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Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts ...: 55 mins ago

A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes cannot contain agents

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: 70 mins ago

California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models

Microsoft AI: 85 mins ago

Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash

KRQE: 1½ hours ago

New Mexico asks a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40B after a jury found it willfully deceived customers, in what could be the biggest US court penalty ever

Amy Mackinnon / Financial Times: 2 hours ago

The US sanctions Russia-backed payment network A7, freezing any of its US assets, and accuses it of helping Iran and its proxy groups to evade Western sanctions

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: 2½ hours ago

Source: some of the information that the three OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture

Wall Street Journal:

OpenAI says it “parted ways” with three researchers for violating its “handling sensitive” info policies; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization

Time:

In a Q&A, Trump discusses Dario Amodei's views as differing much from “what is portrayed in the media”, meetings with AI leaders, “Super Intelligence”, and more

Sophie Austin / Associated Press:

Gavin Newsom vetoes a CA bill banning secret recording with smart glasses in private places, saying its definition of wearable recording devices was too broad

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Memo: Ryan Roslansky, who was promoted from LinkedIn CEO to the head of Office and Teams in 2025, is leaving, triggering another Microsoft executive reshuffle

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:

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

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:

Asymmetric Security investigation: OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites while actively obscuring their actions

Reuters:

IPO prospectus: Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42B via a convertible note that could help finance Anthropic's $125.2B, five-year TPU lease commitment

Cameron Faulkner / The Verge:

Amazon updates the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft with new colors and up to 32GB of storage, and unveils a $35 Kindle Click page-turning remote

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information:

Sources: Anthropic has taken the unusual step of ending customers' discounts, which typically reach ~15%, once they hit the usage limits, forcing renegotiations

Jay Peters / The Verge:

Sony launches Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” for the standard PS5 developed in collaboration with AMD

Zachary Small / New York Times:

A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who insists “Xbox is not for sale” despite overseeing mass layoffs and divested studios since inheriting the flailing unit

Mike Scarcella / Reuters:

A US judge dismisses Chegg's and Penske's lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters:

Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI cybersecurity agents, raised a $255.5M Series B led by a16z and Accel at a $2.5B+ valuation

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