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New York Times: Sources: US intelligence concluded that Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was recruited by China's top spy agency MSS to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang -
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSS -
Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI has closed on new funding of roughly $11B at a $1.25T valuation; the round could increase to as much as $20B in total -
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic is continuing with plans to list before the Thanksgiving holiday this month, expecting to raise $80B-$100B at a valuation of $1.25T to $1.75T -
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft has been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle after declining to renew a 2023 deal, because the hardware used older Nvidia chips -
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Meta introduces specialized versions of its existing models, trained using Muse Wonder, bringing Active Memory and Active Focus to all Muse and Meta AI users -
Jay Peters / The Verge: Apple says the App Store has over 100K apps built for the iPhone Duo and “thousands of optimized apps are being added to the store each day” -
Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: Crusoe says Google has bought out its data center site in southeast Wyoming; Crusoe reportedly failed to lock in customers including Google for the project -
PSI: AI physics startup PSI says a system running a non-public Anthropic model proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, a quantum computing question open since 2008 -
Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: TSMC is considering expanding into manufacturing 3D DRAM at the request of Nvidia, its biggest customer, amid memory chip shortages due to the AI boom -
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Researcher: *sshole, a decade-old OpenSSH flaw, lets attackers use a password of 256+ characters to log into passwordless accounts on some musl Linux systems -
Loren Grush / Bloomberg: CesiumAstro, which plans a 737-satellite LEO communications network at two altitudes, raised $730M at a $4.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.4B -
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Democrats, with Elizabeth Warren a top contender to chair Senate Banking, are poised to step up oversight of Nvidia over chip exports and circular financing -
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia is requiring Southeast Asian customers seeking Nvidia Cloud Partner status to enroll in a program that tracks the locations of their AI chips -
Rebecca Cohen / NBC News: The US DOJ indicts three foreign nationals for allegedly using AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys at major international law firms in a $129M+ fraud scheme -
Alexander Martin / The Record: Preliminary findings: the EU says TikTok violated the DSA by not preventing its recommendation algorithm from trapping users in harmful content “rabbit holes”