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DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

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Sources: Disney has opted out of having its IP appear in OpenAI's Sora app; CAA says OpenAI is exposing artists to "significant risk" with Sora (Mrinmay Dey/Reuters)

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How everything became left or right “coded”

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Toronto-based Spellbook, whose AI helps with legal contracts, raised $50M led by Khosla Ventures at a $350M valuation and says it has ~4,000 customers (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

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Ghost of Yōtei nails the art of open-world exploration

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Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the thin-enough foldable

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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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Skate Story, Devolver's Surreal Skateboard Game, Launches This December

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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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1993's Mario & Wario Finally Comes West As Nintendo Switch Online Adds Three SNES Games

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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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Battlefield 6 Review - Battle Ready

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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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New Indiana Jones And The Great Circle Update Includes New Game+, New Ending, Classic Outfit, And More

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