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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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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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