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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 …
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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 …
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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 … | 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.
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| 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.| 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.
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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.| 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 — This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform.
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| 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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| 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 — Google 's AI infrastructure boss told employees that the company has to double its compute capacity every six months in order to meet demand for artificial intelligence services.
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| 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 … | 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| 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) …
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| 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 — A new trend has quickly emerged for AI startups that want to stand out from the rest: brag about revenue. — Take Sierra, Bret Taylor …
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| Leo Marchandon / Reuters: |
After a delay, Ubisoft reports Q2 net bookings up 39% YoY to €490.8M, above €450M est., and expects Q3 bookings of €305M; Ubisoft resumed trading on November 21 — - Delay due to accounting change and debt covenant breach — Breach addressed with early loan repayment using proceeds from Tencent investment
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