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Microsoft and Atom Computing plan to ship quantum computers with 1,000+ physical qubits to enterprises in 2025 and detail a 24 entangled logical qubits record (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

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Microsoft announces Zero Day Quest, a new Black Hat-like hacking event that it says will be the largest of its kind, at its Redmond headquarters in 2025 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft announces Zero Day Quest, a new Black Ha...

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Microsoft plans to bring the "full capabilities" of Windows 11 to the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December in public preview (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Microsoft plans to bring the "full capabilities" o...

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Microsoft unveils Azure AI Foundry to make LLM switching easier, says 60,000 customers use Azure AI, and updates 365 Copilot to automate repetitive tasks (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Microsoft unveils Azure AI Foundry to make LLM swi...

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Microsoft debuts the Windows Resiliency Initiative to help avoid another CrowdStrike-like incident, including a Quick Machine Recovery feature (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft debuts the Windows Resiliency Initiative...

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Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a mini PC companion for its Windows 365 cloud service that runs a small Windows-based OS, shipping in April 2025 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a min...

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The UK CMA clears Google's partnership with Anthropic, finding that Google has not gained "material influence" over the AI startup, following a formal probe (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)

The UK CMA clears Google's partnership with Anthro...

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Instagram says it is testing letting users reset the algorithmic suggestions that power Feed, Reels, and Explore, and the update "will soon roll out globally" (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Instagram says it is testing letting users reset t...

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Sources: US officials are racing to deliver billions in CHIPS Act funding to Intel and others before Biden leaves office; nearly $30B is tied up in negotiations (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: US officials are racing to deliver billio...

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Super Micro hires BDO USA as its new independent auditor and files a plan to come into compliance with Nasdaq listing requirements; SMCI jumps 29%+ pre-market (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)

Super Micro hires BDO USA as its new independent a...

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US federal data shows nearly 1.8M human warehouse workers, up 30% since early 2020, despite automation efforts, as robots struggle at crucial, simple tasks (Peter Eavis/New York Times)

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Sources: Huawei is designing its next two Ascend chips around a 7nm architecture, meaning its marquee chips will be stuck with aging tech until at least 2026 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Huawei is designing its next two Ascend c...

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Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and Meituan have been expanding their AI teams in Silicon Valley in recent months, despite US efforts to stymie Chinese companies (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and Meituan have been...

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Google and Nvidia say Google's Quantum AI division will use Nvidia's Eos supercomputer to speed up the design of quantum components (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Google and Nvidia say Google's Quantum AI division...

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Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the Japanese media powerhouse behind the Elden Ring game, in the coming weeks; Kadokawa had a ~$2.7B market cap (Reuters)

Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the...

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Social media users criticize Coca-Cola over an AI-generated Christmas video; many creatives say it is distasteful to use AI tech instead of the work of artists (Bruna Horvath/NBC News)

Social media users criticize Coca-Cola over an AI-...

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Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2024, down from $47B in 2023, with only $3B in IPO value and $10B in M&A through mid-November (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $...

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An interview with Meta's heads of design for wearables Joshua To and Michelle Pujals on Orion's design, aiming to make Orion the AirPods of AR, and more (Mark Wilson/Fast Company)

An interview with Meta's heads of design for weara...

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