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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses by conducting an internal study, codenamed Atlas, to gather employee feedback on products on the market  —  - Company's hardware division is researching idea with employees  — Move signals that Apple aims to follow Meta into new category

Sara Fischer / Axios: Source: Meta informed ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after polls close  —  - It later adjusted its policies to temporarily stop all social issue, electoral, or political ads from running after the polls closed on November 3rd.

NBC News: A judge denies Philadelphia DA's emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk's America PAC ahead of the US election  —  A Pennsylvania judge declined to issue an emergency injunction Monday, allowing Elon Musk's super PAC to continue its cash giveaway to registered voters.

The Information: Sources: ByteDance's international revenue grew 60%+ YoY to about $17B in H1 2024, and overall revenue grew 35% to about $73B, after growing 40% in H1 2023  —  TikTok parent ByteDance increased its international revenue more than 60% to about $17 billion in the first half of 2024 …

Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US  —  On Monday, Amazon announced X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, touting the generative-AI-based feature as …

Aaron Holmes / The Information: T-Mobile to use OpenAI tech for a customer service bot slated for next year that can refer to customer-specific data, and will pay OpenAI $100M over three years  —  T-Mobile agreed to pay OpenAI roughly $100 million over the next three years as part of a deal to use the startup's technology, The Information reported on Monday.

Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to $725.5M, vs. $701.1M est., and raises 2024 revenue forecast again on robust AI adoption; PLTR jumps 11%+ after hours  —  Palantir Technologies (PLTR.N) on Monday raised its annual revenue forecast for the third time, betting on strong spending …

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it's unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it's far from being a “Google killer”  —  Last week, OpenAI released its highly anticipated search product, ChatGPT Search, to take on Google.

Politico: A single grant of $123M has been finalized from $33B+ announced so far under the US CHIPS Act, which is facing criticism on both sides of the political aisle  —  The $39 billion high-tech subsidy plan was supposed to come with guardrails.  Progressives worry those are dissolving before their eyes.

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Google Cloud Q3 revenue grew 35% YoY to $11.35B with a 17% operating margin, outpacing AWS' 19% YoY revenue growth to $27.45B with a 38% operating margin  —  With Wall Street laser focused on cloud computing this week, Google outpaced its rivals in growth, a key sign for investors …

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Experts say Tesla's imitation learning-based approach to building fully autonomous driving systems needs AI breakthroughs that may not be achieved for some time  —  Tesla is pushing to build true self-driving vehicles by 2026.  The way its CEO wants to do it seems risky.

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Spot AI, which helps companies analyze security camera footage, raised $31M and unveiled Video AI Agents that can detect and trigger responses to safety issues  —  Startup Spot AI Inc. has raised $31 million in fresh funding to help companies analyze footage from security cameras at their facilities.

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Interviews with Amazon's health chief Neil Lindsay and others on the company's health care push, the PillPack and One Medical acquisitions, its future, and more  —  Please don't say the company is trying to fix healthcare.  But it's melding its pharmacy, in-person, and virtual services into something that feels, well, Amazonian.

Laila Kearney / Reuters: Filing: US regulators rejected a proposal to let Amazon buy nuclear power for AWS data centers in Pennsylvania over energy grid reliability and other concerns  —  U.S. energy regulators rejected an amended interconnection agreement for an Amazon data center connected directly to a nuclear power plant …

Devin Gordon / New York Times: AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs  —  The Los Angeles headquarters of Metaphysic, a Hollywood visual-effects start-up that uses artificial intelligence …

Hamid Ganji / Neowin: Apple's M4 Max chip scores 4,060 in single-core tests, making it the first production CPU to cross 4,000 in Geekbench 6, and scores 26,675 in multi-core tests  —  After months of swirling rumors, Apple revealed its new Mac devices with updated M4 chips last week.

Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic: Why Bluesky not adding the federation systems that let users leave the Bluesky server and take their community to other hosts can lead to “enshittification”  —  - Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story.  — Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.

David Pierce / The Verge: Amazon's plan to rearchitect Alexa around LLMs could finally help Alexa understand what users actually want and reduce the awkward syntax needed to use Skills  —  Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future beyond apps — and it had the idea basically right.  But the perfect ambient computer remains frustratingly far away.

Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, a budget hawk who has been in the position for 11 years and is at the center of the company's AI spending spree  —  Amy Hood is at the center of Microsoft's bet-the-company dive into AI

Stephen Groves / Associated Press: US House Speaker Mike Johnson says the GOP “probably will” try to repeal the CHIPS Act, but then walks it back, saying the GOP may “further streamline” the bill  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that Republicans “probably will” try to repeal legislation …

Bloomberg: Chainalysis study based on first-time use of digital wallets from January 1 to October 8, 2024: Tether's USDT has gained traction in EMEA time zones  —  - Some data signal USDT activity moved toward EMEA time zones  — US officials are reportedly stepping up probes into the token

Sara Fischer / Axios: The digital ad market, helped by US political ads, AI ad tools, and consumer spending, drove strong Q3 revenue growth for Alphabet, Meta, Snap, Reddit, and Roku  —  - Google's advertising revenue jumped more than 10% year-over-year, thanks in part to election-related ad spend, especially on YouTube …

Bloomberg: Bitcoin's 2024 price rally masks a bleaker picture in the wider crypto market, with crypto VC investment remaining a far way off the 2021 bull market and more  —  - Kraken, Consensys among crypto companies cutting headcount  — Crypto VC investment fell in third quarter, Galaxy report says

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A look at Denmark's sovereign AI supercomputer Gefion, which has 1,528 H100 GPUs and was built with $100M in funding from Novo Nordisk and a state-owned fund  —  The world's latest AI machine is powered by the success of two products: Nvidia's chips and Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drugs