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Meta rolls out an AI assistant for Facebook Dating in the US and Canada, to reduce "swipe fatigue" by letting users find matches via natural language prompts (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)

Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: Meta rolls out an AI assistant for Facebook Dating in the US and Canada, to reduce “swipe fatigue” by letting

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Microsoft plans to raise Xbox Series X price by $50 to $649.99 and Series S by $20 to $399.99 starting Oct. 3, citing "changes in the macroeconomic environment" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)

Jez Corden / Windows Central: Microsoft plans to raise Xbox Series X price by $50 to $649.99 and Series S by $20 to $399.99 starting

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Trump extends the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok's US operations until December 16, the fourth such extension; a deal is expected to be finalized soon (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Trump extends the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok’s US operations until December 16, the fourth such extension; a deal is expected to be

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JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the

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Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ channels, including 1M how-to videos (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)

Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ channels,

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Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series C funding round, becoming the top shareholder, and is expected to get a board seat (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral’s €1.7B Series C funding round, becoming the top shareholder, and is expected to get a board seat 

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The Trump administration plans to ease rules for self driving cars by removing some requirements designed for human drivers, such as windshield wipers (Keith Laing/Bloomberg)

Keith Laing / Bloomberg: The Trump administration plans to ease rules for self driving cars by removing some requirements designed for human drivers, such as

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China’s AI content labeling law takes effect, aligned with increased AI scrutiny, as concerns grow over misinformation, copyright infringement, and online fraud (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

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xAI sues a former employee in federal court in California for allegedly stealing Grok trade secrets and taking them to OpenAI, where he recently accepted a job (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Blake Brittain / Reuters: xAI sues a former employee in federal court in California for allegedly stealing Grok trade secrets and taking them to OpenAI,

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Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)

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