Sources: OpenAI has secured ~$11B in commitments for its latest funding round, less than half its initial $30B target, and expects to raise more in coming weeks  —  The ChatGPT maker's latest funding round values it at $1.25 trillion, less than its $1.4 trillion target

Binance says it has covered 90% of its hack losses, having set aside $6.34B+ of company funds; the remaining 10% is in less liquid tokens  —  Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said on Saturday that it was able to cover 90% of the amount stolen during its recent hack.

Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units  —  Meta Platforms has built a prototype humanoid with Chinese robotics company Fourier and is already working on a second version …

John Ternus says Apple doesn't “want to ship AI for AI's sake” and that Tim Cook is “available to help wherever I ask” on policy; Ternus has yet to meet Trump  —  Apple doesn't need fixing, and it doesn't want drama.  Its new leader is a “product guy” who bleeds six colors.

Sources: neoclouds CoreWeave, Nebius, and Nscale have effectively been shut out of the bond market in recent weeks as lenders and investors demand tougher terms  —  Lenders and investors are getting choosier about their bets and demanding stricter terms, as the AI build-out enters a new phase

S&P downgraded Meta's outlook from stable to negative, citing high capex and negative free cash flow; META fell 15% in October, its worst month in four years  —  Meta's outlook has been revised downward by S&P Global Ratings on concerns surrounding cash flow and AI spending.

How AI detectors like Pangram are changing human writing: authors drop em dashes, “not X, but Y” phrasing, and words like “delve”, or add typos, to look human  —  As AI transforms writing and detectors like Pangram police what counts as machine-generated …

Anthropic says a malicious actor used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a “tampered” copy of the Claude Code extension, which it didn't build or publish  —  We're working with Cursor on this incident, but it wasn't a compromise of Anthropic's systems or employee laptops. A malicious actor used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a tampered copy of the Claude Code extension, which we didn't build or publish. The versions on our official channels a...

As AI models commoditize, lasting wealth will accrue to those controlling chokepoints like distribution, payment rails, and a stablecoin dollar, not to the labs  —  Scarce, controllable positions of Economic Power whose holders durably capture the gains of Increasingly Capable and diffused intelligence.

When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and “being used 5% of the time”  —  With data centers full of RAM, your PC is apparently the problem. … OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has data centers full of memory …

A look at growing bipartisan opposition to AI data centers in drought-stricken Arizona, where TSMC's chip fabs were welcomed but newer projects face backlash  —  Industry has drained the state's water reserves for decades.  Data centers are the breaking point.  —  AA hulking gray giant rises from the desert.

Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle have a collective $3T+ in AI spending commitments over the coming years, including Alphabet's $1T and Meta's $800B  —  The five largest players in the data center race have committed more than $3 trillion in spending over the coming years …