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AI is supercharging a ~$442B scam economy that is bigger than the global cocaine trade, as the Chinese scam industry spreads beyond Asia's fortified compounds (Bloomberg)

AI is supercharging a ~$442B scam economy that is ...

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Cyberattacks on Sunday night targeted Danfoss-managed refrigeration systems across hundreds of French supermarkets, heating them to 50°C for roughly six hours (Jenny Che/Bloomberg)

Cyberattacks on Sunday night targeted Danfoss-mana...

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Googlebooks hands-on: a rocky start, with severe connectivity, file-sharing, and software stability issues; core productivity software lacks full desktop parity (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Googlebooks hands-on: a rocky start, with severe c...

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Global smartphone shipments fell 20% YoY in Q3 to a 14-year low amid memory shortages; Apple's share crossed 20% for the first time in any Q3, reaching 22% (Counterpoint Research)

Global smartphone shipments fell 20% YoY in Q3 to ...

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Analysis: constructing and equipping a 1GW AI data center in Abilene, Texas, could cost ~$30B, including $17B on chips, $3B on power, and $2.4B on construction (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)

Analysis: constructing and equipping a 1GW AI data...

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A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lama...

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Google says Health Guardian is launching later in October on the Fitbit Air and Edge for Google Health Premium users, and expands automatic activity tracking (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

Google says Health Guardian is launching later in ...

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Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its "primary AI inference system" (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, ...

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Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an ...

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Elon Musk contributed $276M+ since July to Republican entities, including $158M to the Senate Leadership Fund; sources: he is taking a more hands-off approach (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)

Elon Musk contributed $276M+ since July to Republi...

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Speaking in Singapore, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warn that access to capital and rising borrowing costs could become AI's main bottleneck (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)

Speaking in Singapore, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and I...

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Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions of dollars, valuing the startup at ~$400M post-money (Bloomberg)

Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startu...

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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan criticizes speculative AI investing, comparing uninformed investors to casino gamblers and questioning the long-term economics of AI labs (Gao Yuan/Bloomberg)

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan criticizes speculative AI in...

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Quantum computing company IonQ agrees to buy Elisity, which helps stop cyberattacks and ransomware from spreading, in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3B (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Quantum computing company IonQ agrees to buy Elisi...

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Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards (Mitchell Labiak/BBC)

Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global sa...

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As economic and corporate research shows limited AI efficiency gains, surveys by Workday, Google, MIT, and others detail a human "verification tax" bottleneck (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)

As economic and corporate research shows limited A...

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Sources: Tencent is planning a ~$5B bond offering, including $1.5B to $2B in dollar tranches, to fund AI expenditures, with the bulk going toward chip purchases (Janice Huang/Bloomberg)

Sources: Tencent is planning a ~$5B bond offering,...

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Digital infrastructure company SWI raised €800M to upgrade its data centers, including some from Genesis Digital, a bitcoin miner snarled in FTX's bankruptcy (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)

Digital infrastructure company SWI raised €800M to...

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