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Wall Street Journal:
A teen's parents allege OpenAI loosened ChatGPT's suicide-talk rules to boost engagement before their son died by suicide using a method discussed with ChatGPT  —  An amended complaint from the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide, alleges the changes were part of a push to increase engagement
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Lawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents “intentional harassment”
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI, autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, and more  —  We've got a special episode of Decoder today.  I'm talking to General Motors CEO Mary Barra and new GM Chief Product Officer …
Michael Wayland / CNBC:
GM plans to roll out Gemini in its vehicles starting in 2026 and aims to launch an advanced driver-assistance system with eyes-off driving capabilities in 2028
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: IonQ, Rigetti, D-Wavequantum, and other computing companies are in talks to give the US Commerce Department equity in exchange for $10M+ funding each  —  Discussions signal Washington's wider involvement in key parts of the economy  —  WASHINGTON—Several quantum-computing companies …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon is testing AR glasses for delivery drivers, using AI and computer vision to help them scan packages, follow walking directions, and get proof of delivery  —  MILPITAS, Calif. — Amazon is bringing delivery details directly to drivers' eyeballs.  —  The e-commerce giant on Wednesday confirmed …
Kate Clark / Bloomberg:
Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with investors to raise funds at a $12B to $15B valuation, up from ~$8B pre-investment in a raise earlier in October  —  The prediction market Polymarket is holding early conversations with investors and looking to raise money at a valuation between $12 billion …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple removes controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store for failing to meet requirements around content moderation and user privacy  —  Controversial dating safety apps, Tea and Tea on Her, have been pulled from the Apple App Store.
Dane Stuckey / @cryps1s:
OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey outlines prompt injection mitigations in ChatGPT Atlas, including a “logged out mode” that blocks agent access to user credentials  —  Yesterday we launched ChatGPT Atlas, our new web browser. In Atlas, ChatGPT agent can get things done for you. We're excited to see how this feature makes work and day-to-day life more efficient and effective for people. ChatGPT agent is powerful and helpful, and designed to be
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results  —  In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google's search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Google says its Willow quantum chip using a new Quantum Echoes algorithm ran computations 13,000x faster than supercomputers, aiding drug and materials research  —  Michel H. Devoret was one of three physicists who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for a series of experiments they conducted more than four decades ago.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1B est., and Hybrid Cloud revenue, including its Red Hat unit, up 14%, below 16% est.; IBM drops 6%+  —  International Business Machines Corp. reported disappointing revenue in its closely watched Red Hat unit, sparking concerns among investors …
Reuters:
Sources: the Trump administration is considering barring exports of products made with US software to China in response to the country's rare earth restrictions  —  - Trump administration considers potential escalation in China trade war  — Measure could restrict shipments to China of goods containing or made with U.S. software
Wall Street Journal:
Top AI researchers and executives in Silicon Valley are working 80 to 100 hours per week, driven by competition, as AI's progress compresses product timelines  —  With expertise in the field scarce, workers in Silicon Valley are pushing themselves to extremes day after day
Canadian Press:
Canada's financial crime watchdog fines crypto exchange Cryptomus a record ~$126M for infractions including failing to flag suspicious transactions  —  Firm failed to flag over 1,000 transactions with suspected links to criminal activity  —  A cryptocurrency exchange has been slapped …
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Email: Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to resume operations on October 24, following a court-approved restructuring, after hackers stole $230M in July 2024  —  That was the final step in a process that began after a massive security breach last year froze assets, shuttered withdrawals …
Financial Times:
Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales agree to a deal to combine their space businesses, promising “significant synergies” in a bid to build a European SpaceX competitor  —  European defence groups promise ‘significant synergies’ to respond to rapid expansion of Starlink network
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
Ukraine says it has now deployed 30K free physical security keys, called YubiKeys, including 22K to access battle system Delta, up from ~10K in April 2022  —  AI is part of the country's defense against Russia.  —  Since Russia invaded Ukraine more than three years ago …
Manish Singh / India Dispatch:
How Meesho and the rise of quick commerce companies disrupted Flipkart and Amazon's e-commerce duopoly that had existed in India for over a decade until 2023  —  How a zero-commission marketplace and asset-light logistics platform disrupted a $70 billion market.  —  India's vast e-commerce market has splintered.

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Financial Times:
Sources: WBD's board wanted a proposal it could sign immediately, and Netflix was the only bidder whose paperwork was fully executable the night of December 4

John Koblin / New York Times:
The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at Paramount's culture shift under David Ellison, where the focus is on male-driven action movies, and not on prestige films seen as critics' darlings

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Elon Musk says Tesla's AI5 chip will be made by Samsung in Texas and TSMC in Arizona, with the “oversupply” of chips not used by Tesla going to his data centers

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Órla Ryan / The Irish Times:
Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race
Financial Times:
The UK CMA designates Apple and Google with “strategic market status” in each of their mobile platforms, imposing stricter rules on them to improve competition
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