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Sources: US has held up approval for American chipmaking equipment needed by SK Hynix to expand in China, complicating its plans for new plants in New York (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
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CrowdStrike launches an AI kill switch in Falcon Guardian to stop rogue internal agents, and announces a Falcon Guardian integration with Claude Cowork (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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Apple opens Siri AI to all developers with iOS 27.3 and other 27.3 OS betas, letting any app bring its content and actions into Siri AI by using App Intents (Apple Developer)
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A look at efforts by OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to prevent anyone from using their AI tools to disrupt midterms, including Anthropic's first-ever "war room" (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)
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Sources: Meta eyes at least $20B from a potential cross-border bond offering, the company's first major debt sale in six months and its debut offering in euros (Bloomberg)
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AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3B led by Bessemer at a $16B valuation, up from $8B in April; a source says it hit $800M in annualized revenue this year (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
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Sources: UK-based Google DeepMind staff urge leaders to drop non-disparagement clauses barring public warnings about AI risks even after they leave the company (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
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Microsoft updates Windows 11 to make PCs with 8GB of RAM up to 20% more responsive and multitasking up to 40% faster in lab tests, utilizing memory compression (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)
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Rockstar plans to let users pre-load GTA VI on November 10, ahead of its November 19 launch, and says the game requires up to 212GB "depending on your device" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Binance says North Korean hackers stole $6.3B through a months-long scheme with fake LinkedIn job interviews and an ad campaign to deliver malicious software (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
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ChatGPT Consumer Product Lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M over the past two months, and its search volume is now ~20% of Google's (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
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Google plans to make it easier to restrict its AI tools for students in early 2027, but says schools that block AI entirely will lose student access to Search (New York Times)
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CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler AI, which helps monitor AI agents, for ~$400M, and Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for ~$95M, mostly in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Anthropic has told investors in recent meetings that its 15-person chip design team is using Claude for engineering and design work on its custom chips (The Information)
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iPad mini (2026) review: great OLED display, it's waterproof and dustproof, and the A20 Pro is fast, but it's expensive, has no 120Hz display, and lacks Face ID (David Pierce/The Verge)