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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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| 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/singularity and r/bayarea
| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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: |
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| The Shortcut: |
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| 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
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| 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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| 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
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kalshi is receiving funding offers from VC investors at $10B-$12B or higher valuations, just weeks after it announced a $300M round at a $5B valuation — Prediction market Kalshi is receiving funding offers from venture capital investors that would value the startup at more than $10 billion …
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| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple removes controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store for failing to meet requirements around content moderation and user privacy — Controversial dating safety apps, Tea and Tea on Her, have been pulled from the Apple App Store.
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| Canadian Press: |
Canada's financial crime watchdog fines crypto exchange Cryptomus a record ~$126M for infractions including failing to flag suspicious transactions — Firm failed to flag over 1,000 transactions with suspected links to criminal activity — A cryptocurrency exchange has been slapped … | 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.
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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.
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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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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in seven countries and in California — Dating app giant Tinder announced on Wednesday that it's expanding its facial verification feature to more users in the U.S.
More: Dallas Morning News, Mashable, Entrepreneur, Tinder Newsroom, and Bloomberg
| 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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| 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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| Ann Gehan / The Information: |
TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants — As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors … | 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 …
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LinkedIn: Greg Castle, David Cahn, Sefik Emre Eskimez, Sequoia Capital, and Sesame. Mastodon: @stammy@mastodon.social
| 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.
More: PCMag, Spyglass, 9to5Mac, Semafor, Forbes, The Cyber Express, PC Gamer, Livemint, and TechCrunch
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1B est., and Hybrid Cloud (Red Hat) revenue up 14%, below 16% est.; IBM drops 5%+ after hours — International Business Machines Corp. reported disappointing revenue in its closely watched Red Hat unit, sparking concerns among investors … | Wall Street Journal: |
A teen's parents allege OpenAI loosened ChatGPT's suicide-talk rules to boost engagement before their son died by suicide using a method discussed with ChatGPT — An amended complaint from the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide, alleges the changes were part of a push to increase engagement
More: Financial Times, Yahoo Finance, New York Post, and MLex
| 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 …
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