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| Vince Dioquino / Decrypt: |
When asked on 60 Minutes about his pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao, President Trump said “I don't know who he is” and “I heard it was a Biden witch hunt” — In a rare interview, Trump said he was told Changpeng Zhao was the victim of the Biden administration's “witch hunt” against crypto.
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| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Trump says Nvidia's Blackwell chips would not be available to “other people”; in August, Trump suggested he might allow sales of a scaled-down version to China — Nvidia's (NVDA.O) advanced Blackwell chip for artificial intelligence would not be available to “other people,” U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997 research paper, which argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts — Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition.
More: MIT Technology Review and Wall Street Journal
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Microsoft says the US now lets it ship the latest Nvidia chips to the UAE, the first company to get a license; Trump made a deal with UAE President MBZ in May — Commerce department approval paves way for huge new investment in AI and cloud infrastructure in Middle East| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to spend $7.9B+ on data centers, cloud, and staff in the UAE over the next four years, taking its total UAE investment to $15B from 2023 to 2029 — Microsoft Corp. said it will spend more than $7.9 billion on data centers, cloud-computing and employees in the United Arab Emirates … | Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: |
In an interview, Satya Nadella says Microsoft faces a power shortage, but not a compute one, which could leave “chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in” — 'I don't have warm shells to plug into' — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings can be conscious and it “would be absurd to pursue research” about AI consciousness — Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings are capable of consciousness, and that developers and researchers …
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| Rocket Drew / The Information: |
Court documents: in a deposition, Ilya Sutskever documented significant internal conflicts at OpenAI prior to Sam Altman's firing and discusses his OpenAI exit — Anthropic initially expressed “excitement” about a possible merger with OpenAI two years ago, after OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman …
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| Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider: |
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| Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: |
Researchers find OpenAI's o1 can analyze languages like a human expert, including inferring the phonological rules of made-up languages without prior knowledge — If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Baidu says its Apollo Go robotaxi hit 250,000 weekly orders globally as of October 31, matching Waymo's 250,000 weekly paid US rides reported in April 2025 — BEIJING — As Baidu ramps up its robotaxi operations worldwide, fully driverless weekly rides as of Oct. 31 have now surpassed 250,000 orders … | Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: |
Proofpoint says it has “high confidence” that hackers are working with organized crime groups to infiltrate trucking and freight companies to steal cargo — Hackers are infiltrating trucking and freight companies in a scheme to steal and sell cargo shipments …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft signs a five-year, ~$9.7B deal to buy AI cloud capacity from Sydney-based IREN, giving Microsoft access to Nvidia's GB300 in IREN's Texas facility — Microsoft Corp. has signed an approximately $9.7 billion deal to purchase AI cloud capacity from IREN Ltd., becoming the Australian company's largest customer.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google says it removed its AI model Gemma from AI Studio; in a letter to Google, Senator Blackburn said it fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against her — Google says it has removed Gemma from its AI Studio after a U.S. senator accused the AI model of fabricating accusations of sexual misconduct against her.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong-based crypto investor Animoca Brands plans to list on the Nasdaq via a reverse merger with Currenc Group, set to close in 2026 — Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based crypto investor and blockchain developer, plans to go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange through a reverse merger with Currenc Group Inc.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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