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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 …
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.
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.
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Take-Two delays the release of GTA VI by six months to November 2026, reports Q2 net bookings up 33% YoY to $1.96B, vs. $1.72B est.; TTWO drops 6%+ after hours  —  The release date for the game had previously slipped to May 2026 from fall 2025  —  Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. delayed …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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]
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority:
Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which also gets prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket for future event analysis, first in the US  —  Deep Search gets you answers to comprehensive questions, while prediction market support will be clutch for future analysis.  —  •
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 …
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 …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking a government “backstop” for its infrastructure deals, saying her use of the word “muddied the point”

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From Mediagazer

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Five more states join the lawsuit filed last month by eight states seeking to block Nexstar's Tegna acquisition, which Nexstar said the DOJ and FCC approved

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A group of TV consumers sue in federal court in California to block Paramount's acquisition of WBD on antitrust grounds; Paramount says the suit lacks merit

Reporters Without Borders:
RSF Press Freedom Index hits a 25-year low: over 50% of the world's countries fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories; Norway holds the top spot

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