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How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms — For years, the policy debate over artificial intelligence belonged to those who counted progress in decades.| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections — Candidates who favor stricter oversight of artificial intelligence racked up wins in key congressional races, aided … | New York Times: |
Investigation: some Chinese companies approved by the US Commerce Department to handle Nvidia's H200 chips have empty offices and ties to firms under sanctions — The Commerce Department has approved dozens of Chinese companies to handle Nvidia's H200 chips, some of which have ties to firms under sanctions over national security.
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Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSS — American intelligence warned the tech boss was involved with executive recruited by China to gather information on US group
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US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion — The U.S. Treasury is moving to cut off crypto exchange MEXC from the U.S. financial system, alleging that it handled … | Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: |
Public records appear to show SpaceX building a “Starbase supercomputer” in TX, but Gina Hinojosa's election as governor may delay some of the data center plans — Elon Musk moved early to build AI data centers in Tennessee and Mississippi and reaped the rewards.
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Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof “shocking news”; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption — A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly.| Financial Times: |
Filings: Apple saved $2.7B in taxes this year by routing up to $50B in profits through Singapore, exceeding the $2.6B in tax savings it achieved via Ireland — City-state overtakes Ireland as iPhone maker's biggest tax shelter according to new disclosures — Apple shaved $2.7bn off … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Censys finds 800+ publicly exposed copies of ARTEX, a Chinese-made, AI-powered, open-source penetration testing tool linked to several cyberattacks since July — Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access … | Arundhati Hazra / The Guardian: |
Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept. — Power and water constraints are pressuring what seemed like a juggernaut of growth for the region just months ago
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Democratic wins could slow AI investment and safeguard the US economy against a downturn by pacing it over time, as Deutsche Bank sees “shaky” projects killed — Guardrails against data-center expansion in states won by Democrats may help spread investment over time.| Bloomberg: |
Binance says CFO Kaiser Ng is leaving to “pursue a new venture” days after a $6.3B hack, citing a six-month transition plan, and names Justin Yek as CFO — Kaiser Ng, the chief financial officer at Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto exchange …
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Global tablet shipments fell 23% YoY to 32M units in Q3 2026, their lowest level in nearly three years; Apple's iPad shipments fell 27.5% YoY to ~11.58M — The global tablet market fell 23% year-over-year (YoY) to 32 million units in Q3 2026, marking its lowest shipment level in nearly three years … | Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: |
Chicago-based data analytics company Ocient raised a $100M Series C co-led by Boka Capital and OCA Ventures to grow its agentic AI analytics business — Ocient Inc., the maker of a speedy data analytics platform, today said it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding to expand … Sponsor Posts
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