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Sources: US intelligence concluded that Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was recruited by China's top spy agency MSS to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang — U.S. intelligence concluded that Alice Huang, a Chinese business executive who developed a close relationship with Nvidia's leader … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI has closed on new funding of roughly $11B at a $1.25T valuation; the round could increase to as much as $20B in total — OpenAI has closed on new funding of roughly $11 billion, the initial part of a round that values the company at $1.25 trillion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft has been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle after declining to renew a 2023 deal, because the hardware used older Nvidia chips — Microsoft Corp. is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing from Oracle Corp., part of a larger reassessment of billions of dollars in cloud partnerships.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic is continuing with plans to list before the Thanksgiving holiday this month, expecting to raise $80B-$100B at a valuation of $1.25T to $1.75T — Claude-maker intends to list before Thanksgiving despite brutal tech rout — Anthropic is pressing on with its high-stakes IPO …
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Preliminary findings: the EU says TikTok violated the DSA by not preventing its recommendation algorithm from trapping users in harmful content “rabbit holes” — The European Commission accused TikTok on Friday of failing to prevent its recommendation algorithm from drawing users into …
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
Democrats, with Elizabeth Warren a top contender to chair Senate Banking, are poised to step up oversight of Nvidia over chip exports and circular financing — Nvidia Corp. is in for tougher scrutiny from a new Democratic majority in Congress that's set to demand answers … | Rebecca Cohen / NBC News: |
The US DOJ indicts three foreign nationals for allegedly using AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys at major international law firms in a $129M+ fraud scheme — Federal prosecutors say the suspects posed as corporate executives and high-powered attorneys, using AI to convince employees to transfer millions of dollars.
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| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
Sources: Democrats are eyeing Apple, Meta, and Elon Musk-led companies as early congressional investigation targets, after winning House and Senate majorities — Democrats are laying the groundwork to investigate some of the country's largest companies, setting off a scramble among executives who courted the president.
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| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: TSMC is considering expanding into manufacturing 3D DRAM at the request of Nvidia, its biggest customer, amid memory chip shortages due to the AI boom — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is considering expanding into the advanced memory chip manufacturing sector …
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| Emmy Martin / New York Times: |
Employees at Microsoft, long known for its stability, are grappling with its decision to offer buyouts to 60,000 people as its spending priorities shift to AI — Within an hour of Microsoft's announcement of buyouts last week, employees rushed to an internal site to see whether they had been offered one.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Researcher: *sshole, a decade-old OpenSSH flaw, lets attackers use a password of 256+ characters to log into passwordless accounts on some musl Linux systems — A newly disclosed flaw involving OpenSSH and musl, dubbed “*sshole,” allows attackers to log in to certain Alpine Linux …
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| Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: |
Elon Musk says Tesla plans to wind down production of the Cybertruck at its Texas Gigafactory around mid-2027 “to make room for increased Cybercab production” — Carmaker will wind down production of futuristic pick-up truck at its gigafactory in Texas
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AI physics startup PSI says a system running a non-public Anthropic model proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, a quantum computing question open since 2008 — The Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture is now a theorem. — Open since 2008, the conjecture of Scott Aaronson and Andris Ambainis concerns …
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| Bloomberg: |
Cleanview: ~40% of pending US data center capacity is planned to be built in states where newly elected governors have pledged to stop or pause construction — A new crop of Democratic governors-elect campaigned on putting the brakes on artificial intelligence development.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Fox closes its $22B Roku acquisition well ahead of the expected 2027 date; Anthony Wood joins Fox's board and will co-chair a new Tubi, Fox One, and Roku unit — Surprise! Fox Corp. has closed its acquisition of streaming platform Roku, a deal valued at $22 billion, well ahead of the expected 2027 date.
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| Thinking Machines Lab: |
Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling 2 Small, a MoE model with 594B total and 17B active parameters, and plans to release weights next week after safety testing — Today we are introducing our second model generation with Inkling 2 Small. It is a Mixture-of-Experts model with 594B total parameters …
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| Ryan Barwick / The Information: |
Filing: Google spent roughly $548M to buy around 3M shares of Qualcomm, which is pushing into serving the AI data center market — Google's investment arm Google Ventures has acquired nearly 3 million shares of the chip maker Qualcomm, as a result of Qualcomm's purchase of chip software startup Modular …
| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says US government contracts will account for under 10% of SpaceX's revenue this quarter, down from 16.6% last quarter and around 20% in 2025 — SpaceX's reliance on US government-funded contracts will continue to shrink, Elon Musk said, signaling a shift in focus away … Sponsor Posts
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