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A look at efforts by OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to prevent anyone from using their AI tools to disrupt midterms, including Anthropic's first-ever "war room" (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times : A look at efforts by OpenAI, Anthropic, and oth…
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Sources: Meta eyes at least $20B from a potential cross-border bond offering, the company's first major debt sale in six months and its debut offering in euros (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: Meta eyes at least $20B from a potential cross-border bond off…
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AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3B led by Bessemer at a $16B valuation, up from $8B in April; a source says it hit $800M in annualized revenue this year (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg : AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3B led by Bess…
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OpenAI launches the Grid Protectors Program, a US effort for its future data center campuses meant "to reduce electricity demand when the grid is under strain" (OpenAI)
OpenAI : OpenAI launches the Grid Protectors Program, a US effort for its future da…
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ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to speed up customers' migrations to its CRM, for an undisclosed price estimated at hundreds of millions (Allon Sinai/CTech)
Allon Sinai / CTech : ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to spee…
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Analysis: candidates backing a data center moratorium could win up to 15 of 36 US governors' races on Tuesday, including in Texas, Ohio, Michigan, and New York (Shane Burke/The Information)
Shane Burke / The Information : Analysis: candidates backing a data center moratori…
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Binance says net outflows were $3.64B, or 2.1% of assets, in the 9.5 hours after it began restoring withdrawals; DefiLlama puts 24-hour net outflows at $4.05B (Zack Abrams/The Block)
Zack Abrams / The Block : Binance says net outflows were $3.64B, or 2.1% of assets,…
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Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B in cash (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
Anzar Mehraj / Reuters : Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyper…
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The FBI attributes the $6B+ Binance hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor hacking group, which the agency also previously blamed for the ~$1.5B Bybit hack (Kevin Whitelaw/Bloomberg)
Kevin Whitelaw / Bloomberg : The FBI attributes the $6B+ Binance hack to North Kore…
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Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22% (Washington Post)
Washington Post : Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US…
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Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link (Swati Khandelwal/The Hacker News)
Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News : Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug t…
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Salesforce acquires Rune, which makes AI military logistics software, sources say for $375M in cash and stock; Rune raised $30m from a16z and others (Margaux MacColl/Resilience Media)
Margaux MacColl / Resilience Media : Salesforce acquires Rune, which makes AI milit…
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Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a 14" or 16" PROLED XDR display, a light-up Apple logo, M5 Pro and M5 Max, for $2,899+ and $3,399+ (Apple)
Apple : Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a 14" or 16" PROLED …
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Sources: Meta's $25B share sale was oversubscribed 5x as it seeks $98B for AI spending; the 15 largest investors in the sale accounted for ~70% of shares (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg : Sources: Meta's $25B share sale was oversubscribed…
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Memo: Amazon says measuring AI adoption solely by token usage or code generation is "deeply flawed," as it discourages staff from tokenmaxxing (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
Annie Palmer / CNBC : Memo: Amazon says measuring AI adoption solely by token usage…
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