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Meta rolls out its Quest v71 update, including a redesign of Meta Horizon OS, a calendar app, and the ability to use Travel Mode on a train (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Disney forms the Office of Technology Enablement to coordinate its use of emerging technologies such as AI and mixed reality, to be led by CTO Jamie Voris (Reuters)

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Intel outlines plan to break free from TSMC manufacturing, including making a majority of Nova Lake CPUs, due in 2026, internally (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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Popular photo editing company Pixelmator says it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, pending regulatory approval (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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A profile of YC Head of Public Policy Luther Lowe,...

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Satellite services provider Globalstar says Apple took a 20% ownership stake worth ~$400M, and has committed another $1.1B to expand satellite service capacity (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

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The capital expenditures of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft are set to total over $200B in 2024 as companies accelerate spending chasing AI (Bloomberg)

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Canalys: global smartphone shipments grew 5% YoY in Q3 to reach 309.9M units, the strongest Q3 performance since 2021; Samsung led with 57.5M units, Apple 54.5M (Canalys)

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Crypto firm Immutable says it received a Wells notice from the SEC related to the sale of its IMX tokens in 2021, accuses the SEC of "regulation by enforcement" (Callan Quinn/CoinDesk)

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Q&A with Google DeepMind Director John Jumper on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, merging science and AI, advancing AlphaFold, rival labs, and more (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

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Indonesia bans sales of Pixel smartphones, saying Google must comply with rules requiring 40% local content in smartphones, days after banning iPhone 16 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Chinese researchers linked to the People's Liberation Army developed an AI model using Llama 2 for potential military use; Meta says such use is "unauthorized" (Reuters)

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Istanbul-based Insider, which offers AI-powered marketing and customer engagement tools, raised a $500M Series E led by General Atlantic, plans a US expansion (Bloomberg)

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Anthropic says governments should urgently take action on AI policy in the next 18 months and suggests principles for AI regulation that support innovation (Anthropic)

Anthropic says governments should urgently take ac...

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Tel Aviv-based, enterprise-focused cybersecurity startup Noma emerges from stealth with $32M in funding, including a $25M Series A led by Ballistic Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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UK data: 1,824 sexual communication with a child offenses occurred on social media in 2023-2024, with Snapchat in 48% of cases and Facebook and Messenger in 12% (Martyn Landi/The Independent)

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Ex-Lacework CEO and Facebook's former global head of engineering Jay Parikh joins Microsoft's senior leadership team and will report directly to Satya Nadella (Bloomberg)

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Google plans to release Android 16 in Q2 2025 "to better align with the schedule of device launches"; major Android releases have been in Q3 or Q4 since 2013 (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

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