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Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
Unit 42: “commercial grade” spyware called Landfall, likely zero-click, was used in a hacking campaign aimed at Samsung Galaxy phones in the Middle East  —  Security researchers on Friday revealed the discovery of “commercial grade” spyware used in a 9-month-long hacking campaign aimed …
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” …
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 …
Alex Danco / a16z:
Both Baumol effect and Jevons paradox may apply to the AI supercycle, as services with AI productivity gains get cheaper, while those without AI become costlier  —  The Baumol Effect and Jevons paradox are related  —  If you live in the United States today, and you accidentally knock a hole in your wall …
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]
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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%

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From Mediagazer

Washington Post:
Independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been released from custody after their arrests for coverage of a protest at a Minnesota church

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Bob Iger has told associates that he plans to step down as Disney CEO before December 31; the board plans to vote on his replacement next week

Austin Fuller / Current:
The Public Media Bridge Fund, formed due to CPB cuts, raises $66.5M of its $110M goal and launches disaster recovery and restructuring programs for stations

More News

Bloomberg:
In a letter on October 27, OpenAI asked the Trump administration to expand a 35% Chips Act tax credit to help lower the cost of AI infrastructure
Reuters:
Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation, operated out of Germany, to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity

Earlier Picks

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
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Cloudflare warns the US government that site-blocking efforts in Europe and Asia to combat piracy are creating digital trade barriers for US tech providers
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
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
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%+
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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