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Australia sues Microsoft for allegedly misleading ~2.7M Microsoft 365 users into accepting a price hike for Copilot plans while hiding cheaper non-AI options (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)

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How building robotic hands that match human dexterity remains a major technical obstacle to deploying humanoid robots in factories and for caregiving jobs (Wall Street Journal)

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Employees are increasingly using AI to create ultra-realistic fake expense receipts; AppZen and others attribute the rise to advances in image generation models (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

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Artemis: $10B+ was moved through stablecoins in August, up from $6B in February and more than double YoY, following President Trump's signing of the Genius Act (Judy Lagrou/Bloomberg)

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump and Xi will "consummate" a TikTok deal on Thursday in South Korea, confirming a final US-China agreement on the sale (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

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Q&A with Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz on the patient scheduling platform's telehealth expansion, its policy of not providing medical advice through AI, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, where sources say Sam Altman largely relied on his executive team, with little input from outside advisors (Financial Times)

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Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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Sources: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs hires Mikhail Shapiro, who works on noninvasive techniques for neural imaging and control (Alex Heath/Sources)

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Sources: Apple is working on a vapor chamber for the next iPad Pro in 2027 and plans to start selling ads in its Maps app as early as next year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Rumble plans to roll out a bitcoin tipping feature, developed in partnership with Tether, to its 51M creators in December; Tether has invested $775M in Rumble (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

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French online carpooling marketplace BlaBlaCar says India now accounts for ~33% of its carpool passengers and expects to reach ~150M passengers globally in 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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The US AI data center boom is consuming capital, power, and people that the rest of the economy needs, and is crowding out Trump's manufacturing revival plans (Bloomberg)

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Defakto, which lets enterprises secure automated interactions between internal systems and AI agents or other non-human actors, raised a $30.75M Series B (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

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Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones, raised $60M in seed and Series A rounds led by Caffeinated Capital and Convective Capital (Christopher Marquis/Forbes)

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Austin-based Roller, a provider of venue management software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to over $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Singapore-based wealth management platform Endowus raised $70M+, bringing its total funding to $130M+, and says the new capital will boost its AI advisory tools (Katrina Bianca Cuaresma/DealStreetAsia)

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Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is exploring a sale after it struggled to complete a fundraising round; SambaNova was last valued at $5B in 2021 (Valida Pau/The Information)

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Kyrgyzstan launches a national stablecoin and a CBDC in partnership with Binance; CZ says a national cryptocurrency reserve includes Binance's BNB token (Aigerim Turgunbaeva/Reuters)

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