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| Becky Peterson / Wall Street Journal: |
Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk's $1T pay package, divided into 12 tranches of milestones, including expanding Tesla's market cap to $8.5T over 10 years — Musk had threatened to leave Tesla if the record-setting package didn't pass — Tesla shareholders approved a record-setting pay package …
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Bluesky: @mryeswecan, @mcmillen.dev, @paddyopatrick, @thepaulconnolly, @justingee69, @mja66, @demwar, @justinhendrix, @wyden.senate.gov, @violanorth, @justcallmefrank, @jmberger.com, and @rmac. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
| Sayantani Ghosh / Reuters: |
Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla is “probably going to have to build a gigantic chip fab” for AI chips and “maybe, we'll do something with Intel” — - Musk says ‘worth having discussions’ with Intel to make chips — Massive fab needed to make the volume of chips needed| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death lawsuits, claim ChatGPT encouraged dangerous discussions, leading to suicides and harmful delusions — Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.
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Forums: r/therapists and r/OpenAI
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two delays the release of GTA VI by six months to November 2026, and reports Q2 net bookings up 33% YoY to $1.96B, vs. $1.72B est.; TTWO drops 5%+ — The release date for the game had previously slipped to May 2026 from fall 2025 — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. delayed the release …
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| Washington Post: |
The US Congressional Budget Office says it has identified a security incident; a CBO spokeswoman suggests the agency was hacked by a suspected foreign actor — The office makes economic projections for lawmakers and scores legislation for how much it would add or subtract from the national debt.
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Forums: r/pwnhub, r/cybersecurity, r/fednews, r/politics, and Slashdot
| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
Draft proposal: the EU weighs a pause and simplification of parts of the AI Act, with a decision expected on November 19, amid pressure from Big Tech and the US — Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book — The European Commission is proposing a pause to parts …
More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Law, Fortune, The Guardian, ZeroHedge News, WinBuzzer, and Cointelegraph
LinkedIn: Massimo Donna, Roch Glowacki, and Yann Lechelle
Bluesky: @yanisvaroufakis, @claesdevreese, and @gateklons
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train — Chinese startup Moonshot on Thursday released its latest generative artificial intelligence model which claims to beat OpenAI's ChatGPT in …
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| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: the White House has told others in the government it won't allow Nvidia to sell its scaled-down AI chip B30A to China, despite Trump's hints he might — The White House has told others in the federal government it won't allow Nvidia to sell its latest scaled-down AI chips to China …
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| Adam Zsolt Wagner / @azwagner_: |
Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to about 20 of them — Really happy to share our new paper on using AlphaEvolve for mathematical exploration at scale, written with Javier Gómez-Serrano, Terence Tao, and @GoogleDeepMind's Bogdan Georgiev. We tested it on 67 problems and documented all our successes and failures. 🧵 [image]
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| Osmond Chia / BBC: |
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, accusing the company of “flagrantly ignoring” safety laws and calling it a “breeding ground for predators” — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he has sued Roblox over “flagrantly ignoring” safety laws and …
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Forums: r/Games, r/texas, r/technology, and r/news
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Netherlands is prepared to drop the ministerial order that gave it control of Nexperia if China allows exports of its critical chips again — The Netherlands is prepared to suspend its powers over Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in a move that would de-escalate a fight …
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Bluesky: @sensehofstede.nl, @fbermingham, and @noahbarkin
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation — The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls …
More: The Verge, Gizmodo, U.S. Department of Justice / Federal Bureau of Investigation, and heise online News
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Bluesky: @mmasnick, @quinnypig.com, @thecleric, and @jasonkoebler
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/cybersecurity, r/libgen, r/FBI, r/DataHoarder, r/stupidpol, r/Left_News, and Slashdot
| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
An Oxford Internet Institute study of 445 AI benchmarks finds many tests lack clear aims and comparable statistical methods, potentially exaggerating AI claims — A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models. — Researchers behind a new study …
More: Gizmodo, The Guardian, Oxford Internet Institute, Computing, and Pivot to AI
X: @adam_mahdi_, @cccalum, @myrddenbuckley, and @spirosmargaris. LinkedIn: Lucas Kello. Bluesky: @flolake. Mastodon: @leyrer@23.social
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Microsoft, Meta, and sources say, Google will not publish diversity reports and data this year; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released diversity data this year — Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Airbnb reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.1B, vs. $4.08B est., Nights and Seats booked up 9% to 133.6M, vs. 131.75M est., forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates — Shares of Airbnb rose as much as 5% in extended trading on Thursday after the company reported third-quarter results …
More: Forbes Middle East, PR Newswire, Wall Street Journal, Airbnb Newsroom, Reuters, Skift, and Bloomberg
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting “hundreds of billions by 2030” — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman pushed back at the idea that the company would seek federal guarantees …
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X: @sama, @garymarcus, @parikpatelcfa, @rmconservative, @rondesantis, @thexcapitalist, @plur_daddy, @jachiam0, @teknium, @mhdempsey, @ross__hendricks, @garymarcus, @emostaque, @matt_slotnick, @iamgingertrash, @johncoogan, @markoinny, @ibrahimajami, @pmddomingos, @mikeisaac, @edzitron, @dowdedward, @beffjezos, @mikeisaac, @ns123abc, @lon, @haydenfield, and @davidsacks
| The Information: |
Sources: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer clashed with colleagues on internal forums over topics like gender and Gaza; moderators deleted some of his comments — This spring, Google AI leader Noam Shazeer posted a comment in one of the company's internal discussion forums …
X: @amir
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
David Sacks says there will be “no federal bailout for AI”, as the US has at least five major AI companies and “if one fails, others will take its place” — Venture capitalist David Sacks, who is serving as President Donald Trump's artificial intelligence and crypto czar …
More: Telegraph, Faster, Please!, Semafor, and BonTech Labs
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Bluesky: @pierbover.com, @craigipedia, @ryanreeh, @alanjcard, @kwh561, @karlbode.com, @milpool, @meldric.cc, and @edzitron.com. Mastodon: @evan@cosocial.ca
Forums: r/technology, r/politics, r/artificial, r/StockMarket, and Slashdot
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
More: Proactive, Blockonomi, Wall Street Journal, SFist, BonTech Labs, and Bloomberg
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
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