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A four-pack of Apple AirTags are 34 percent off

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OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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Deloitte says it will partially refund payment for an AU$439K Australian government report with multiple errors, after admitting it was partly produced by AI (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)

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Paris-based Filigran, which develops open-source threat intelligence tools, raised a $58M Series C led by Eurazeo and says 6,000+ organizations are its clients (Daphné Leprince-Ringuet/Sifted)

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Minecraft streamer completes 14-year journey to the Far Lands

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Verizon names Dan Schulman as CEO, replacing Hans Vestberg effective immediately; Schulman is a former PayPal CEO, and Vestberg will help manage the transition (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)

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Fictional characters are (officially) coming to Sora as OpenAI manages copyright chaos

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The Paris prosecutor's office refers a probe into Apple's Siri recordings to the Office for Combating Cybercrime, after a human rights organization's complaint (Bloomberg)

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Re-animator is still one of the best zombie B-movies ever made — and it's streaming for free

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AstraZeneca signs $555mn AI deal to identify immunology targets (Financial Times)

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AMD teams up with OpenAI to challenge Nvidia’s AI chip dominance

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KPop Demon Hunters' Huntrix makes live singing debut on SNL

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OpenAI and AMD announce a deal in which OpenAI could take up to a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs over multiple years; AMD jumps 25%+ (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Sources: private capital firms like Oaktree, EQT, and DWS are seeking to cash in on the US-driven AI boom, launching €17B of European data center sales in weeks (Financial Times)

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Sora provides better control over videos featuring your AI self

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Source: xAI is set to spend $18B+ to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; in July, Elon Musk said it would total 550K chips (Alexander Saeedy/Wall Street Journal)

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This Steam Deck rival dares you to embrace the cord

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Asahi restarted production at six Japanese breweries on October 2 after a cyberattack forced it to halt production and shipments for days, and is investigating (Bloomberg)

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Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s secret device won’t be ‘your weird AI girlfriend’

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Tech companies in the UK, Canada, and elsewhere seek talent amid the US H-1B clampdown, though some skeptics doubt Trump's policies will spur a tech boom abroad (Financial Times)

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