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The White House says China has agreed to effectively end rare earth export controls issued in 2025 and 2022, and will also close probes of US chip companies — China will effectively suspend implementation of additional export controls on rare earth metals and terminate investigations targeting US companies … | Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic death threats, posting hyper-realistic AI-generated images and sounds to social media platforms — Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.| James Shotter / Financial Times: |
Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain drain that increased during the war in Gaza and tax breaks for investors in Israeli funds and tech firms — Measures aim to lure back high-skilled workers who moved abroad after 2023 war with Hamas — Israel has unveiled tax incentives …
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Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unmanned drone, flying it “semi-autonomously”, as the US Air Force plans swarms of unmanned jet drones — Anduril's jet-powered drone flew for the first time on Friday, the company and the U.S. Air Force said …
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Nexperia's China unit says it has “sufficient inventories” to sustain order fulfillment “through year-end and beyond”, after the parent suspended wafer supplies — Dutch chipmaker Nexperia's China unit said on Sunday that it had established “sufficient inventories … | @bg2pod: |
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A profile of David Bailey, Trump's informal crypto advisor who organizes the Bitcoin Conference, as he seeks to turn a Utah health clinic into a bitcoin bank — Bitcoin Magazine publisher David Bailey believes he can turn a tiny Utah healthcare clinic into the Berkshire Hathaway of bitcoin.| Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: |
Grokipedia content often closely mirrors Wikipedia except for some political topics but its use of AI makes it better than Wikipedia on obscure entries — - A lot of the non-political entries are just direct copies of Wikipedia. — But in certain cases, Grokipedia improved the Wikipedia page … | Kenrick Cai / Reuters: |
How Google Cloud has become one of Alphabet's fastest-growing businesses under Thomas Kurian, driven by investments in AI, data centers, custom chips, and more — - Google Cloud grew 34% in the third quarter on AI demand — Cloud is now challenging YouTube as Alphabet's No. 2 cash generator| Jackson Chen / Engadget: |
An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and OnlyFans, to verify the ages of their users will go into effect on November 12 — The age verification process is required for every visit and will be done through “certified third parties.”
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Big Tech's dominance on the S&P 500 is becoming more extreme; the eight biggest tech stocks account for 60% of the gains since the market bottomed in April 2025 — In a week when Nvidia's value reached $5tn, investors in even the broadest index of global companies are now heavily exposed to the AI boom| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft's AI tools still lag behind OpenAI's, as Microsoft struggles to create a cohesive AI experience and add new features by integrating OpenAI models — Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world.| Financial Times: |
Analysis: sports volumes on Kalshi approach $1B a week, with open interest in sports contracts regularly above $100M, significantly higher than other categories — Open interest in Kalshi sports contracts has surged past any other category as lawsuits threaten operations| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80+ countries, raised a €30M Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech — The company supports thousands of SMEs in efficiently maintaining compliance with EU regulations and responding to regulatory changes.
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