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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
OpenAI pledges to change how it handles data center deals, including avoiding NDAs and lowering power usage during peak times, after Democrats' midterm wins  —  OpenAI said it will avoid nondisclosure agreements when it negotiates data center deals and ensure residents don't pay for the electricity …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: at Jensen Huang's midterms event, tech executives expressed concern over anti-data center results; OpenAI discussed resetting its 2027 capacity plans  —  Americans' vote for anti-data center candidates and ballot measures could rein in AI's expansion and hobble economic growth
Emma Roth / The Verge:
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber, which it says outperforms GPT-6 Astra on cyber benchmarks, is better at finding vulnerabilities, and is less likely to go rogue  —  Classified as ‘Critical,’ GPT-6 Cyber outperforms GPT-6 Astra on cyber-related benchmarks.
Djohnson / CyberScoop:
OpenAI says GPT-6 Cyber will first launch to a limited number of customers in its Daybreak Red program and has found 81+ “novel” vulnerabilities in Firefox
Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Google says it will spend $17B to build its first Wyoming data center, pay for all the power it uses, and form a Community Council to address growth concerns  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google will spend $17 billion to build a data center in Wyoming, formally putting a price tag on the proposal …
More: Google, Ballotpedia, Reuters, and Quartz
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Natalia Kniazhevich / Bloomberg:
The Nasdaq 100 drops 6%, losing a record $2.3T in value, and the Philadelphia chip index plunges 12%, on concerns over the AI trade after Democrats won Congress  —  Technology stocks plunged the most since 2020 on Thursday as investors exited the sector on concerns over the artificial intelligence trade …
Tiffany Li / The Information:
METR: Anthropic's models are improving about twice as fast as they did between March 2024 and October 2025, with internal AI use driving ~80% of acceleration  —  AI use within Anthropic may have doubled the company's pace of AI development, a new report from AI research nonprofit METR says.
@metr_evals:
METR: Anthropic redacted much of the “most informative” evidence from METR's 100-page report, so readers “must rely on our judgment more than we consider ideal”
Thinking Machines Lab:
Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling 2 Small, a MoE model with 594B total and 17B active parameters, and plans to release weights next week after safety testing  —  Today we are introducing our second model generation with Inkling 2 Small.  It is a Mixture-of-Experts model with 594B total parameters …
Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET:
Anthropic launches Personal Finance in Claude, letting users connect bank and credit card accounts via Plaid with read-only access to analyze spending trends  —  Anthropic has released what appears to be its answer to ChatGPT Finances.  —  ZDNET's key takeaways
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: major investors are increasingly skeptical Anthropic's IPO can achieve a $1.5T valuation after a market selloff; one says it could be closer to $1T  —  The AI giant could need to set a significantly lower-than-expected valuation, investors say  —  Major investors are increasingly …
New York Times:
Sources: NYT has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Letterboxd for roughly $330M; A24 dropped out of negotiations after price expectations rose  —  The roughly $330 million deal for the cinephile community site would be part of an effort to add new products and services to the company's portfolio.
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: a gorgeous screen, touch is useful for some apps, and excellent speakers with deep bass, but pricey and no Face ID  —  Sure, touch is there, too.  —  Reviews … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel:
The MacBook Pro's PROLED XDR display is the best display you can buy right now, but touching it is not very ergonomic and lack of Apple Pencil support is weird
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Google, Meta, and TikTok file lawsuits to block a California law that bans online platforms from providing “psychologically exploitative features” to under-16s  —  Google (GOOGL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok sued California to block enforcement of a new state law intended …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta rolls out voice mode and expressive avatars in the Muse app, starting in the US, letting users have real-time voice conversations with their Muse AI agent  —  Muse AI agent now has voices and ‘expressive’ avatars that animate while chatting with you.
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Meta President Dina Powell McCormick says building new US data centers will be “harder” after midterm results, but it will be easier to expand existing projects  —  Speaking at the WSJ Tech conference, Dina Powell McCormick says the company is more optimistic about scaling up its existing data centers
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft rolls out to Xbox Insiders an Xbox PC app that launches up to 60% faster and has a design to match Xbox Cloud Gaming updates on the web and smart TVs  —  Xbox Insiders can start testing the new PC app today. … Microsoft is unveiling a new Xbox PC app that launches …
Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:
Lyft reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.92B est., and a net loss of $0.03 a share, vs. an est. profit of $0.20 a share; LYFT drops 8%+ after hours  —  However, the ride-hailing platform's top and bottom lines were dented by legal, tax and regulatory reserve changes and settlements
More: The Information and Lyft
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft is tightening oversight of some data center projects, stepping away from those it deems risky, and debating whether to ink new neocloud deals  —  Microsoft Corp. helped create the “neocloud” boom, signing tens of billions of dollars in contracts with upstart data center operators …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
GOP leaders of three House committees ask Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing on his ties with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, reportedly a Chinese asset  —  Three House Republican committee leaders asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to sit for a closed-door briefing on his relationship …
New York Times:
Sources detail Dario Amodei's AI beliefs, shaped by forums like GiveWell and based on EA and “rationalism”, and his disputes with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman  —  One night in 2007, Dario Amodei regaled a friend who was visiting him at Princeton University with his thoughts on …
Los Angeles Times:
California's Proposition 40, which proposes a one-time 5% tax on billionaires' assets to mostly fund healthcare, seems headed for defeat as vote counts continue  —  - 7 min Click here to listen to this article  —  Despite a nationwide blue wave in the midterm election …
Rocket Drew / The Information:
California State Senator Scott Wiener, an author of AI safety law SB 53, won Tuesday's election to succeed Pelosi in the US House, campaigning on AI regulation  —  Scott Wiener, the California politician who led the successful effort to pass AI safety legislation in the state's legislature last year, is headed to Washington.

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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen: ~31.2M people watched midterm primetime coverage across 13 TV networks; NBC News led with 6.74M, ahead of ABC News with 5.19M and Fox News with 4.32M

Financial Times:
Bomb threats force the evacuation of Irish newsrooms, including national broadcaster RTÉ, which briefly went off air and resumed broadcasts from a mobile unit

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Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:
Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation, up from $7.85B after raising $600M+ in January, and plans to grow US manufacturing
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Discord is moving its desktop app from Electron to Rust for improved speed and memory safety; its CTO shares an image of the Windows app using just 290MB of RAM
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Amazon partners with Uber to make Uber Eats the “official” US restaurant delivery partner for Amazon Prime subscribers, after previously partnering with Grubhub
Jay Peters / The Verge:
X rolls out a redesigned web app country by country for signed-in users, replacing three servers with one to improve load times especially on slow connections
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60 per 1M output tokens
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nintendo reports Q2 net profit down 16% YoY to $468M, as rising Switch 2 component costs cut into its margins; Switch 2's H1 FY 2027 sales fell 37% YoY to 6.49M
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sony reports Q2 revenue of ~$21.7B, operating profit of $3.94B, both above est., and 2.6M PS5 sales, as GTA VI sparks a US sales jump, especially of the PS5 Pro
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