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Microsoft and Anthropic appoint former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak as a senior adviser and pledge his role will not include lobbying with the UK government (Financial Times)

Microsoft and Anthropic appoint former UK prime mi...

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Sources: crypto investor Roger Ver, aka "Bitcoin Jesus", has reached a tentative agreement with the US DOJ to pay ~$48M to end a 2024 criminal tax fraud case (New York Times)

Sources: crypto investor Roger Ver, aka "Bitcoin J...

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YouTube launches a pilot program to give terminated creators a "second chance" by letting them apply to create a new channel (Zach Vallese/CNBC)

YouTube launches a pilot program to give terminate...

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Adam Mosseri says Instagram is exploring building a TV app as part of a deeper push into video but isn't interested in licensing live sports or other content (Bloomberg)

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Adobe launches AI agents tailored for B2B marketers within its Adobe Experience Platform, after launching AI agents aimed at consumer marketing in September (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more efficiently via Chrome, raised $22M in seed and Series A led by Accel (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

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Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

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A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "backdoor" vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume (Anthropic)

A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documen...

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AWS launches Quick Suite, a chatbot and set of AI agents that can analyze sales data, produce reports, and summarize web content, set to replace Q Business (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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The German government scales back financial aid for its semiconductor industry, cutting €3B from its previously planned €15B chip subsidies to fund road repairs (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

The German government scales back financial aid fo...

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Tigris, which is building a network of localized data storage centers that it claims can meet the compute needs of AI workloads, raised a $25M Series A (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Tigris, which is building a network of localized d...

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DoorDash partners with Serve Robotics to use its autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, starting in LA; Serve also partners with Uber; SERV jumps 20%+ (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

DoorDash partners with Serve Robotics to use its a...

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SoundCloud evolves into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features, including playlists based on friends' likes (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI raised concerns about anti-competitive conduct by "entrenched companies" in a September EU meeting; source: OpenAI targeted Google, Microsoft, and Apple (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

OpenAI raised concerns about anti-competitive cond...

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Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch, even faster than ChatGPT did (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app...

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Data from 300K+ pull requests shows OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic in AI coding: Codex has a 74.3% success rate vs. Claude Code's 73.7% in code approvals (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Data from 300K+ pull requests shows OpenAI is catc...

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Meta Ray-Ban Display review: good for some uses like navigation and AI queries, the neural band is great, but the display's not sharp and camera is just 1080p (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Meta Ray-Ban Display review: good for some uses li...

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Austin-based Routefusion, whose API for financial institutions lets them embed accounts, payments, currency conversion, and compliance, raised a $26.7M Series A (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Austin-based Routefusion, whose API for financial ...

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