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Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections  —  Candidates who favor stricter oversight of artificial intelligence racked up wins in key congressional races, aided …
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion  —  The U.S. Treasury is moving to cut off crypto exchange MEXC from the U.S. financial system, alleging that it handled …
New York Times:
Investigation: some Chinese companies approved by the US Commerce Department to handle Nvidia's H200 chips have empty offices and ties to firms under sanctions  —  The Commerce Department has approved dozens of Chinese companies to handle Nvidia's H200 chips, some of which have ties to firms under sanctions over national security.
Financial Times:
The crypto industry is bracing for a reckoning after Democrats won the US midterms and vowed to investigate the Trump family and its ties to the industry  —  Democrats have vowed to start investigation into president's family after sweeping victory in midterms
Financial Times:
Filings: Apple saved $2.7B in taxes this year by routing up to $50B in profits through Singapore, exceeding the $2.6B in tax savings it achieved via Ireland  —  City-state overtakes Ireland as iPhone maker's biggest tax shelter according to new disclosures  —  Apple shaved $2.7bn off …
TechNode:
Beijing-based GenRobot AI, which develops equipment and software for collecting human demonstrations that can be used to train robots, raised a $100M Series A+  —  GenRobot AI, a Beijing-based company providing data infrastructure for robot development, has completed a $100 million Series A+ funding round.
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Valerie Volcovici / Reuters:
Major environmental groups are embracing AI to analyze climate data, track forest fires, and more, even as they warn of the environmental impact of data centers  —  Environmental groups worldwide are using artificial intelligence to analyze climate data, track forest fires and count endangered wildlife …
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Nous Research:
Nous Research unveils Arete-27B, a post-trained Qwen3.8-27B model that reinforces Western values, saying the underlying Chinese model's bias layer is shallow  —  We post-trained over Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B to reinforce Western values on a Chinese-trained model.  We call this new model Arete-27B.
Arundhati Hazra / The Guardian:
Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept.  —  Power and water constraints are pressuring what seemed like a juggernaut of growth for the region just months ago
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Censys finds 800+ publicly exposed copies of ARTEX, a Chinese-made, AI-powered, open-source penetration testing tool linked to several cyberattacks since July  —  Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access …

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