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

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Breaking up (Google) is hard to do

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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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Indian ministers push domestic alternatives to Google and Microsoft apps amid US tensions; Sensor Tower: Zoho messaging app Arattai hit 400K+ downloads in Sept. (Arpan Chaturvedi/Reuters)

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US semiconductor equipment companies Axcelis and Veeco agree to merge in an all-stock deal, creating a combined company with an enterprise value of $4.4B (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)

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Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning two Sora changes for rightsholders: granular controls over generation of their characters and a revenue sharing system (Sam Altman)

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OpenAI VP of Media Partnerships Varun Shetty says OpenAI didn't put too many guardrails in Sora because it doesn't "want it to be at a competitive disadvantage" (Newcomer)

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Oregon’s National Guard lawsuit hinges on Trump’s Truth Social posts

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Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

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