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Grabango, which provided cashierless checkout tech and raised just over $73M, shuts down after failing to secure enough funding to continue its services (CNBC)

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The US GSA says Login.gov is opening up its face recognition capabilities, which compare a live selfie with the photo on a photo ID, to government agencies (Natalie Alms/Nextgov/FCW)

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Florida-based data broker National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admitting an August 2024 leak of SSNs may impact "hundreds of millions" of people (Michael Kan/PCMag)

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A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on Wednesday (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Alibaba’s Tmall sees surge in new brands as foreign merchants pile in ahead of Singles’ Day

Alibaba’s Tmall sees surge in new brands as foreig...

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Some Threads and Instagram users say their accounts are being deleted or restricted due to moderation failures; Adam Mosseri says he's "looking into it" (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Some Threads and Instagram users say their account...

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Docs: OpenAI projections suggest it won't turn a profit until 2029, when its revenue would hit $100B; losses could rise to $14B in 2026, ~3x the loss in 2024 (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

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US prosecutors charge four purported crypto market makers, a handful of crypto projects, and over a dozen individuals with manipulating various crypto markets (CoinDesk)

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Jane-Jane Chen: A model scientist who inspires the next generation

Jane-Jane Chen: A model scientist who inspires the...

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FTC: Marriott agrees to pay a $52M penalty to 49 states and DC to resolve data security allegations, and, in another settlement, agrees to a new infosec program (Reuters)

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Amazon announces AI Shopping Guides, which show AI-generated descriptions and recommendations for over 100 product types on its US mobile website and app (Will Knight/Wired)

Amazon announces AI Shopping Guides, which show AI...

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Zoom plans to launch a feature in 2025 that allows...

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X updates its Creator Revenue Sharing program to pay creators based on engagement with their content from Premium users, not ads in replies (Jay Peters/The Verge)

X updates its Creator Revenue Sharing program to p...

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Sources: Dan Riccio, Apple's Vision Pro chief and former head of hardware engineering, is leaving this month; the Vision Pro team is moving under John Ternus (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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MIT Energy and Climate Club mobilizes future leaders to address global climate issues

MIT Energy and Climate Club mobilizes future leade...

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Amazon aims to deploy Vision Assisted Package Retrieval, an AI-powered tool to help drivers quickly find packages in delivery vans, in 1,000 vans by early 2025 (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

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Writer debuts Palmyra X 004, an LLM for enterprise applications, saying it cost just $700K to train, using synthetic data; source: Writer is raising up to $200M (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Writer debuts Palmyra X 004, an LLM for enterprise...

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The changing geography of “energy poverty”

The changing geography of “energy poverty”

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Amazon Pharmacy plans to expand same-day prescription delivery to 20 more US cities in 2025, including Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and San Diego (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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Sources: OpenAI plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation to defend itself from hostile takeovers and protect Sam Altman from outsider interference (Financial Times)

Sources: OpenAI plans to restructure as a public b...

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Meta rolls out Meta AI in six more countries, including the UK, and plans 15 more in the coming weeks, and adds it to Ray-Ban glasses in Australia and the UK (Anna Washenko/Engadget)

Meta rolls out Meta AI in six more countries, incl...

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Russia's Roskomnadzor regulator bans Discord, drawing ire from the Russian military, which has extensively used the app to coordinate units in Ukraine (Mary Ilyushina/Washington Post)

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The All England Club says AI will make "out" and "fault" calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test (Associated Press)

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The All England Club says AI will make "out" and "fault" calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test (Associated Press)

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London-based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseFold model outperforms AlphaFold 2 at predicting proteins, raised a $60M Series B, for $85M in total funding (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

London-based Basecamp Research, which says its Bas...

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Ring unveils a new $20 per month Ring Home Premium subscription, adding 24/7 recording and AI-powered Smart Video Search from November 5 in the US (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Tech war: China boosts quantum computer production with self-developed chips amid US sanctions

Tech war: China boosts quantum computer production...

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KKR-owned BMC Software plans to split: BMC for enterprise mainframes and BMC Helix for enterprise software; ~66% of BMC Software's ~$2.3B revenue will go to BMC (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)

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Glassdoor launches short videos, polls, and images to foster engagement on its platform, and now has 63M monthly unique visitors, up from 55M in early 2021 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Taiwan’s APCB to shift printed circuit board assembly to mainland unit, cut jobs on island

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How Withheld for Privacy and other proxy services that help domain operators shield their identities have turned Iceland into a global hub for illicit activity (New York Times)

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Microsoft issues the final Surface Duo 2 security update ahead of its end of support on October 21; the Duo 2, released in October 2021, got one Android update (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Shein keeps UK listing plan under wraps as it begins work on supply chain hub in Guangzhou

Shein keeps UK listing plan under wraps as it begi...

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OpenAI says it suspects that China-linked SweetSpecter tried to phish its employees earlier in 2024, posing as a ChatGPT user to send customer support emails (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg)

OpenAI says it suspects that China-linked SweetSpe...

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker for "computational protein design" and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper (Kati Pohjanpalo/Bloomberg)

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A look at disagreements over automation between US dockworkers and shipping industry officials, who say they need AI-powered stacking cranes and other machines (Wall Street Journal)

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CamScanner app maker Intsig is the best-performing China IPO stock in 2024 for $100M+ listings, after a euphoric market response to Beijing's stimulus measures (Bloomberg)

CamScanner app maker Intsig is the best-performing...

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Chinese tech giants Tencent and Alibaba break digital wall with Taobao, WeChat integration

Chinese tech giants Tencent and Alibaba break digi...

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A profile of the National Archives and Records Adm...

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MiniMax, ByteDance, and 01.ai are among a group of Chinese AI companies that have launched AI products overseas, particularly in the US, to boost revenue growth (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

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OpenAI announces Singapore will serve as its APAC hub and appoints Oliver Jay, who served as Asana's chief revenue officer, to lead international expansion (Laura Dobberstein/The Register)

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ChatGPT creator OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk over ‘altruism versus greed’ lawsuit

ChatGPT creator OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk ove...

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A look at challenges for Ireland's role as a data center hub, as energy supply problems and planning hurdles force AWS and others to evaluate alternatives (Financial Times)

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Braintrust, whose software helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised a $36M Series A led by a16; source: the valuation was ~$150M (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

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Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's "altruism versus greed" lawsuit is part of his "blusterous campaign to harass OpenAI for his own competitive advantage" (Bloomberg)

Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's "altruism ve...

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Turkey blocks access to Discord following a court decision over sufficient suspicion that the crimes of "child sexual abuse and obscenity" have been committed (Reuters)

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MediaTek announces the 3nm Dimensity 9400 mobile chip, which features its own 8th-gen NPU, claiming "80 percent faster large language model prompt performance" (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

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China’s Mars exploration battery, US ecologist on ‘kill list’: 7 science highlights

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The US DOJ's quest to end Google's long-standing dominance remains the stuff of fantasy, as whatever the courts may order, any real reckoning will take years (Financial Times)

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Google says the DOJ's "radical" and "sweeping" proposals in Search antitrust case risk hurting consumers, businesses, developers, and American competitiveness (Lee-Anne Mulholland/The Keyword)

Google says the DOJ's "radical" and "sweeping" pro...

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