after Amazon first started development of the program.
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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
X tests Not A Bot, requiring new, unverified users to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post and interact, in New Zealand and the Philippines — The owner of X, Elon Musk, has long floated the idea of charging users $1 to use the platform.
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| Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: |
In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes chiefs from the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand warn about China's IP “theft” and using AI to hack and spy — The Five Eyes countries' intelligence chiefs came together on Tuesday to accuse China of intellectual property theft …
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Experts say misinformation from “verified” pseudo-OSINT accounts on X, driven by profit and engagement, is destroying the Israel-Hamas war information ecosystem — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error| Politico: |
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Google says that government-backed hackers linked to Russia and China are exploiting a since-patched zero-day in WinRAR, discovered by Group-IB in August 2023 — Google security researchers say they have found evidence that government-backed hackers linked to Russia and China are exploiting …
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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $8.54B, vs. $8.54B est., and global paid memberships up 10.8% YoY to 247.15M, vs. 243.88M est.; NFLX jumps 9%+ — - Netflix shares popped more than 10% after the closing bell Wednesday. — The company reported a boost in subscriber growth driven … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
YouTube adds a news page to its mobile apps that suggests content from “authoritative sources”, and plans to spend $1.6M to promote creating Shorts news content — YouTube is embracing news from “authoritative sources” at a time when Meta is reluctant to promote hard news …
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| Francesco Canepa / Reuters: |
The European Central Bank plans to start a two-year “preparation phase” for the digital euro on November 1, to finalize rules, select partners, and do testing — The European Central Bank took a further step on Wednesday towards launching a digital version of the euro … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Chrome's address bar with better autocomplete, suggestions for misspelled URL names, search within bookmark folders, and a revamped desktop look — Google is rolling out a series of updates to the address bar (or Omnibox) in Chrome that improves the accuracy of autocomplete across the desktop and mobile browser.| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
SBF's defense finally undermines a witness' credibility, noting Nishad Singh borrowed $3.7M from FTX after Singh says he knew about its misuse of customer funds — Nishad Singh looks less reliable. Is it enough? … Of Sam Bankman-Fried's alleged co-conspirators, Nishad Singh gave the most emotionally compelling testimony.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
At a conference, Sam Altman and other tech leaders say AI will likely bring seismic workforce changes, eliminating professions, a hard sell to the most affected — At WSJ Tech Live, Sam Altman said coming workforce changes will play out unevenly — LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. …
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Foxconn and Nvidia plan to build “AI factories”, data centers that accelerate the development of self-driving EVs, autonomous machines, and industrial robots — Nvidia and Foxconn are working together to build so-called “AI factories,” a new class of data centers that promise …
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| CNBC: |
How IRS officials tracked down James Zhong, a hacker who stole 50K+ bitcoin from Silk Road in 2012 and was involved in the development of bitcoin itself in 2009 — - In 2012, someone stole 50,000 bitcoin from the Silk Road, an illegal dark web marketplace.
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