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Experts expect Trump to relax business cybersecurity rules, drop human rights concerns on spyware, and take an aggressive stance on US adversaries' cyber armies (Eric Geller/Wired)

Experts expect Trump to relax business cybersecuri...

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Estonian ride-hailing and food delivery startup Bolt says it hit €2B in annual revenue and plans a 2025 IPO; Bolt had an $8B+ valuation in January 2022 (Alessandro Parodi/Reuters)

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JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 5.1% YoY to ~$36B, above $35.9B est., and net income up 48% YoY to ~$1.6B, suggesting a recovery in segments of China's economy (Bloomberg)

JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 5.1% YoY to ~$36B, ab...

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Sonos reports Q4 revenue down 8% YoY to $1.5B, spent $4M on "app recovery investments", and has released 16 app updates and "restored 90% of missing features" (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Sonos reports Q4 revenue down 8% YoY to $1.5B, spe...

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Apple releases updates to Final Cut Pro, adding AI-generated closed captions and Vision Pro spatial video editing, and Logic Pro for macOS and iPadOS (John Voorhees/MacStories)

Apple releases updates to Final Cut Pro, adding AI...

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A look at "blind box livestreaming", an e-commerce trend in China that has become an entertaining and, some users and experts said, addictive pastime (New York Times)

A look at "blind box livestreaming", an e-commerce...

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How the rise of automation in manufacturing across China, the largest market for industrial robots, is forcing the country's manufacturing workforce to adapt (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

How the rise of automation in manufacturing across...

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How Grab built GrabMaps by using data from drivers, users, and merchants in 500+ Southeast Asian cities, adding 800,000+ km of missing roads to OpenStreetMap (Michelle Anindya/Rest of World)

How Grab built GrabMaps by using data from drivers...

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London-based Tessl, which is building an AI to write and maintain code, raised $125M across seed and Series A, sources say at a $500M+ post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

London-based Tessl, which is building an AI to wri...

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Indian mom-and-pop "kirana" stores are struggling to compete with quick commerce on discounts and delivery; ~200K kirana stores have closed in the past year (Rest of World)

Indian mom-and-pop "kirana" stores are struggling ...

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Q&A with Spotify Co-President and CTO Gustav Söderström on AI-generated music, NotebookLM podcasts, AI recommendations, improving discoverability, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Q&A with Spotify Co-President and CTO Gustav S&oum...

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Foxconn reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to a record ~$57.01B, net income of ~$1.5B vs. ~$1.408B est., and expects half of its server orders in 2025 to be for AI (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)

Foxconn reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to a record ...

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A look at Vietnam's expansion in the $95B chip packaging industry; report: the country is expected to have 8%-9% of the global share by 2032, up from 1% in 2022 (Francesco Guarascio/Reuters)

A look at Vietnam's expansion in the $95B chip pac...

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Researchers detail RoboPAIR, an algorithm that is designed to induce robots, relying on LLMs for their inputs, to ignore models' safeguards without exception (Charles Q. Choi/IEEE Spectrum)

Researchers detail RoboPAIR, an algorithm that is ...

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Nvidia says Jetson Thor, a computer first unveiled in March 2024 and designed for testing humanoid robot software, will be available in the first half of 2025 (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)

Nvidia says Jetson Thor, a computer first unveiled...

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Sources: the UK Treasury is planning to introduce legislation on stablecoins and staking; the FCA says it plans to publish a crypto regulatory roadmap "shortly" (Bloomberg)

Sources: the UK Treasury is planning to introduce ...

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Nvidia B200 GPU and Google Trillium TPU debut on the MLPerf Training v4.1 benchmark charts; the B200 posted a doubling of performance on some tests vs. the H100 (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

Nvidia B200 GPU and Google Trillium TPU debut on t...

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Filing: FTX co-founder Gary Wang, due for sentencing on Nov. 20, built "tools" to help the US government detect potential fraud in the stock and crypto markets (Ava Benny-Morrison/Bloomberg)

Filing: FTX co-founder Gary Wang, due for sentenci...

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