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Google and Epic Games reach an agreement to settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with proposed changes to Android and Google Play pending US court approval — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday it has reached a comprehensive U.S. court settlement with “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google's proposed Epic settlement includes reduced app store fees globally and a new program for alternative app stores to become first-class Android citizens — Instead of breaking Google's app store, Google will let them in. … He issued a permanent injunction that will force Google …
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon sends a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity, demanding it to stop letting Comet make purchases on users' behalf and accusing it of computer fraud — Amazon.com Inc. is suing Perplexity AI Inc. to try and stop the startup from helping users buy items on the world's largest online marketplace …
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Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of “bullying” after receiving the company's “aggressive legal threat” demanding Comet not make purchases on users' behalf — Perplexity AI accused Amazon of “bullying” on Tuesday after it received a letter from the e-commerce giant demanding …
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| Lee Ying Shan / CNBC: |
Samsung, TSMC, SoftBank, SK Hynix, and others fall by as much as 10%, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry over stretched AI and tech valuations — Shares in Japan's SoftBank Group closed 10% lower on Wednesday, amid a broader drop in AI-linked companies as investors turned wary … | Bloomberg: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch a low-cost laptop powered by an iPhone chip in H1 2026 to rival Chromebooks, aimed at students and casual users, codenamed J700 — Apple Inc. is preparing to enter the low-cost laptop market for the first time, developing a budget Mac aimed at luring away customers …
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Sources detail Elon Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw racy chatbot Ani's design, unwound by playing one of his favorite video games, and more — Focus on winning tech arms race leads to long hours at xAI; employees turned over biometric data to develop controversial avatars| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport says the US DOJ concluded its review of Google's planned $32B acquisition; the FTC website dated the early termination to October 24 — Alphabet Inc.'s Google and cybersecurity company Wiz Inc. cleared a key hurdle to closing their $32 billion deal …
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YouTube confirms it removed 700+ videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions — The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
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| Philip Stafford / Financial Times: |
UK retailer M&S reports a £135.6M profit hit in H1 2025 after a cyber attack in April, which it attributes to DragonForce, and claimed £100M from its insurers — Stuart Machin says prospect of Budget tax rises is making customers uneasy — Marks and Spencer chief executive … | Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times: |
Barclays: hyperscalers have announced a total of 46 GW of AI data center capacity, which at full utilization will consume as much energy as ~44.2M US households — The financing package stitched together for Meta's humongous Hyperion data centre campus in Louisiana made Alphaville curious … | Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Google unveils Project Suncatcher, aiming to launch two solar-powered satellites with four TPUs each into low Earth orbit in 2027, as it seeks to scale AI — The demand for AI data centers has grown so large that there isn't enough energy on earth to power the buildout.
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Armis, which helps businesses secure and manage IoT devices, raised $435M at a $6.1B valuation, up from $4.2B after raising a $200M Series D in October 2024 — Cybersecurity startup Armis has raised $435 million in a funding round that values the company at $6.1 billion.| Reuters: |
Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically-made AI chips — - Order likely to affect U.S. chipmakers Nvidia, AMD, Intel — Beijing trying to cultivate domestic AI chipmakers like Huawei
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Netherlands-based Nebius unveils Token Factory, a platform to let companies use open source AI models like GPT-oss, in a bid to compete with AWS and Azure — Nebius Group NV, an artificial intelligence cloud provider, is releasing a new product meant to offer access to open source models … | Boaz Barak / Windows On Theory: |
Research: AI's ability to complete long and complex software engineering tasks doubles every 6-7 months, but there is a “messiness tax” for real-world tasks — METR has had a very influential work by Kwa and West et al on measuring AI's ability to complete long tasks.
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Motorola Edge 70 review: the new £699 ultra-thin device has a silicone back and great battery life, but the OS is full of ads; the phone won't launch in the US — I've been as much of a thin phone skeptic as anyone. Why would I give up on camera specs and battery life just to shave …
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| Chris Allnutt / Financial Times: |
A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports Interactive, which has ~280 full-time staff and licenses its scouting data to 40+ teams, as it releases FM26 — Over 33 years, the series has won over frustrated fans, the football industry, even Americans — but it took three Lionesses to get women's teams into the game
More: Radio Times, ESPN, BBC, The Athletic, The Athletic, Football Manager 26, T3, Top Gear, The Guardian, and BBC
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Roelof Botha was asked to step aside after some Sequoia partners raised concerns about his leadership; Botha had declined to comment on Shaun Maguire — Sequoia leaders asked Roelof Botha to step aside amid leadership concerns and a turbulent stretch
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| Tarpley Hitt / The Guardian: |
How “porno-troll” Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos — A company called Strike 3, owner of Vixen and Tushy, has clogged US courts with lawsuits, mostly against porn watchers who feel shamed into settling privately| Tulsi Rauniyar / Wired: |
Insiders detail how Nepal's Gen Z protests, born on Discord servers, TikTok feeds, and encrypted messaging apps, ended with an online poll to pick the new PM — The revolution started on social media. It ended with protests, violence, and an online poll to pick the new prime minister.| Bloomberg: |
Singapore-based Video Rebirth, founded by Tencent AI veteran Liu Wei to develop AI video generation models, raised a $50M seed from Qiming, ActozSoft, and more — The scientist who oversaw development of Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s flagship AI model has raised $50 million with a startup planning …
LinkedIn: Zheping Huang
| Clare Armstrong / ABC: |
Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to include Reddit and Kick, which join Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and YouTube — In short: — Reddit and Kick will be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16.
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Forums: r/brisbane, r/australia, r/austechnology, r/australia, r/technology, r/aussie, r/AustralianPolitics, and r/australian
| New York Times: |
How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias — Enoch, one of the newer chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, promises “to ‘mind wipe’ the pro-pharma bias” from its answers.
More: Tech Xplore and TheStreet
| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the US agency's long-term cyber capabilities — The National Security Agency is confronting a wave of internal strain — including leadership gaps, program cuts and deferred resignation offers … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 36% YoY to $9.24B, above $8.7B est., Data Center revenue up 22% YoY to $4.3B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below the highest projections — Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the main contender to Nvidia Corp. in the artificial intelligence chip market … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, below $6.09B est., and forecasts Q2 profit below estimates; SMCI drops 9%+ — Super Micro Computer Inc. shares tumbled in late trading after the server maker missed reduced estimates for first-quarter sales and profit and gave … | Bloomberg: |
A profile of Chen Zhi, chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group, accused by the US and UK of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers — Three years ago, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen gifted locally crafted luxury wristwatches to other world leaders at the time … Sponsor Posts
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