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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta is cutting roughly 600 jobs out of several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, to create a more agile operation — Meta is cutting several hundred roles from its AI unit even as it continues to hire for its newer TBD Lab, Axios has learned.
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Forums: r/bayarea and r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy XR headset, with Android XR, 4K micro-OLED displays, a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip, and an external battery pack, available for $1,800 — The $1,800 headset is a precursor to smart glasses launching “pretty soon.” — A new mixed-reality headset developed …
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| Shahram Izadi / The Keyword: |
Samsung's Galaxy XR is the first Android XR headset and features Gemini Live, which understands users' surroundings and lets them interact with apps hands-free — The Samsung Galaxy XR is powered by Android XR, an operating system that blends digital experiences with your physical surroundings.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale resigned after the firm refused to discipline partner Shaun Maguire over his comments calling Zohran Mamdani “an Islamist” — Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about New York mayoral candidate
More: Forbes, The Information, and Fortune
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple has cut production orders for the iPhone Air to levels near “end of production” but increased those for the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro — TAIPEI — Apple is drastically cutting iPhone Air production orders but boosting those for other iPhone 17 models …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Google says its Willow quantum chip using a new Quantum Echoes algorithm ran computations 13,000x faster than supercomputers, aiding drug and materials research — Michel H. Devoret was one of three physicists who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for a series of experiments they conducted more than four decades ago.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is significantly increasing the price of its Xbox Development Kit from $1,500 to $2,000, after hiking Series X prices by $150 in September — Microsoft is raising the price of Xbox dev kits, just a month after tariffs hit Xbox console pricing.
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Prince Harry and 800+ public figures sign a Future of Life Institute statement urging a ban on AI superintelligence development until it can be deployed safely — The call, signed by Nobel laureates, ex-military leaders and public figures worldwide, seeks a ban on research that could create machines smarter than people.
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| Financial Times: |
Nonprofit Cyber Monitoring Centre estimates that the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack cost the UK economy at least £1.9B and affected over 5,000 UK organizations — Incident was likely ‘the most economically damaging cyber event’ for the country, according to cyber classification group
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Bluesky: @silencedogood2, @hern, and @joetidy. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Brave: |
Researchers detail systemic vulnerabilities in AI agentic browsers, including Perplexity's Comet and Fellou, related to indirect prompt injection attacks — Building on our previous disclosure of the Perplexity Comet vulnerability, we've continued our security research across the agentic browser landscape.
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China — Apple Inc.'s new Vision Pro headset doesn't offer much in the way of fresh features, but the company made a notable change to its production.
More: Appleosophy, MacRumors, iClarified, BonTech Labs, Apple Must, The Independent, and TechRadar
| Financial Times: |
The UK CMA says it will label Apple and Google as having “strategic market status”, imposing stricter rules on how they run their platforms to boost competition — Competition regulator designates the Big Tech groups with special status under strict new digital laws
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| Olivia Le Poidevin / Reuters: |
EBU/BBC study: 45% of responses from top AI assistants misrepresented news content with at least one significant issue and 31% showed serious sourcing problems — - Research finds AI assistants make errors reporting news — Public trust could be eroded, EBU official says
More: BBC, Search Engine Journal, Forbes, and Implicator.ai
Bluesky: @beny23.github.io, @signez.fr, @metacurity.com, @lauridonahue, and @charleswlogan. Forums: Hacker News
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto trading firm FalconX agrees to acquire 21shares, one of the main crypto ETF managers, for an undisclosed sum; 21shares had $11B+ in assets in September — FalconX considers IPO as cryptocurrency deals boom — FalconX, a crypto-trading firm, agreed to acquire 21shares …
More: Decrypt, ZyCrypto, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Coin Republic, CoinDesk, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoPotato, Bitcoin Insider, and crypto.news
LinkedIn: Samia Bayou and Ben Sebley
| Michael Wayland / CNBC: |
GM plans to roll out Google Gemini in its vehicles starting in 2026 and plans an advanced driver-assistance system with eyes-off driving capabilities in 2028 — NEW YORK — General Motors is targeting a suite of new software initiatives for its vehicles over the next three years …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, PCMag, Inc, Axios, Automotive News, Constellation Research, Yahoo Finance, Automotive World, Forbes, New York Times, MotorTrend, InsideEVs, Electrek, and NewsMax.com. Forums: r/cars
| Órla Ryan / The Irish Times: |
Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race — Deepfake video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin was viewed almost 30,000 times
More: RTÉ, Politico, waterford-news.ie, Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, and RTÉ
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible — Mobile users can automatically pause their Shorts feeds after watching for a set duration.| Diana Pearl / The Business of Fashion: |
ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised $70M led by Avenir at a $1.5B valuation, up from ~$410M after raising $77.5M in March 2024 — The fast-growing creator monetisation business raised $70 million in a funding round that included heavyweight Silicon Valley investors …
More: The Information, Fashionista, and Shop My Shelf, INC.
