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A civil subpoena shows the US DOJ is investigating Netflix for potential anticompetitive tactics as DOJ probes the company's proposed acquisition of WBD (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Apple plans to allow third-party voice-controlled AI chatbots in CarPlay within the coming months; it won't let users replace CarPlay's Siri button (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Heroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)

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Amazon's annual tax bill fell 87% YoY to $1.2B in 2025, as profits grew 45% to ~$90B, mostly due to GOP's depreciation breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill (Brian Faler/Politico)

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London-based Bound, an automated FX risk management platform, raised a $24.5M Series A led by AlbionVC as it seeks to expand across Europe (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Crypto.com co-founder Kris Marszalek buys the domain AI.com for $70M, the highest disclosed price for a domain name, as he plans a site offering an AI agent (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT version tuned for the UAE that accommodates local language, political outlook, and speech restrictions (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

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Waymo says it is using DeepMind's Genie 3 to create realistic digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)

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Analysis: Claude Code currently authors 4% of all public GitHub commits and is on track to cross 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026 (Doug O'Laughlin/SemiAnalysis)

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Spotify changes Developer Mode to require a Premium subscription and reduces the cap on test users per app from 25 to five, to curb AI-aided or automated usage (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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SIA: chip sales hit $791.7B in 2025, up 25.6% YoY, with advanced Nvidia, AMD, and Intel chips accounting for $301.9B, up 40%; SIA expects $1T in 2026 chip sales (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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How an appeal changed the way the USPTO assesses AI patents under the US Patent Act, signaling a shift toward more favorable treatment of AI and ML inventions (Matthew Carey/Bloomberg Law)

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The EU says that TikTok's "addictive design" is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

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Goldman Sachs says it has been working with Anthropic on AI agents to automate more roles at the bank, like trades, transactions, client vetting, and onboarding (Hugh Son/CNBC)

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AT&T launches amiGO Jr., a mid-tier Samsung-made smartphone for kids with parental controls on contacts, app access, screen time, and more, for $2.99 per month (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)

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Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review violent content and porn for global tech companies (Anuj Behal/The Guardian)

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Sources: Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server CPUs, with Intel warning of delivery lead times of up to six months (Reuters)

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Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M+ monthly transacting users as of September 2025 (Cao Li/South China Morning Post)

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Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

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