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Larry Summers and OpenAI say he has resigned from the OpenAI board, after a US House Committee released his emails with Jeffrey Epstein — Former Treasury secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers has resigned from the OpenAI board, he and the company told Axios in separate statements Wednesday …
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Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @asskickerleague, and @flingjore.com
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The Dutch government suspends its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, restoring control to its Chinese owner; a Dutch minister says the move is “a show of goodwill” — The Dutch government suspended its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, handing back control to its Chinese owner …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI announces ChatGPT for Teachers, designed for K-12 educators and school districts, and says it will be free to K-12 educators in the US through June 2027 — Arrows pointing outwards — OpenAI on Wednesday announced ChatGPT for Teachers, a version of its artificial intelligence chatbot … | Matthew Prince / Cloudflare: |
Cloudflare says the November 18 outage was caused by a change to one of its “database systems' permissions”, not by “malicious activity of any kind” — On 18 November 2025 at 11:20 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), Cloudflare's network began experiencing significant failures to deliver core network traffic.
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Mastodon: @darkuncle@infosec.exchange and @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News, r/sre, r/programming, r/Futurology, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| The Verge: |
The EU unveils proposed updates to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and plans to water down the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure — The EU folds under Big Tech's pressure. … After years of staring down the world's biggest tech companies and setting the bar …
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X: @lukolejnik, @pes_pse, @glenngabe, @bertuzluca, @vdombrovskis, @hennavirkkunen, @eu_justice, @eu_justice, @digitaleu, @digitaleu, @hennavirkkunen, @lukolejnik, and @digitaleu
LinkedIn: Yomi Ajibade, Otto Michelsen, and Shoshana Rosenberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/europe, r/technology, and r/neoliberal
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok plans to test letting users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed, and will add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content — TikTok, an app that was once just a place for user-generated content, is launching a new setting that lets users choose … | Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: |
AI music platform Suno raised $250M led by Menlo Ventures at a $2.45B valuation, up from ~$500M in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200M — Startup has raised $250 million and says annual revenue has reached $200 million — Suno, an AI music platform in which users …
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LinkedIn: Mohamad Ali Saadeddine and Andrew Mohn
| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Adobe plans to acquire NYSE-listed Semrush, which helps companies run search engine optimization as AI use rises, for $1.9B in cash, paying $12 per share — Semrush helps businesses from Amazon to TikTok with search-engine optimization and marketing — Adobe struck a $1.9 billion deal …
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LinkedIn: Michael Scott and Amy Worcester Lanzi
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Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B valuation, up from the $113B it reported after merging with X in March 2025 — Like other AI startups, xAI is burning cash rapidly as it seeks to improve its flagship Grok chatbot — Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence company …
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| Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times: |
AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia — The firm's Indian-American CEO Amit Jain, an IITian who was formerly with Apple, told ET that the domain the company operated …
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X: @gravicle, @lumalabsai, and @vaibhavik08
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic Games partners with Unity to bring games made with Unity Engine to Fortnite in 2026, part of Epic's longterm vision to make Fortnite into an open metaverse — Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival. … Epic Games is teaming up with arguably …
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X: @unrealengine and @timsweeneyepic
Bluesky: @nstenhouse and @tomwarren.co.uk
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in — Agreement with Udio could allow fans to create their own songs using licensed tracks if artists opt in| matt shumer: |
Gemini 3 hands-on: a fundamental improvement on daily use, extremely fast, Antigravity IDE is a powerful launch product, and its personality is terse and direct — Gemini 3 is a fundamental improvement on daily use, not just on benchmarks. It feels more consistent and less “spiky” than previous models.
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X: @kalomaze, @mattshumer_, @pli_cachete, and @_vincentpaul_. LinkedIn: Rajneesh Kumar. Forums: r/accelerate
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips — Elon Musk said his xAI artificial intelligence startup plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia … | New York Times: |
FTC v. Meta: TikTok's rise undermined the FTC's antitrust case and helped Meta avoid a breakup; Judge Boasberg said the tech landscape has “changed markedly” — Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed at rapid digital changes to blunt government efforts to rein in its power.| New York Times: |
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X: @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product for US users next week in partnership with PayPal — Perplexity on Wednesday announced it will roll out a free agentic shopping product for U.S. users next week, as consumers ramp up spending for the holiday season.
More: CNET, ZDNET, and The Guardian
| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Crypto exchange Kraken says it confidentially filed for a US IPO, without revealing any terms; Kraken said it raised $200M at a $20B valuation on November 18 — Crypto exchange Kraken said on Wednesday it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States.| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, saying it is “significantly better” at “long-horizon reasoning” and is the first model it has trained for Windows environments — ZDNET's key takeaways — Codex Max processes massive workloads through improved context handling.
More: OpenAI, The New Stack, Neowin, and TestingCatalog
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Forums: Hacker News and r/codex
| New York Times: |
CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025 — Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta release SAM 3, a model for detection, segmentation, and tracking of objects in images and video, and SAM 3D, which can reconstruct objects and humans in 3D — Meta Platforms Inc. today is expanding its suite of open-source Segment Anything computer vision models with the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D …
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X: @alexandr_wang, @aiatmeta, @aiatmeta, and @braddwyer
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
A new bipartisan Senate bill amends Section 230 to make commercial social media platforms responsible if their recommendation systems cause foreseeable harms — A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms.
More: Deseret News, Techdirt, Senator John Curtis, and Wall Street Journal
X: @senjohncurtis, @senjohncurtis, and @senmarkkelly
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Doppel, which makes an AI social engineering detection service, raised a $70M Series C led by Bessemer at a $600M+ valuation, up from $205M in May — Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet — I tried to fool my brother, sort of. — Next to him and his Pekingese on the couch … | Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet's stock rose as much as 6.9% on Wednesday, its biggest gain since early September, amid a wave of glowing reviews for Gemini 3 — Alphabet Inc. shares soared the most in two months on Wednesday as a wave of glowing reviews for the newly released version of its Gemini artificial … | Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: |
President Trump says the US needs a “Federal Standard” to govern AI oversight instead of “a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes” or China will catch up — President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a federal standard governing oversight of artificial intelligence …
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Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump … and @realDonaldTrump …
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 are now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers — Today we announced that Microsoft and Anthropic are expanding our partnership. As part of the partnership, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5 …
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
NetEase says 2M+ people played martial arts game Where the Winds Meet in the 24 hours after its global release, as Chinese companies' cultural influence expands — The big story — From Nezha 2 to Labubu, it's been quite a year for Chinese cultural exports.| Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft says it will release results for the fiscal first half before trading opens on November 21, after unexpectedly postponing their publication last week — Ubisoft Entertainment SA said that it will release its results for the fiscal first half before trading opens on Friday … | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Boston Dynamics says its robot dog Spot is used by 60+ US and Canadian bomb squads and SWAT teams, with ~2K units deployed globally, five years after its debut — Spot, the four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Inc., is perhaps best known for its viral dance routines to songs like “Uptown Funk.”Sponsor Posts
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