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Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Sources: the White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state AI laws, following bipartisan backlash  —  The White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on artificial intelligence through lawsuits …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform  —  Google has confirmed that hackers have stolen the Salesforce-stored data of more than 200 companies in a large-scale supply chain hack.
David McCabe / New York Times:
A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing  —  Judge Leonie M. Brinkema is on the clock.  —  The federal judge, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances  —  US officials are having early discussions on whether to let Nvidia Corp. sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China …
Aidin Vaziri / San Francisco Chronicle:
Waymo says California authorized it to operate across the entire Bay Area and Sacramento, and between LA and San Diego, where it plans to expand to in mid-2026  —  California officials have quietly opened the door to one of the largest geographic expansions of autonomous ride-hailing the state has ever seen.
Anthropic:
Anthropic finds that LLMs trained to “reward hack” by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research  —  In the latest research from Anthropic's alignment team, we show for the first time that realistic AI training processes can accidentally produce misaligned models1.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached  —  American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with unnamed threat actors.
Lisa Du / Bloomberg:
General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan  —  General Atlantic completed its first growth equity investment in Japan and plans to do more, citing an increase in entrepreneurship …
Chris Metinko / Axios:
Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020  —  Thoma Bravo bought a majority stake in enterprise Java platform developer Azul for an undisclosed price, Azul CEO Scott Sellers tells Axios Pro.
More: Azul and FinSMEs
Rani Molla / Sherwood News:
Alphabet's stock closed at a record high of $299.66 on November 21, continuing a strong recent run after Google's Gemini 3 impressed analysts and consumers  —  The internet giant has a lot going for it right now.  —  Google parent Alphabet hit a record closing high of $299.66 today …
Gianluca Semeraro / Reuters:
Italy's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies  —  Italy's competition authority said on Friday it had closed a probe it had launched last year over Google's (GOOGL.O) …
More: MLex
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China's Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models, is raising several hundred million dollars at a ~$4B valuation and is aiming for an IPO in H2 2026  —  It has also told some potential investors that it will aim for an initial public offering in the second half of next year
Bloomberg:
Meta enters electricity trading to help accelerate the construction of new US power plants critical for its AI infrastructure buildout  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is venturing into the complex world of electricity trading, betting it can accelerate the construction of new US power plants …

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From Mediagazer

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen delays the release of The Gauge, its monthly snapshot of broadcast, cable, and streaming consumption, by a week; it will likely show a streaming decline

Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Over 30 states will resume their antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Monday; seven states joined the DOJ to settle with the ticketing giant

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBCUniversal will no longer produce first-run syndicated TV programming, ending shows including Access Hollywood, which has been in production for 30 years

More News

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
Analyzing Gemini 3's model card and safety framework report: the model is excellent but the safety report withholds or makes it difficult to understand key info
Alex Heath / Sources:
Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year
Bloomberg:
Sources: the US has probed whether the products of China's Bitmain, which sells most of the world's Bitcoin-mining machines, pose risks of espionage or sabotage

Earlier Picks

Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure Amin Vahdat said Google must double AI compute capacity every six months to meet demand
New York Times:
Q&A with Roblox CEO David Baszucki on the chat function, AI-powered age estimation via face scans, accusations of compromising child safety for growth, and more
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
IBM and Cisco plan to link quantum computers over long distances and aim to provide a proof-of-concept by 2030, potentially paving the way for quantum internet
Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg:
Ubisoft delayed reporting its Q2 results after auditors found it improperly booked sales from a partnership as revenue, forcing it to restate its accounts
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all logged-in users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, after piloting the feature in select regions
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