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Turkish police detained Hex and PulseChain founder Richard Heart on Oct. 14, seizing $7M+ in cash and six cold wallets; HEX fell nearly 50% on initial reports (Zack Abrams/The Block)
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Bleecker Street says TikTok suspended the Musk documentary account for "political policy" violations and called the suspension "permanent"; Bleecker's appealing (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
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MapQuest adds a Surveillance Layer to its mobile app showing license plate readers and cameras from 10+ companies including Flock, using OpenStreetMap data (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable)
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Meta removes ToS language that suggested it could scrape websites "associated with" business accounts, saying it applied only to "ads and business products" (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
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DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017, an update it says offers "stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs" than its predecessor (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
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Zelenskyy says Starshield restrictions remain and are affecting only Ukraine, leading him to believe they are a "planned operation" rather than technical issues (Bloomberg)
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As AI giants rack up potential legal liabilities of tens of billions amid safety incidents, insurers worry claims may outpace limits on existing coverage (Jean Eaglesham/Wall Street Journal)
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A profile of Blackstone President Jon Gray, who is making AI his biggest bet, has built a $200B data center empire, and is building a cloud venture with Google (Preeti Singh/Bloomberg)
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An interview with YouTuber Benn Jordan, who recently testified in Congress against license plate readers, on Flock, privacy, the surveillance backlash, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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A profile of Alexandr Wang, who sources say is "an operator", had "all" of Zuckerberg's support during Meta's AI revamp, and is being touted as his successor (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
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Reach Security, which develops AI-powered exposure management tools for securing enterprise systems, raised a $50M+ Series B led by Top Tier Capital Partners (FinTech Global)
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Duvo, which develops tech to automate business processes across enterprise systems, including ERPs and legacy apps, raised a $32M Series A led by Balderton (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
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Montevideo, Uruguay-based Scanntech, which develops market intelligence tools using POS data, raised $180M in a Series F led by L Catterton and Partners Group (FinSMEs)
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London-based Scarlet, which certifies AI and software for medical devices, raised a $50M Series B led by Headline to support its US and Asia-Pacific expansion (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
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NAND flash maker Kioxia has lost two-thirds of its market cap since its June peak, when it became Japan's most valuable listed company, as Chinese rivals emerge (Kyohei Suga/Nikkei Asia)