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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says “I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America” in 2027, a gift worth ~$10.5B, after Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to APBF — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
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Forums: r/Economics, r/Dynamic_Pricing, r/SpaceInvestorsDaily, r/wallstreet, r/musked, and r/SPCXInvestors
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, for a total of ~20% with co-founder and staff pledges, plus 2% per 50% valuation rise — Today, we're committing a portion of Anthropic's shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity with a structure that increases the stake as the company grows.
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| Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Anthropic's opaque, five-member Long-Term Benefit Trust, where members own no Anthropic equity but hold enormous sway by appointing most of its board — AI company has shared few details on the dynamics of the five-person trust empowered to shape its board and block major moves| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Researcher: a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to target 1,200+ websites and breach 100+ entities, like Deere and SharkNinja, spending ~$5,000 in tokens — Over the past couple of weeks, a cybersecurity researcher watched as a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into websites belonging …
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Bluesky: @brunojnavarro and @raphae.li
| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price — The Google Deepmind team dropped the agents into a randomly generated world without assigning roles, strategies, or game-specific tools.
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Sam Altman's World debuts a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools for verifying human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering — The identity project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman named Bain Capital and VanEck Funds among its design partners …
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X: @worldnetwork, @bitpaine, @nazo_ku, and @world_id
| Bloomberg: |
AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X at a $6.2B valuation, up from $2.6B after raising $700M in 2024 — AI chip startup Tenstorrent Inc., after attracting takeover interest earlier this year, has raised $1.5 billion from investors …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft debuts new security tools in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception system that treat AI agents as potential insider threats via risk assessments — Microsoft is coming out with new security tools that treat AI agents as potential insider threats, continuously assessing … | Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek: |
CyberSN: US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% YoY to a four-year low of 235,786 roles from January to September; AI security engineer demand soared 268.3% — CyberSN's Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It's a mixed bag.
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| Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis: |
Analysis: companies are set for a massive acceleration of 50GW+ in data center capacity additions in 2027; 24GW+ across 40 campuses are in the advanced stages — 60GW Under Construction, SemiAnalysis Leading Indicators, 1.3T of Lease Contracts Signed YTD, The Shortage Could Move to Chips| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback over its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower $16B-to-$19B valuation, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal — Nscale Ltd. is facing opposition to the valuation target it's pursuing in its initial public offering, according to people familiar … | Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
| New York Times: |
Analysis: 11K+ accounts on X, Bluesky, Discord, Telegram, and others made nearly 25K posts to unmask a Cornell sexual assault accuser, after she named seven men — After a former student named seven men in a lawsuit saying they had sexually assaulted her, a movement gained steam online to reveal her identity.
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X: @rmac18. Bluesky: @emilprotalinski, @lavidagata, @rmac, and @masnick.com. Mastodon: @samlitzinger@journa.host
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Tel Aviv-based doubleAI releases a code execution model for improving GPU and CPU performance; doubleAI raised $220M, using ~50% to buy 1,000 Nvidia B300 chips — DoubleAI, a startup based in Tel Aviv, is set to debut what it calls a new category of artificial intelligence that can help companies lower their computing costs.| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: Anthropic is preparing a model with superior intuition and reasoning that can discern unstated intentions and is better at thinking outside of the box — In the last month, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have released more than a dozen new models. If you thought that pace was crazy … | Financial Times: |
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone agree to explore a joint bid to offer “direct-to-device” satellite service in Europe, challenging Starlink — Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone to explore joint bid for spectrum to provide mobile satellite coverage
More: The Verge, Türkiye Today, Quartz, RCR Wireless, Advanced Television, and Telecompaper
| Maddy Varner / Wired: |
Character.AI's Chapter 11 court filings indicate a two-part deal with Disney to transfer talent and tech, shielding Disney from Character.AI's legal liabilities — The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens … | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
How Democrats, who polls predict will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, are preparing to aggressively scrutinize the AI industry — At a moment when voters are fearful of AI, Democrats are finding their footing. … Democrats could win back control of Congress this November …
Forums: r/politics
| Wccftech: |
Q&A with Nvidia's Vera team on agentic AI driving CPU demands and forcing CPU design priority back to single-threaded performance over core counts, and more — NVIDIA's Vera CPU heralds a redefinition of computing architecture from a traditional, task-isolated paradigm to an orchestrated …
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| Caroline Haskins / Wired: |
How the data center industry courts kids amid a backlash: 11+ firms and groups hosting field trips since 2025, flag kits and cards for first graders, and more — Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.Sponsor Posts
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