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Business Insider:
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”  —  - Some military leaders are adopting AI for decision-making.  — The military has adopted an aggressive push …
Andy Newman / New York Times:
Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles  —  After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World's Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.
Martina Di Licosa / Forbes:
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  —  Shelf-ish: “Books and reading are really important to me, but we realize not everyone is so into books,” says Headway founder Anton Pavlovsky …
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Marc Benioff apologizes for saying Trump should send the National Guard to SF, says the comments were made out of “an abundance of caution” around Dreamforce  —  Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized on Friday for making comments in support of President Donald Trump sending federal troops …
Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service:
A US judge bars NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users and cuts the ~$168M damages verdict awarded to Meta by a jury in May to $4M, ruling it was excessive  —  Meta previously won $168 million in damages over claims spyware compromised WhatsApp users, but a judge reduced the damages down to $4 million.
Natallie Rocha / New York Times:
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  —  The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco's residential rents up by the most in the nation …
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
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  —  OpenAI's CEO brazenly regurgitated major studios' characters to allow video app Sora 2 to spit out clips tailor-made for users.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
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  —  North Korean hackers have adopted the ‘EtherHiding’ technique that leverages smart contracts to host and deliver malware …
John Kang / Forbes:
Shares of ISU Petasys, a South Korea-based multi-layer PCB supplier for AI servers used by Alphabet, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others, are up 215% so far this year  —  Based in Daegu, a city in southeastern South Korea, ISU Petasys makes multi-layer printed circuit boards that hold chips and other components for AI servers.

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Jazz Monroe / Pitchfork:
Sources: nearly all staff at music outlets BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine appear to have been laid off by Veeps, owned by Live Nation

Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
FuboTV reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.48B, a $25.7M net loss, vs. a $38M loss a year earlier, and North American subscribers up 2% to 5.75M; FUBO jumps 12%

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro says the company is “exploring a free product for consumers” as a way to expand its reach and help funnel Disney+ subscriber growth

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Christian Davies / Financial Times:
South Korea restricts travel to Cambodia over online scam center kidnappings; the UK and US sanction Cambodia's Prince Group for allegedly running scam centers
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
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

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Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies
Bloomberg:
Sources: Li Lin, founder of crypto exchange Huobi, and some of Asia's earliest Ethereum backers have raised ~$1B to launch a digital asset trust to buy Ether
Axios:
At TSMC Arizona, Nvidia and TSMC unveil the first Blackwell chip wafer made in the US, representing that Blackwell has reached volume production
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year
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