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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 … | Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: |
More: TechCrunch, Benzinga, Forbes Middle East, European Commission, Bloomberg, and The Guardian
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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 …
More: PYMNTS.com, DL News, Cryptonews, The Crypto Basic, ZeroHedge News, BTC Times, Bitcoin Magazine, ZyCrypto, Benzinga, Decrypt, CoinDesk, CoinJournal, crypto.news, BeInCrypto, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, Blockonomi, The Block, The Crypto Times, Cointelegraph, and CryptoPotato
| 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.
More: OpenAI, The Register, TechRadar, TestingCatalog, Analytics India Magazine, WinBuzzer, Windows Report, Neowin, and Maginative. Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| 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.
More: Polygon.com, Eurogamer.net, Cointelegraph, Dexerto, Forbes, GamesRadar, and Kotaku
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| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Crypto.com follows Circle, BitGo, and others in applying for a US bank charter, as it seeks to further its custody-service business for products such as ETFs — Crypto.com became the latest cryptocurrency firm to pursue a US bank charter as it seeks to further its custody-service business …
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| 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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine's October 2024 lawsuit and alleges that WP Engine has been abusing the WordPress trademark — On Friday, WordPress maker Automattic filed its counterclaims in the lawsuit initiated by hosting company WP Engine in October 2024 … | 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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Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| 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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| 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) … | 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company expects to earn close to $15B in profit in 2025, up from around $13B in 2024 — Tether Holdings Ltd. expects close to $15 billion in profit this year, as the stablecoin issuer's rapid growth continues to attract investors keen to back the closely-held company.
More: CoinDesk, BeInCrypto, and Crypto Briefing
| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
New York-based Valthos, which is developing AI tools to detect and prevent AI-enabled bioweapon attacks, raised $30M from OpenAI, Founders Fund, and Lux Capital — OpenAI, Founders Fund and Lux Capital have invested in Valthos, a startup using AI to try to prevent AI-enabled destruction.
LinkedIn: Olivia H. Scharfman
| 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
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