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ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to speed up customers' migrations to its CRM, for an undisclosed price estimated at hundreds of millions (Allon Sinai/CTech)
Allon Sinai / CTech : ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to spee…
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Analysis: candidates backing a data center moratorium could win up to 15 of 36 US governors' races on Tuesday, including in Texas, Ohio, Michigan, and New York (Shane Burke/The Information)
Shane Burke / The Information : Analysis: candidates backing a data center moratori…
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Binance says net outflows were $3.64B, or 2.1% of assets, in the 9.5 hours after it began restoring withdrawals; DefiLlama puts 24-hour net outflows at $4.05B (Zack Abrams/The Block)
Zack Abrams / The Block : Binance says net outflows were $3.64B, or 2.1% of assets,…
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Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B in cash (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
Anzar Mehraj / Reuters : Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyper…
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The FBI attributes the $6B+ Binance hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor hacking group, which the agency also previously blamed for the ~$1.5B Bybit hack (Kevin Whitelaw/Bloomberg)
Kevin Whitelaw / Bloomberg : The FBI attributes the $6B+ Binance hack to North Kore…
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Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22% (Washington Post)
Washington Post : Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US…
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Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link (Swati Khandelwal/The Hacker News)
Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News : Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug t…
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Salesforce acquires Rune, which makes AI military logistics software, sources say for $375M in cash and stock; Rune raised $30m from a16z and others (Margaux MacColl/Resilience Media)
Margaux MacColl / Resilience Media : Salesforce acquires Rune, which makes AI milit…
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Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a 14" or 16" PROLED XDR display, a light-up Apple logo, M5 Pro and M5 Max, for $2,899+ and $3,399+ (Apple)
Apple : Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a 14" or 16" PROLED …
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Sources: Meta's $25B share sale was oversubscribed 5x as it seeks $98B for AI spending; the 15 largest investors in the sale accounted for ~70% of shares (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg : Sources: Meta's $25B share sale was oversubscribed…
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Memo: Amazon says measuring AI adoption solely by token usage or code generation is "deeply flawed," as it discourages staff from tokenmaxxing (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
Annie Palmer / CNBC : Memo: Amazon says measuring AI adoption solely by token usage…
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GM plans to switch from the NYSE to Nasdaq on November 17 as part of its push under Tesla veteran Sterling Anderson to use AI to speed up its development cycle (Financial Times)
Financial Times : GM plans to switch from the NYSE to Nasdaq on November 17 as part…
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Anthropic's S-1 shows a governance structure that suits a "fun quirky little mission-driven worker cooperative" seeking to raise billions as a public company (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
Matt Levine / Bloomberg : Anthropic's S-1 shows a governance structure that sui…
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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, touting "fast and capable computer use at scale" and clearer, more natural writing, priced at $1/1M input and $5/1M output tokens (OpenAI)
OpenAI : OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, touting “fast and capable computer use at s…
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iPhone Duo teardown: 5/10 repairability, a foldable record, but some screens crack along the fold, possibly because a hinge support bar fails to drop far enough (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News)
Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News : iPhone Duo teardown: 5/10 repairability, a fo…
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