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Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans to provide internet in Brazil in 2026; SpaceSail launched its first 36 satellites in August and September (Daniel Carvalho/Bloomberg)

Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans t...

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Roboflow, which provides open source tools for developers to build computer vision models, raised a $40M Series B led by GV (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Roboflow, which provides open source tools for dev...

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Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service for enterprises, raised a $75M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes managemen...

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Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule vs. the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving manufacturers more time (Mishaal Rahman/Android Police)

Google ships the first Android 16 developer previe...

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Source: Databricks has told investors it is looking to raise $7B to $9B at a ~$61B valuation, to cash out employees that hold restricted stock units (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

Source: Databricks has told investors it is lookin...

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Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in some countries stream select PS5 games (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation P...

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Coinbase says it will delist wBTC next month, as Justin Sun gains influence over the wBTC protocol; Coinbase launched its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, in September (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Coinbase says it will delist wBTC next month, as J...

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Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in ...

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Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses to drive combined revenues of $22B by FY 2029, including $8B from automotive chips and $4B from PC chips (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses...

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A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems (Reuters)

A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-Chi...

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Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as his Commerce Secretary (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgera...

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After a report that Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" is considering a free tax-filing app, Intuit shares closed down 5.1% and H&R Block down 8.2% (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

After a report that Trump's "Department of Governm...

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Google ships the first developer preview of Android 16, far ahead of schedule vs. the past few years, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving partners more time (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Google ships the first developer preview of Androi...

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Source: Microsoft reaches a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train AI models; HarperCollins says authors can opt out (Bloomberg)

Source: Microsoft reaches a deal with News Corp's ...

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Google rolls out a "memory" feature for Gemini Advanced subscribers for the web app that remembers a user's interests and preferences (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Google rolls out a "memory" feature for Gemini Adv...

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Meta is forming a new product group to build AI tools for businesses, led by Clara Shih, most recently the CEO of Salesforce AI (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Meta is forming a new product group to build AI to...

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CrowdStrike finds another China-linked group breaching telecommunications networks, in SEA and Africa, since at least 2020, to spy on texts and call metadata (Sam Sabin/Axios)

CrowdStrike finds another China-linked group breac...

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Robinhood agrees to buy TradePMR, a custodial and portfolio management platform for registered investment advisors, in a $300M deal expected to close in H1 2025 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

Robinhood agrees to buy TradePMR, a custodial and ...

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