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Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Smart Lock, which uses a physical dial to recharge the battery when turned, set for a Q1 2027 launch, and five new cameras (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Smart Lock, wh...

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Google launches SynthID Detector, a website that lets users detect AI-generated image, video, and audio media across dozens of common file formats (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Google launches SynthID Detector, a website that l...

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Nous Research, which makes the open-source Hermes AI agent that has hit 22M+ downloads since February, raised $90M at a $1.2B valuation to expand to enterprises (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

Nous Research, which makes the open-source Hermes ...

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North American startup funding hit $92B in Q3, down 35% QoQ but up 50% YoY, with $61B to AI startups; there were 11 $1B+ acquisitions and IPOs remained quiet (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)

North American startup funding hit $92B in Q3, dow...

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Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest $300M and the US invests $500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest ...

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Stuut, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise order-to-cash cycles and serves 150+ clients, raised a $52.5M Series B led by Insight, for $93M total funding (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Stuut, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise...

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Xreal's Aura and Meta's VR Glasses hands-on: similar compute puck, lightweight design, and price, but Aura uses optical see-through lenses suitable for walking (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

Xreal's Aura and Meta's VR Glasses hands-on: simil...

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Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-code AI game creation platform available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-co...

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Xreal opens pre-orders for the Android XR-powered Aura glasses, starting at $1,279 for 12GB RAM/256GB, shipping soon in the US with a separate compute puck (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Xreal opens pre-orders for the Android XR-powered ...

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Sources: Dallas-based Disruptive is targeting up to $10B for a late-stage fund, and has secured $7.5B; founded in 2012, it has backed Groq and Reflection AI (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Dallas-based Disruptive is targeting up t...

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A Taiwan union representing Micron workers says it secured member authorization to strike over the company's bonus scheme; the details are under discussion (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

A Taiwan union representing Micron workers says it...

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Elon Musk says his business empire will build and operate the Texas-based Terafab chipmaking project, explicitly ruling out any operational role for TSMC (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Elon Musk says his business empire will build and ...

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PS5 modders using AI tools have rapidly installed emulators, as jailbreaks spread across social media; recent games requiring newer firmware are inaccessible (Sammy Barker/Push Square)

PS5 modders using AI tools have rapidly installed ...

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Finland orders Google subsidiary Tuike Finland Oy to halt data center construction in Muhos and Kajaani by October 23, pending environmental impact assessments (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

Finland orders Google subsidiary Tuike Finland Oy ...

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Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk", saying its guardrails fall short of OpenAI's promises and it continues to do kids' homework (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an "una...

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Spotify expands audiobooks to 180+ markets, bringing its catalog to 750M+ users, and adds 350K+ titles in 120+ languages in partnership with 300+ publishers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Spotify expands audiobooks to 180+ markets, bringi...

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GoTo and Grab face pressure to offer drivers better deals; GoTo's share price has fallen 90% from its 2022 peak, while Grab's has fallen 50% in the past year (Financial Times)

GoTo and Grab face pressure to offer drivers bette...

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Turba Labs, which develops tech for optimizing AI infrastructure by creating digital twins of data centers, emerges from stealth with $52M seed and Series A (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)

Turba Labs, which develops tech for optimizing AI ...

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