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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 …
More: BBC, New York Times, The Guardian, Benzinga, NBC News, Dexerto, CoinDesk, Yahoo Finance, HotAir, Straight Arrow News, SiliconANGLE, NewsNation, Tech Times, Arabian Business, People, Dow Jones Newswires, Agence France-Presse, Jalopnik, RTÉ, Los Angeles Times, 9News, Al Jazeera, InsideEVs, Wired, The Hill, The Information, Axios, Reuters, TechCrunch, and Quartz
X: @apompliano, @berniesanders, @divestech, @shaunmmaguire, @michaeldell, @munster_gene, @chrisfralic, @munster_gene, and @sensanders
Bluesky: @mryeswecan, @wyden.senate.gov, @paddyopatrick, @thepaulconnolly, @justingee69, @violanorth, @mja66, @demwar, @justinhendrix, @justcallmefrank, @jmberger.com, and @rmac. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
| 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
More: CNBC, Blockonomi, Nikkei Asia, DigiTimes, NDTV Profit, Tech in Asia, TipRanks Financial, and CRN
| 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.
More: Associated Press, CNN, BBC, WinBuzzer, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Law, and Forbes
LinkedIn: Olga Malchevska and Barry Solaiman
Bluesky: @shannonvallor, @gabyhinsliff, @stephenjudkins, @judah-grunstein, @justinhendrix, @justinhendrix, @kashhill, @fabiochiusi, @segyges, and @hypervisible.blacksky.app. Mastodon: @axx@mstdn.fr
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/therapists
| 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
More: CyberScoop, BleepingComputer, Nextgov/FCW, Fortune, CyberInsider, KDFX-TV, The Independent, Raw Story, Axios, Associated Press, and Politico
Bluesky: @byebyex000, @dianaresists, @doublepulsar.com, @robertscotthorton, @svecrumba, @tyleraking.com, @chadbourn, and @carlquintanilla
Forums: r/pwnhub, r/cybersecurity, r/fednews, and r/politics
| 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 …
More: Mobile World Live, DigiTimes, AI News, Benzinga, Proactive, Reuters, Digit, TipRanks Financial, and BonTech Labs. X: @jukanlosreve
| 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 …
More: Interconnects, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Simon Willison's Weblog, Reuters, The Rundown AI, and Analytics India Magazine
X: @felixclc_, @andrewcurran_, @kimi_moonshot, @bubblebabyboi, @awnihannun, @emollick, @pvncher, @eliebakouch, @industrlpolicy, @tim_dettmers, @ofirpress, @tphuang, @zephyr_z9, @artificialanlys, @teortaxestex, @clementdelangue, @simonw, @ai_for_success, @deedydas, @philipkiely, @crystalsssup, @eliebakouch, @awnihannun, @thom_wolf, @eliebakouch, @andrew_n_carr, @natolambert, @emostaque, @emostaque, @gnotuy, @_mira___mira_, @rasbt, @casper_hansen_, @skylermiao7, @yulun_du, @scaling01, @burkov, @kalomaze, and @emostaque. Bluesky: @markriedl
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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 …
More: The Verge, heise online News, U.S. Department of Justice / Federal Bureau of Investigation, and The A.V. Club
X: @archiveis, @maxblumenthal, and @jason_koebler
Bluesky: @mmasnick, @quinnypig.com, @thecleric, and @jasonkoebler
Forums: Hacker News, r/libgen, r/FBI, r/DataHoarder, r/stupidpol, r/technology, r/Left_News, and Slashdot
| 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: Bloomberg Law, WinBuzzer, Cointelegraph, and Yahoo Finance
LinkedIn: Massimo Donna, Roch Glowacki, and Yann Lechelle
Bluesky: @yanisvaroufakis, @claesdevreese, and @gateklons
| 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, arXiv.org, and WinBuzzer
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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, Computing, Oxford Internet Institute, and Pivot to AI
X: @adam_mahdi_, @cccalum, @myrddenbuckley, and @spirosmargaris. LinkedIn: Lucas Kello. Bluesky: @flolake. Mastodon: @leyrer@23.social
| Bloomberg: |
China is allowing Nexperia to export chips again, according to officials from several auto companies; shares in Wingtech, Nexperia's Chinese parent, surged 10%+ — China is allowing Dutch chipmaker Nexperia to export again from its operations in the country, setting the stage for the Netherlands … | 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 … | 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. — •| 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 …
More: New York Times, Livemint, Reuters, ITPro, Yahoo Finance, PC Gamer, Implicator.ai, Benzinga, The Information, The Business Times, Analytics India Magazine, Breitbart, NBC News, The Daily Caller, Gizmodo, Financial Times, and Blockonomi
X: @sama, @dowdedward, @pmddomingos, @ross__hendricks, @thexcapitalist, @plur_daddy, @emostaque, @johncoogan, @teknium, @ibrahimajami, @lon, @markoinny, @haydenfield, @garymarcus, @ns123abc, @iamgingertrash, @mhdempsey, @matt_slotnick, @edzitron, @parikpatelcfa, @garymarcus, @rmconservative, @rondesantis, @jachiam0, @mikeisaac, @beffjezos, @mikeisaac, and @davidsacks
| 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 …
More: Reuters, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, Tech in Asia, Townhall, NewsMax.com, and KHOU-TV
Forums: r/technology and r/news
| 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
| Reuters: |
Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation, operated out of Germany, to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity — Vodafone (VOD.L) and AST SpaceMobile (ASTS.O) on Friday unveiled plans to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation …
More: Benzinga, Blockonomi, Business Wire, Capacity, Mobile Europe, Advanced Television, and Proactive. X: @ast_spacemobile
| 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” — Venture capitalist David Sacks, who is serving as President Donald Trump's artificial intelligence and crypto czar …
More: Telegraph, The Information, Faster, Please!, Semafor, Yahoo Finance, and BonTech Labs
X: @davidsacks, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, @thestalwart, @rodriscoll, @jason, @garymarcus, @scobleizer, @buccocapital, @khansaifm, @benbrodydc, @benbajarin, and @davidsacks
Bluesky: @pierbover.com, @craigipedia, @ryanreeh, @alanjcard, @kwh561, @karlbode.com, @milpool, @meldric.cc, and @edzitron.com. Mastodon: @evan@cosocial.ca
Forums: r/technology, r/politics, r/artificial, r/StockMarket, and Slashdot
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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