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Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia from about $10M to almost $100M, in a bid to persuade the government to lift its iPhone 16 sales ban (Faris Mokhtar/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in I...

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The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024 (NBC News)

The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed s...

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Internal document: Amazon has held talks with several partners for handling specific tasks on the AI-powered Alexa, including Uber, Ticketmaster, and Instacart (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

Internal document: Amazon has held talks with seve...

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In the Fifth Circuit, Amazon and SpaceX argued the NLRB, which recently ruled against them, is unconstitutional; the judges questioned their arbitrary deadlines (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

In the Fifth Circuit, Amazon and SpaceX argued the...

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Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro users in the US, alongside a merchant program (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering prod...

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Sources: DOJ antitrust officials have decided to, along with states' AGs, ask a judge to force Google to spin off Chrome and impose data licensing requirements (Bloomberg)

Sources: DOJ antitrust officials have decided to, ...

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Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns of Russian sabotage (CNN)

Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuan...

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Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in India, plans to replace its app store there with one from PhonePe in January, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in In...

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Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group is nearing an all-share purchase of Intercontinental Exchange's crypto trading platform Bakkt; DJT closed up 16.65% (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)

Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group is neari...

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A look at emails between Musk and Altman from the early days of OpenAI, discussing its partnership with Microsoft, fundraising, employee compensation, AGI, more (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

A look at emails between Musk and Altman from the ...

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Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for in-line editing, more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas ...

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Telegram updates "mini-apps" to be able to run full screen and be pinned to homescreens; devs can now add subscription plans, a "gift" sending feature, and more (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Telegram updates "mini-apps" to be able to run ful...

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Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan, who helped launder the 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds, is sentenced to 18 months in prison; her husband recently got a 5-year sentence (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan, who helped launder th...

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Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Source: Google is working on a multi-year project ...

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Brendan Carr claims Big Tech "worked with marketing, ad, & 'fact checkers' to punish free speech outlets" and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships (Rob Pegoraro/PCMag)

Brendan Carr claims Big Tech "worked with marketin...

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Brendan Carr says Big Tech "worked with marketing, ad, & 'fact checkers' to punish free speech outlets" and asks tech leaders for NewsGuard partnership details (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)

Brendan Carr says Big Tech "worked with marketing,...

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Musk asked X users to try "submitting x-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images to Grok for analysis" weeks ago; many have, and HIPAA protections may not apply (Elizabeth Passarella/New York Times)

Musk asked X users to try "submitting x-ray, PET, ...

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Goldman Sachs says it is reaching out to potential partners about plans to spin out its digital-assets platform within 12 to 18 months (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)

Goldman Sachs says it is reaching out to potential...

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