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November 8, 2025, 12:45 PM

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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  —  OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to revamp a Chips Act tax credit to help lower the cost of artificial intelligence infrastructure …
George Steer / Financial Times:
A look at Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors, two little-known boutique banks that have helped finance the Trump family's flurry of crypto deals this year  —  Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors are benefiting from close connections with Eric and Donald Trump Jr
Jonathan Burgos / Forbes:
Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years  —  The buildout of AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific is in high gear.  Masayoshi Son and Mukesh Ambani are among the region's wealthiest taking the lead.
Brie Wolfson / Colossus:
An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more  —  Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn  —  Editor's note: This is the first installment in a series of Company Dispatches …
Google Research:
Google introduces Nested Learning, a new ML approach for continual learning that views models as nested optimization problems to enhance long context processing  —  Ali Behrouz, Student Researcher, and Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research  —  We introduce Nested Learning …
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 …
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.

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