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  1. Qualcomm has a big business in China selling its smartphone chips to some of the biggest players in the country such as Xiaomi.
  2. Britain's competition regulator activated new powers to regulate Google's search activities, putting the tech giant in the firing line for further regulation.
  3. Beijing has banned semiconductor researcher TechInsights from working with or receiving data from entities in China.
  4. Scott Sutfin-Glowski, who joined Microsoft in 2012, is resigning over the company's work with Israel's military.
  5. For years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised investors that Tesla would someday be able to turn their existing electric vehicles into robotaxis.
  6. Isaacman, who has close ties with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, was at the White House in September for Trump's dinner for tech power players.
  7. CAA, which represents artists including Doja Cat, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Hanks, said OpenAI was "dismissing creators' rights."
  8. YouTube is rolling out a feature for previously terminated channels to apply to create a new channel after scrutiny from Republicans and President Donald Trump.
  9. "There's evidence that you can take models... and you can hack them to remove their guardrails," ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt said.
  10. Sora reached 1 million downloads even faster than ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular AI chatbot that supports 800 million weekly active users.