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Source: Elon Musk's America PAC spent ~$200M to help elect Trump; Musk says the PAC is gearing up for midterms as well as judicial and DA elections (Dan Merica/Associated Press)

Source: Elon Musk's America PAC spent ~$200M to he...

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Sources: advisors to Donald Trump expect the president-elect to halt a potential US ban of TikTok, which faces a January 19 deadline to divest (Washington Post)

Sources: advisors to Donald Trump expect the presi...

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A survey by Slack of 17K+ workers in August: 48% said they were uncomfortable telling managers they use AI, and AI adoption rates stalled in the US at ~33% (Ina Fried/Axios)

A survey by Slack of 17K+ workers in August: 48% s...

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Microsoft plans to end support for the Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps on December 31, after moving users to the new Outlook app in recent months (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft plans to end support for the Windows Mai...

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Zurich-based LocalStack, which helps developers emulate and test cloud apps locally, raised a $25M Series A led by Notable Capital (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Zurich-based LocalStack, which helps developers em...

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Waymo opens robotaxi rides to anyone in LA within an 80-square-mile area running from downtown LA to Santa Monica and says ~300K users had been on the waitlist (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)

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New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management tools, raised a $58M Series B led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $80M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management tools, raised a $58M Series B led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $80M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Writer, which makes enterprise generative AI tools, raised a $200M Series C led by Premji, Radical Ventures, and Iconiq at a $1.9B valuation, for $326M raised (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Writer, which makes enterprise generative AI tools...

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Netflix says its ad tier has 70M users globally, up from 40M in May 2024 and 22M in January 2024, and 50%+ of sign-ups are for ad plans in supported countries (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Netflix says its ad tier has 70M users globally, u...

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The EU notifies Apple of "potentially prohibited geo-blocking practices" on the App Store and other apps, and says it must align with EU anti-geo-blocking rules (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

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Nvidia launches its Nvidia app for Windows, designed to overhaul and replace the GeForce Experience app, after a beta earlier in 2024 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Nvidia launches its Nvidia app for Windows, design...

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Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $2.2B, above $2.12B est., GMV up 24% YoY to $69.7B, projects Q4 revenue growth above est.; SHOP jumps 13%+ pre-market (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $2.2B, ab...

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Sea reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $4.3B and a $153.3M net income, above estimates and up from a $144M loss in Q3 2023; SE rises 5%+ pre-market (Bloomberg)

Sea reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $4.3B and a $...

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Sources: Meta plans to show Facebook and Instagram users in Europe an option to get "less personalized ads" in the coming days, a concession to EU regulators (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Meta plans to show Facebook and Instagram...

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Analysts: Nintendo and Sony are heading into the holiday season with little to offer consumers; the Switch is now seven years old and $700 PS5 Pro is overpriced (Financial Times)

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Alibaba, JD, and Xiaomi report Singles' Day sales numbers they say make the shopping event one of the most productive yet, as China's economy continues to sag (Bloomberg)

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Baidu unveils smart glasses powered by its Ernie LLM that aim to "become a private assistant" by tracking calories, playing music, and more, launching in 2025 (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Baidu unveils smart glasses powered by its Ernie L...

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