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The EU's top court says Booking.com's restrictions on hotels offering lower rates on their websites or on rival sites are unnecessary and may reduce competition (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Amazon's new competition TV show, debuting October 30, will have entrepreneurs pitch judges, including Amazon execs; finalists' product will be sold on Amazon (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)

Amazon's new competition TV show, debuting October...

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YouTube says it has "widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers" after a "strong advertiser and strong viewer response"; YouTube piloted Pause ads in 2023 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

YouTube says it has "widely rolled out Pause ads t...

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YouTube says it has "widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers" after a "strong advertiser and strong viewer response"; YouTube piloted Pause ads in 2023 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

YouTube says it has "widely rolled out Pause ads t...

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Putin's administration resumed posting to YouTube in the past two weeks for the first time in six months, even as the Kremlin blocks YouTube in Russia (Henry Meyer/Bloomberg)

Putin's administration resumed posting to YouTube ...

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Alibaba releases 100+ open-source models from its Qwen 2.5 family, its LLM released in May 2024, ranging from 0.5B to 72B parameters, and text-to-video AI tech (Reuters)

Alibaba releases 100+ open-source models from its ...

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The estates of dead celebrities like Laurence Olivier and James Dean partnered with ElevenLabs on its "iconic voices" project, making millions after their death (Mia Dawkins/Bloomberg)

The estates of dead celebrities like Laurence Oliv...

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Layoffs.fyi: tech companies have laid off ~137,000 people since January 2024; Indeed.com: software development job postings are down 30%+ since February 2020 (Wall Street Journal)

Layoffs.fyi: tech companies have laid off ~137,000...

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Source: EU regulators are set to announce that Apple must step into line with strict new rules on making OSes fully functional with other tech under the DMA (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Source: EU regulators are set to announce that App...

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A profile of lobbyist Andrew Kingman, who has exer...

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Study: unintended electromagnetic radiation from second-gen Starlink satellites is stronger than first-gen, causing 32x more interference with radio telescopes (Georgina Rannard/BBC)

Study: unintended electromagnetic radiation from s...

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Bluesky addresses how it approaches trust and safety concerns on the platform, including piloting initiatives to deal with bad actors, abuse, and spam (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky addresses how it approaches trust and safe...

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A UN advisory body makes seven recommendations for governing AI, including establishing a panel to provide impartial and reliable scientific knowledge about AI (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

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Analysis: Elon Musk, apparently unaware of Tenet Media's alleged Russian funding, replied to or reposted content from accounts tied to Tenet at least 60 times (David Ingram/NBC News)

Analysis: Elon Musk, apparently unaware of Tenet M...

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In an open letter coordinated by Meta, more than two dozen companies warned that the EU might reap fewer rewards of AI because of the bloc's tech regulations (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)

In an open letter coordinated by Meta, more than t...

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Microsoft teams up with Anduril Industries to improve the performance of Integrated Visual Augmentation System or IVAS, new combat goggles for the US Army (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

Microsoft teams up with Anduril Industries to impr...

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The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced KOSA and COPPA 2.0 on a voice vote despite discontent from some lawmakers over last-minute changes (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce adva...

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EU regulators say Microsoft's acquihire of Inflection's team will not be scrutinized under EU merger rules, after seven EU countries dropped their requests (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

EU regulators say Microsoft's acquihire of Inflect...

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