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Alibaba appoints Jiang Fan its new e-commerce chief in overhaul of a vast but struggling arm; Jiang was demoted in 2020 after allegations of improper conduct (Bloomberg)

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Streamlabs: Twitch accounted for 82.3% of total Q3 streaming hours, with YouTube Gaming in second place at 5.6%; Kick grew 204% from Q2 2023 to Q3 2024 (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)

Streamlabs: Twitch accounted for 82.3% of total Q3...

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CFPB will supervise tech companies offering digital wallets, including Apple Pay, by treating them like banks as long as they handle 50M+ transactions per year (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

CFPB will supervise tech companies offering digita...

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Sources: Huawei plans to start mass-producing its most advanced AI chip, the Ascend 910C, in Q1 2025, even as it struggles to make enough chips due to US curbs (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)

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Baidu reports Q3 revenue down 3% YoY to $4.78B, net income up 14% YoY to $1.09B, and online marketing revenue up 12% YoY to $1.1B, driven by AI cloud business (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

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Q&A with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora about the role of the tech industry in Trump's administration, AI, the future of cybersecurity, and more (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Q&A with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora about...

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A look at biometric ID company Clear, as it works to expand its face-based line-cutting service at retailers, banks, doctor's offices, and other places (Eileen Guo/MIT Technology Review)

A look at biometric ID company Clear, as it works ...

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London-based Lighthouse, which offers tools to help hotels analyze market demand and rates, raised a ~$370M Series C led by KKR, sources say at a $1B+ valuation (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)

London-based Lighthouse, which offers tools to hel...

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Google says the US DOJ's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision", would hurt US consumers and jeopardize US' global tech leadership (Kent Walker/The Keyword)

Google says the US DOJ's "wildly overbroad proposa...

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Four former Google executives say innovation by rivals is key to breaking Google Search's dominance, and ChatGPT-like tools will one day supplant Google Search (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Four former Google executives say innovation by ri...

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Jensen Huang says "foundation model pretraining scaling is intact" and models like OpenAI's o1 could play a larger role in Nvidia's business moving forward (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Jensen Huang says "foundation model pretraining sc...

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A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific resea...

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Filing: the US DOJ's proposal requires Google to allow websites more ability to opt-out of its AI products and provide more ad placement controls to advertisers (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Filing: the US DOJ's proposal requires Google to a...

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As part of its proposed remedies, the US DOJ says Google should be required to syndicate its US search results to other rival search engines for the next decade (Brian Fung/CNN)

As part of its proposed remedies, the US DOJ says ...

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Filing: the US DOJ asks a federal judge to force Google to sell Chrome and impose restrictions designed to prevent Android from favoring its search engine (Michael Liedtke/Associated Press)

Filing: the US DOJ asks a federal judge to force G...

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OpenAI releases a free online course for K-12 teachers to integrate ChatGPT into their classrooms, but some educators remain skeptical about the technology (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for violations (Rod McGuirk/Associated Press)

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Neuralink receives approval from Canada to launch clinical trials of its brain implants and plans to run its first non-US trial with Toronto Western Hospital (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

Neuralink receives approval from Canada to launch ...

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