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EssilorLuxottica CFO says Ray-Ban Meta glasses are a "success" in the US and the best-seller "in 60%" of Ray-Ban stores in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (David Heaney/UploadVR)

Qualcomm unveils the 8 Elite, a 3nm mobile chip with 2 prime and 6 performance CPU cores, claiming a 45% CPU boost over the 8 Gen 3, faster NPU and GPU, more (Robert Triggs/Android Authority)

Stripe announces it has finalized a deal to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal was worth $1.1B (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, October 21 (game #498)

At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments (Wired)

Sources: Perplexity is looking to raise ~$500M to double its valuation to $8B or more; Perplexity's annualized revenue is ~$50M, up from ~$10M in March (Wall Street Journal)

After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter a day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says "law enforcement could take a look at" the plan (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)

How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid (Steven Levy/Wired)

Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most likely to falsely flag essays written in a more generic manner as written by AI tools (Bloomberg)

Meta Quest 3S teardown: has the same single LCD panel and cheap Fresnel optics as Quest 2 but uses two IR flood illuminators for depth mapping instead of one (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)

Six months after bitcoin halving, some miners are keeping the Bitcoin they produce while an increasing number of companies are spending more on AI data centers (David Pan/Bloomberg)

Terray Therapeutics, which uses AI to accelerate small-molecule drug development, raised a $120M Series B led by Bedford Ridge Capital and Nvidia's NVentures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Report: OpenAI sees a clause in its Microsoft contract, which cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, as a path to a better contract (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)