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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.
More: TechCrunch, International Business Times, Digital Trends, and Marcus on AI
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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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| Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
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 …
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Sam Altman and Jony Ive say they have settled on a design for OpenAI's device, speaking to Laurene Powell Jobs; Ive says it could debut in “less than” two years — OpenAI's first piece of hardware could arrive in “less than” two years, according to Ive
More: Emerson Collective, Emerson Collective on YouTube, and Axios
| 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 … | 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 … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Amazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities — Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon's Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses …
Bluesky: @wired.com
| Bloomberg: |
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 …
More: Times of India, crypto.news, The Independent, DNYUZ, and CoinGape
| Financial Times: |
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
More: TechCrunch, The Decoder, Unite.AI, Datamation, USA Insurance News …, and PYMNTS.com
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| Loren Grush / Bloomberg: |
Amazon begins previewing its Amazon Leo satellite internet system for a select group of customers, ahead of a wider public rollout planned for 2026 — Amazon Leo, the recently rebranded satellite-internet system meant to rival SpaceX's Starlink, has begun previewing its service for a select group …
More: PCMag, GeekWire, About Amazon, CNBC, and Benzinga
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| Bloomberg: |
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.
More: DigiTimes and Tech in Asia
| 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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| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
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 … Sponsor Posts
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