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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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| 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| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
The demand for cold-storage crypto wallets is soaring, as hardware wallet maker Ledger reports its best year, with “triple-digit millions” in 2025 YTD revenue — So-called cold storage wallets allow digital currency holders an alternative to holding their tokens directly on an exchange
More: crypto.news, BeInCrypto, The Block, DL News, Cointelegraph, and CryptoSlate. LinkedIn: Lance McGrath
| 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: DeepJudge, Pulse 2.0, and Bloomberg Law
| 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
| 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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Forums: Hacker News and r/agi
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
TikTok Shop sold an estimated $19B worth of products globally in Q3, with US sales up 125% compared to Q2, reaching eBay's scale two years after its US launch — TikTok's ecommerce arm has kept growing steadily, despite tariffs and never-ending debates over whether the platform should be banned.
More: Social Media Today and Tubefilter
| Wall Street Journal: |
Selloff in bitcoin and ether 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: Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, ZyCrypto, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
| 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 …
More: Procurement Sciences
| 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.
More: DigiTimes, Dow Jones Newswires, UPI, Daily Sabah, and Axios
| Magdalena Petrova / CNBC: |
Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout — Over 95% of international data and voice call traffic travels through nearly a million miles of underwater communication cables.| Janne Knodler / Bloomberg: |
As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm — As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.
Bluesky: @cdt.org, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, and @charleswlogan. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: r/artificial and r/Futurology
| Sebastian Pellejero / Reuters: |
The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 — Turn an artificial-intelligence bot into a trader and it acts all too human. Over a two-week span, six frontier models were seeded …
More: Alpha Arena and New York Post
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more — This month, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited … Sponsor Posts
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