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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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Bluesky: @lizzieohreally, @ryanlcooper.com, @jvagle.me, @judah-grunstein, @paulwaldman, @shannonvallor, @justinhendrix, @fabiochiusi, @gabyhinsliff, @kashhill, @justinhendrix, @segyges, @stephenjudkins, and @hypervisible.blacksky.app. Mastodon: @[email protected]
Forums: r/aggies, r/therapists, and r/OpenAI
| 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” …
More: The Verge, Bloomberg Law, Mashable, Game Developer, Reuters, Forbes, IGN, Engadget, WinBuzzer, TechCrunch, GameSpot, Tech in Asia, Benzinga, and Townhall
Forums: r/Games, r/texas, r/pcgaming, r/technology, and r/news
| 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: |
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LinkedIn: Sean O'Kane, Pras Subramanian, Chris M Evans, Joshua Miller, Peter Hughes, Emil Protalinski, and Joel Baglole
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Microsoft, Meta, and sources say, Google, will not publish diversity reports and data in 2025; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released new diversity data in 2025 — 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.| 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: @lulumeservey, @antoniogm, @packym, @shaunmmaguire, @sylviavarnham, @erinkwoo, and @amir. Forums: r/singularity
| 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]
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| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972.9K and a net loss of $55M, up from $19M in Q3 2024; its stock is down 70% from a January high — Less than one year into Donald Trump's second term and the post-election ebullience has evaporated from shares of his social media company …
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| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Meta says it will invest $600B in the US infrastructure and jobs by 2028; Zuckerberg told Trump at a September dinner that Meta will spend “at least $600B” — Meta Platforms (META.O) on Friday said it will invest $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs over the next three years … | 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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X: @kimi_moonshot, @bubblebabyboi, @awnihannun, @emollick, @pvncher, @eliebakouch, @industrlpolicy, @tim_dettmers, @ofirpress, @tphuang, @zephyr_z9, @artificialanlys, @teortaxestex, @clementdelangue, @simonw, @ai_for_success, @deedydas, @felixclc_, @philipkiely, @crystalsssup, @eliebakouch, @awnihannun, @thom_wolf, @eliebakouch, @andrew_n_carr, @natolambert, @emostaque, @emostaque, @gnotuy, @_mira___mira_, @rasbt, @casper_hansen_, @andrewcurran_, @skylermiao7, @yulun_du, @scaling01, @burkov, @kalomaze, and @emostaque
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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: Reuters, The Economic Times, Fortune, WinBuzzer, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, ZeroHedge News, Semafor, Cointelegraph, and Bloomberg Law
LinkedIn: Roch Glowacki, Yann Lechelle, and Massimo Donna
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| Euronews: |
Denmark's government has reached a political agreement to ban social media access for anyone under 15, with a possible parental consent exception from age 13 — The proposal would be one of the most sweeping steps yet by a European country to curb social media use among young people.
More: Associated Press, Engadget, The Economic Times, Reuters, Newser, The Independent, Advanced Television, and The European Conservative. Forums: r/europe
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Commonware, which develops open-source code for launching blockchains, raised $25M led by Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain backed by Stripe and Paradigm — Patrick O'Grady, founder of Commonware. — COURTESY OF COMMONWARE — A high-profile project launched by fintech giant Stripe …
More: The Block, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, and NFTgators
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
1Password CEO David Faugno says the company has crossed $400M in ARR, up from $250M in 2023, and says it is benefiting from a threat landscape shift due to AI — Cybersecurity startup 1Password, which is backed by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds, Matthew McConaughey and Scarlett Johansson … | The Information: |
You.com CEO Richard Socher is working on a new AI lab to automate AI research, and, sources say, hopes to raise $1B for it; Socher will remain at You.com — Richard Socher, CEO of AI search startup You.com and a former chief scientist at Salesforce, hopes to raise around $1 billion … | 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: Government.nl, Tom's Hardware, ZeroHedge News, Jalopnik, DutchNews.nl, and Reuters
X: @yara_sama, @rnaudbertrand, @leemakiyama, @kathleen_tyson_, @liqian_ren, @ministerez, and @teortaxestex
Bluesky: @sensehofstede.nl, @fbermingham, and @noahbarkin
| 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
More: Newcomer
| 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 …
More: Gizmodo, The Guardian, Oxford Internet Institute, and Computing
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