How Physical Intelligence is trying to give robots a humanlike understanding of the physical world by feeding data from robots doing tasks into its AI model (Will Knight/Wired)

Will Knight / Wired:
How Physical Intelligence is trying to give robots a humanlike understanding of the physical world by feeding data from robots doing tasks into its AI model  —  Physical Intelligence has assembled an all-star team and raised $400 million on the promise of a stunning breakthrough in how robots learn.

London-based Tessl, which is building an AI to write and maintain code, raised $125M across seed and Series A, sources say at a $500M+ post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
London-based Tessl, which is building an AI to write and maintain code, raised $125M across seed and Series A, sources say at a $500M+ post-money valuation  —  Many startups and larger tech companies have taken a crack at building artificial intelligence to code software.

How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub, going under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools, as authorities carry out thousands of operations since 2021 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)

Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub, going under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools, as authorities carry out thousands of operations since 2021  —  In April 2022, about four months after Kazakhstan's government violently cracked down on nationwide protests …

Charles Sporck, an early champion of globalization who moved some of Fairchild's chip assembly operations from the US to Hong Kong in the 1960s, died at 96 (James R. Hagerty/Wall Street Journal)

James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
Charles Sporck, an early champion of globalization who moved some of Fairchild's chip assembly operations from the US to Hong Kong in the 1960s, died at 96  —  He argued that offshoring allowed the U.S. semiconductor industry to create more high-paying jobs at home

Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$23.9B and net income up 20% YoY to ~$7.4B, vs. ~$6.2B est., buoyed by Dungeon & Fighter Mobile and Black Myth: Wukong (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$23.9B and net income up 20% YoY to ~$7.4B, vs. ~$6.2B est., buoyed by Dungeon & Fighter Mobile and Black Myth: Wukong  —  - Net income for the September quarter beat analyst estimates  — Tencent kicks off a busy earnings season for China tech

Analysts: Nintendo and Sony are heading into the holiday season with little to offer consumers; the Switch is now seven years old and $700 PS5 Pro is overpriced (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Analysts: Nintendo and Sony are heading into the holiday season with little to offer consumers; the Switch is now seven years old and $700 PS5 Pro is overpriced  —  Video game industry fears its most important quarter will fall flat with few new mass-market offerings