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Senate Democrats want to know: was YouTube’s Trump settlement a bribe?

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Sources: Anthropic held early funding talks this month with Abu Dhabi-based MGX, which it considers a prior investor, after closing a $13B Series F in September (Bloomberg)

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Ghost of Yōtei buries an OP stealth skill, but it's not necessary anyway

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Anthropic says Haiku 4.5 can serve as a subagent for Sonnet 4.5, which can break down problems into multistep plans and orchestrate a team of Haiku 4.5 agents (Anthropic)

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Insta360’s impressive X5 action cam has fallen to a new low price 

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Sources: Rakuten began considering a US IPO of its credit card business after SoftBank announced plans to launch an IPO for its mobile payment app PayPay (Reuters)

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1000xResist is coming to Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation 5 in November

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Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, claiming it offers similar levels of coding performance to Sonnet 4 at "one-third the cost and more than twice the speed" (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

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Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner teases a shocking Game of Thrones cameo

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Sources: French telecom operator Orange is seeking to raise €400M-€500M by selling a stake of as much as 50% in its data center business (Bloomberg)

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Logitech made an Apple Pencil-like stylus for the Vision Pro

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TiVo Stops Selling DVRs

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X plans to show new info about accounts, including their creation date and which country they are based in, "starting next week" on select X employees' profiles (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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US bank Erebor, founded by Palmer Luckey, Joe Lonsdale, and others, wins conditional OCC approval to offer services to emerging tech companies in crypto and AI (David Pan/Bloomberg)

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Meta announces a partnership with Arm to power AI ranking and recommendation systems across Meta's family of apps using Arm-based data center platforms (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)

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Best guns in Battlefield 6

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Mint Mobile’s prepaid home internet plan is really cheap under very specific circumstances

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PS Plus Extra and Premium October 2025 games announced

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Meta says it is investing $1.5B+ to set up a 1 GW data center in El Paso, Texas, and expects it come online in 2028 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

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Peacemaker star teases a DCU Checkmate spinoff instead of season 3

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