Investigating Competition and Regulatory Shifts in Tech Ahead of Elections

The tech angle to the election news yesterday, and interestingly a lot of it is crypto related. The EU Commission looks like it will fine Apple and has opened a case against Corning? Perplexity is raising another massive new round. And a pretty definitive piece about how drone tech has changed warfare.

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Links:

• Polymarket, Prediction Betting Markets Vindicated by Trump's Strong Showing (Coindesk)
• Apple to Face First EU Fine Under Bloc’s Digital Markets Act (Bloomberg)
• Corning Faces EU Probe Into Smartphone ‘Gorilla Glass’ (Bloomberg)
• How Lina Khan Became an Election Hot Topic (NYTimes)
• Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division (TechCrunch)
• AI Startup Perplexity to Triple Valuation to $9 Billion in New Funding Round (WSJ)
• Battles of Precise Mass (Foreign Affairs)

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