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Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen3.8-Max (Semafor)
Semafor : Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and…
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Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch : Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed f…
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Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthro…
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Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engine…
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Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages (Owen Dahlkamp/Politico)
Owen Dahlkamp / Politico : Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-at…
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In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace "artificial" intelligence with "super" (Chandni Shah/Reuters)
Chandni Shah / Reuters : In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its …
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Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
Meir Orbach / CTech : Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bl…
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Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent…
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Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called "Super Intelligence Force", to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal : Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH'…
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David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over (David Robinson/The Atlantic)
David Robinson / The Atlantic : David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lac…
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Apple says it is adding additional controls around "Full Disk Access" on macOS as AI agents have increased "the risks associated with this level of access" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full…
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Sources: SpaceX's AI unit held talks about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, as it fully embraces the neocloud business despite Musk's initial reluctance (Grace Kay/The Information)
Grace Kay / The Information : Sources: SpaceX's AI unit held talks about leasin…
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A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
Mike Scarcella / Reuters : A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging …
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Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for its IPO as soon as the week of November 9, putting it in line to begin trading before Thanksgiving (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg : Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for…
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Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on Novemb…
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