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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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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon sent a cease-and-desist to Perplexity, demanding it to stop letting Comet make purchases on users' behalf, 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 “an 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 … | Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Google and Epic Games reached an agreement to settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with proposed changes to Android and Google Play pending 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 Authority, Bloomberg Law, Android Central, and iClarified
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| 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 …
Forums: Hacker News and r/Android
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw the design of the racy chatbot Ani, employees turned over biometric data to train avatars, more — Focus on winning tech arms race leads to long hours at xAI; employees turned over biometric data to develop controversial avatars
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Google unveils Project Suncatcher to launch two solar-powered satellites, each with four TPUs, into low Earth orbit in 2027, as it seeks to scale AI compute — 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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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/singularity
| Lee Ying Shan / CNBC: |
Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 13%+, Advantest drops 8%+ — Shares of Asian AI-linked companies and tech firms fell Wednesday, tracking declines in U.S. peers, as investors turned wary …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 36% YoY to $9.24B, vs. $8.7B est., Data Center revenue up 22% 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, failed to impress investors … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, vs. $6.09B est., and forecasts Q2 profit below estimates; SMCI drops 9%+ after hours — Super Micro Computer Inc. shares tumbled in late trading after the server maker missed reduced estimates for first-quarter sales and profit and gave … | 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/australia, r/technology, and r/AustralianPolitics
| 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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| 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, Robotics & Automation News, and Dexerto
| Edward White / Financial Times: |
VW says it's developing an AI chip for advanced driving in China via a JV between its Cariad unit and Horizon Robotics, with deliveries in three to five years — Europe's largest carmaker prepares for launch of 30 new EV models after haemorrhaging market share
More: Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires
| 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.| 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
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| 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
| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the 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 …
Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com
| 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 … | Nikkei Asia: |
A look at US efforts to train workers for semiconductor manufacturing, led by Arizona, which has secured over 60 semiconductor expansion projects since 2020 — PHOENIX, Arizona — Laughter, cheers and applause filled the Arizona Science Center on a rainy October morning as kids ran around a rack of white … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment — MoEngage, a customer engagement platform that works with consumer brands across 75 countries, says it has raised new funding led …
More: Entrackr, DealStreetAsia, Moneycontrol, MoEngage, and Inc42 Media
| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin dropped below $100K for the first time since June on Tuesday; ETH also fell as much as 15% on Tuesday, and many altcoins are down 50%+ this year — Bitcoin has wiped out its summer rally, giving back gains made during Wall Street's euphoric embrace and a surge in institutional buying.
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| 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 … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says Live Translation on AirPods will expand to the EU next month; the first iOS 26.2 beta, seeded to developers on Tuesday, 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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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M+ in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical advisor — NVIDIA and Qualcomm Ventures have joined a growing coalition of U.S. and Indian investors backing India's deep tech startups.| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple releases version 26.1 of its full family of OSes, adding a “tinted” option for its Liquid Glass design that reduces transparency and increases contrast — Today, Apple released version 26.1 of its full family of OSes. Every platform received attention, including the proverbial …
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