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Interviews with current and former OpenAI employees detail how updates that made ChatGPT more appealing to boost growth sent some users into delusional spirals — It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds.
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OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT's mental health responses, is set to leave at the end of 2025 — The model policy team leads core parts of AI safety research, including how ChatGPT responds to users in crisis.| New York Times: |
Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan, Citi, and others are impacted — SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase.
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Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators to offer policies excluding liabilities tied to businesses deploying AI chatbots and agents — AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
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Revolut reaches a $75B valuation in its latest share sale led by Coatue, Greenoaks, and others, up from $45B in 2024, making it Europe's most valuable startup — Revolut Ltd. garnered a $75 billion valuation in its latest share sale after months of courting investors, a steep increase … | Bloomberg: |
Alibaba says its Qwen app drew 10M+ downloads in the week after its relaunch, one of the fastest app adoption rates behind ChatGPT, particularly in China — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s Qwen app drew more than 10 million downloads in the week after its relaunch, boding well for a longer-term effort … | Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Internal documents: Amazon's data center operations total 900+ facilities in 50+ countries, including AWS colocation facilities, higher than commonly understood — Amazon.com Inc.'s data center operation is much larger than commonly understood, totaling more than 900 facilities in more than 50 countries …
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Analysis: as crypto sheds $1T+, the Trump family's fortune has fallen to ~$6.7B from $7.7B in early September; President Trump's TMTG stake fell by ~$800M — In President Donald Trump's second term, crypto assets transformed his family's wealth. Now the Trumps — and their followers … | Jamie Smyth / Financial Times: |
Amazon-backed nuclear reactor developer X-energy raised $700M led by Jane Street, taking its total funding to $1.4B, to build 150 SMRs in the US and the UK — Reactor developer closes fundraising round as markets expect atomic energy will power the AI boom
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Lenovo CFO Winston Cheng says the PC maker is stockpiling memory and other critical components amid a supply crunch, holding inventories ~50% higher than usual — Lenovo Group Ltd. is stockpiling memory and other critical components to navigate a supply crunch brought on by the boom in artificial intelligence.
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NYC-based Opti, an enterprise identity security service that uses AI to analyze user, system, and access relationships, raised a $20M seed led by YL Ventures — Opti, an enterprise identity security platform, raised a $20 million seed round led by YL Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Hetz Ventures … | Courtney Rozen / Reuters: |
OPM Director Scott Kupor earlier this month said DOGE “doesn't exist” and OPM took over many of its functions, eight months before DOGE was set to close — - DOGE disbanded eight months ahead of scheduled end in July 2026 — Former DOGE employees take new roles in administration
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Researchers detail popEVE, an AI model to predict the disease-causing potential of unknown human genetic mutations, and says it beats Google's AlphaMissense — PopEVE system outperformed rivals such as Google DeepMind's AlphaMissense — Scientists have built an artificial intelligence model … | Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Model ML, which aims to use AI agents to automate grunt work done by investment bankers like making pitch decks, raised $75M, after raising $12M earlier in 2025 — The artificial intelligence startup Model ML raised $75 million as it looks to develop technology to replace much of the grunt work done …
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