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Functional Finance, which offers financial operations software for managing general agents, insurers, and wholesalers, raised a $20M Series A led by Walkabout (Avi Ben-Hutta/Coverager)

Functional Finance, which offers financial operati...

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The judge overseeing the Google ad trial calls Google's testimony that it faces "fierce competition" from the likes of Microsoft and Meta "highly questionable" (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

The judge overseeing the Google ad trial calls Goo...

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Akur8, which uses AI to automate the generation of insurance pricing models, raised a $120M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total raised to $180M (FinTech Global)

Akur8, which uses AI to automate the generation of...

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Filing: the US SEC says it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk for failing to appear for scheduled testimony for a probe into his $44B Twitter takeover (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Filing: the US SEC says it intends to seek sanctio...

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OpenAI's o1 models are dramatically better at reasoning than previous LLMs, but they struggle with spatial reasoning and are far from human-level intelligence (Timothy B Lee/Understanding AI)

OpenAI's o1 models are dramatically better at reas...

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Sources: Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation; Black Forest raised a $31M seed (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Sources: Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model pow...

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Sources: Qualcomm made a takeover approach to Intel in recent days; Intel stock jumps 7%+ (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Qualcomm made a takeover approach to Inte...

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Twitch changes enforcement of community guidelines so that strikes for some offenses will depreciate over time, users will get more info on strikes, and more (Ash Parrish/The Verge)

Twitch changes enforcement of community guidelines...

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A two-dose schedule could make HIV vaccines more effective

A two-dose schedule could make HIV vaccines more e...

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Sources: EU officials are preparing formal charges against Google under the DMA, targeting how it displays rival product results across its search services (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Sources: EU officials are preparing formal charges...

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Tumblr says it has seen a 222.99% growth in communities and 349.55% growth in users since the X ban in Brazil, with DAUs up 30% from 110K prior to the ban (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Tumblr says it has seen a 222.99% growth in commun...

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Google Ventures CEO David Krane about the firm's first 15 years, operating independently from Alphabet, early investments in Nest and Uber, generative AI, more (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Google Ventures CEO David Krane about the firm's f...

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Ukraine bans the use of Telegram on official devices used by state officials, military personnel, and critical workers over fears of Russian spying (Olena Harmash/Reuters)

Ukraine bans the use of Telegram on official devic...

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Source: most daily users of Meta AI do so through WhatsApp, followed by Facebook, and few via Instagram; the vast majority of Meta AI's users are outside the US (Kalley Huang/The Information)

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A profile of Xbox President Sarah Bond, who helped...

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A profile of Xbox President Sarah Bond, who helped...

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A German court rules that Nokia Oyj can stop Amazon from selling Fire TV Sticks in Germany after Amazon lost a patent case; Nokia hasn't enforced the injunction (Jillian Deutsch/Bloomberg)

A German court rules that Nokia Oyj can stop Amazo...

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Microsoft updates the Fluent design illustrations across its products, shifting towards 3D designs that bring back skeuomorphism with more playful designs (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft updates the Fluent design illustrations ...

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Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft data centers (Bloomberg)

Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revi...

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Sources: Thrive Capital has already provided $1B+ to OpenAI as part of the $6.5B round; OpenAI's existing backers a16z and Sequoia Capital are not participating (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Sources: Thrive Capital has already provided $1B+ ...

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Indian edtech startup Physics Wallah raises a $210M Series B led by hedge fund Hornbill Capital at a $2.8B valuation, up from $1.1B valuation in June 2022 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Indian edtech startup Physics Wallah raises a $210...

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Singapore-based crypto exchange BingX suffered a security hack on its hot wallet, resulting in a "minor" loss; PeckShield: the loss was $43M in cryptocurrencies (Vishal Chawla/The Block)

Singapore-based crypto exchange BingX suffered a s...

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French digital health insurance startup Alan raised €173M led by Belgian bank Belfius Bank at a €4B valuation, bringing its total raised since 2021 to €500M+ (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

French digital health insurance startup Alan raise...

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Nvidia partners with Abu Dhabi-based G42 to create a climate tech lab and develop AI to improve weather forecasting accuracy using Nvidia's Earth-2 platform (Abeer Abu Omar/Bloomberg)

Nvidia partners with Abu Dhabi-based G42 to create...

