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There is little modern precedent to guide US judges on whether a breakup, like the one the DOJ is proposing in the Google Search antitrust case, is appropriate (Wall Street Journal)

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Institute Professor Emeritus John Little, a founder of operations research and marketing science, dies at 96

Institute Professor Emeritus John Little, a founde...

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Filing: the US DOJ lays out "behavioral and structural remedies", including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

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Filing: the US DOJ lays out "behavioral and structural remedies", including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

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HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery says Peter Todd, known for his Bitcoin codebase contributions, is Satoshi Nakamoto, a claim Todd denies (Joel Khalili/Wired)

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Brazil-based Asaas, which offers payment processing, invoicing, fraud protection, and other financial services to SMBs, raised a $148M Series C led by BOND (Jacob Robbins/PitchBook)

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Brazil-based Asaas, which offers payment processing, invoicing, fraud protection, and other financial services to SMBs, raised a $148M Series C led by BOND (Jacob Robbins/PitchBook)

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Anthropic launches Message Batches API in beta, for batches of up to 10K queries that are processed within 24 hours and cost 50% less than standard API calls (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Anthropic launches Message Batches API in beta, fo...

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US adult TikTok users follow lots of mid-tier influencers and creators but very few politicians, civic actors, or traditional media outlets and journalists (Pew Research Center)

US adult TikTok users follow lots of mid-tier infl...

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The Biden-Harris administration launches a Reddit White House account for news and info about federal government work; first posts are about Hurricane Helene (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Marketing tech company Zeta Global agrees to buy LiveIntent, another marketing tech provider, for $250M in cash and stock in a deal expected to close in Q4 2024 (Megan Graham/Wall Street Journal)

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Brazil's Supreme Court authorizes the return of X after the company complied with its demands, including taking down some accounts and appointing a legal agent (Bloomberg)

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Brazil's Supreme Court authorizes the return of X after the company complied with its demands, including taking down some accounts and appointing a legal agent (Bloomberg)

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Samsung removes the Galaxy Z Fold2, which launched in September 2020 for $2,000, from its list of devices that will receive security updates (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

Samsung removes the Galaxy Z Fold2, which launched...

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Artificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration

Artificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA...

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Officials in NC and at FEMA, responding to Hurricane Helene, face a flurry of antisemitic attacks largely on X, where some posts get tens of millions of views (Washington Post)

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Study finds mercury pollution from human activities is declining

Study finds mercury pollution from human activitie...

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Filing: Shein's UK business made £1.55B in 2023 revenue, up 38% over a 16-month period to the end of 2022, as the fast fashion retailer prepares for a UK IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)

Filing: Shein's UK business made £1.55B in 2...

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Filing: Shein's UK business made £1.55B in 2023 revenue, up 38% over a 16-month period to the end of 2022, as the fast fashion retailer prepares for a UK IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)

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Study: X acts quickly to remove AI-made nonconsensual nude images reported by users as a copyright violation but not if reported as nonconsensual intimate media (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

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OpenAI signs a content deal with Hearst, letting it use content from 40+ local newspapers and 20+ magazines, after deals with Condé Nast and Dotdash Meredith (Sara Fischer/Axios)

OpenAI signs a content deal with Hearst, letting i...

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Snap says it is bringing ads to the Snapchat's main Chat tab for the first time and launches "Promoted Places" on Snap Map (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Rockstar brings Red Dead Redemption to PC, 14 years after its PS3 and Xbox 360 release, available via Rockstar, Steam, and the Epic Games Store on October 29 (Kris Holt/Engadget)

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Rockstar brings Red Dead Redemption to PC, 14 years after its PS3 and Xbox 360 release, available via Rockstar, Steam, and the Epic Games Store on October 29 (Kris Holt/Engadget)

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An era of politically motivated AI slop is here, exacerbating viral conspiracy theories and making a big impact after disasters, as in the US, Brazil, and Gaza (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

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Meta begins rolling out new AI tools that will let advertisers expand the aspect ratio of their videos as well as generate a video ad from a static image (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Bubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs

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A bipartisan coalition of 14 US state AGs file lawsuits accusing TikTok of damaging young users' mental health and collecting data without parental consent (Daniel Arkin/NBC News)

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Crypto.com sues the US SEC after receiving a Wells notice that the agency plans to bring an enforcement action against it; Consensys sued the SEC in April 2024 (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

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Adobe launches a Content Authenticity web app to let creators use its Content Credentials "nutrition labels" to apply attribution and opt out of AI training (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Adobe launches a Content Authenticity web app to l...

