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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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Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers (Ben Weiss/Bloomberg)
Ben Weiss / Bloomberg : Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partne…
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Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg : Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Gro…
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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol, saying it nearly matches Astra on agentic coding and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's standard prices, in Work and Codex (OpenAI)
OpenAI : OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol, saying it nearly matches Astra on agentic cod…
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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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