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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.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results  —  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.
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.
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 6%+ after hours  —  International Business Machines Corp. reported disappointing revenue in its closely watched Red Hat unit, sparking concerns among investors …
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
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
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon is testing AR glasses for delivery drivers, using AI and computer vision to help them scan packages, follow walking directions, and get proof of delivery  —  MILPITAS, Calif. — Amazon is bringing delivery details directly to drivers' eyeballs.  —  The e-commerce giant on Wednesday confirmed …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI and autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, more  —  We've got a special episode of Decoder today.  I'm talking to General Motors CEO Mary Barra and new GM Chief Product Officer …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Meta is cutting ~600 jobs out of the several thousand within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, while sparing the newly formed TBD Lab  —  Meta is cutting several hundred roles from its AI unit even as it continues to hire for its newer TBD Lab, Axios has learned.
Dane Stuckey / @cryps1s:
OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey outlines prompt injection mitigations in ChatGPT Atlas, including a “logged out mode” that blocks agent access to user credentials  —  Yesterday we launched ChatGPT Atlas, our new web browser. In Atlas, ChatGPT agent can get things done for you. We're excited to see how this feature makes work and day-to-day life more efficient and effective for people. ChatGPT agent is powerful and helpful, and designed to be
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 …
Financial Times:
The UK CMA designates Apple and Google with “strategic market status” in each of their mobile platforms, imposing stricter rules on them to improve competition  —  Competition regulator designates the Big Tech groups with special status under strict new digital laws
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: quantum computing companies including IonQ, Rigetti, and D-Wave are in talks to give the US Commerce Dept. equity in exchange for $10M+ each in funding  —  Discussions signal Washington's wider involvement in key parts of the economy  —  WASHINGTON—Several quantum-computing companies …
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 …
Reuters:
Sources: Nexperia's China unit has resumed chip sales to local distributors, with transactions now settled in yuan instead of foreign currencies such as the USD  —  - All transactions with local distributors must be settled in yuan, sources say  — China unit had previously settled in foreign currencies such as US dollar
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Ofcom: UK traffic to porn sites has fallen by almost a third since introducing new age verification rules in July; Aylo says Pornhub's traffic has fallen by 77%  —  British government applied tougher checks on adult sites in July to stop children accessing content

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70

More News

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Elon Musk says Tesla's AI5 chip will be made by Samsung in Texas and TSMC in Arizona, with the “oversupply” of chips not used by Tesla going to his data centers
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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
Kelsey Piper / The Argument:
In an experiment, GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp expressed secular, Western liberal values regardless of the language of the questions
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