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Eliza Gkritsi / Politico:
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:
EU accuses Meta under DSA of failing to give users easy ways to flag illegal content and adequate tools to appeal moderation decisions, in preliminary findings
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.
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 …
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
IBM says it was able to run a key algorithm for correcting qubit errors, which runs alongside quantum chips, on readily available AMD chips  —  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) …
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Apple says it may turn off App Tracking Transparency in Europe, citing “intense lobbying” 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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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:
President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial
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Financial Times:
The High Court in London rules against Prince Harry and six other claimants in the privacy lawsuit against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers

Scott Nover / Washington Post:
A district court judge dismisses Trump Media and Technology Group's $3.8B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against WaPo; TMTG is considering an appeal

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Early Nielsen numbers show 30M people watched the US-Belgium World Cup match through Fox, clearing the record for an English-language soccer telecast in the US

More News

Bloomberg:
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright urges FERC to limit the process for connecting data centers to power grids to 60 days, a process that typically takes years
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
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

Earlier Picks

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
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%+
Kate Rogers / CNBC:
Trump says he canceled plans for a “surge” of National Guard to San Francisco after speaking to “great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others”
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
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
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils Mico, a new character for Copilot's voice mode that responds with real-time expressions and is enabled by default, available in the US
Sam Tobin / Reuters:
The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal rules against Apple in a lawsuit accusing it of abusing its dominant position by charging a 30% App Store commission
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