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The most likely AI apocalypse

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Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$35B, vs. ~$34.5B est., Chinese e-commerce revenue up 16% YoY, and net income down to ~$3B, as it boosts cloud spending (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

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TSMC sues former VP Lo Wen-jen, who left to join Intel, alleging a high likelihood that he leaked secrets to Intel after a two-decade career at TSMC (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

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FX Announces Far Cry Anthology Series Coming To Hulu From Alien: Earth And It's Always Sunny Creators

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Who’s Running in the 2026 Congressional Primaries in NYC

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70K Apply to Mamdani’s Transition Team. Here’s How to Actually Get Hired by NYC.

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Polish antitrust office UOKiK is probing whether Apple's ATT limits third-party data collection in mobile ads while giving Apple's own ads service an advantage (Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk/Reuters)

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A look at NY's RAISE Act, requiring AI companies to publish safety protocols and disclose serious incidents, as its co-sponsor is targeted by a pro-AI super PAC (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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A job listing shows Google is developing a new Android-based "Aluminium OS" that is "built with AI at the core", potentially as a ChromeOS replacement for PCs (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

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India's November 21 labor law grants legal status to millions of gig workers, but their benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro over third-party tools like Cursor, aiming to gather feedback for improvement (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

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Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's "dynamic view" option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

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Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

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Simple Rule of Thumb: AI Systems Shouldn’t Pretend to Be Human

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‘A Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors’

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Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February (Bloomberg)

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How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

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Department of Transportation Asks Travelers to ‘Bring Civility Back’ to Air Travel

Daring Fireball

Trump signs an EO establishing the Genesis Mission to boost AI innovation, including by using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents (David Shepardson/Reuters)

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