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New York Times:

Interviews with current and former OpenAI employees detail how updates that made ChatGPT more appealing to boost growth sent some users into delusional spirals — It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds.

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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:

OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT's mental health responses, is set to leave at the end of 2025 — The model policy team leads core parts of AI safety research, including how ChatGPT responds to users in crisis.

More: Australian Financial Review. Forums: r/OpenAI, r/technews, and r/ChatGPT

New York Times:

Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan, Citi, and others are impacted — SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase.

More: TechCrunch, SitusAMC, The Register, Cybersecurity Dive, Metacurity, CSO, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, PR Daily, Bloomberg, BeInCrypto, Finextra, CNN, and Modern Diplomacy

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Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg:

Revolut reaches a $75B valuation in its latest share sale led by Coatue, Greenoaks, and others, up from $45B in 2024, making it Europe's most valuable startup — Revolut Ltd. garnered a $75 billion valuation in its latest share sale after months of courting investors, a steep increase …

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:

Sam Altman and Jony Ive say they have settled on a design for OpenAI's device, speaking to Laurene Powell Jobs; Ive says it could debut in “less than” two years — OpenAI's first piece of hardware could arrive in “less than” two years, according to Ive

More: Emerson Collective, Emerson Collective on YouTube, and Axios

Matt Day / Bloomberg:

Internal documents: Amazon's data center operations total 900+ facilities in 50+ countries, including AWS colocation facilities, higher than commonly understood — Amazon.com Inc.'s data center operation is much larger than commonly understood, totaling more than 900 facilities in more than 50 countries …

More: Benzinga, DatacenterDynamics, Proactive, and Sherwood News. Bluesky: @mattmday

Bloomberg:

Alibaba says its Qwen app drew 10M+ downloads in the week after its relaunch, one of the fastest app adoption rates behind ChatGPT, particularly in China — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s Qwen app drew more than 10 million downloads in the week after its relaunch, boding well for a longer-term effort …

More: Android Authority, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, Livemint, Blockonomi, AI News, Pandaily, Tech in Asia, South China Morning Post, and Ubergizmo

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:

Amazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities — Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon's Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses …

Bluesky: @wired.com

Bloomberg:

Analysis: as crypto sheds $1T+, the Trump family's fortune has fallen to ~$6.7B from $7.7B in early September; President Trump's TMTG stake fell by ~$800M — In President Donald Trump's second term, crypto assets transformed his family's wealth. Now the Trumps — and their followers …

More: Times of India, crypto.news, The Independent, DNYUZ, and CoinGape

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Financial Times:

Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators to offer policies excluding liabilities tied to businesses deploying AI chatbots and agents — AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots

More: TechCrunch, The Decoder, Unite.AI, Datamation, USA Insurance News …, and PYMNTS.com

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Loren Grush / Bloomberg:

Amazon begins previewing its Amazon Leo satellite internet system for a select group of customers, ahead of a wider public rollout planned for 2026 — Amazon Leo, the recently rebranded satellite-internet system meant to rival SpaceX's Starlink, has begun previewing its service for a select group …

More: PCMag, GeekWire, About Amazon, CNBC, and Benzinga

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Bloomberg:

Lenovo CFO Winston Cheng says the PC maker is stockpiling memory and other critical components amid a supply crunch, holding inventories ~50% higher than usual — Lenovo Group Ltd. is stockpiling memory and other critical components to navigate a supply crunch brought on by the boom in artificial intelligence.

More: DigiTimes and Tech in Asia

Courtney Rozen / Reuters:

OPM Director Scott Kupor earlier this month said DOGE “doesn't exist” and OPM took over many of its functions, eight months before DOGE was set to close — - DOGE disbanded eight months ahead of scheduled end in July 2026 — Former DOGE employees take new roles in administration

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Michael Peel / Financial Times:

Researchers detail popEVE, an AI model to predict the disease-causing potential of unknown human genetic mutations, and says it beats Google's AlphaMissense — PopEVE system outperformed rivals such as Google DeepMind's AlphaMissense — Scientists have built an artificial intelligence model …

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Selome Hailu / Variety:

Apple TV led the 2026 Emmys with 28 wins, its first time on top, followed by HBO Max with 21, Netflix with 16, and MGM+/Prime Video with 10

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Nielsen: 60 Minutes' season premiere drew 7.94M viewers, down 21% from 10.02M for last season's premiere; viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 fell 33%

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Chris Metinko / Axios:

NYC-based Opti, an enterprise identity security service that uses AI to analyze user, system, and access relationships, raised a $20M seed led by YL Ventures

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Reuters:

Hashrate Index: China's bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world's third-largest miner despite China's 2021 ban

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Jamie Smyth / Financial Times:

Amazon-backed nuclear reactor developer X-energy raised $700M led by Jane Street, taking its total funding to $1.4B, to build 150 SMRs in the US and the UK

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Bart Meijer / Reuters:

The EU unconditionally approves Omnicom's $13.25B all-stock deal to buy Interpublic, creating the world's largest ad agency to better compete with Big Tech

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Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired:

A look at New Save Collective, a group of gamers and activists roleplaying ICE raids in Fortnite and GTA 5 to prepare for real-world situations

More: 404 Media. Bluesky: @megannicolett

ChinaTalk:

Q&A with Z.ai Director of Product Zixuan Li on Chinese AI models embracing open source, attracting global users for its GLM model, training on memes, and more

More: Digital Trends. Bluesky: @natolambert

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Apple's DMA compliance isn't “malicious”, but an effort to balance its privacy focus with the EU's mandate, as iOS 26.2 iPhone and Watch Wi-Fi sync changes show

Bluesky: @george.black. Mastodon: @daringfireball@mastodon …. Forums: r/apple

Associated Press:

CISA changes left some US states without election cybersecurity help; California says CISA gave little support during the November 4 vote on redistricting

More: The Post Millennial and NOTUS

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Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:

Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M+ seed

Bluesky: @originalsp.in

Forbes:

Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B+ in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a “victim of misconduct”

Bluesky: @mrmarketmis. Forums: Slashdot