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Hugging Face announces an open source software offering aimed at lowering costs for building chatbots and AI tools, in partnership with AWS, Google, and others (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Hugging Face announces an open source software off...

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Fixify, which combines AI and human analysts to identify and fix IT problems, raised a $25M Series A co-led by Costanoa, Decibel, and Paladin Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Fixify, which combines AI and human analysts to id...

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SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to a record ~$12.7B, vs. ~$13.2B expected, and operating profit of ~$5.1B, vs. ~$5B expected, on continued AI chip demand (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to a record...

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Police surveillance company Flock Safety buys drone startup Aerodome, sources say for $300M+; both are a16z-backed and have raised $680M+ and $28M respectively (Margaux MacColl/TechCrunch)

Police surveillance company Flock Safety buys dron...

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Documents show direct ties between Russia's government and a former Florida deputy sheriff behind a network of fake news sites using AI and targeting US voters (Catherine Belton/Washington Post)

Documents show direct ties between Russia's govern...

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Roblox plans child-safety reforms, including a new type of account to let parents monitor their child's online activity and friends, starting in November (Bloomberg)

Roblox plans child-safety reforms, including a new...

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Sources and documents detail headwinds slowing Amazon's data center buildout: electricity and water supply issues, zoning problems, labor shortages, and more (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

Sources and documents detail headwinds slowing Ama...

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UK-based Wayve, which develops AI software for vehicles, starts testing its driver-assistance system in San Francisco and opens a new office in California (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)

UK-based Wayve, which develops AI software for veh...

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IBM reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to $14.97B, vs. $15.07B est., and says bookings for AI consulting and software have exceeded $3B, up more than $1B QoQ (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

IBM reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to $14.97B, vs. $...

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Microsoft: Russia, China, and Iran are stepping up cyber-influence efforts on the US election; China has focused on down-ballot candidates and Congress members (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Microsoft: Russia, China, and Iran are stepping up...

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Suspected Drunk Driver Arrested For Driving Wrong Way Toward Kamala Harris Motorcade

Suspected Drunk Driver Arrested For Driving Wrong ...

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Sources: the US DOJ warned Elon Musk's America PAC in recent days that his $1M sweepstakes to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law (CNN)

Sources: the US DOJ warned Elon Musk's America PAC...

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To The Shock Of No One, Tesla Owners Are Still Crashing While Using The Summon Feature

To The Shock Of No One, Tesla Owners Are Still Cra...

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Sources: Apple nears production of MacBook Airs with M4 for release in early 2025, slightly delays M4 Mac Studio, and plans new entry-level iPads for the spring (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple nears production of MacBook Airs wi...

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Apple releases iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS 15.2 developer betas, with features like Genmoji, Image Playground, Visual Intelligence, and ChatGPT integration (Six Colors)

Apple releases iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS 15...

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The Chrysler 200 Lives On In The Pacifica’s Gauge Cluster

The Chrysler 200 Lives On In The Pacifica’s Gauge ...

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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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The U.S. Government Can Track Abortion Travel Through Your Cell Phone

The U.S. Government Can Track Abortion Travel Thro...

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Jaguar Built Two New E-Types From Scratch For A Customer In Asia

Jaguar Built Two New E-Types From Scratch For A Cu...

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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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Meta Shuts Down Accounts Tracking Private Jets Of Mark Zuckerberg And Elon Musk

Meta Shuts Down Accounts Tracking Private Jets Of ...

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Lebron James Fills Son Bronny’s Lamborghini Urus With Cereal In New Nike Ad

Lebron James Fills Son Bronny’s Lamborghini Urus 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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Elon Musk Ruined Free Speech Says Adam, Ruiner Of Everything

Elon Musk Ruined Free Speech Says Adam, Ruiner Of ...

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

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These Are The Cars You Probably Didn't Know Came With A CVT

These Are The Cars You Probably Didn't Know Came W...

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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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Here's How Much EV Range You Actually Need

Here's How Much EV Range You Actually Need

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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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Rivian's Factory Is A Safety Nightmare For Workers

Rivian's Factory Is A Safety Nightmare For Workers...

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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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Rudy Giuliani Ordered To Give Lauren Bacall's 1980s Mercedes To Two Georgia Election Workers

Rudy Giuliani Ordered To Give Lauren Bacall's 1980...

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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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These Are The Worst Experiences You've Had Selling A Car

These Are The Worst Experiences You've Had Selling...

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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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Don’t Follow A Hyundai Nexo Too Closely, You May Be Driving In A Cloud Of Flammable Hydrogen Gas

Don’t Follow A Hyundai Nexo Too Closely, You May B...

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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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These Are The Weirdest, Cringiest Old Videos I Found On Stellantis' YouTube Channel

These Are The Weirdest, Cringiest Old Videos I Fou...

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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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At $4,000, Is This 2012 Coda EV The Last Word In Value?

At $4,000, Is This 2012 Coda EV The Last Word In V...

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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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2025 Toyota GR Corolla Refines The Unrefined

2025 Toyota GR Corolla Refines The Unrefined

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Nigeria drops charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, detained since February 2024; sources say the case was discontinued due to his ill health (Nduka Orjinmo/Bloomberg)

Nigeria drops charges against Binance executive Ti...

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Amazon begins testing a new shopping app homepage on Android and iOS with millions of US users, adding bigger graphics and an emphasis on horizontal scrolling (Quentyn Kennemer/The Verge)

Amazon begins testing a new shopping app homepage ...

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