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Kuo: Apple has cut iPhone 16 orders by ~10M units for Q4 2024 and H1 2025, mostly non-Pro models, and plans 8.6M iPhone SE 4 units from December 2024 to Q1 2025 (Ming-Chi Kuo)

Kuo: Apple has cut iPhone 16 orders by ~10M units ...

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Chemistry, a new VC firm by Index, Bessemer, and a16z alums Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil, and Kristina Shen, raised $350M for its debut, Series A-focused fund (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Chemistry, a new VC firm by Index, Bessemer, and a...

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Suchir Balaji, who spent four years at OpenAI, says OpenAI's use of copyrighted data violated the law and ChatGPT damages the internet; he left in August 2024 (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Suchir Balaji, who spent four years at OpenAI, say...

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Google makes SynthID Text, which lets developers watermark and detect text generated by AI models, generally available (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Google makes SynthID Text, which lets developers w...

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The US CFPB says Goldman Sachs and Apple will pay $89M following a long-running Apple Card investigation; Goldman must pay $64.8M and Apple must pay $25M (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

The US CFPB says Goldman Sachs and Apple will pay ...

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A profile of Nicole Shanahan, the ex-wife of Serge...

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Amazon-owned Eero unveils the $350 Eero Outdoor 7, a dual-band 2.4 and 5Ghz Wi-Fi 7 access point that covers up to 15,000 square feet with speeds up to 2.1Gbps (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Amazon-owned Eero unveils the $350 Eero Outdoor 7,...

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TikTok brings its STEM feed to all users in the US, the UK, and Ireland by default to help find educational content, after launching the feed to under-18 users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

TikTok brings its STEM feed to all users in the US...

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Infinitus, which uses AI to automate health care tasks, raised $51.5M led by a16z, a source says at a $600M+ valuation, taking its total funding to $102.9M (Bloomberg)

Infinitus, which uses AI to automate health care t...

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Claude Sonnet 3.5 hands-on: the AI understood a basic game and its mechanics, had a strategy, was willing to revise it based on learning, but fragilities remain (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)

Claude Sonnet 3.5 hands-on: the AI understood a ba...

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Meta's Oversight Board says it has "serious concerns" about Meta's moderation in "electoral contexts", after Meta removed a satirical image of Harris and Walz (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Meta's Oversight Board says it has "serious concer...

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A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14-year-old son became obsessed with a chatbot before his suicide; Character.AI says it plans new safety features (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14-ye...

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Sources: Apple has sharply scaled back Vision Pro production since early summer, and could stop making the existing version entirely by the end of 2024 (The Information)

Sources: Apple has sharply scaled back Vision Pro ...

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Adobe makes Fresco, its dedicated drawing and painting app, free to users, removing a subscription for premium features, to compete with Procreate and others (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Adobe makes Fresco, its dedicated drawing and pain...

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says a flaw in Blackwell AI chips that impacted production has been fixed with TSMC's help and the issue was "100% Nvidia's fault" (Reuters)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says a flaw in Blackwell A...

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Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate ...

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Source: in mid-October, TSMC halted shipments to a client after it discovered that chips fabricated for that entity had found their way into Huawei products (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Source: in mid-October, TSMC halted shipments to a...

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China says Tim Cook said Apple would "continue to grow its investments in China" in a meeting with its top tech official, during his second visit in 2024 (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

China says Tim Cook said Apple would "continue to ...

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