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November 7, 2025, 3:35 PM
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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.
Osmond Chia / BBC:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, saying it's a “breeding ground for predators” that is “flagrantly ignoring” safety laws and “deceiving parents”  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he has sued Roblox over “flagrantly ignoring” …
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
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
Adam Zsolt Wagner / @azwagner_:
Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI coding agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to ~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]
Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
Study: Polymarket's trading volume has been inflated by wash trading, accounting for an average of 25% of all buying and selling over the past three years  —  The volume of activity on Polymarket, one of the most popular prediction markets, has been significantly inflated by so-called wash trading …
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-weight 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 …
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 …
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 …
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Neobank Mercury says it has hit $650M in annualized revenue, up from $500M by end of 2024, and has been GAAP profitable on net income and EBITDA for three years  —  Mercury's Immad Akhund.  —  MERCURY  —  The fintech roller coaster—after a few years of barrel rolls and corkscrews …
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 …
Bloomberg:
China is letting Nexperia export chips again, per officials from several auto companies; shares of Wingtech, Nexperia's Chinese parent company, close up 9.70%
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Sources: Roelof Botha was ousted by senior Sequoia partners amid concerns about his “imperial style” leadership, AI investment strategy, and internal clashes  —  Partners called vote to oust chief after controversial incidents rocked Silicon Valley venture capital firm
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Jared Perlo / NBC News:
Oxford Internet Institute study of 445 AI benchmarks: many tests lack clear aims and comparable statistical methods, potentially exaggerating AI's capabilities  —  A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models.  —  Researchers behind a new study …

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A look at Netflix's turbulent two weeks, as programming and engagement slumps, talent backlash, and a failed WBD bid prompted a major leadership shakeup

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Qianer Liu / The Information:
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Earlier Picks

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
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%+
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
The FBI subpoenaed archive.today's domain registrar, Tucows, on October 30, demanding info about the archiving site's owner as part of a criminal investigation
CNBC:
Google says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is over 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip configuration
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