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After Demon Slayer, Samurai Jack creator had to leak Black Knight footage

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Q&A with iRobot founder Rodney Brooks on his startup Robust.AI, which builds warehouse robots, unrealistic expectations around humanoid robots and AI, and more (Om Malik/Crazy Stupid Tech)

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Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop

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Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo

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The best horror to watch this Halloween

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Cheap Batteries Are Dangerous

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Inside the race to map GTA 6 before anyone can play it

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Breaking up (Google) is hard to do

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Consume Me is a raw and funny memoir in video game form

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An investigation finds rampant caste bias in ChatGPT and Sora; a researcher also finds caste bias in Sarvam AI, which touts itself as a sovereign AI for India (Nilesh Christopher/MIT Technology Review)

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Watch a lost folk-horror classic that reimagines vampirism

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Acer’s latest Spin 514 is so close to Chromebook greatness

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Ghost of Yōtei players need to watch this intense and action-packed samurai film

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Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O'Neill says the Trump administration doesn't support CHAI, an effort by OpenAI, Mayo Clinic, and others to vet AI tools for healthcare (Ruth Reader/Politico)

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There's never been a better time to watch My Hero Academia

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Inside the aftermath of FTX's collapse, law firm Sullivan & Cromwell's role, and an interview with SBF, who is preparing to appeal his conviction in November (Mother Jones)

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Kioxia, whose stock has more than tripled since its public debut in Tokyo last December, expects NAND storage demand to grow by ~20% annually amid the AI boom (Bloomberg)

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Singapore dollar-pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinbase, giving the city-state a head start over Hong Kong in launching a local currency-linked stablecoin (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)

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KKR invests in Infobric, a Stirling Square-backed Swedish company that offers software to the construction industry, sources say at a ~€600M valuation (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)

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Applied Materials expects new US export rules from BIS restricting certain product shipments to China to hurt its Q4 revenue by $110M and 2026 revenue by $600M (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)

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