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Apple shows off the unsettling world of Pluribus in first trailer

The Verge - All Posts

OpenAI’s Sora has already hit more than 1 million downloads

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Mighty Nein NYCC trailer turns Critical Role into the Thunderbolts

Polygon - All

AWS launches Quick Suite, a chatbot and set of AI agents that can analyze sales data, produce reports, and summarize web content, set to replace Q Business (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms trailer teases a funny new GoT series

Polygon - All

Germany scales back financial aid for its semiconductor industry, cutting €3B from its previously planned €15B in chip subsidies, to repair streets and bridges (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

The AI industry is at a major crossroads

The Verge - All Posts

Timex is resurrecting its first LCD watch 50 years later

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Tigris, which is building a network of localized data storage centers that it claims can meet AI workloads' distributed compute needs, raised a $25M Series A (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

The 2027 Chevy Bolt will be one of the cheapest EVs you can get

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Meta wants its metaverse everywhere

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DoorDash partners with Serve Robotics to use its autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, starting in Los Angeles; Serve also partners with Uber; SERV jumps 20%+ (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

SoundCloud evolves into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features, including playlists based on friends' likes (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Legal Ruling Forces God To Add Cancer Warning To Earth

The Onion

OpenAI raised "difficulties" it faces "in competing with entrenched companies" in a September EU meeting; source: OpenAI targeted Google, Microsoft, and Apple (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President

The Onion

Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch on September 30, which is even faster than ChatGPT did (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Techmeme

Sony teases new GPU tech for the PS6

The Verge - All Posts

Battlefield 6 campaign review: The series loses sight of what identity it had

Polygon - All

We Learn More Invincible VS Story Details As Cecil And An Original Character Join The Roster

Game Informer