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Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally (Peter Landers/Wall Street Journal)
Peter Landers / Wall Street Journal : Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and ride…
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Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)
Jonathan Burgos / Forbes : Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are …
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Meta says it will invest $600B in the US infrastructure and jobs by 2028; Zuckerberg told Trump at a September dinner that Meta will spend "at least $600B" (Juby Babu/Reuters)
Juby Babu / Reuters : Meta says it will invest $600B in the US infrastructure and j…
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Denmark's government has reached a political agreement to ban social media access for anyone under 15, with a possible parental consent exception from age 13 (Euronews)
Euronews : Denmark's government has reached a political agreement to ban social…
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OpenAI releases a blueprint the company hopes lawmakers will use in crafting safety standards for teens using AI, with five suggestions for AI companies (Ashley Gold/Axios)
Ashley Gold / Axios : OpenAI releases a blueprint the company hopes lawmakers will …
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Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which also gets prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket for future event analysis, first in the US (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority : Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google…
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Sources: Apple plans to use a custom 1.2T-parameter Google Gemini model to help power the new Siri next year and will be paying Google ~$1B annually for it (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple plans to use a custom 1.2T-parameter Googl…
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Netflix rolls out a new ad metric called monthly active viewers, or MAV, and says it has 190M such viewers in the 12 countries where it offers an ad tier (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter : Netflix rolls out a new ad metric called mon…
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Paris prosecutors open a probe into TikTok's algorithm and compliance with requirements to police and report suicide content, after a French government report (Gaspard Sebag/Bloomberg)
Gaspard Sebag / Bloomberg : Paris prosecutors open a probe into TikTok's algori…
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A look at Palantir's four-month "Meritocracy Fellowship" for high school graduates, which offers a path to a job at Palantir without a university degree (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal : A look at Palantir's four-month “Meritoc…
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Google says it has removed its AI model Gemma from AI Studio; in a letter to Google, Sen. Blackburn said it fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against her (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Google says it has removed its AI model Gemma from AI Stu…
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Job listings show AI groups like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere have stepped up hiring for forward-deployed engineers to help businesses adopt their AI models (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Job listings show AI groups like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere ha…
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Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain drain that increased during the war in Gaza and tax breaks for investors in Israeli funds and tech firms (James Shotter/Financial Times)
James Shotter / Financial Times : Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech bra…
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Microsoft's AI tools still lag behind OpenAI's, as Microsoft struggles to create a cohesive AI experience and add new features by integrating OpenAI models (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
Austin Carr / Bloomberg : Microsoft's AI tools still lag behind OpenAI's, a…
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Grokipedia content often closely mirrors Wikipedia except for some political topics but its use of AI makes it better than Wikipedia on obscure entries (Business Insider)
Business Insider : Grokipedia content often closely mirrors Wikipedia except for so…
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