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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's plans to enhance satellite connectivity in its products, Siri's Gemini upgrade, new 2026 Macs, a Health+ service, and the future of Fitness+ — Apple is planning a series of upgrades to its satellite features for the iPhone and its smartwatches.
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| Ellen O'Regan / Politico: |
Draft documents: the European Commission plans to relax some privacy laws, including the GDPR, to boost AI growth and cut red tape for businesses in Europe — BRUSSELS — European Union officials are ready to sacrifice some of their most prized privacy rules for the sake of AI …
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| Fast Company: |
Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sector — Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.
More: Technical.ly and TheStreet
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| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
EchoTik estimates TikTok Shop sold $19B worth of products globally in Q3, nearing eBay's $20.1B, with US sales accounting for between $4B and $4.5B, up 125% QoQ — TikTok's ecommerce arm has kept growing steadily, despite tariffs and never-ending debates over whether the platform should be banned.| Rya Jetha / The San Francisco Standard: |
A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is creating a new category of work; Mercor hit $500M ARR in September and pays contractors $1.5M daily — Brendan Foody is excited about the future. He said so the moment we stepped into Lands End — not the park …
More: Wall Street Journal
| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Cold-storage crypto wallet demand is soaring, as hardware wallet maker Ledger reports its best year ever, with “triple-digit millions” in 2025 revenue so far — So-called cold storage wallets allow digital currency holders an alternative to holding their tokens directly on an exchange
More: The Crypto Times, CoinDesk, crypto.news, BeInCrypto, The Block, Cryptonews, DL News, Cointelegraph, and CryptoSlate
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| Financial Times: |
The UK is investigating whether ~700 of its Chinese-made Yutong electric buses can be remotely deactivated; Norway found that Yutong can render buses inoperable — Investigation comes after Norway found Yutong vehicles could be ‘stopped or rendered inoperable’ by Chinese company
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| Wired: |
Apple removes two of the most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in China, citing orders from the country's Cyberspace Administration — The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China's marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
Bluesky: @zeyiyang and @lmatsakis
| Adam Leventhal / The Athletic: |
A YouGov survey estimates 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, about 200K people more than in 2023 — Illegal streaming of football is on the rise in the UK and most fans want the Saturday 3pm blackout lifted, a new podcast released by The Athletic has revealed.
Forums: r/PremierLeague and r/soccer
| Wall Street Journal: |
A bitcoin and ether seloff is tanking shares of crypto treasury companies like Strategy and BitMine; Strategy's valuation is down from ~$128B in July to ~$70B — Selloff in bitcoin and other digital tokens hits crypto-treasury companies — The hottest crypto trade has turned cold.
More: Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, and ZyCrypto
| Felice Maranz / Bloomberg: |
A look at Rigetti Computing and D-Wave Quantum, whose shares have surged over 1,900% in the past year as the potential of quantum computing captivates investors — Rigetti Computing Inc. and D-Wave Quantum Inc. make products that so far have few real world applications.
More: Wall Street Journal and Motley Fool
| Alicia Park / Forbes: |
Zurich-based DeepJudge, which builds customized search indexes for law firms that plug into AI tools like ChatGPT, raised a $41M Series A at a $300M valuation — Legal tech startup DeepJudge has raised $41 million to build out customized search engines for law firms. — I cover tech and innovation.
More: CTech, DeepJudge, Pulse 2.0, and Bloomberg Law
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers find and build proposals for government contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Catalyst Investors — Procurement Sciences, a government contracts software developer, secured a $30 million Series B led by Catalyst Investors …
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| Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors — The changes would make it easier for American firms to obtain key minerals, delivering on what the White House said the two countries had agreed to at last month's summit.
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