LinkedIn: Kamran Ali and Susannah Shipton
| Financial Times: |
Electricity demand from data centers powering the AI boom has caused a gas turbine supply crunch, as the US becomes the epicenter of new gas-fired power plants — A supply crunch in giant turbines for gas-powered plants threatens environmental and geopolitical consequences| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
The NHL reaches multiyear licensing agreements with prediction market startups Kalshi and Polymarket, the first major US league to allow use of its trademarks — Licensing agreement is first of its kind between a major U.S. pro sports league and prediction markets
More: NHL.com, Decrypt, CoinDesk, New York Post, Sports Business Journal, PennLive, CNBC, CryptoNinjas, NFTgators, Cautious Optimism, Bloomberg, and Benzinga
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sesame, which is developing an AI agent with a natural-sounding human voice and smart glasses, raised a $250M Series B and opens an early beta of its iOS app — Sesame, a conversational AI startup and smart glasses maker, has raised a $250 million Series B round and is opening up its beta …
More: ZDNET, PYMNTS.com, Sequoia Capital, Sesame, and Digital Trends
X: @brendaniribe, @brendaniribe, and @techcrunch
| Reuters: |
Sources: Trump administration is considering barring exports of products made with US software to China in response to the country's rare earth restrictions — - Trump administration considers potential escalation in China trade war — Measure could restrict shipments to China of goods containing or made with U.S. software
More: Benzinga, Al Jazeera, European Council …, and Bloomberg
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity, SerpApi, and two other data scraping companies, accusing them of unlawfully scraping Google for Reddit data — In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google's search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.| Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
Palworld developer Pocketpair says its new publishing division won't fund games that use generative AI, saying it “doesn't believe” in the tech — Pocketpair communications director and publishing manager John Buckley explains how AI can harm even its most vocal detractors.| Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
Sumble, which offers an AI sales intelligence service, emerges from stealth and raised a $30M Series A led by Canaan Partners and $8.5M seed led by Coatue — Ask any salesperson how much information they'd like on a prospective customer and you'll never hear the end of it.
More: BonTech Labs
| Adam Leventhal / The Athletic: |
UEFA joins the MPA-led anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the first sports governing body to join the group, which has 50+ members — UEFA has become the first sports governing body to join the world's largest anti-piracy coalition, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE).| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $11.51B, matching est., and an operating margin below est. due to Brazilian tax dispute expense; NFLX drops 10%+ — Shares of Netflix plummeted as much as 7% after the company posted a third-quarter earnings miss after the closing bell Tuesday.
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Forums: r/StockMarket and r/wallstreetbets
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks — Introducing ChatGPT Atlas (via) Last year OpenAI hired Chrome engineer Darin Fisher, which sparked speculation they might have their own browser in the pipeline.
More: Silicon Republic, Stuff, and OpenAI
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