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Bellevue, WA-based Auger, founded by former Amazon and Flexport exec Dave Clark to offer AI-powered supply chain tools, raised a $100M seed led by Oak HC/FT (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Short seller Hindenburg releases a report accusing Roblox of inflating user metrics to investors and prioritizing growth over protecting minors; RBLX drops 9%+ (Wall Street Journal)

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Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers cloud-based AMD MI300X chips for AI workloads, raised $43M led by Nexus VP at a $100M post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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EvenUp, a personal injury startup making AI tools for law firms, raised a $135M Series D led by Bain Capital at a $1B+ valuation and says it has 1,000+ clients (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

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TrendForce: TSMC's global foundry revenue share will hit 64% in 2024, up from 51% in 2019, while Samsung's share is set to drop to 10%, down from 16% in 2019 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)

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Uber announces ride-hailing and delivery updates: an EV-only Uber Green in 40 cities, a GPT-4o-powered chatbot to answer drivers' EV questions, and more (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for "foundational discoveries" in machine learning (Kati Pohjanpalo/Bloomberg)

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Israel compromising Hezbollah pagers shows the West should take hardware security more seriously, especially as most electronics manufacturing shifted to Asia (Chris Miller/Financial Times)

Israel compromising Hezbollah pagers shows the Wes...

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Filing: Saudi Arabia's PIF sold ~17.3M Nintendo shares between August 21 to October 1, lowering its stake to 7.54%, despite an exec saying it wants to buy more (Bloomberg)

Filing: Saudi Arabia's PIF sold ~17.3M Nintendo sh...

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Dublin-based Appeals Centre, backed by Meta's Oversight Board, launches to moderate disputes between EU users and Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube under the DSA (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

Dublin-based Appeals Centre, backed by Meta's Over...

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Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries

Solar-powered desalination system requires no extr...

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Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company plans to build a plant in Mexico's Guadalajara to make Nvidia GB200 Blackwell AI servers, as tech decouples from China (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)

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Online gig platforms sought to increase their "take rates" amid slowing growth; PitchBook: Fiverr and Upwork are trading at less than 20% their pandemic peaks (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Online gig platforms sought to increase their "tak...

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A look at OpenAI's ongoing talent exodus, seeming shift in hiring priorities, deep bench of young talent, and the intensifying competition to hire the next wave (Will Knight/Wired)

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MoneyGram says hackers "accessed and acquired" some customers' personal and transaction data, including SSNs, during a cyberattack between September 20 and 22 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

MoneyGram says hackers "accessed and acquired" som...

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Samsung Electronics issues a rare apology for posting disappointing preliminary Q3 results and plans to review its organizational culture and processes (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

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Samsung estimates Q3 operating profit up 274% YoY to ~$6.78B, falling short of analysts' estimates of ~$7.66B, as it struggles to capitalize on AI chips demand (Reuters)

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Two Russian YouTube channels posted videos of an alleged new 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro base model, in what could be the worst Apple product leak since the iPhone 4 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Two Russian YouTube channels posted videos of an a...

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The UK launches a Regulatory Innovation Office to speed up the approval of new tech such as autonomous drones and AI in health care (Sarah Young/Reuters)

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TikTok launches Smart+, a new AI-powered ad tool that competes with Google's Performance Max and Meta's Advantage+, automating ad targeting and optimization (Digiday)

TikTok launches Smart+, a new AI-powered ad tool t...

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