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Meta plans to ask Facebook and Instagram users in Europe if they want to get “less personalized ads” and cuts subscription prices by 40%, a concession to the EU — Facebook and Instagram owner faces pressure in Europe to ask users before using their data to target ads or train artificial intelligence
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| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: Apple schedules production of a smart home IP camera for 2026 and is aiming for 10M+ annual shipments; Goertek will be the exclusive assembly supplier — 1. Apple is making its first foray into the smart home IP camera market, with mass production scheduled for 2026, targeting annual shipments in the tens of millions.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia launches its Nvidia app for Windows, designed to overhaul and replace the GeForce Experience app, after a beta earlier in 2024 — Nvidia is officially launching its Nvidia app on PC today, designed to overhaul and replace the GeForce Experience app.
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| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
The EU notifies Apple of “potentially prohibited geo-blocking practices” on the App Store and other apps, and says it must align with EU anti-geo-blocking rules — Alexa's New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab … Quicktake
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| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Waymo opens robotaxi rides to anyone in LA within an 80-square-mile area running from downtown LA to Santa Monica and says ~300K users had been on the waitlist — The Alphabet company said about 300,000 people in the second-largest U.S. city have been waiting to use its robotic ridehail service …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: advisors to Donald Trump expect the president-elect to halt a potential US ban of TikTok, which faces a January 19 deadline to divest — The president-elect promised to ‘save’ the social media app, which faces a deadline early next year to find a non-China-based owner.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
A survey by Slack of 17K+ workers in August: 48% said they were uncomfortable telling managers they use AI, and AI adoption rates stalled in the US at ~33% — The percentage of workers in the U.S. that say they are using AI at work has remained largely flat over the last three months, according to a new study commissioned by Slack.| Dan Merica / Associated Press: |
Source: Elon Musk's America PAC spent ~$200M to help elect Trump; Musk says the PAC is gearing up for midterms as well as judicial and DA elections — Elon Musk's super PAC spent around $200 million to help elect Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the group's spending …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Writer, which makes enterprise generative AI tools, raised a $200M Series C led by Premji, Radical Ventures, and Iconiq at a $1.9B valuation, for $326M raised — Writer has raised $200 million at a $1.9 billion valuation to expand its generative AI platform.
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Rival search engines Ecosia and Qwant debut European Search Perspective, a joint venture to develop a web index for Europe to reduce reliance on Google and Bing — Generative AI and new rules targeting tech giants are giving Ecosia and Qwant fuel to challenge Google and Microsoft and develop a web index for Europe.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to end support for the Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps on December 31, after moving users to the new Outlook app in recent months — Microsoft is planning to no longer support the Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps later this year.| Financial Times: |
Amazon's Annapurna Labs plans to unveil Trainium 2 AI chips in December, as part of taking on Nvidia; Anthropic, Databricks, and others are testing Trainium 2 — Big Tech group's Annapurna Labs is spending big to build custom chips that lessen its reliance on market leader
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| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports Q2 net income of ~$7.7B and a Vision Fund gain of ~$2.42B, driven by strong Indian IPOs and valuation gains in startups like Coupang and Didi — - Tech investor rakes in profit on hot Indian IPO market — Legacy-conscious founder Masayoshi Son is readying next gambleSponsor Posts
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