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Politico: How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms -
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections -
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion -
Valerie Volcovici / Reuters: Major environmental groups are embracing AI to analyze climate data, track forest fires, and more, even as they warn of the environmental impact of data centers -
New York Times: Investigation: some Chinese companies approved by the US Commerce Department to handle Nvidia's H200 chips have empty offices and ties to firms under sanctions -
Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: Public records appear to show SpaceX building a “Starbase supercomputer” in TX, but Gina Hinojosa's election as governor may delay some of the data center plans -
Cade Metz / New York Times: Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof “shocking news”; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption -
TechNode: Beijing-based GenRobot AI, which develops equipment and software for collecting human demonstrations that can be used to train robots, raised a $100M Series A+ -
Alice Speri / The Guardian: Internal documents leaked by Cisco workers angry over the company's ties to Israel's military show how it expanded its business as the war in Gaza dragged on -
Financial Times: Filings: Apple saved $2.7B in taxes this year by routing up to $50B in profits through Singapore, exceeding the $2.6B in tax savings it achieved via Ireland -
Financial Times: The crypto industry is bracing for a reckoning after Democrats won the US midterms and vowed to investigate the Trump family and its ties to the industry -
Nous Research: Nous Research unveils Arete-27B, a post-trained Qwen3.8-27B model that reinforces Western values, saying the underlying Chinese model's bias layer is shallow -
Arundhati Hazra / The Guardian: Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept. -
Cecile Daurat / Bloomberg: Democratic wins could slow AI investment and safeguard the US economy against a downturn by pacing it over time, as Deutsche Bank sees “shaky” projects killed