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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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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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Absolum Review - The Sweet Spot

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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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A teardown of the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display reveals a system of mirrors enabling its "geometric" waveguide tech, setting it apart from other AR glasses (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News)

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Anthropic's weeklong anti-AI slop pop-up in NYC's West Village, part of its "Keep Thinking" Claude push, drew 5,000+ people and 10M+ social media impressions (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

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TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to ~$32.5B, beating estimates, driven by AI chip demand; TSMC's Taipei-listed shares have gained 34% so far this year (Reuters)

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The Ethereum Foundation announces the "Privacy cluster", a team of 47 blockchain industry experts developing protocol-level privacy features for the network (Vince Quill/Cointelegraph)

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Sources: Microsoft is planning a major healthcare push for Copilot in partnership with Harvard Medical School, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on OpenAI (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: US Commerce Department's BIS approves several billion dollars' worth of Nvidia chip exports to the UAE, an early step in a May 2025 bilateral AI deal (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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