Twitter & Musk to close buyout, Apple's new iPads, artist burns art for NFTs, AI chatbot for dead loved ones, and more.<ul> 
<li>Semafor.com - A new global news platform for breaking stories and analysis.</li> 
<li>American Airlines is trying to stop a popular iPhone app Sequence Decoder that's become a 'must have' for its flight attendants.</li> 
<li>Twitter and Elon Musk make progress on a buyout, and Musk plans to cut 75% of its workforce.</li> 
<li>The dark side of a super app like WeChat in China.</li> 
<li>Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source.</li> 
<li>Jack Dorsey-founded Bluesky is building a protocol for decentralized social networks.</li> 
<li>Damien Hirst is burning thousands of his paintings for an NFT project.</li> 
<li>Adware clicker apps in Google Play have been downloaded over 20 million times.</li> 
<li>Apple's macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16 will be released on October 24.</li> 
<li>Apple announced a new iPad and M2-powered iPad Pro, but the iPad lineup now seems like a mess.</li> 
<li>Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K with an A15 Bionic chip and HDR10+ for $129.</li> 
<li>More ads are coming to Apple's App Store starting next week.</li> 
<li>Apple's head of hardware design Evans Hankey is leaving three years after the departure of Jony Ive.</li> 
<li>NFL and Apple are at odds in Sunday Ticket negotiations.</li> 
<li>Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots.</li> 
<li>Hearing aids can now be sold over the counter in the US.</li> 
<li>Kanye West is buying the 'free speech platform' Parler.</li> 
<li>Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK antitrust watchdog CMA.</li> 
<li>Are we ready for an AI chatbot that lets us speak to our dead loved ones?</li> 
<li>Red Bull co-founder and Red Bull Formula One owner Dietrich Mateschitz dies at 78.</li></ul> 
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