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Sources: Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports (Emilio Parodi/Reuters)

Emilio Parodi / Reuters:
Sources: Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports  —  - Italian police raid Amazon sites in probe of Chinese goods  — Prosecutors see Amazon as ‘Trojan horse’ for tax-free imports

A US judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the word "cameo" for Sora features, following a trademark lawsuit by video app Cameo (Jaures Yip/CNBC)

Jaures Yip / CNBC:
A US judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the word “cameo” for Sora features, following a trademark lawsuit by video app Cameo  —  OpenAI will not be allowed use the word “cameo” to name any products or features in its Sora app for a month …

Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 4.4% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.21B est., enterprise revenue up 6.1% YoY to $741.4M, and a Q4 revenue forecast above estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 4.4% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.21B est., enterprise revenue up 6.1% YoY to $741.4M, and a Q4 revenue forecast above estimates  —  Zoom Communications Inc. reported quarterly revenue that topped analysts' estimates, a sign of strength for the software maker's expanded suite of business tools.

Sources: Paris-based Pennylane, which makes accounting software, is discussing a $200M investment led by TCV at a $4.25B valuation, up from €2B in April (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:
Sources: Paris-based Pennylane, which makes accounting software, is discussing a $200M investment led by TCV at a $4.25B valuation, up from €2B in April  —  Pennylane, a French startup that sells accounting software, is in talks for a potential investment at a $4.25 billion valuation …

Anthropic says Opus 4.5 outscored all humans on a take-home exam it gives to prospective performance engineering candidates, within a prescribed two-hour limit (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Anthropic says Opus 4.5 outscored all humans on a take-home exam it gives to prospective performance engineering candidates, within a prescribed two-hour limit  —  Anthropic released its most capable artificial intelligence model yet on Monday, slashing prices by roughly two-thirds …