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Meta claims the AI frontier, hackers defrost French supermarkets, and Microsoft bets on its own chips.
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Character.AI has filed for bankruptcy after mounting scrutiny and lawsuits over safety, and it is selling some assets to Disney for $20 million, a modest end for an early generative AI breakout startup.
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Markets · Mon, Oct 12 U.S. stocks ended mixed, with the Dow up 0.38% and finishing near a 200-point gain while the Nasdaq pulled back as tech struggled and oil prices rose.
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