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| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
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 …
More: Android Police, Android Authority, Bloomberg, Android Central, and iClarified
| 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 … | 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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| 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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LinkedIn: Fiona Phillips and Spencer Soper
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| CNBC: |
Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of “bullying” after receiving Amazon'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 …
More: Perplexity, Ad Age, Analytics India Magazine, SiliconANGLE, TestingCatalog, Constellation Research, Hindustan Times, The Information, and Business Insider
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| Lee Ying Shan / CNBC: |
Asian AI-linked companies' shares fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry over stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 13%+ and Advantest drops 8%+ — Shares in Japan's SoftBank Group closed 10% lower on Wednesday, amid a broader drop in AI-linked companies as investors turned wary …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail Elon Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw the racy chatbot Ani, employees turned over biometric data to train avatars, and more — Focus on winning tech arms race leads to long hours at xAI; employees turned over biometric data to develop controversial avatars| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Google unveils Project Suncatcher, aiming to launch two solar-powered satellites, each with four TPUs, 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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 … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says Live Translation on AirPods will come to the EU next month; the first iOS 26.2 beta, seeded to developers on November 4, brings the feature to the EU — The upcoming iOS 26.2 update for iPhone makes the Live Translation on AirPods feature available in the EU, according to Apple.
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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 … | Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: |
A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks — - In an Indian town, workers fold towels while wearing cameras, providing data to teach AI robots how to move and operate in physical spaces.
More: The Overspill and Dexerto
| Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Fermi, a startup co-founded by ex-US Energy Secretary Rick Perry that aims to build one of the world's largest datacenter campuses in Texas by 2038 — Fermi, a buzzy startup that recently went public, is positioned to benefit from AI data-center boom and potential nuclear-power renaissance
More: Dow Jones Newswires
| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Google removed 749M URLs linked to Anna's Archive, a popular shadow library for pirated books, over copyright claims, representing ~5% of all takedown requests — Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has become a top target for copyright holders. In just three years …
Forums: Hacker News, r/Piracy, and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android, including in the US, Canada, and Japan; the app reached 1M+ downloads in the five days after its September iOS launch — Now, more people can create and share AI-generated videos on the app's social feed. … OpenAI has brought its AI video app, Sora, to Android.
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| 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 … | Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
The US sanctions eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes for the North Korean government — Learn more. — The Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple refreshes the web version of the App Store, letting users view and search for apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro — Apple has launched a dramatic new web interface for the App Store. You can now get the full App Store experience right in your browser …
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