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Wall Street Journal:
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
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is making a 6" wall-mounted display that can control appliances, do videoconferencing, and use AI to navigate apps, and may unveil it by March  —  - Product will spotlight the new Siri and Apple Intelligence  — Device will tap into cameras, doorbells and run Apple's apps
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.
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 …
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.
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
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.
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 …
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.
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 gamble

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”

Inside Radio:
iHeart reduces its total debt by over $440M and extends most of its debt maturities by three years, by using debt exchange transactions

More News

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Netflix says its ad tier has 70M users globally, up from 40M in May 2024 and 22M in January 2024, and 50%+ of sign-ups are for ad plans in supported countries

Earlier Picks

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
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Signal rolls out new call features, including the ability to share a link to a call, emoji reactions, a “raise hand” button, and a dedicated calls history tab
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others
Financial Times:
Bitcoin passed $89K for the first time, Tesla closed up 8.96%, Coinbase closed up 19.76%, and Robinhood closed up 7.4%, as investors pile into “Trump trades”
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Alameda Research co-CEO Sam Trabucco has agreed to hand over a slew of properties, including his yacht, to FTX creditors as part of a November 3 settlement deal
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