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Nick Clegg says Meta plans to build the Quest 3S in Vietnam in 2025; Meta did not specify the size of the investment and of its existing operation in Vietnam (Phuong Nguyen/Reuters)

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Sony reports a massive outage of its online gaming network PSN, affecting the PS3, PS4, PS5, PS Vita, web, and more, ongoing for over eight hours (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Sony reports a massive outage of its online gaming...

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A look at the debates over whether social media has fueled a teen suicide crisis, as mental health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans (Andrew Solomon/New Yorker)

A look at the debates over whether social media ha...

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An interview with SAP CEO Christian Klein on why regulating AI would harm EU competitiveness, spending €2B per year on AI, building the Joule chatbot, and more (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

An interview with SAP CEO Christian Klein on why r...

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An interview with WhatsApp Product Director Alice Newton-Rex on end-to-end encryption, spotting misinformation, the UK's Online Safety Act, Telegram, and more (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

An interview with WhatsApp Product Director Alice ...

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A look at Calliope Networks, a content licensing company whose License to Scrape program is targeting YouTubers to strike their own AI training data agreements (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

A look at Calliope Networks, a content licensing c...

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In the past year, one researcher reported vulnerabilities in 19 commercial services used by hundreds of courts, state agencies, and police departments in the US (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

In the past year, one researcher reported vulnerab...

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Google starts construction of a new $2B data center in Malaysia, says its investments would create 26,500 jobs and contribute $3B+ to Malaysian economy by 2030 (Rozanna Latiff/Reuters)

Google starts construction of a new $2B data cente...

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FCC's connectivity data in counties affected by Hurricane Helene: as of Sept. 30, 370 of North Carolina's 1,452 cell sites are out because of a lack of power (Kevin Collier/NBC News)

FCC's connectivity data in counties affected by Hu...

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YC-backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI coding editor covered under the Apache license and applying its own made-up closed license on it (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

YC-backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning anothe...

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A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of FTC's lawsuit accusing it of illegal monopolies, in a sealed ruling whose details weren't immediately clear (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of FT...

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Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App Store anti-steering injunction, saying rulings in two unrelated cases undermine an order Epic won in its suit (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App S...

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MIT spinoff Liquid AI debuts its non-transformer AI models LFM 1B, 3B, and 40B MoE, and claims they achieve "state-of-the-art performance at every scale" (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

MIT spinoff Liquid AI debuts its non-transformer A...

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Filing: UAE-based G42 accounted for 87% of Cerebras' H1 2024 revenue and has committed to buy $335M worth of its stock by April 2025, giving G42 a 5%+ stake (New York Times)

Filing: UAE-based G42 accounted for 87% of Cerebra...

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Notes on Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which generates a podcast with two AI hosts discussing user-provided content and is surprisingly effective (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Notes on Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview featur...

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A US judge dismisses a DOJ lawsuit accusing eBay of violating environmental laws by allowing the sale of harmful products, citing Section 230 protections (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

A US judge dismisses a DOJ lawsuit accusing eBay o...

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AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for an IPO, with plans to trade on the Nasdaq as CBRS, and reports a net loss of $66.6M on $136.4M in sales in H1 2024 (CNBC)

AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for an IPO,...

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Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which las...

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