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Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
Kate Rooney / CNBC : Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face befor…
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Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)
Micah Barkley / Bloomberg : Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a…
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Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to "skills", starting Nov. 17; Google introduced skills with Gemini Spark (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create cu…
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Mentions of open models in latest US earnings calls surged 6x YoY, with open models hitting 56% of Vercel tokens in August and 40% of AT&T's AI workloads (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Mentions of open models in latest US earnings calls surged 6x YoY…
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How AI's acceleration created a global policy vacuum, as EU AI Act enforcement lags and regulators remain torn between harnessing AI and fearing its risks (New York Times)
New York Times : How AI's acceleration created a global policy vacuum, as EU AI…
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Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg : Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety inc…
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A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal : A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic'…
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Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weake…
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Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored"; YouTube is also allowing the ads (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new document…
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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune : Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korea…
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Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by Third Point ahead of its US IPO, with $2.36B available immediately and $1B from Nvidia in November (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by …
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Sources: SK Hynix's US-based NAND and SSD subsidiary Solidigm is exploring an IPO as early as 2027 that could raise $15B and value the unit at up to $150B (Reuters)
Reuters : Sources: SK Hynix's US-based NAND and SSD subsidiary Solidigm is expl…
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Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ (New York Times)
New York Times : Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in a…
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Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed (Politico)
Politico : Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new mod…
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A sample of FBI data allegedly stolen by ShinyHunters includes granular detail on officials' job assignments on China, Russia, cartels, cyber, and other issues (Reuters)
Reuters : A sample of FBI data allegedly stolen by ShinyHunters includes granular d…
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