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Meta is working with Wonik and GelSight to develop and commercialize tactile sensors for AI, including the Allegro robotic hand and Digit 360 tactile fingertips (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Activision-Blizzard says the Call of Duty series has sold more than 500M copies to date; Nadella says Black Ops 6 set a record for first-day players (Gene Park/Washington Post)

Global Payments agrees to sell medical software business AdvancedMD to investment firm Francisco Partners for $1.13B; the deal is expected to close in Q4 2024 (Niket Nishant/Reuters)

Colorado says that some partial passwords for the state's voting systems were accidentally posted online but pose no threat to the November 5 general election (Jasper Ward/Reuters)

Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $88.27B, Search revenue up 12% to $49.39B, net income up 34% to $26.3B, and traffic acquisition costs up 9% to $13.72B (Alphabet)

Dozens of sources explain how Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the company's revival, including offending TSMC with comments on Taiwan and losing a chip discount (Reuters)

How GOP figures from Stephen Miller to Elon Musk use lawsuits to silence groups studying disinformation, like the DFRLab, CCDH, GDI, Graphika, NewsGuard, others (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

Google says its AI Overview summaries will begin rolling out in over 100 countries this week and will reach more than 1B monthly users with this expansion (Emma Roth/The Verge)

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, October 28 (game #505)

Musk said there's a "chance" HW3 systems, now in millions of Teslas, do "not achieve the safety level" for unsupervised FSD and mentioned free upgrades from HW3 (Fred Lambert/Electrek)

Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on Agility's humanoid robot Digit, which was demoed on stage sorting laundry, automation's impact on jobs, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Q&A with Precision Neuroscience executives about the uses of brain-computer interfaces, human trials, brain implants becoming consumer devices, and more (Wall Street Journal)

China, the leading producer of rare minerals, has made it harder in recent weeks for foreign companies, particularly chip makers, to buy such materials in China (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)

A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is a cult hit among tech workers with ~4M copies sold over eight years, as it releases its first expansion pack (Financial Times)

An interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on his background and the founding of Salesforce, his vision for AI, Agentforce, data and disruption, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

A profile of Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé whose Pirate Wires newsletter and podcast became popular among "anti-woke" tech figures since the "techlash" (Christopher Beam/The Atlantic)

OpenAI says it doesn't have plans to release a model code-named Orion this year but plans "to release a lot of other great technology" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Meta debuts "quantized" versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models, designed to run on low-powered devices and developed in collaboration with Qualcomm and MediaTek (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Google will add an AI info section in the image details view of Google Photos, for images edited with tools like Magic Editor and Magic Eraser (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Bluesky says it has 13M+ users, has raised a $15M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, and plans a subscription for features like higher quality video uploads (Bluesky)

PlayStation’s new PSSR AI upscaling looks set to compete with Nvidia’s DLSS - while AMD falls behind yet again

Microsoft: Russia, China, and Iran are stepping up cyber-influence efforts on the US election; China has focused on down-ballot candidates and Congress members (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Sources: the US DOJ warned Elon Musk's America PAC in recent days that his $1M sweepstakes to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law (CNN)

Sources: Apple nears production of MacBook Airs with M4 for release in early 2025, slightly delays M4 Mac Studio, and plans new entry-level iPads for the spring (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is working on a new App Store-like app dedicated to games that will integrate with the user's Game Center profile (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

OpenAI hires Scott Schools, most recently the chief ethics and compliance officer at Uber, as its chief compliance officer (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

TollBit, which recently launched a content monetization marketplace for publishers and AI companies, raised a $24M Series A led by Lightspeed Ventures (Sara Fischer/Axios)