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Anhata Rooprai / Reuters:
Marvell agrees to acquire optical components maker Lumentum in a $115B all-stock deal, as it aims to rival Broadcom; Nvidia invested $2B in each company in 2026  —  Marvell Technology (MRVL.O) is buying optical components maker Lumentum (LITE.O) in a $115 billion all-stock deal, including debt …
Bloomberg:
Supermarkets in Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia report fridge and freezer temperature spikes due to suspected hacks, echoing attacks in France  —  Supermarkets across Europe were hit by suspected cyberattacks that resulted in sudden changes in the temperatures of their fridges …
SemiAnalysis:
SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, an AI frontier model benchmark measuring 11 domains, including chip design, cybersecurity, and RSI; Opus 5.5 tops with a 12% score  —  A comprehensive benchmark spanning RSI, hardware design, cyber, bio, finance, legal, quant trading, chip design, software engineering, materials science, and alignment
YC Labs:
YC details multi-agent tests in games like Minecraft, where agents exhibit emergent capabilities, forming roles, hierarchies, and complex coordination patterns
Rivka Galchen / New Yorker:
A profile of UCLA professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process  —  A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades.  Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.
Zack Abrams / The Block:
Binance says net outflows were ~$3.64B, or 2.1% of assets, in the 9.5 hours after it began restoring withdrawals; DefiLlama puts 24-hour net outflows at $4.05B  —  The exchange said the outflows equal 2.1% of its assets and that withdrawal volumes have eased after an initial spike.
Bloomberg:
A look at Binance's efforts to contain the hack, including creating a global war room of ~100 people and coordinating with other crypto companies and the FBI
Kevin Whitelaw / Bloomberg:
The FBI attributes the $6.3B Binance hack to North Korea's elite hacking unit TraderTraitor, which the agency has also blamed for the $1.5B Bybit hack in 2025
Reuters:
Binance starts resuming withdrawals in phases, including for bitcoin and ether, after covering 95% of the $6.3B in tokens stolen in the hack by TraderTraitor
Yasutaka Tamura / Bloomberg:
Filing: Anthropic plans to raise up to $3.5B from Japanese investors as part of its IPO, joining Australia, Canada, and parts of Europe in having direct access  —  Anthropic PBC aims to raise up to $3.5 billion from Japanese investors in its initial public offering in the US …
Siladitya Ray / Forbes:
Elon Musk says the cost of serving Grok Bot was “unsustainably high relative to revenue”, following subscriber complaints regarding rapid usage limit depletion  —  Topline  —  Elon Musk acknowledged on Sunday that the cost of running SpaceX's AI agent Grok Bot was “unsustainably high” …
Axios:
OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory “speed limits” for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as “AI compute campuses”  —  Right after Tuesday's midterms, OpenAI will unleash a policy and PR blitz to try to get in sync with the new Washington …
Bloomberg:
Ukraine says its air raid alert app was compromised late Sunday, sending false warnings of “nuclear danger”; Russia confirms a similar hack of its alerts app  —  Ukraine and Russia said they faced cyberattacks on emergency and air raid alert systems.
Rest of World:
Hirundo, Lazarus, and others are applying machine unlearning and weight edits to Chinese models to remove censorship and harden security for Western companies  —  A growing number of startups are editing powerful Chinese open-weight models for Western businesses that are concerned about censorship and security.
Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
British physicist and materials scientist Cyril Hilsum, widely recognized as “the father of liquid crystals” for enabling flat-panel display tech, died at 101  —  The man who helped develop the technology for liquid crystal displays — the screens in flat-panel televisions and laptops — has died at 101.
Scott Alexander / LessWrong:
A look at AI safety debates and the rising popularity of “Stop Unilaterally + Raise Awareness”, or SURA; safety-focused AI labs shouldn't abandon the AI race  —  The AI Futures Project[1] distinguishes several different plans for navigating the AI transition, which I'll lump into two broader categories:

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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
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Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat:
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Andrew Fedorov / The San Francisco Standard:
A look at VC-backed glossy magazine Colossus, whose glowing profiles of Zuckerberg and other tech titans win industry praise, while Kara Swisher says it is PR
Amir Efrati / The Information:
Google's data center energy head says space data centers cost up to 100x more than Earth-based ones, and US power supply is sufficient but permits are slow
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