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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:

Popular photo editing company Pixelmator says it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, pending regulatory approval — The Pixelmator Team announced the news in a blog post on Friday: — Pixelmator has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, subject to regulatory approval.

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Satellite services provider Globalstar says Apple took a 20% ownership stake worth ~$400M, and has committed another $1.1B to expand satellite service capacity — Satellite services provider GlobalStar today disclosed an expansion of its deal with Apple. Apple will commit an additional $1.1 billion …

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Reuters:

Researchers linked to China's military used Llama 2 to develop an AI model for potential military use; Meta says use of “outdated” Llama 2 would be “irrelevant” — Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People's Liberation Army have used Meta's publicly available Llama model …

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Bloomberg:

The capital expenditures of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft are set to total over $200B in 2024, as companies accelerate spending to chase AI developments — - Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft all accelerated spending — Mixed results from the big tech won't slow 2025 investment

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Indonesia bans Pixel smartphone sales, saying Google must comply with rules requiring 40% local content in smartphones, days after banning the iPhone 16 lineup — Indonesia has banned sales of Google Pixel smartphones for failing to meet domestic content requirements, days …

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Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:

Intel outlines plan to break free from TSMC manufacturing, including making a majority of Nova Lake CPUs, due in 2026, internally — Good days are coming for Intel. — Intel's next-generation Panther Lake (via SeekingAlpha) processors will contain 70% in-house silicon, positively affecting the company's margins.

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Jay Peters / The Verge:

Meta rolls out its Quest v71 update, including a redesign of Meta Horizon OS, a calendar app, and the ability to use Travel Mode on a train — Meta is introducing some big changes with its Quest v71 update, including a redesign of Meta Horizon OS, a calendar app, and the ability to use Travel Mode on a train.

More: Meta, How-To Geek, and Neowin

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Reuters:

Disney forms the Office of Technology Enablement to coordinate its use of emerging technologies such as AI and mixed reality, to be led by CTO Jamie Voris — Walt Disney (DIS.N) is forming a new unit to coordinate the company's use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and mixed reality …

More: The Wrap and The Verge

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:

Google plans to release Android 16 in Q2 2025 “to better align with the schedule of device launches”; major Android releases have been in Q3 or Q4 since 2013 — Android 16 is launching in Q2 of 2025, which is months earlier than previously expected. — • — TL;DR

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Apple Inc.:

Apple reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $94.9B, and net income down 36% YoY to $14.74B, after paying a $10.2B charge as part of an income tax decision in the EU — iPhone drives record September quarter revenue Services revenue reaches new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results …

Callan Quinn / CoinDesk:

Crypto firm Immutable says the SEC issued it a Wells notice related to the sale of its IMX tokens in 2021, and accuses the agency of “regulation by enforcement” — The firm's IMX token is down over 13% at $1.16 following the announcement. — Immutable said that it received …

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:

A profile of YC Head of Public Policy Luther Lowe, who led a California pressure campaign against AI safety bill SB 1047 and aims to fight for “little tech” — After helping lead startups' crusade against California AI regulation, the tech policy veteran has new fights to pick.

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Canalys: global smartphone shipments grew 5% YoY in Q3 to 309.9M units, the strongest Q3 since 2021; Samsung led with 57.5M units, followed by Apple at 54.5M

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Richard Nieva / Forbes:

Q&A with Google DeepMind Director John Jumper on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, merging predictive AI and LLMs, advancing AlphaFold, rival labs, and more

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Bloomberg:

Istanbul-based Insider, which sells AI-powered marketing and customer engagement tools, raised a $500M Series E led by General Atlantic and plans a US expansion

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Anthropic says governments should urgently take action on AI policy in the next 18 months and suggests principles for AI regulation that support innovation

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Tel Aviv-based, enterprise-focused cybersecurity startup Noma emerges from stealth with $32M in funding, including a $25M Series A led by Ballistic Ventures

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Martyn Landi / The Independent:

UK police received 7,062 reports of online grooming over the past year; Snapchat was named in 48% of the cases where the means of communication was disclosed

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Bloomberg:

Former Lacework CEO and former Facebook Global Head of Engineering Jay Parikh joins Microsoft's senior leadership team, reporting directly to Satya Nadella

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Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $27.45B, vs. $27.52B est., and AWS operating income of $10.45B, vs. $9.15B est., up from $7B in Q3 2023

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:

Tether reports Q3 net profit of $2.5B, driven by yields on its US Treasury and gold holdings and bringing YTD profit to $7.7B, as USDT's market cap nears $120B

Hayden Field / CNBC:

During a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman says GPT-5 likely won't come this year as OpenAI faces “a lot of limitations and hard decisions” in allocating compute resources

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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let paid users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google

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