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Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI suspected the three fired researchers of leaking internal model designs to AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt, including via disappearing Signal chats  —  The company fired three safety researchers for mishandling sensitive information.  They had been fighting to keep the workings …
Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an “opportunistic” bridge ahead of an IPO  —  OpenAI is closing in on a funding round that could value the artificial intelligence giant at more than $1 trillion ahead …
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier in October, after facing resistance from some investors
Associated Press:
The US Treasury proposes a rule to crack down on US high-tech investments in areas like AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other “countries of concern”  —  The U.S. Treasury Department proposed a rule Thursday to crack down on American high-tech investments such as supercomputing …
P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal:
SK Hynix says its SSD subsidiary Solidigm has halted a review of a potential US IPO to fund a new US chip fab, citing “market conditions and share price trends”  —  SK Hynix's shares fell as much as 4.2% in early trade in Seoul  —  SK Hynix halted plans to list its memory-chip unit in the U.S. …
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
An interview with Intel's leadership, including CTO Pushkar Ranade, on AI chip demand, lessons from 10nm, whether Intel can catch up to TSMC, Terafab, and more  —  What I learned from touring Intel's most advanced fab and talking to its leadership.  —  I spent two days touring Intel's …
Anthropic:
Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove useful security properties at the assembly code level across 123 open-source libraries  —  Introduction  —  Even mature, heavily tested software contains bugs, and LLMs are increasingly adept at finding them.
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune:
a16z rebrands “a16z Crypto” as “a16z Frontier” and expands the $2.2B fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies  —  In 2018, Andreessen Horowitz made a splash in the venture capital world by launching a spin-off dedicated to digital assets called a16z Crypto.
Greg Ritchie / Bloomberg:
Sources: Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE  —  Kalshi Inc. is opening up a new frontier in its rivalry with traditional financial exchanges by pitching the world's largest banks and hedge funds on a futures market tied to US inflation.
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
An interview with Ondřej Surý, a volunteer who maintains and helps automate PHP patches, about his role in fixing two critical PHP security vulnerabilities  —  On Tuesday, the world found out about two massive security vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language that is used by roughly 70 percent of websites.

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From Mediagazer

Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
President Trump says Fox News “bears responsibility” for the GOP's losses after “constantly and consistently putting on the Dumocrat opposition, and worse”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
As Democrats take the House and the Senate, David Ellison and other media executives are likely to face inquiries and hearings over their deals and Trump ties

The New York Times Company:
NYT reports Q3 revenue up 9.7% YoY to $768.5M, digital-only subscription revenue up 14.6% to $421.3M, and operating profit up 16.4% to $121.9M; NYT jumps 4%+

More News

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch
Anthropic:
Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, and plans to support third-party chatbots

Earlier Picks

Robert Hart / The Verge:
Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors
Jay Peters / The Verge:
The Browser Company says it will shut down its Arc browser on December 22, launched in 2023, shifting attention to its AI-focused Dia browser, launched in 2025
Anzar Mehraj / Reuters:
METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring system found vulnerabilities, including an exploit that could have let AI agents hide hundreds of recent actions
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:
1Password passes $500M in ARR, up from $400M in November 2025, driven by enterprise AI coding assistants and agents, and launches 1Password for Agents
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