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Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact wit...

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Source: OpenAI plans to launch its next flagship model, codenamed Orion, by December, rolling it out in phases starting with the company's trusted partners (The Verge)

Source: OpenAI plans to launch its next flagship m...

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Identity verification service provider Socure agrees to acquire Effectiv, which helps businesses manage fraud prevention tools, for $136M in cash and equity (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

Identity verification service provider Socure agre...

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Notion previews Mail, an email client that uses AI to organize, archive, or draft emails and handle scheduling and follow-ups, saying it is "coming soon" (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Notion previews Mail, an email client that uses AI...

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A look at the White House's big bet on Intel; sources: Gina Raimondo urged companies to order Intel's US chips, but most favored TSMC's more advanced techniques (New York Times)

A look at the White House's big bet on Intel; sour...

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Filing: Microsoft puts an "assessment of investing in bitcoin" as a voting item for its December 10 shareholder meeting; its board recommends voting against it (MK Manoylov/The Block)

Filing: Microsoft puts an "assessment of investing...

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In a post, Perplexity criticizes media companies that have sued over AI, saying they wish AI tools didn't exist and prefer that corporations own reported facts (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

In a post, Perplexity criticizes media companies t...

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Source: TSMC's US division president said during a webinar that production yields in Arizona are 4 percentage points higher than at similar facilities in Taiwan (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Source: TSMC's US division president said during a...

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Meta debuts "quantized" versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models, designed to run on low-powered devices and developed in collaboration with Qualcomm and MediaTek (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Meta debuts "quantized" versions of Llama 3.2 1B a...

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Google will add an AI info section in the image details view of Google Photos, for images edited with tools like Magic Editor and Magic Eraser (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Google will add an AI info section in the image de...

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Apple makes its Private Cloud Compute Virtual Research Environment publicly available for researchers, adds bounties for Private Cloud Compute vulnerabilities (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple makes its Private Cloud Compute Virtual Rese...

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Bluesky says it has 13M+ users, has raised a $15M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, and plans a subscription for features like higher quality video uploads (Bluesky)

Bluesky says it has 13M+ users, has raised a $15M ...

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Goodreads' co-founder Otis Chandler launches Smashing, an AI-powered app that aims to create a community around web content and has an AI Questions feature (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Goodreads' co-founder Otis Chandler launches Smash...

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Apple SVP Greg Joswiak says "we have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning"; rumors suggest new M4-powered Macs (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Apple SVP Greg Joswiak says "we have an exciting w...

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Concentric AI, which helps companies secure and track sensitive data, raised a $45M Series B, bringing its total funding to $67M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Concentric AI, which helps companies secure and tr...

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Anthropic launches an analysis tool to help Claude write and run JavaScript code, perform calculations, and analyze data from files, in preview (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Anthropic launches an analysis tool to help Claude...

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Nimble, which helps companies automate their warehouses using logistics robots, raised a $106M Series C led by FedEx at a $1B valuation (FinSMEs)

Nimble, which helps companies automate their wareh...

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Apple adds an iMessage child safety feature in iOS 18.2 developer beta in Australia that will let children report nudity sent to them to Apple (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)

Apple adds an iMessage child safety feature in iOS...

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