How JD Vance played a key role in the TikTok US deal, amid concerns about the VP acting as a corporate dealmaker in the forced spin-off of a private company (Washington Post)
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Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has spoken to TSMC CEO C.C. Wei about a partnership or a joint venture; he also met with Tim Cook this year; INTC is up 9%+ (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has spoken to TSMC CEO C.C. Wei about a partnership or a joint venture; he also met
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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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