Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

X plans to retire the Twitter.com domain, prompting users to re-enroll their security keys for 2FA, and will lock accounts that are not updated by November 10 (Will McCurdy/PCMag)

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Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is finalizing $350M in funding led by Felicis at a $10B valuation; founded in 2023, Mercor manages 30K contractors (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: JPMorgan Chase is giving staff the option to use its in-house LLM to write year-end performance reviews, a shortcut to the often painstaking process (Financial Times)

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Microsoft's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant, including putting OpenAI-related losses into a $4.7B "other, net" expense line in the FY ended June 30 (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

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How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle (New York Times)

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Indonesia and other developing countries are becoming AI hubs amid the multitrillion-dollar spending boom, in part driven by an "AI decolonization" philosophy (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)

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The US DOJ's rigged-poker-game indictment involved hacking DeckMate, a casino-standard, suitcase-sized, $10K+ card shuffling machine, to reveal players' hands (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)

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Japanese fintech JPYC launches a yen-pegged stablecoin, the country's first, and its issuance platform JPYC EX, targeting $65.4B in circulation in three years (Timmy Shen/The Block)

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Real estate agents are using AI tools like AutoReel to replace videographers and stagers, cutting costs but generating distorted or misleading property images (Kat Tenbarge/Wired)

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Q&A with Bill Ready, who became Pinterest's CEO in 2022, about changes during his tenure, winning over Gen Z, Pinterest's business model, AI content, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)

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An interview with Mauro Porcini, who became Samsung's first Chief Design Officer in April, about creating a "consistent experience" across devices, and more (Verity Burns/Wired)

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Papers, patents, and tenders show China's military is integrating DeepSeek and Qwen models in weapons like AI-powered drones, and continues to use Nvidia chips (Reuters)

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In Vietnam, 65 countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite tech companies' and activists' privacy and security concerns (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)

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A look at Cal State's plans to become an "AI-empowered" university via partnerships with Amazon and a $16.9M deal to provide ChatGPT Edu to students and staff (New York Times)

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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, after President Trump signed the Genius Act on July 18 (Judy Lagrou/Bloomberg)

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump and Xi will "consummate" a TikTok deal on October 30 in South Korea, confirming a final US-China deal 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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