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November 8, 2025, 1:25 AM
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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Inti Landauro / Reuters:
France's Finance Ministry halts the suspension proceedings of Shein that was initiated on November 5 after Shein withdrew illicit products from its platform  —  The French Finance Ministry on Friday halted the suspension proceedings of Chinese online retailer Shein initiated two days ago …
More: Politico
AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Samsung is in talks with Barclays to launch a consumer credit card in the US; it's also exploring a high-yield savings account, BNPL product, and more  —  South Korean tech giant and Barclays are in advanced talks to launch a credit card, with both seeking bigger inroads into Americans' financial lives
More: Daily Mail

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From Mediagazer

New York Times:
WaPo begins widespread layoffs, cutting into international coverage and more; sources: it is laying off 30% of its employees, including 300+ of 800 journalists

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ex-WaPo Executive Editor Marty Baron says “this ranks among the darkest days in the history of” the paper; WaPo laid off Amazon beat reporter Caroline O'Donovan

Allie Canal / NBC News:
Trump says he will stay out of the Netflix-Paramount battle over WBD, a reversal from his December statement that he would be involved in the approval process

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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
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

Earlier Picks

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
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%
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”
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
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
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
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%+
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