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Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales agree to a deal to combine their space businesses, promising "significant synergies" in a bid to build a European SpaceX competitor (Financial Times)

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OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage Data Centers plan to build a data center in Wisconsin called Lighthouse, costing $15B+ and set to open in 2028, as part of Stargate (Juby Babu/Reuters)

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Lawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents "intentional harassment" (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

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How Meesho and the rise of quick commerce companies disrupted Flipkart and Amazon's e-commerce duopoly that had existed in India for over a decade until 2023 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)

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A look at DeepSeek's rise in Africa, as China's lightweight, low-cost AI models make inroads into the continent via tech infrastructure built by Huawei and ZTE (Bloomberg)

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The Atlanta Fed estimates delays faced by claimants in COBOL-based unemployment insurance systems cut US GDP by at least $40B between March 13 and year-end 2020 (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)

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STMicro reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.19B and operating income down 53% YoY to $180M, missing est., and forecasts Q4 revenue of $3.28B, below $3.35B est. (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Nexperia's China unit has resumed chip sales to local distributors, with transactions now settled in yuan instead of foreign currencies such as the USD (Reuters)

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Top AI researchers and executives in SV are working 80 to 100 hours a week, driven by intense competition, as AI's rapid progress compresses product timelines (Wall Street Journal)

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Ofcom: UK traffic to porn sites has fallen by almost a third since introducing new age verification rules in July; Aylo says Pornhub's traffic has fallen by 77% (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

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Starlink VP Lauren Dreyer says the company "proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspected 'scam centers'" in Myanmar (James Reddick/The Record)

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OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey outlines prompt injection mitigations in ChatGPT Atlas, including a "logged out mode" that blocks agent access to user credentials (Dane Stuckey/@cryps1s)

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Elon Musk says Tesla's AI5 chip will be made by Samsung in Texas and TSMC in Arizona, with the "oversupply" of chips not used by Tesla going to his data centers (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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Sources: IonQ, Rigetti, D-Wavequantum, and other computing companies are in talks to give the US Commerce Department equity in exchange for $10M+ funding each (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: a16z is aiming to raise $6B for its growth fund, $3B for AI deals, and $1B for American Dynamism; the $10B total would be its largest fundraise to date (Financial Times)

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Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with investors to raise funds at a $12B to $15B valuation, up from ~$8B pre-investment in a raise earlier in October (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

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The UK FCA sues Justin Sun-linked crypto exchange HTX in London's High Court for alleged illegal promotion of "cryptoasset services" to UK consumers (Lucca De Paoli/Bloomberg)

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Amazon is testing AR glasses for delivery drivers, using AI and computer vision to help them scan packages, follow walking directions, and get proof of delivery (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

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Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI and autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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