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Engineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures

Engineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for buildin...

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Phoenix-based Virtuous, which offers a CRM and a marketing platform to help nonprofits increase donations, raised $100M from Susquehanna Growth Equity (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Phoenix-based Virtuous, which offers a CRM and a m...

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Huawei's $2,800 Mate XT trifold phone goes on sale in China, amid analysts' supply concerns; IDC: preorders surpassed 6.5M, versus ~3.9M foldables shipped in Q2 (David Kirton/Reuters)

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Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into the radio access network and could allow telcos to run third-party AI apps at the network's edge (Julia King/Fierce Network)

Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI int...

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Sources: OpenAI's $6.5B funding round, which nears completion as the company decides on backers, is oversubscribed with excess demand in the billions of dollars (Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI's $6.5B funding round, which nears...

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Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Firewalk, the studio behind the PlayStation flop, is left in limbo, with some staffers expecting mass layoffs (Ethan Gach/Kotaku)

Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Fi...

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Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most of its businesses by the end of this year, after a hacking group leaked more than 1TB of company data in summer (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most of ...

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OpenAI makes its latest AI models, o1-preview and o1-mini, available to all ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu customers (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

OpenAI makes its latest AI models, o1-preview and ...

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Fal.ai, a developer-focused platform for media-generating AI models, raised a $9M seed and a $14M Series A from Kindred Ventures, a16z, First Round, and others (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Fal.ai, a developer-focused platform for media-gen...

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MIT course helps researchers crack secrets of ancient pottery

MIT course helps researchers crack secrets of anci...

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macOS 15 Sequoia appears to have broken several security tools made by CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and others; CrowdStrike delays support for Sequoia (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

macOS 15 Sequoia appears to have broken several se...

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Apple seeds iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 public betas with some Apple Intelligence features, including Writing Tools and Siri redesign (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple seeds iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequo...

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A look at the two "specification proceedings" that the EU has opened on Apple under the DMA, instructing Apple on how to comply with interoperability provisions (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

A look at the two "specification proceedings" that...

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Datamaran, which offers an analytics platform for clients to monitor adherence to ESG regulations, raised a $33M Series C from Morgan Stanley funds (Curtis Heinzl/Bloomberg)

Datamaran, which offers an analytics platform for ...

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Google announces Password Manager PIN to let users sync passkeys across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android devices, with iOS support coming soon (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Google announces Password Manager PIN to let users...

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Sources: server CPU designer Ampere is exploring a potential sale; Ampere was reportedly valued at $8B in a proposed minority investment in 2021 (Bloomberg)

Sources: server CPU designer Ampere is exploring a...

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Intel says it has no plans to sell its majority stake in Mobileye; the self-driving tech company's stock, which is down 73% in 2024, jumps 13%+ (Reuters)

Intel says it has no plans to sell its majority st...

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US DOJ lawyers told a court that Google employees liberally labelled emails as "privileged and confidential", a strategy that may backfire in the antitrust case (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

US DOJ lawyers told a court that Google employees ...

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Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to reimpose a block or face a $920K daily fine after a software update made X accessible; X says the restoration was inadvertent (Bloomberg)

Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to reimpose a bloc...

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Amazon launches an AI-powered video generator, available for some US advertisers in beta, which turns a single product image into a few-seconds-long video clip (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Amazon launches an AI-powered video generator, ava...

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Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after a long courtship; the lobbying group's other members are Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and WBD (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)

Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after...

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Amazon launches Amelia, an AI tool to help third-party sellers resolve account issues and fetch sales and inventory data, in beta for select US sellers (CNBC)

Amazon launches Amelia, an AI tool to help third-p...

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The US FTC releases a four-year study of how Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six others collected and used data, finding "vast surveillance" of consumers (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

The US FTC releases a four-year study of how Meta,...

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Picus Security, which helps fix inconsistencies in code and network activity, raised a $45M Series C, bringing its total funding to $80M, and has 500+ clients (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Picus Security, which helps fix inconsistencies in...

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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)

The EU's top court says Booking.com's restrictions...

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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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