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Apple's foldable iPhone Duo sells out within minutes

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Preorders for Apple's first foldable phone opened on Oct 16 in about 70 countries, and stock ran out within a minute in China and about three minutes in some US stores, according to reports.

A US Air Force F-22 pilot controls a drone wingman in flight for the first time

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Acting as an airborne "quarterback", the pilot sent tactical orders by data link to an Anduril YFQ-44A Fury, whose software flew the manoeuvres and simulated combat tasks on its own.

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TikTok bans the account promoting a documentary about Elon Musk

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TikTok told distributor Bleecker Street on Friday that the account for Musk, a four-hour film by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, faced a permanent suspension over its political content, according to reports.

Anthropic says AI has left its workforce less junior and busier with meetings

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Junior hires in Anthropic's technical teams fell from 27 per cent to 9 per cent of hiring since early 2025, according to a report the company published on Friday. Junior staff now make up 14 per cent of technical employees, down from 21 per cent.

Meta drops terms that seemed to let it train AI on business websites

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Meta's updated commercial terms said it could use content from a business account's domains, web pages or URLs to train and improve its products. Legal experts called it a remarkable provision that could let Meta scrape any publisher with a Meta business account.

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Brazil's electoral court orders Meta to treat Lula and Bolsonaro equally

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Justice Marco Aurelio Bellizze ruled on Thursday that Meta cannot reduce the reach of political content, restrict searches or remove posts in a way that favours one candidate. Meta faces a fine of 500,000 reais a day if it fails to comply.

Japan is set to launch a mission to bring back soil from Mars's moon Phobos

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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to launch the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft on an H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center on Monday at 3:41 p.m. ET.

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CERN and Mistral AI team up to build an AI model for particle physics

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The European physics lab and the Paris-based AI company announced a long-term partnership to build a foundation model for scientific discovery, called Flare.