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| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights — Anthropic on Monday filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating …
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Bluesky: @flingjore.com, @mrsdeborahlynn, @lorak, @seldo.com, @leahfeiger, and @revealinglight
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/politics, r/Anthropic, r/law, r/technology, r/technology, r/news, r/ChatGPT, r/artificial, and r/Anthropic
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
More than 30 staffers from OpenAI and Google, including DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its fight with DOD — Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.
More: TechCrunch, CourtListener, The Information, and The Deep View
X: @w01fe, @turn_trout, @thezvi, @william_fitz, @s_oheigeartaigh, @arozenshtein, and @zeffmax. Bluesky: @peard33
Forums: r/technology, r/google, r/OpenAI, and r/Anthropic
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: the White House is preparing an executive order formally instructing federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI tools — The White House is preparing an executive order formally instructing the federal government to rip out Anthropic's AI from its operations, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.
More: Reuters
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Filing: Anthropic says it had $5B+ in all-time revenue since 2023 and could lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to supply-chain risk designation — Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk …
More: 9to5Mac, Fortune, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, Decrypt, NBC Bay Area, Washington Times, New York Sun, CBS News, and The Information
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a “seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution” is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO — Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky's board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.
More: Bluesky, Toni.org, The Verge, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, Reuters, Engadget, Fast Company, GeekWire, TheDesk.net, and Mashable
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Forums: Hacker News, r/BlueskySocial, r/technews, and Slashdot
| Charles Lamanna / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 Copilot and using Work IQ to ground its actions in work data — AUDIENCE — Try Microsoft 365 Copilot — Available on desktop and mobile devices — If you have used Copilot …
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LinkedIn: Larry Cannell, Nicole Herskowitz, and Charles Lamanna
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches E7, which bundles Office tools and Copilot, for $99/user/month, a 65% jump; of its 450M+ business users in January, ~3% also paid for Copilot — Microsoft Corp. is launching a new bundle of workplace software with the aim of getting more people to use its artificial intelligence tools for the office.| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic debuts Code Review for Claude Code, which uses agents to check pull requests for bugs, and says a code review could average $15-$25 in token usage — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic launches AI agents to review developer pull requests. — Internal tests tripled meaningful code review feedback.
More: Claude, The Register, The Verge, TechCrunch, The New Stack, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, and MarkTechPost
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is “trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500”, to fold into OpenAI Frontier — Accelerating agentic security testing and evaluation capabilities in OpenAI Frontier
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X: @openai, @snsf, @mil0theminer, @cryptopunk7213, @dkundel, @benhylak, and @monali_dambre. LinkedIn: Vanessa Sauter. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Brian Westover / PCMag: |
MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: “Super core” architecture and 40-core GPU deliver beastly performance, but still retains a five-year-old design — Outstanding — THE BOTTOM LINE — Pros & Cons — “Super core” architecture delivers incredible performance
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for this month, until later this year to let the company finish work on the new Siri — Apple Inc.'s artificial intelligence struggles are rippling through its product plans, forcing the company to delay a long … | Wired: |
Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools for it — Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.| Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press: |
The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US — Justice Department lawyers announced Monday that they'd reached a settlement in their antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board — Nscale, a UK developer for artificial intelligence data centers, has raised $2 billion in funding and added a trio …
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LinkedIn: Josh Payne and Alex Sharp
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM — It marries a Qualcomm processor with a microcontroller and comes with 16GB of RAM. — Qualcomm, which purchased microcontroller board …
More: Qualcomm, Forbes, Arduino Blog, TechCrunch, HotHardware, eeNews Europe, Crypto Briefing, The Verge, and Notebookcheck
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Nasdaq partners with Kraken to develop a framework for 24/7 tokenized stock trading, targeting a 2027 launch, focusing on corporate governance like proxy voting — Nasdaq sought approval in September to let investors trade tokenized versions of its listed stocks and other exchange-traded products
More: Kraken Blog, Nasdaq, Inc., The Information, Bitcoin News, American Banker, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, Yahoo Finance, and Barron's Online
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz, @michaelcaley, and @danny.page
| Financial Times: |
SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since Nov. 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI involvement grows; on Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% on Stargate delay reports — Japanese group has suffered from recent share falls and a negative outlook from rating agency S&P| Aisha Down / The Guardian: |
UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting — Exclusive: Rented datacentres and ‘supercomputer’ site that's still a scaffolding yard raise questions for Starmer's push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’
Bluesky: @mxhollyclara and @hannahfearn
Forums: Hacker News, r/unitedkingdom, r/ukpolitics, and r/BetterOffline
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away — With Elon Musk's xAI planning to build a massive, natural-gas burning power plant in Southaven, Mississippi … | Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
Canada will allow TikTok to continue operating in the country under new security commitments, reversing a 2024 order to wind down TikTok's Canadian subsidiary — Canada will allow TikTok to continue operating in the country, a complete reversal after the government had previously ordered …
More: Reuters, Canadian Press, Global News, iPhone in Canada, Wall Street Journal, Government of Canada, and Dow Jones Newswires. Forums: r/canada
| Jake Angelo / Fortune: |
NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics — Artificial intelligence has permeated nearly every part of daily American life. It's being adopted across the professional sphere …
More: Gizmodo, Decrypt, The Verge, CNET, and NBC News
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