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TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to $14.8B, above est., and raises its 2025 revenue growth projection to the mid-30% range, signaling strong AI chip demand (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Microsoft aims to produce most new products, including servers and Surface laptops, outside China from 2026; AWS is also adopting a similar strategy (Nikkei Asia)

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Huawei's key partners SiCarrier and Qiyunfang showcased chipmaking gear and EDA software at a Shenzhen expo; SiCarrier's gear competes with older US products (Bloomberg)

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YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K+ full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)

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Investigation: the Trump family's crypto empire has reaped over $1B in pre-tax profits over the past year; Eric Trump says the true figure is "probably more" (Financial Times)

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The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and other corporate donors to the $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump (Wall Street Journal)

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How to teach your Pokémon new moves in Pokémon Legends: Z-A

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Which starter Pokémon should you pick in Pokémon Legends: Z-A?

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How to redeem Pokémon Legends: Z-A Mystery Gifts

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Complete Pokédex in Pokémon Legends: Z-A

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Pokémon type chart for Pokémon Legends Z-A strengths and weaknesses

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How to change the time of day in Pokémon Legends: Z-A

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How to rename your Pokémon in Legends: Z-A

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OpenAI says all Sora 2 users can now generate videos up to 15 seconds on the app and web, while Pro users can generate videos up to 25 seconds on the web (@openai)

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Liberate, which builds AI agents to automate insurance operations, raised a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures at a $300M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Basis Theory, which provides data management and payments infrastructure tools, raised a $33M Series B led by Costanoa, taking its total funding to $50M (David Penn/Finovate)

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Sources: F5's breach is blamed on China, whose hackers had infiltrated F5's network for at least 12 months using the Brickstorm malware to steal source code (Bloomberg)

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Campfire, an AI-powered ERP and accounting services provider, raised a $65M Series B co-led by Accel and Ribbit Capital, after raising a $35M Series A in June (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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Google releases Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a 27B-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on its Gemma family of open models (The Keyword)

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Paxos says it "mistakenly minted" $300T worth of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday and "burned" the tokens a little over 20 minutes later (Ryan S. Gladwin/Decrypt)

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