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Qualcomm shares fall after China opens antitrust probe into the U.S. chip giant

Qualcomm has a big business in China selling its smartphone chips to some of the biggest players in the country such as Xiaomi.

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Google search comes under renewed scrutiny in UK as competition watchdog flexes new powers

Britain’s competition regulator activated new powers to regulate Google’s search activities, putting the tech giant in the firing line for further regulation.

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China blacklists major chip research firm TechInsights following report on Huawei

Beijing has banned semiconductor researcher TechInsights from working with or receiving data from entities in China.

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Microsoft engineer resigns over cloud business from Israeli military

Scott Sutfin-Glowski, who joined Microsoft in 2012, is resigning over the company’s work with Israel’s military.

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Tesla faces U.S. auto safety probe after reports FSD ran red lights, caused collisions

For years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised investors that Tesla would someday be able to turn their existing electric vehicles into robotaxis.

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Trump meets with Jared Isaacman about top NASA job after pulling nomination

Isaacman, who has close ties with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, was at the White House in September for Trump’s dinner for tech power players.

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Talent agency CAA slams OpenAI’s Sora for posing ‘significant risk’ to its clients

Talent agency CAA slams OpenAI’s AI video generation app Sora for posing “significant risk” to its clients

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YouTube will give banned creators a ‘second chance’ after rule rollback

YouTube is rolling out a feature for previously terminated channels to apply to create a new channel after scrutiny from Republicans and President Donald Trump.

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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns AI models can be hacked: ‘They learn how to kill someone’

“There’s evidence that you can take models … and you can hack them to remove their guardrails,” ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt said.

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OpenAI’s Sora hit 1 million downloads in less than five days

Sora reached 1 million downloads even faster than ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot that supports 800 million weekly active users.

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