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SoftBank says Vision Fund co-CEO Rajeev Misra will step down from his leadership roles; during his 10-year tenure, he led investments in WeWork, Wag, and others (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

SoftBank says Vision Fund co-CEO Rajeev Misra will...

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SoftBank reports Q2 net income of ~$7.7B and a Vision Fund gain of ~$2.42B, driven by strong Indian startup IPOs and valuation gains in Coupang and Didi (Min Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)

SoftBank reports Q2 net income of ~$7.7B and a Vis...

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Rival search engines Ecosia and Qwant launch European Search Perspective, a joint venture to develop an index of the web to reduce reliance on Google and Bing (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Rival search engines Ecosia and Qwant launch Europ...

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Amazon's Annapurna Labs plans to unveil "Trainium 2" AI chips next month, in an effort that can rival Nvidia; Trainium 2 is being tested by Anthropic and others (Financial Times)

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Kuo: Apple plans a smart home IP camera and aims for 10M+ annual shipments, with production scheduled for 2026; Goertek will be the exclusive assembly supplier (Ming-Chi Kuo)

Kuo: Apple plans a smart home IP camera and aims f...

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Filing: a Chinese court agrees to hear a Fortnite-like case against Apple by Bodyreader, a posture correcting app Apple removed in 2020; Bodyreader seeks ~$420K (Pei Li/Bloomberg)

Filing: a Chinese court agrees to hear a Fortnite-...

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Signal announces a suite of call features, including the ability to share a link to a call, emoji reactions, a "raise hand" button, and a dedicated calls tab (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Signal announces a suite of call features, includi...

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A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has...

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Bitcoin passes $89K for the first time, Tesla closes up 8.96%, Coinbase closes up 19.76%, and Robinhood closes up 7.4%, as investors pile into "Trump trades" (Financial Times)

Bitcoin passes $89K for the first time, Tesla clos...

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Grab reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $716M, vs $700.8M est., a $15M profit, and raises its forecast for fiscal 2024 revenue; GRAB jumps 10%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

Grab reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $716M, vs $7...

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Alameda Research co-CEO Sam Trabucco has agreed to hand over a slew of properties, including his yacht, to FTX creditors as part of a November 3 settlement deal (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Alameda Research co-CEO Sam Trabucco has agreed to...

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An indictment against two men suspected of hacking Snowflake clients, including AT&T, says the pair and their co-conspirators extorted at least 36 bitcoins (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

An indictment against two men suspected of hacking...

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Canadian digital bank Neo Financial raised a CA$360M Series D from Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, and others (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

Canadian digital bank Neo Financial raised a CA$36...

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Ilya Sutskever says "we're back in the age of wonder and discovery" as AI companies focus on pre-training, inference improvements, and finding the "next thing" (Reuters)

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The NYT says the Tech Guild is ending its strike after a weeklong stoppage; during the strike, dozens of tech workers crossed the picket line (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)

The NYT says the Tech Guild is ending its strike a...

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Sources: more than a year before the election, TikTok execs revamped moderation rules and trust and safety staff to make TikTok more appealing to Trump fans (The Information)

Sources: more than a year before the election, Tik...

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LG Display shows off a stretchable display prototype that can expand by up to 50%, more than doubling the previous record of 20% elongation (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

LG Display shows off a stretchable display prototy...

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Apple adds Share Item Location to iOS 18.2 public beta, letting users share a link with the location of AirTags or Find My accessories with airlines and others (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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