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Elon Musk files for an injunction to halt OpenAI's transition to a for-profit, alleges that OpenAI is discouraging investors from backing rivals like xAI, more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Baidu receives a license to test its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Hong Kong, Baidu's first known permit for autonomous vehicle testing outside mainland China (Reuters)

Bluesky now requires parody or fan accounts to label themselves as such after a researcher found 44% of its 100 most-followed accounts have a doppelganger (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

OpenAI says it plans to build data centers in parts of the US Midwest and Southwest; sources: OpenAI is spending $5B+ a year and is "not close to breaking even" (Financial Times)

MicroStrategy is now the largest corporate holder of bitcoins, owning ~2% of them, and its stock is up 450%+ this year, as its risky bitcoin strategy continues (Craig Coben/Financial Times)

Major Canadian news organizations, including Torstar, Postmedia, and CBC, sue OpenAI, alleging breach of copyright and terms of use (Josh Rubin/Toronto.com)

Report: Russia arrested notorious cybercriminal Mikhail Matveev for developing malware and running hacking groups; US DOJ filed charges against him in 2023 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Samsung Galaxy S24 FE review: reasonable price, telephoto camera, and a big screen, but the screen isn't that sharp and other ~$500 phones offer more value (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Canada's Competition Bureau sues Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, seeking Google to sell two of its ad tech tools and more (Ismail Shakil/Reuters)

In a risk assessment submitted to the EU in September 2023, X defended its new approach to content policing and "mission to promote open conversation" (Mathieu Pollet/Politico)

Memo: Revolut tells ex-staff who were at the startup for 2+ years and held $100K+ in vested stock that they can join a secondary share sale at a $45B valuation (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Sources: Trump's team interviewed Paul Atkins, a former SEC commissioner and strong proponent of crypto and fintech companies, as a candidate to lead the SEC (Bloomberg)

Filing: Google asks a US federal appeals court to throw out the Epic ruling that would force it to overhaul the Play Store, as it competes with Apple and more (Bloomberg)

The US FTC is investigating Uber after customers complained the company signed them up for Uber One without their consent and made it difficult to cancel (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Meta appears to be developing a Threads feature inspired by Bluesky's "starter packs", with profiles "handpicked by people on Threads" for users to follow (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Dell Q3: revenue up 10% YoY to $24.4B, vs. $24.67B est., Infrastructure Solutions Group up 34% driven by AI sales, net income up 12%; DELL drops 6% after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

X files an objection to including X accounts belonging or related to Infowars in the outlet's bankruptcy auction, arguing it has ownership of all X accounts (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

A lawsuit between two Amazon influencers over allegations of copyright infringement shows the challenges of defining originality and ownership in content (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Elon Musk appears to confirm that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X, saying it is to stop "lazy linking" (David Gilmour/Mediaite)

Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default feed, another improvement seemingly sparked by Bluesky competition (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Anthropic announces the Model Context Protocol, an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Austin-based anti-ransomware startup Halcyon raised $100M at a $1B valuation led by Evolution Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to date to $190M (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

Shares of Japan's Fujikura, which specializes in fiber optic cables for data centers, are up 400%+ in 2024 due to the AI boom, leading the Nikkei 225 index (Aya Wagatsuma/Bloomberg)

An investigation details how hack-for-hire Appin tried silencing at least 15 outlets over articles, newsletters, and podcasts covering Appin's "ethical hacking" (Reporters Without Borders)

A profile of Chris Maurice, CEO of US-based stablecoin startup Yellow Card, which operates in 20 African countries and has traded $3B+ worth of crypto in 2024 (David Pan/Bloomberg)

Q&A with US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on what happens to the CHIPS program under the Trump administration, the future of AI Safety, and more (Steven Overly/Politico)