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Google and Apple removed Red Dot, an app for reporting ICE agent sightings, from their app stores; Google says the app shared 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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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's removal of ICEBlock raises questions about the limits of what the company will resist under the Trump administration's increasingly outrageous demands — Ashley Oliver, reporting for Fox Business: … Fox, in its opening paragraph, describes Bondi as having “asked” …
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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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| 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 …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Chipmaker Cerebras withdraws its IPO, after filing its prospectus on September 30, 2024, and announcing a $1.1B raise at a $8.1B valuation on September 30, 2025 — Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems said on Friday that it's withdrawing plans for an IPO … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI acquires AI-powered personal finance app Roi; source: CEO and co-founder Sujith Vishwajith is the only member of Roi's four-person team joining OpenAI — OpenAI has acquired Roi, an AI-powered personal finance app. In keeping with a recent trend in the AI industry, only the CEO is making the jump.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles for free without an Xbox Game Pass subscription — Microsoft employees can now access an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming ahead of a public test.
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Rob Williams, Amazon's VP of Device Software and Services and a member of the S-team advising CEO Andy Jassy, steps down and plans to leave Amazon by 2025's end — - VP Rob Williams to retire from Amazon, remains advisor through 2025 — Panos Panay announces team consolidation, Tapas Roy promoted
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| Politico: |
CISA 2015, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down on October 1 — “We are without this critical line of defense,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee … | TechCrunch: |
Lapsus$ 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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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft putting some of its top titles on Xbox Game Pass is cutting into its higher-margin game sales, giving up $300M+ in Call of Duty sales in 2024 — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox division surprised many video game enthusiasts this week when the company announced a 50% price hike …
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| Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs' products team, led by Nat Friedman, is pushing staff to ditch Meta's slow infrastructure toward tools like Vercel and GitHub — Follow Pranav Dixit … Saved — Add us on — Meta has made a big bet on AI by forming Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Moonlake AI, which offers tools to help users “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.
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: former Databricks VP of AI 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 … | 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 billionSponsor Posts
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