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An analysis of nearly 50 Amazon purchases over six months in 2025: during the October 7-8 Prime Day sales, average savings were only 0.6% and some items went up (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)

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OneDrive is getting a new Windows app and an AI photo agent

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Apple plans to update its Declared Age Range API and launch new APIs "later this year" to verify the ages of Apple Account users in Texas from January 1, 2026 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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The Comey prosecution is revealing Trump’s weakness

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SoftBank-owned PayPay takes a 40% stake in Binance Japan for an undisclosed sum, to capitalize on Japan's crypto boom; PayPay filed for a US IPO in August (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)

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A profile of Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, who has 19M followers on the platform, many of them young people, and drew nearly 50M viewers to a monthlong stream (Emmanuel Morgan/New York Times)

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Logitech tells users that it will end support for its Pop smart home switches, launched in August 2016, on October 15, as it moves on from its smart home plans (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

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What to do when every crisis needs your $20

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The Meta Ray-Ban Display’s most interesting tech might be the glass

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OpenAI expands its ~$5 ChatGPT Go plan to 16 new Asian countries, including Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, after launching it in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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ASML names Marco Pieters as its new CTO, replacing Martin van den Brink who left in 2024; Pieters was most recently EVP of ASML's Applications business (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)

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China unveils sweeping export controls on rare-earth minerals, creating rules akin to US measures that block chip-related exports to China from third countries (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)

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The Browser Company’s Dia is now available on Mac, no invite needed

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A look at ASML's planned 100-hectare expansion project in Eindhoven, set to create 20,000 jobs and that is focused on expanding production of its EUV machines (Bloomberg)

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A survey of 1,000 ninth through 12th grade US students finds that nearly one in five say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI (Lee V. Gaines/NPR)

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4 NYC Casino Plans Made It to the Final Round. What Happens Now?

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A look at China's AI toy boom, which builds on decades of consumer electronics designed for children, as AI toy companies expand into the US and other markets (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)

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A Samsung researcher introduces the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7M-parameter model that was able to outperform LLMs 10,000x larger like o3-mini on specific problems (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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A look at the risks of BNPL apps like Klarna on users' financial health, as credit cards adopt BNPL features and regulators struggle to categorize BNPL services (Amy X. Wang/New York Times)

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Berlin-based n8n, which lets businesses automate repetitive computing tasks through AI agents, raised $180M led by Accel at a $2.5B valuation (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

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