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Bloomberg:
Yann LeCun says he is leaving Meta at the end of 2025 to build a new startup and continue his “Advanced Machine Intelligence research”, with Meta as a partner  —  Yann LeCun, an artificial intelligence pioneer who runs a research lab at Meta Platforms Inc., told employees …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, vs. $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66%, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; NVDA jumps 5%+ after hours  —  Nvidia reported fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street expectations on Wednesday and provided stronger …
Tina Nguyen / The Verge:
A draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal government sole power to regulate AI and create an “AI Litigation Task Force” overseen by the AG  —  Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations  —  President Donald Trump …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.47B, vs. $2.46B est., forecasts Q2 revenue in line with est., and agrees to buy Chronosphere for $3.35B  —  Palo Alto Networks beat Wall Street's fiscal first-quarter estimates after the bell on Wednesday and announced plans …
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500-megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips  —  Elon Musk said his xAI artificial intelligence startup plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia …
Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times:
AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, saying it is “significantly better” at “long-horizon reasoning” and is the first model it has trained for Windows environments  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Codex Max processes massive workloads through improved context handling.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI announces ChatGPT for Teachers, designed for K-12 educators and school districts, and says it will be free to K-12 educators in the US through June 2027
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Ex-US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and OpenAI say he has resigned from OpenAI's board, after a US House Committee released his emails with Jeffrey Epstein  —  Former Treasury secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers has resigned from the OpenAI board, he and the company told Axios …
Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
Nokia plans to split its AI operations into a separate unit from its telecom business, weeks after Nvidia invested $1B in Nokia; Nokia's stock closes down 6.98%  —  Split from telecoms operations comes as Finnish group pushes for growth from new technology  —  Nokia has unveiled plans …
The Verge:
The EU proposes changes to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and watering down a key part of the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure  —  The EU folds under Big Tech's pressure. … After years of staring down the world's biggest tech companies and setting the bar …
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
Crypto exchange Kraken says it confidentially filed for a US IPO; on November 18, Kraken said it raised $200M at a $20B valuation, up 33% in under two months  —  Crypto exchange Kraken said on Wednesday it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US, the UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting provider Media Land, which provided services to cybercrime marketplaces and ransomware groups  —  Today, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia announced sanctions targeting Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) …
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
AI music platform Suno raised $250M led by Menlo Ventures at a $2.45B valuation, up from ~$500M in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200M
Bloomberg:
The Dutch government suspends its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, restoring control to its Chinese owner; a Dutch minister says the move is “a show of goodwill”  —  The Dutch government suspended its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, handing back control to its Chinese owner …
Yueqi Yang / The Information:
Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports  —  Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events such as elections and sports, according to two people familiar with the matter.
More: Yahoo Finance and Decrypt.  X: @wongmjane
Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: key White House officials are pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to keep AI chip export restrictions to China out of the annual defense policy bill  —  Key White House officials are pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to keep AI chip export restrictions to China out of the annual defense policy bill …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users  —  Feature debuts after streamer introduced text-based AI recaps last year … Now Amazon is using AI to add sight, sound and motion to the mix.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
US senators introduce the Algorithm Accountability Act, amending Section 230 to hold social platforms liable if their algorithms cause foreseeable physical harm  —  A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms.
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Adobe says it will acquire NYSE-listed Semrush, which helps companies run search engine optimization as AI use rises, for $1.9B in cash, paying $12 per share  —  Semrush helps businesses from Amazon to TikTok with search-engine optimization and marketing  —  Adobe struck a $1.9 billion deal …
matt shumer:
Gemini 3 hands-on: a fundamental improvement on daily use, extremely fast, Antigravity IDE is a powerful launch product, and its personality is terse and direct  —  Gemini 3 is a fundamental improvement on daily use, not just on benchmarks.  It feels more consistent and less “spiky” than previous models.
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, challenging the idea that pre-training gains are diminishing
New York Times:
TikTok's and YouTube's rise undermined the FTC's Meta antitrust case and helped Meta avoid a breakup; Judge Boasberg: the tech landscape “has changed markedly”  —  Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed at rapid digital changes to blunt government efforts to rein in its power.
New York Times:
Meta's win over the US FTC may mean Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others can resume acquiring startups to stay ahead of the pack, after a cooling under Lina Khan

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

More News

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Meta releases SAM 3, a model for object detection, segmentation, and tracking in images and videos, and SAM 3D, which can reconstruct objects and humans in 3D
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
Meta warns of significant difficulties in identifying and removing underage users as it prepares for Australia's under-16 social media ban, set for December 10

Earlier Picks

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Epic Games partners with Unity to bring Unity Engine-made games to Fortnite in 2026, part of Epic's long-term vision to make Fortnite into an “open metaverse”
New York Times:
CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025
More: MS NOW and Bloomberg
X: @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, and @richardhanania.  Forums: Slashdot
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok says it will test letting users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed, and more advanced AI-generated content labeling tech
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