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| Ashley Oliver / Fox Business: |
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app — Bondi confirmed the department reached out to Apple on Thursday to demand it remove ICEBlock
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Google and Apple removed Red Dot, an app for reporting ICE sightings; Google says the app was being used to share the location of a “vulnerable group” — Both Google and Apple recently removed Red Dot, an app people can use to report sightings of ICE officials, from their respective app stores, 404 Media has found.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles for free without an Xbox Game Pass subscription — Microsoft employees can now access an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming ahead of a public test.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI's invite-only Sora app becomes the top free app in the US App Store three days after its launch, ahead of Gemini in second and ChatGPT in third — OpenAI now has two of the top three free apps in Apple's App Store, and its new video generation app Sora has snagged the coveted No. 1 spot.
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| Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: |
AI inference chip startup Groq, last valued at $6.9B, says it plans to establish 12+ new data centers in 2026; Groq has set up 12 data centers in 2025 so far — The company, which makes chips and software to run artificial-intelligence models, was last valued at $6.9 billion| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
LinkedIn sues a company called ProAPIs for allegedly operating millions of fake accounts to scrape LinkedIn member data and selling it for ~$15,000 per month — Social media giant LinkedIn on Thursday filed a lawsuit against a company which it says operates a network of millions …
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| TechCrunch: |
Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web that threatens to release ~1B records allegedly stolen from dozens of companies' Salesforce-hosted databases — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker — A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website …
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| Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker: |
Strava sues Garmin for allegedly infringing two patents related to its segments and heatmap features and violating a 2015 agreement between the companies — Strava has sued Garmin, an act that I very much did not have on my bingo card for 2025. In doing so, they are demanding …
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| Politico: |
CISA 2015, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down on October 1 — “We are without this critical line of defense,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
IBM releases Granite 4.0, an open-source, enterprise-ready LLM family with a hybrid architecture, claiming it uses significantly less RAM than conventional LLMs — Despite being one of the oldest active tech companies in the U.S. (founded in 1911, 114 years ago!), “Big Blue” …
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| Rebecca Torrence / Business Insider: |
Midi, which offers virtual care for women and is developing an AI search engine for health info, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~$150M — Follow Rebecca Torrence … Saved — Add us on — Women's health startup Midi Health raised $50 million in Series C funding, Business Insider learned.| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
a16z releases a report, citing Mercury data, on the top 50 AI companies that startups pay; OpenAI leads, followed by Anthropic, Replit, Freepik, and ElevenLabs — On Thursday, Andreessen Horowitz released its first AI Spending Report in partnership with the fintech firm Mercury.
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Doc: Amazon's Q Business AI assistant struggled with accuracy and data processing in its first year, drawing complaints; Amazon says the document is outdated — - Amazon's Q Business AI tool faced accuracy issues in its first year. — The tool struggled with data processing and conversational flow, drawing customer complaints.| Chandra Asmara / Bloomberg: |
Indonesia suspends TikTok's local operating license, saying it didn't share complete livestream activity during August protests following a government request — Indonesia suspended TikTok's local operating license after the company refused to fully share data on its live streaming activity during nationwide protests in August.| Reuters: |
Source: OpenAI employees sold shares worth ~$6.6B to a consortium of investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank, Dragoneer, Abu Dhabi's MGX, and T. Rowe Price — OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has reached a valuation of $500 billion, following a deal in which current … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
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