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Sources: Apple tested an app to help people with prediabetes manage their food intake and make lifestyle changes, as part of its push into blood-sugar features (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple tested an app to help people with p...

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Q3 China smartphone shipments grew 3.2% YoY to 68.8M; Vivo grew 21.5% for a 18.6% marketshare, Apple fell 0.3% to a 15.6% share, Huawei grew 42% to 15.3% share (IDC)

Q3 China smartphone shipments grew 3.2% YoY to 68....

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Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday (André Beganski/Decrypt)

Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $2...

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Filing: Satya Nadella earned $79.1M during the FY ending June 30, up from $48.5M a year ago; compensation was reduced by $5M+ due to Microsoft's security issues (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Filing: Satya Nadella earned $79.1M during the FY ...

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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the AI-powered search engine now serves 100M queries each week; in July, Perplexity said it was serving 250M per month (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the AI-powere...

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LinkedIn says it has verified 55M+ users for free, the most verified individual human identities of any social network, to combat AI-fueled misinformation (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

LinkedIn says it has verified 55M+ users for free,...

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Waymo closed a $5.6B Series C led by Alphabet to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, bringing its total funding to $11.1B (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Waymo closed a $5.6B Series C led by Alphabet to e...

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Replying to an X post linking to a report on OpenAI planning to launch its next frontier model Orion by December, Sam Altman says "fake news out of control" (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Replying to an X post linking to a report on OpenA...

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Microsoft launches Black Ops 6, the first Call of Duty game to debut on Xbox Game Pass, in the biggest test of its gaming strategy since acquiring Activision (Ramsay Hodgson/Financial Times)

Microsoft launches Black Ops 6, the first Call of ...

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A look at the dispute between Arm and Qualcomm, whose relationship soured after Qualcomm became one of the main opponents to Nvidia's attempted Arm acquisition (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

A look at the dispute between Arm and Qualcomm, wh...

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The UK CMA opens a phase one merger probe into chip designer Synopsys' $35B takeover of 3D design software maker Ansys due to competition concerns (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)

The UK CMA opens a phase one merger probe into chi...

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Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on AI slop, the company's partnerships with Google and OpenAI, content moderation during an election year, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on AI slop, the ...

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Sources: Meta strikes a multi-year deal with Reuters to use its news content to provide real-time answers to user queries in Meta AI chatbot, a first for Meta (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sources: Meta strikes a multi-year deal with Reute...

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Chinese self-driving firm WeRide raised $120M in its US IPO at a $4.21B valuation, and sold 7.7M shares at $15.50 a piece, the lower end of its targeted range (Reuters)

Chinese self-driving firm WeRide raised $120M in i...

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A look at the fight over valuable social media accounts when couples divorce; data: 44% of 27M paid US content creators say social media is their full-time job (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the fight over valuable social media acc...

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A profile of and an interview with CISA Director J...

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UnitedHealth says over 100M people had their data stolen in the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

UnitedHealth says over 100M people had their data ...

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A US federal judge allows 150+ cases from school districts against Meta, Google, and Snap alleging their apps contributed to students' mental health crisis (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg)

A US federal judge allows 150+ cases from school d...

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