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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.
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
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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.
New York Times:
Users express surprise, delight, and disgust with viral Sora clips, as some warn of IP theft and that Cameos could lead to new kinds of misinformation and scams
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Coinbase applies for a national trust company charter, says it “has no intention of becoming a bank” and the charter will allow expansion in areas like payments  —  Coinbase Global Inc., the largest US crypto exchange, is seeking a national trust company charter from the Office …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Chipmaker Cerebras withdraws its IPO, a little over a year after filing its IPO prospectus; it announced a $1.1B raise at a $8.1B valuation on September 30  —  Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras on Friday filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission withdrawing plans for an initial public offering.
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.
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 …
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
Moonlake AI, which creates tools to “vibe code virtual worlds”, including for gaming, animation, and filmmaking, comes out of stealth with a $28M seed  —  Plus: Hollywood rejects an “AI actress.”  —  Welcome back to The Prompt. … Artificial intelligence is facing an existential crisis.
TechCrunch:
Lapsus$ 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 …
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Rob Williams, Amazon's VP of device software and services and member of the S-team advising CEO Andy Jassy, will retire and leave Amazon by the end of 2025  —  - VP Rob Williams to retire from Amazon, remains advisor through 2025  — Panos Panay announces team consolidation, Tapas Roy promoted
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Sources: former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1B led by a16z at a $5B valuation for his new AI hardware startup Unconventional  —  Naveen Rao, who was formerly the head of artificial intelligence at Databricks, is in talks to raise a $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation …
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Supabase, an open-source rival to Google's Firebase, raised a $100M Series E led by Accel and Peak XV at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $500M+  —  The vibe coding movement, as Paul Copplestone figures it, started last December—and we're already a few eras in.
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Source: Xbox gave up more than $300M in Call of Duty sales on consoles and PCs last year after its decision to put some of its top titles on Game Pass  —  Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox division surprised many video game enthusiasts this week when the company announced a 50% price hike, to $30 a month …

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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
LIV Golf is shutting down after five years and over $5B in Saudi backing, ending its efforts to build a TV audience on Fox and, before that, The CW

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Nexstar reports Q3 net income up 285% YoY to $250M and net revenue up 78% YoY to $2.1B, as Q3 political ads brought in $317M; results include Tegna numbers

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Associated Press:
Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that gives ride-hailing drivers in California the right to unionize while remaining classified as independent contractors
Bloomberg:
Sources: BlackRock's GIP is in talks to buy Aligned, which operates 78 data centers across North and South America, in a deal that could value Aligned at ~$40B

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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
Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker:
Strava sues Garmin for allegedly infringing two patents tied to its segments and heatmap features and violating the companies' 2015 Master Cooperation Agreement
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
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google expands its AI coding agent Jules with a command-line interface and a public API, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack
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