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Survey: nearly 40% of US adults, and ~50% of those aged 18 to 29, participate in an online community; social media is the primary venue for online communities (Pew Research Center)

Survey: nearly 40% of US adults, and ~50% of those...

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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is in talks over Elon Musk's Texas-based Terafab project, but stresses that any participating fab "has got to be run by TSMC" (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is in talks ove...

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Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked at Meta and gained US residency in 2020, advised Saudi organizations and is listed as a venture partner at Riyadh-based RAED (Emmy Martin/New York Times)

Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked at Meta and gained...

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Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife, and a family member booked one-way tickets from the US to Saudi Arabia for October 12; the FBI arrested him on October 9 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife, and a famil...

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TSMC says it plans to build an additional 3nm fab in Tainan, Taiwan, set for production in H1 2028, alongside its 3nm capacity in Arizona and Japan's Kumamoto (Qianer Liu/The Information)

TSMC says it plans to build an additional 3nm fab ...

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Q&A with MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, who has been studying relationships between humans and machines since the 1970s, on her new book, AI chatbots, and more (New York Times)

Q&A with MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, who has be...

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A look at L-Acoustics, whose audio platform uses machine learning to help artists like Céline Dion isolate their voices and cut through noise at live concerts (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

A look at L-Acoustics, whose audio platform uses m...

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Figma announces new features to define how AI agents work on its platform, including Figma Specs, a Markdown editor that lets users define their design language (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Figma announces new features to define how AI agen...

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TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 50.9% YoY to $46.36B, net income up 68.7% to $23.7B, both above est., marking a sixth straight quarterly profit record on AI demand (Jenny Lee/CNBC)

TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 50.9% YoY to $46.36B, n...

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Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026; 87%+ of the payments were for less than 10 cents (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)

Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base g...

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A look at Yoti, a digital ID verification app downloaded by 23M people; its revenue grew from £6.2M in 2022 to £32M+ in 2025, with the UK as its biggest market (Financial Times)

A look at Yoti, a digital ID verification app down...

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Global smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY to 255.3M in Q3, a record quarterly drop, as Samsung and Apple gained while Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo saw deeper declines (IDC)

Global smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY to 255.3M...

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Bloomberg is making its ASKB conversational AI interface available to all Terminal users, letting them integrate their own content with existing financial data (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)

Bloomberg is making its ASKB conversational AI int...

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ASML expects China to account for ~20% of total sales this year, after Q3 sales there surged 109% QoQ, lifting China's share of machine sales from 14% to 23% (Xiaofei Xu/South China Morning Post)

ASML expects China to account for ~20% of total sa...

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Asian chipmakers extend Wall Street losses as US Fed rate hike fears and AI funding worries mount; SK Hynix fell 10%+ on the KRX, while Samsung fell ~10% (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)

Asian chipmakers extend Wall Street losses as US F...

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Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to buy data center ASICs from MediaTek, potentially becoming its second major customer for such chips after Google (Bloomberg)

Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to buy dat...

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Sources: Anthropic told investors that distillation accounts for 5% to 7% of revenue; its rapid but slowing revenue growth could weigh on its IPO valuation (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

Sources: Anthropic told investors that distillatio...

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Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and others disrupt a Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem used to send 1B+ messages to 75K+ orgs this year (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)

Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and ...

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