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Wall Street Journal:
Investigation: Polymarket is paying creators to make deceptive videos about winning bets, targeting users in the US, where its primary crypto platform is banned  —  The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: John Ternus gets ready to put his firm imprint on Apple's industrial design team, which has lost a true seat at Apple's exec table over the past decade  —  Also: The 2027 iPhone and AirPods plans.  —  The No. 1 priority for new Apple CEO John Ternus should be revamping …
Aisha Down / The Guardian:
A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race  —  A speculative thought-experiment warns the continent could pay a heavy price for lagging behind the US
Angela Cullen / Bloomberg:
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France  —  Claude Guillemot, who co-founded French video-game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA with his brothers in 1986, has died, according to the company.
Sophie Shulman / CTech:
Sources: Anduril has begun exploring the possibility of establishing operations in Israel and is in talks to recruit a local manager  —  Palmer Luckey's $61 billion startup considers local operations, partnerships, and investments in Israeli startups.  —  Anduril, the world's largest …
Caroline Petrow-Cohen / Los Angeles Times:
SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M  —  - 7 min Click here to listen to this article  — San Francisco startup Humble Robotics has raised $24 million to build an electric …
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Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
Sources: Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree have deployed tech to disable phones stolen from their stores, after phone makers resisted broader antitheft measures  —  Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree's move comes after Apple and Samsung resisted calls to adopt broader measures
Mishal Husain / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand weakening of encryption, more  —  Meredith Whittaker has spent years arguing that privacy is a prerequisite for a free society.

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David Ellison / New York Times:
David Ellison says antitrust suits against Paramount's WBD deal imagine a bygone Hollywood and are really about trust in his CNN stewardship, not market share

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Axel Springer names Business Insider's interim CEO Christian Baesler as the outlet's permanent CEO; he plans to keep focusing on direct sales and subscriptions

Clayton Davis / Variety:
Netflix sets its longest-ever theatrical window, a 47-day exclusive run for Spanish-language Oscar hopeful La Bola Negra, opening on October 16

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Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
A look at “humanizer” and “autotyper” apps that help students evade AI-detection software by slowly auto-typing essays and making AI text sound less robotic
Ella Creamer / The Guardian:
Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner

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