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Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI's staff that the company plans to move away from being controlled by a nonprofit sometime in 2025 (Kali Hays/Fortune)

Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI's staff that the c...

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An EEOC analysis finds women made up 22.6% of US workers in high-tech roles in 2022, similar to the 22% in 2005, even as the number of lucrative jobs has soared (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

An EEOC analysis finds women made up 22.6% of US w...

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MicroStrategy stock jumped 8%+ on Friday after founder Michael Saylor said it purchased another $1.1B worth of bitcoin, taking its bitcoin holdings to $14.6B (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

MicroStrategy stock jumped 8%+ on Friday after fou...

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Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias (Bloomberg)

Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appea...

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Trump says he has "absolutely no intention" of selling his Trump Media stock when the lockup period expires; DJT initially popped 25%+, then closed up about 12% (CNBC)

Trump says he has "absolutely no intention" of sel...

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Brazil lifts the block on the bank accounts of X and Starlink after withdrawing ~$3.3M from the accounts to pay for fines imposed by the Supreme Court (Daniel Carvalho/Bloomberg)

Brazil lifts the block on the bank accounts of X a...

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A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges "potentially fraudulent activities" as it tries to move ~$450M to China to pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation (TechCrunch)

A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges "potentially...

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German prosecutors open a sexual harassment probe into SAP CTO Jürgen Müller, after SAP said he'd resign at the end of September due to "inappropriate" behavior (Bloomberg)

German prosecutors open a sexual harassment probe ...

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Filing: 23andMe will pay $30M to settle a lawsuit for failing to protect the privacy of 6.9M customers whose personal info was exposed in a 2023 data breach (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Filing: 23andMe will pay $30M to settle a lawsuit ...

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Apple files to drop its NSO suit, citing Israeli government's alleged seizure of NSO files, and saying Apple's court disclosures may aid NSO and other hackers (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Apple files to drop its NSO suit, citing Israeli g...

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Google debuts DataGemma models that use real world data from Google-created Data Commons to reduce hallucinations in queries revolving around statistical data (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat)

Google debuts DataGemma models that use real world...

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Spotify begins piloting parent-managed accounts for kids under 13 on family plans in select markets, including Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Spotify begins piloting parent-managed accounts fo...

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Sources: the European Commission is poised to conclude X does not fall under its Digital Markets Act, after a probe found X's impact on EU markets is too small (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Sources: the European Commission is poised to conc...

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Sources: CoreWeave is in talks to arrange a sale of existing shares, valuing it at $23B, up from $19.1B in May; shareholders may sell up to $500M (Bloomberg)

Sources: CoreWeave is in talks to arrange a sale o...

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United Airlines plans to start testing Starlink internet service early next year, with the first passenger flights likely equipped with free Wi-Fi later in 2025 (Wall Street Journal)

United Airlines plans to start testing Starlink in...

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Meta restarts efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its UK users, having "incorporated regulatory feedback" (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Meta restarts efforts to train its AI systems usin...

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Sources detail a bleak picture for startup founders in China; report: only 1,202 startups were founded in 2023 in the country compared to 51,302 in 2018 (Financial Times)

Sources detail a bleak picture for startup founder...

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Waymo and Uber plan to expand their robotaxi partnership in Phoenix, Arizona, to Austin and Atlanta, starting in early 2025 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Waymo and Uber plan to expand their robotaxi partn...

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