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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d31bb02bd6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a5162fa0c2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Wait. Now it's okay that the government demands that a tech company delete something? If memory serves, just a short time ago this very action was described in the most heated terms (and not entirely without reason) as a totalitarian violation of the right to free speech.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c78d2edee1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google and Apple removed Red Dot, an app for reporting ICE agent sightings, from their app stores; Google says the app shared the location of a vulnerable group</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0f15e654ea&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple's removal of ICEBlock raises questions about the limits of what the company will resist under the Trump administration's increasingly outrageous demands</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=62d9773ebd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">One thing to keep in mind is that as an app climbs into the top 10 on the App Store it becomes harder and harder to estimate downloads (even for @appfigures, who generally have the best data in the business). Once an app hits #1 it's impossible.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=85d4523680&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Supabase, an open-source rival to Google's Firebase, raised a $100M Series E led by Accel and Peak XV at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $500M+</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Allie Garfinkle / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=39fa96f5b0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CISA 2015, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down on October 1</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Politico</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6cfed89cd7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web that threatens to release ~1B records allegedly stolen from dozens of companies' Salesforce-hosted databases</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cfa3a48279&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">a16z releases a report, citing Mercury data, on the top 50 AI companies that startups pay; OpenAI leads, followed by Anthropic, Replit, Freepik, and ElevenLabs</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic-Madori Davis / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=72504de78d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: former Databricks VP of AI Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1B led by a16z at a $5B valuation for his new AI hardware startup Unconventional</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marina Temkin / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a515832e0e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">IBM releases Granite 4.0, an open-source, enterprise-ready LLM family with a hybrid architecture, claiming it uses significantly less RAM than conventional LLMs</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Carl Franzen / </span><span class="pub_name">VentureBeat</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8aa41eb81b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI acquires AI-powered personal finance app Roi; source: CEO and co-founder Sujith Vishwajith is the only member of Roi's four-person team joining OpenAI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rebecca Bellan / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2c9fde771b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs' products team, led by Nat Friedman, pushes staff to ditch Meta's slow internal systems in favor of external tools like Vercel</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Pranav Dixit / </span><span class="pub_name">Business Insider</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a7f2485db8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Doc: Amazon's Q Business AI assistant struggled with accuracy and data processing in its first year, drawing complaints; Amazon says the document is outdated</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Eugene Kim / </span><span class="pub_name">Business Insider</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ad3f899afc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An interview with CEO Amjad Masad on Replit's path to a $3B valuation, revenue growth, pivot to non-technical white-collar workers, $350M war chest, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Connie Loizos / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c377886cdc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI inference chip startup Groq, last valued at $6.9B, says it plans to establish 12+ new data centers in 2026; Groq has set up 12 data centers in 2025 so far</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kimberley Kao / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=838a1851f9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Chipmaker Cerebras withdraws its IPO, after filing its prospectus on September 30, 2024, and announcing a $1.1B raise at a $8.1B valuation on September 30, 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jordan Novet / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fe1b5f0d7e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: delays in the deal to send Nvidia's AI chips to the UAE, announced in May, are frustrating Jensen Huang and administration officials like David Sacks</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1b060cc1bb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: BlackRock's GIP is in talks to buy Aligned, which operates 78 data centers across North and South America, in a deal that could value Aligned at ~$40B</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8b2f9f3989&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uber acquires Belgium-based data labeling startup Segments.ai to expand its lidar data labeling capabilities; its founders and staff will join Uber AI Solutions</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=753e4c8784&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Midi, which offers virtual care for women and is developing an AI search engine for health info, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~$150M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rebecca Torrence / </span><span class="pub_name">Business Insider</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rashi Shrivastava / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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