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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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| 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: CoinDesk, Cryptonews, crypto.news, BeInCrypto, The Block, DL News, Cointelegraph, and CryptoSlate
LinkedIn: Kasper Luyckx, Asen Kostadinov, and Lance McGrath
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
EchoTik: TikTok Shop sold an estimated $19B worth of products globally in Q3, nearing eBay's $20.1B, with US sales accounting for $4B to $4.5B, up 125% QoQ — TikTok's ecommerce arm has kept growing steadily, despite tariffs and never-ending debates over whether the platform should be banned.| 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
| 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
More: ABC, The Guardian, The Times, Sustainable Bus, Telegraph, electrive.com, and NBC News
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| Wired: |
Apple removes two of the most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in China, citing orders from the country's Cyberspace Administration — The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China's marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
Bluesky: @zeyiyang and @lmatsakis
| 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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| 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: Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, and ZyCrypto
| 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
| Ellen O'Regan / Politico: |
Draft documents show the European Commission plans to relax some privacy laws, including the GDPR, to boost AI growth and cut red tape for businesses in Europe — Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.
More: Euractiv
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| 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.
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| 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.
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EchoTik: TikTok Shop sold an estimated $19B worth of products globally in Q3, nearing eBay's $20.1B, with US sales accounting for $4B to $4.5B, up 125% QoQFind
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Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sectorFind
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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 ~$70BFind
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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 investorsFind
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Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers find and build proposals for government contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Catalyst InvestorsFind
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