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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not “censorship” of viewpoints — from the it's-almost-as-if-there-are-some-bad- actors-online dept — For the last few years, Matt Taibbi …
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle — A new feature on X is making people suddenly realize that some large portion of the divisive, hateful, and spammy content designed … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, saying it is “the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use” and “meaningfully better at everyday tasks” — Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today. It's intelligent, efficient …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic prices Claude Opus 4.5 at $5/1M input and $25/1M output tokens, much cheaper than Opus 4.1 at $15/$75 but still pricier than GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro — Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 this morning, which they call “best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use”.
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Trump signs an EO establishing the Genesis Mission to boost AI innovation, including by using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a government-wide effort to build an integrated artificial …
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| Tae Kim / Barron's Online: |
Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying “Unlike Enron, Nvidia does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue” — A series of prominent stock sales and allegations of accounting irregularities have put Nvidia NVDA +2.05% in the middle …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Google begins pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on using its TPUs in their data centers; Meta could spend billions — Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip business.
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| CNBC: |
Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future launches a $10M media campaign to push Congress to craft a national AI policy that will override a patchwork of state laws — A super PAC backed by the artificial intelligence industry on Monday launched a $10 million campaign to push Congress to craft …
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| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini — ZDNET's key takeaways — OpenAI released a shopping research feature in ChatGPT. — The experience helps you find products and deals.
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X: @openai, @openai, @openai, @gdb, @openai, @johnohallman, @openai, @barralexandra, @openai, @kimmonismus, @mweinbach, and @kate_rouch. LinkedIn: Coley Czarnecki. Bluesky: @adamshepherd
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's “dynamic view” option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output — I have a simple method for my own AI rankings: product delight. That is, when I use the various services from the players in AI …
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$35B, vs. ~$34.5B est., Chinese e-commerce revenue up 16% YoY, and net income down to ~$3B, as it boosts cloud spending — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue growth, riding China's AI development boom.
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| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions — Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions — It seems like a marvel of financial engineering …
X: @epsilontheory and @langwiser
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
A job listing shows Google is developing a new Android-based “Aluminium OS” that is “built with AI at the core”, potentially as a ChromeOS replacement for PCs — Google wants to replace ChromeOS with Aluminium OS, its new, Android-based operating system for PCs. — •
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X: @mishaalrahman. Bluesky: @carljanderson. Forums: Hacker News, r/Android, r/chromeos, and Slashdot
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC sues former VP Lo Wen-jen, who left to join Intel, alleging a high likelihood that he leaked secrets to Intel after a two-decade career at TSMC — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. sued a former executive who left to work for Intel Corp., saying there is a high likelihood … | Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 — Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’| Eric Revell / Fox Business: |
AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity — AWS CEO says investment will remove technology barriers holding back federal agencies — EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Web Services (AWS) …
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| Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk / Reuters: |
Polish antitrust office UOKiK is probing whether Apple's ATT limits third-party data collection in mobile ads while giving Apple's own ads service an advantage — Poland's anti-monopoly office UOKiK is investigating whether Apple (AAPL.O) is restricting competition in the mobile advertising market through …
More: MacRumors and Office of Competition …
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year — Increase will come as music-streaming company aims for continued profitability — Spotify is preparing to raise US subscription prices … | Jaures Yip / CNBC: |
A US judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the word “cameo” for Sora features, following a trademark lawsuit by video app Cameo — OpenAI will not be allowed use the word “cameo” to name any products or features in its Sora app for a month … | Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build “sovereign AI”; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 — South Korea and others believe their homegrown tech sectors are strong enough to build up their AI capabilities| Brian Spegele / Wall Street Journal: |
China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to maintain its status as the world's manufacturing hub, and major companies are pioneering AI “dark factories” — To blunt Trump's push to reclaim global manufacturing, China's factories and ports are learning to make and export more goods faster …
Forums: r/China
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at how tech executives use “delay, deny, and deflect” when pressed on user safety and what it means for journalism, as shame loses power over public life — What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame? — I.Sponsor Posts
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