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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety — OpenAI is working on steps to address artificial intelligence safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind …
More: CNBC, TechCrunch, International Business Times, Gizmodo, Politico, Reuters, RTÉ, Türkiye Today, صوت …, France 24, Neowin, The Decoder, Livemint, Finimize, and The Information
X: @dkthomp, @hilbertspaess, @garymarcus, @ramez, and @andrewcurran_
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying “I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all” — An AI researcher who recently resigned from Google DeepMind warned humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence …
More: Gizmodo, HotHardware, New York Post, Livemint, Business Insider, Digit, Moneycontrol, International Business Times, Quartz, Seoul Economic Daily, Observer, Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Nairametrics, The Asia Business Daily, Capital Brief, and The North West Star
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LinkedIn: Joshua Squires and Bilal Chughtai
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says top US AI labs and “three or four of the leading Chinese companies” should let rivals run a “test harness” on their models to evaluate safety — Elon Musk called for the top artificial intelligence companies to work together and test each other's models … | New York Times: |
At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs — At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.| Daniel Kokotajlo / @dkokotajlo: |
OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research — Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk: I have been working on AI for over ...
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Forums: r/Destiny, r/LeftistsForAI, and r/singularity
| Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House bill, that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety — Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI is supporting a bipartisan House proposal that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure their models are safe.
More: CBS News, Washington Examiner, Politico, and The Stack
| CNBC: |
The Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework — The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework.
More: The Block, Unchained, The Hill, Cointelegraph, Hindustan Times, Bitcoin News, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Crypto Times, CryptoSlate, The Daily Hodl, Dow Jones Newswires, and CoinDesk
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans — Meta One bundles start at $7.99 per month with perks like 48-hour Instagram stories and a bold follow button.
More: Meta Newsroom, TechCrunch, The Information, Moneycontrol, WeRSM, Android Central, Reuters, Neowin, Quartz, Engadget, iPhone in Canada, TechEBlog, PetaPixel, and Digital Trends
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LinkedIn: Helen Ma, Rohan Shah, Arzan Singpurwalla, Siobhan Quinn, Carlos Pereira, and Nicola Mendelsohn Cbe. Threads: @mosseri
| Google: |
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its “most advanced live dialogue models yet”, to more effectively enable voice agents — Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet.
More: The Decoder, Thurrott, Search Engine Land, Neowin, Google AI for Developers, Blockchain.News, RuntimeWire, and Unite.AI
X: @officiallogank. LinkedIn: Luke Leonhard. Bluesky: @rob-wolfe.com. Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/Bard
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade for no extra fee in 100+ countries, and Apple Music Select, offering ad-free radio stations, in some markets — In more than 100 countries, Apple has launched a new initiative that bundles Apple TV and Apple Arcade subscriptions into iCloud+, at no extra charge.
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| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
GM plans to integrate Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs — General Motors Co. is integrating Apple Inc.'s CarPlay in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers …
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April — Khosla Ventures, Blackstone and Marc Benioff are among the investors putting $200 million into the startup
More: Reuters, Ventureburn, RuntimeWire, and Dow Jones Newswires
X: @factoryai, @gokulr, @enoreyes, @nikesharora, and @matansf
| New York Times: |
Jensen Huang took a surprise call from Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in Los Angeles, where the two agreed that AI safety worries are overblown — Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, while Mr. Huang was onstage in Los Angeles and criticized calls to slow down and regulate A.I.
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Forums: r/BetterOffline and r/NVDA_Stock
| Alix Coutures / The Information: |
Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter — Boris Cherney, the head of Anthropic's coding tool Claude Code, last month found himself in the middle of an online spat … | Wall Street Journal: |
The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay ~$1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action against two clients — Prosecutors said around $1.5 billion was sent back to Iran through a series of interrelated digital wallets
More: US Department of Justice, Engadget, New York Times, Financial Times, Unchained, and Bitcoin Magazine
X: @bdanweiss and @monitoringmeme
| Wall Street Journal: |
AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline after Iranian drones hit them in March, testing the region's pitch for AI and data processing — Amazon data centers are still offline months after being hit, testing the region's multibillion-dollar ambitions
More: CNBC, Bloomberg, and 1330 & 101.5 WHBL
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot designed to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by using sensors and collision-avoidance algorithms — Agility Robotics Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new humanoid that is designed to safely work in close proximity to people … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation — Thatch, a platform that lowers healthcare costs for employers while expanding plan choices for workers, has raised $108 million …
More: General Catalyst, RuntimeWire, VC News Daily, and Pulse 2.0
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, the Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries — Samsung has backed a Dutch AI chipmaker in a $231 million funding round, amid a boom in investment in alternatives to Nvidia's graphic processing units.| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+ — The artificial intelligence marketing startup Profound has raised $180 million at a $1.8 billion valuation in its Series D fundraising round …
More: Profound, AlleyWatch, New York Business Journal, TechCrunch, WOWTALE, Unite.AI, and VC News Daily
| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly “proliferates” copyright-infringing tracks — Universal Music Group is suing the world's biggest music distributor by volume, DistroKid.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July — The delivery platform DoorDash is investing in and partnering with Marc Lore-owned food tech company Wonder in deals worth …
More: The Information
| Semafor: |
Sources: in August, the US Commerce Department ordered Kalshi to take down its AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns and Kalshi complied — THE SCOOP — The US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down one of its products tracking the price of AI compute … | Melia Robinson / Business Insider: |
Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from investors, including Founders Fund — Pulley, a software that startups rely on to track their funding, is shutting down after seven years.
X: @sinahartung, @peterj_walker, @andrew__rea, @evvcohen, @burnedchris, @nickabouzeid, and @marksuman. LinkedIn: Yin Wu
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which builds an audit and certification layer for agents, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total raised to $55M — A day after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job over concerns that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade … | Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Google gives all its engineers access to Claude Opus 5 via Antigravity, and says “Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development” — Googlers have some of the best perks in Silicon Valley, but there's one thing many of them have long been denied: access to Anthropic's Claude.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized AI model built on Nvidia's Nemotron model architecture for reasoning about CRM data and to power AI agents in Agentforce — Salesforce Inc. said today at its annual user conference Dreamforce that it has partnered with Nvidia Corp. to train and release Koa …
More: The Information, Salesforce, CIO.com, Constellation Research, and Unite.AI
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Sources: Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after crypto trading firms like Wintermute used it for arbitrage — When Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank launched earlier this year, it made an attractive pitch to lure new crypto customers: It would convert their stablecoins to cash for free.| Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto exchange CoinEx says it is closing, citing a lengthy downturn and rising compliance costs; a report said it moved $3B+ for Iran-linked wallets since 2019 — CoinEx says it is ceasing operations less than three months after a Wall Street Journal article spotlighted its use in Iran
More: Nikkei Asia and The Straits Times
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