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Microsoft says it has demonstrated, with Quantinuum, logical operations with the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet, and partners with Atom Computing (John Timmer/Ars Technica)

Microsoft says it has demonstrated, with Quantinuu...

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A total of 42 state and territory AGs call on Congress to pass legislation requiring warning labels on social networks that warn of social media's risks to kids (Emma Roth/The Verge)

A total of 42 state and territory AGs call on Cong...

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Sony announces the PS5 Pro with more advanced internals for 45% faster game rendering but doesn't come with a disc drive, available November 7 for $700 (Scott Stein/CNET)

Sony announces the PS5 Pro with more advanced inte...

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Election officials across the US say false election rumors spread by Elon Musk to his 197M+ followers often coincide with calls by locals to purge voter rolls (Washington Post)

Election officials across the US say false electio...

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Sources: OpenAI aims to release its reasoning-focused Strawberry AI within two weeks as a model users can pick in ChatGPT; it will lack multimodal capabilities (The Information)

Sources: OpenAI aims to release its reasoning-focu...

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Glean, which uses AI to offer unified search across apps used at a company, raised $260M+ at a $4.6B valuation, after raising $200M at a $2.2B valuation in Feb. (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

Glean, which uses AI to offer unified search acros...

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Israel-based Quantum Source, which is developing photonic quantum computers, raised a $50M Series A led by Eclipse, bringing its total funding to $77M (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes Online)

Israel-based Quantum Source, which is developing p...

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Smartcat, which provides AI-powered translation tools for businesses, raised a $43M Series C led by Left Lane Capital, bringing its total funding to $70M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Smartcat, which provides AI-powered translation to...

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South Korean police arrest two former Samsung officials on suspicion of stealing tech worth $3.2B+ to build a chipmaking plant in China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

South Korean police arrest two former Samsung offi...

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Oracle shares are up 34% since January, well outpacing the Nasdaq's 14% rise, as it becomes an attractive cloud-computing provider for AI developers (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)

Oracle shares are up 34% since January, well outpa...

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Alibaba's stock rises 5%+ after being made directly accessible to mainland China investors for the first time, following an upgrade to Hong Kong primary listing (Financial Times)

Alibaba's stock rises 5%+ after being made directl...

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How VC John Hering bet his career, time, and money on Elon Musk's businesses, including investing $4B+, more than half of his firm Vy Capital's reported assets (Wall Street Journal)

How VC John Hering bet his career, time, and money...

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Huawei unveils Mate XT trifold smartphone with a 10.2-inch screen when unfolded, available in China on September 20 for $2,800+ (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Huawei unveils Mate XT trifold smartphone with a 1...

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Google loses its bid to reverse a €2.4B EU fine for abusing its monopoly power to crush rival shopping services, as EU's Court of Justice backs a 2017 decision (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Google loses its bid to reverse a €2.4B EU fi...

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The European Court of Justice rules against Apple over a record €13B Irish tax bill, backing a landmark decision from 2016 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

The European Court of Justice rules against Apple ...

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An excerpt from the book Character Limit on Musk's acquisition of Twitter and how his inner circle employed hardball tactics in a touch-and-go transaction (Vanity Fair)

An excerpt from the book Character Limit on Musk's...

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Q&A with Mike Krieger on his new role as chief product officer at Anthropic, co-founding and selling news app Artifact, copyright issues, AI safety, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Mike Krieger on his new role as chief pro...

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Startups say Pakistan's new China-like firewall is making it harder for them to raise funds, amid complaints about censorship and internet speeds falling by 40% (Kunwar Khuldune Shahid/Rest of World)

Startups say Pakistan's new China-like firewall is...

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