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The EU accuses Meta and TikTok of violating their obligations to give researchers adequate access to public data on their platforms under the DSA — Move comes as EU faces pressure over enforcing its tech lawbooks. — BRUSSELS — The European Commission on Friday accused Meta and TikTok …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches a “company knowledge” ChatGPT update to let Business, Enterprise, and Education users search for data in connected apps like Slack and GitHub — The ‘company knowledge’ update allows ChatGPT to be used as a search engine for workspace data.
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Sources: JPMorgan plans to allow institutional clients globally to use their holdings of bitcoin and ether as collateral for loans by end of year — JPMorgan Chase & Co. plans to allow institutional clients to use their holdings of Bitcoin and Ether as collateral for loans by the end … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Anthropic and Google announce their cloud partnership worth tens of billions of dollars, giving Anthropic access to 1M TPUs and 1GW of capacity in 2026 — Anthropic and Google officially announced their cloud partnership Thursday, a deal that gives the artificial intelligence company access …
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple may turn off App Tracking Transparency in Europe due to “intense lobbying efforts” in Germany and other countries over alleged anticompetitive conduct — In a statement to the German Press Agency, Apple claimed that it may have to turn off App Tracking Transparency in Europe as a result of “intense lobbying efforts”.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M — The value of digital items in the popular video-game Counter—Strike has fallen 48% following an update by the title's developer Valve Corp.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon blames a rare software bug and “faulty automation” for this week's massive AWS glitch, and says it has turned off the flawed automation worldwide — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
IBM says it was able to run a key quantum computing algorithm in real-time on commonly available field programmable gate array chips made by AMD — IBM (IBM.N) said on Friday it is able to run a key quantum computing algorithm on commonly available chips from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) … | Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: |
A US judge says Meta lawyers told staff to block or remove parts of internal teen mental health research to limit liability; Meta says no findings were removed — Meta Platforms Inc.'s lawyers advised employees to block or remove portions of internal research on teen mental health harm … | Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
EA and Stability AI announce a partnership to build game developer tools, including “smarter paintbrushes” to quickly generate high-quality 2D textures — Video game giant Electronic Arts has struck a new partnership with generative tech company Stability AI … | Brooke Singman / Fox Business: |
Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute — Apple's Houston manufacturing facility is operating ahead of schedule — EXCLUSIVE: Apple is now building and shipping American …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q3 revenue up 3% YoY to $13.7B, vs. $13.2B est., and net income of $4.1B, vs. a net loss of $16.6B in Q3 2024; INTC jumps 7%+ — Intel reported better-than-expected revenue on Thursday, signaling that demand for its core x86 processors for PCs has recovered. The stock jumped 6% in extended trading.
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| Jeannine Amodeo / Bloomberg: |
Sources: banks are preparing to launch a $38B debt sale to fund Oracle data centers, including $23.25B for a Texas data center and $14.75B for a Wisconsin site — Banks are preparing to launch a $38 billion debt offering as soon as Monday that will help fund data centers tied to Oracle Corp …
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| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality — The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft won't provide erotica AI services and that “other companies will build that”, after Sam Altman said ChatGPT would offer erotica — Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said the software giant won't build artificial intelligence services that provide …
More: SiliconANGLE, Wired, WinBuzzer, Digit, and Moneycontrol
| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Sources: Snap is in talks with investors, including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, to raise at least $1B for its AR glasses division — New details on Evan Spiegel's quest to win the AR race. Also: this week on ACCESS. — ∙ Paid — Snap is in talks to raise at least … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, which is building an AI-powered user interface for macOS and raised $6.5M from Sam Altman and others — OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Inc., a startup building an AI-powered user interface for Mac desktops …
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