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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 …
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
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 …
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Rockstar says it fired dozens of employees last week for “distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum”, disputing union allegations
Financial Times:
Jensen Huang warns “China is going to win the AI race”, after the US kept a ban on advanced AI chip sales to China, and says the West is held back by “cynicism”
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:
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”  —  OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said late Wednesday that the artificial intelligence startup is not seeking …
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”
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 …
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.  —  •
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 …
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 …
Jeff Horwitz / Reuters:
Docs: Meta projected in Dec. 2024 that ~10% of its 2024 revenue, or $16B, would come from ads for scams and banned goods, including ~$7B from “higher risk” ads  —  Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show.
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  —  Brussels is set to water down part of its strict digital rule book as it aims to make bloc more competitive
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 …
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  —  In a submission for the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report, Cloudflare warns the U.S. government that site blocking efforts cause …
More: Cloudflare and WebProNews
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Piracy, and Slashdot
C.J. Robinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
Tow Center identifies eight X bot accounts that use X's AI Note Writer API to write between 5% to 10% of the Community Notes visible to the public each day  —  Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform's “Community Notes.”  —  Last month, videos of the No Kings protests circulated online among extensive news coverage.
Ashley Gold / Axios:
OpenAI releases a blueprint the company hopes lawmakers will use in crafting safety standards for teens using AI, with five suggestions for AI companies  —  OpenAI on Thursday released a blueprint the company hopes lawmakers will use in crafting safety standards for teens using AI, per a copy first shared with Axios.
More: OpenAI and WinBuzzer
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Major brands were replaced by direct-response advertisers during commercial breaks of CBS News' December 13 town hall with Erika Kirk, moderated by Bari Weiss

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

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Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
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Sky News:
Investigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe right-wing politicians and encourages nationalism
Julia Fanzeres / Bloomberg:
Research: US companies announced 153,074 job cuts in October 2025, the most for any October since 2003, as AI reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates
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