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Chinese lidar maker Hesai, which had a $192M US IPO in February 2023 and whose stock is down 55%+, pushes back against US national security and privacy concerns (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

Ahead of the UK's AI Summit, set to host Elon Musk, VP Harris, and others, the UK has highlighted doomsday scenarios while the US has focused on tangible issues (Washington Post)

Infoblox discovers a threat actor that has provided link shortening services to cybercriminals for over four years, registering ~75K domains since April 2022 (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)

SBF blamed top FTX execs on day two of testimony, and lawyers disputed his answers by confronting him with his own emails, chats, tweets, and more, some profane (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Baidu's Chinese-language maps and Alibaba's Amap are not showing Israel's name, confusing users and matching Beijing's vague diplomacy toward the country (Wall Street Journal)

An interview with Vinod Khosla on the investor frenzy around AI, why the US should use all the tools at its disposal to win the AI race with China, and more (George Hammond/Financial Times)

ChatGPT Plus users report an "All Tools" feature and capabilities for analyzing docs like PDFs have been added, potentially sidelining 3rd-party ChatGPT plugins (Kristi Hines/Search Engine Journal)

Elon Musk says X posts corrected by Community Notes will be "ineligible for revenue share" in order to "maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Research details how vulnerabilities in signaling protocols used by mobile network operators for international roaming can be exploited to geolocate devices (The Citizen Lab)

How Japan is leading the race to regulate stablecoins with a new law that took effect in June 2023 and includes terms to protect the assets backing stablecoins (Emily Parker/CoinDesk)

Q&A with Founders Fund GP Keith Rabois on why the firm cut its new fund in half, investing in online wholesale marketplace Faire and jobs board Traba, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

HackerOne says its bug bounty programs have awarded $300M+ in rewards since the platform's inception, with 30 hackers earning $1M+ and one receiving $4M+ (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

AI fakes related to the Israel-Hamas war have been limited and unconvincing, but the possibility of such fakes circulating leads some to dismiss genuine content (New York Times)

Internet and phone services collapse in the Gaza Strip as Israel's military expands ground operations, largely cutting off communications for 2.3M residents (Associated Press)

A US appeals court upholds a jury's ruling that Craig Wright wasn't in a legal partnership with the late David Kleiman and doesn't owe half of their mined BTC (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $143.1B, a $9.9B net income, vs. $2.9B in Q3 2022, AWS segment sales up 12% YoY to $23.1B (Amazon)

OpenAI forms Preparedness, a new team to assess, evaluate, and probe AI models to protect against "catastrophic risks", including biological and nuclear threats (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

A live blog of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried's testimony at his own criminal fraud trial in NYC over the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange (Bloomberg)

Researchers reveal an attack forcing iOS and macOS WebKit browsers to divulge secrets, like passwords and email content, of users who visit a malicious website (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Sources: a Biden EO on AI is expected on Monday, requiring AI models undergo testing before use by federal workers, easing highly skilled immigration, and more (Washington Post)

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X Elite, slated for PCs mid-2024, claiming better single-threaded performance than M2 Max and 2x performance-per-watt of Intel chips (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

California and 41 other US states sue Meta in federal and state courts alleging that Facebook and Instagram features are addictive and aimed at kids and teens (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

TikTok tests the ability to upload 15-minute videos, after adding 10-minute videos in February 2022, as it looks to attract longer-form video creators (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Adyen, an Amsterdam-based PayPal rival, has had its stock fall ~25% since August 17, when it dropped 35%+ following its report of lower-than-expected sales (Bloomberg)

Q&A with Satya Nadella: AI as Microsoft's biggest opportunity, regrets on missing the mobile phone category, and doubling down as a game publisher and producer (Mathias Döpfner/Insider)

Analysis: the iPhone 15 lineup features ~10% costlier components than the iPhone 14 models; iPhone 15 Pro Max costs rose to $558, up 12% from iPhone 14 Pro Max (Nikkei Asia)