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Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar warns AI could make it harder for fresh Indian engineering graduates to find jobs, urging an immediate CS curriculum overhaul (Sayan Chakraborty/Nikkei Asia)

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How differences in economics, public policy, and cultural patterns could explain greater pessimism about AI in the West than in Asia and emerging economies (Gillian Tett/Financial Times)

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Global tablet shipments fell 23% YoY to 32M units in Q3 2026, their lowest level in nearly three years; Apple's iPad shipments fell 27.5% YoY to ~11.58M (Omdia)

Global tablet shipments fell 23% YoY to 32M units ...

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Censys finds 800+ publicly exposed copies of ARTEX, a Chinese-made, AI-powered, open-source penetration testing tool linked to several cyberattacks since July (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Censys finds 800+ publicly exposed copies of ARTEX...

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Shenzhen, home to tech giants and an illicit trade of smuggled chips and stolen iPhones, is clearing out its illegitimate markets ahead of the APEC summit (William Langley/Financial Times)

Shenzhen, home to tech giants and an illicit trade...

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Huawei unveils HarmonyOS-powered Qinyun HM650 series desktop PCs for enterprise and government users, saying they use "100% domestically made" components (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

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Axon invests $1.2B in Skydio, whose autonomous drones are used by public safety agencies, the US military, and 32 allied nations, at a $5.2B pre-money valuation (Carly Page/Resilience Media)

Axon invests $1.2B in Skydio, whose autonomous dro...

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Beijing-based Sand.ai, an AI startup specializing in video generation, raised a $200M Series A+, bringing its total funding over the past 10 months to $300M (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)

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Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSS (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a r...

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Meta introduces specialized versions of its existing models, trained using Muse Wonder, bringing Active Memory and Active Focus to all Muse and Meta AI users (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

Meta introduces specialized versions of its existi...

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CesiumAstro, which plans a 737-satellite LEO communications network at two altitudes, raised $730M at a $4.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.4B (Loren Grush/Bloomberg)

CesiumAstro, which plans a 737-satellite LEO commu...

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Apple says the App Store has over 100K apps built for the iPhone Duo and "thousands of optimized apps are being added to the store each day" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Crusoe says Google has bought out its data center site in southeast Wyoming; Crusoe reportedly failed to lock in customers including Google for the project (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)

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Sources: US intelligence concluded that Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was recruited by China's top spy agency MSS to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang (New York Times)

Sources: US intelligence concluded that Megaspeed ...

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Filing: Google spent roughly $548M to buy around 3M shares of Qualcomm, which is pushing into serving the AI data center market (Ryan Barwick/The Information)

Filing: Google spent roughly $548M to buy around 3...

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Sources: OpenAI has closed on new funding of roughly $11B at a $1.25T valuation; the round could increase to as much as $20B in total (Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI has closed on new funding of rough...

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Sources: Anthropic is continuing with plans to list before the Thanksgiving holiday this month, expecting to raise $80B-$100B at a valuation of $1.25T to $1.75T (Financial Times)

Sources: Anthropic is continuing with plans to lis...

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AI physics startup PSI says a system running a non-public Anthropic model proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, a quantum computing question open since 2008 (PSI)

AI physics startup PSI says a system running a non...

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