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| Becky Peterson / Wall Street Journal: |
Tesla shareholders approve a $1T pay package for Elon Musk that requires him to hit a series of milestones and expand 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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| Sayantani Ghosh / Reuters: |
Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla will likely need 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
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death suits, 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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| Washington Post: |
The US Congressional Budget Office says it has identified a security incident; sources say the CBO has been 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. — just now
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| 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 …
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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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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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: |
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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| 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. — •
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| 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, Pivot to AI, Computing, and Oxford Internet Institute
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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]
More: What's new and arXiv.org
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| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Cloudflare warns the US government that site-blocking efforts in Europe and Asia to combat online piracy are creating digital trade barriers for US providers — Every year, the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) publishes the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers.
More: Cloudflare and WebProNews
Bluesky: @chrisjlewis and @kythra
Forums: Hacker News, r/Piracy, and Slashdot
| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform — This is being advertised as a boon for authors who publish directly on the platform. … The appropriately-named Kindle Translate …
More: About Amazon, TechCrunch, Unite.AI, and Neowin
| 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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| Dean Seal / Dow Jones Newswires: |
Block reports Q3 revenue up 2.3% YoY to $6.1B, below $6.3B est., adjusted EPS below est., and a $461.6M net income, up from $283.8M; XYZ drops 11%+ after hours — Shares of Block dropped after the company's third-quarter results fell short of Wall Street forecasts. — The stock was down 9.6% at $64.10 after hours.
More: The Block, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, and SiliconANGLE
| Dan Whateley / Business Insider: |
TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025 — - Generative AI is becoming a headache for the marketplace quality team at TikTok Shop. — Fraudsters are using AI to try … | 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 …
More: DutchNews.nl, Semiconductor Engineering, Reuters, Caixin Global, Dow Jones Newswires, and New York Times
Bluesky: @fbermingham and @noahbarkin
| Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily: |
Affirm reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $933M, vs. $883M est., GMV up 42% to $10.8B, vs. $10.38B est., and profit above estimates; AFRM jumps 11%+ after hours — Consumer financing firm Affirm Holdings (AFRM) reported fiscal first quarter earnings, revenue and key financial metrics that handily beat Wall Street targets.
More: PYMNTS.com, StockStory, and Forbes
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