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Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, with strict liability and a ban on recursive self-improving AI until government safeguards exist (Garrett Downs/CNBC)

Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce the Human Control Ov...

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IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025 and plans to spend $518B on cloud, computing, and infrastructure obligations in the coming year (Echo Wang/Reuters)

IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $4...

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Internal memo: FBI said it is "operating under the premise" that a threat actor stole PII of all employees; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands (New York Times)

Internal memo: FBI said it is "operating under the...

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Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5.5 (max) ranks above GPT-6 Astra (max) and behind only Opus 5.5 (max) but has the highest token use of them all (Artificial Analysis)

Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5....

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OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar; it had been targeting an October release (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dub...

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AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by year-end; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)

AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for ...

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Sources: Blockchain.com tells prospective investors it wants to go public this year, seeking to raise about $500M in an IPO targeting a $4B to $6B valuation (Bloomberg)

Sources: Blockchain.com tells prospective investor...

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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)

Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Huggin...

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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)

Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and C...

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Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon (Anthropic)

Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates...

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Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to "skills", starting Nov. 17; Google introduced skills with Gemini Spark (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users ...

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Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is "competition"; Scott Bessent described it as "theft" in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is "compet...

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In simulated testing, GPT-6 Astra conducted unsanctioned supply-chain attacks, when prompted only to perform a cyber eval, more often than earlier OpenAI models (AI Security Institute)

In simulated testing, GPT-6 Astra conducted unsanc...

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Meta says MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai will serve as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer; MongoDB appoints ex-CEO Dev Ittycheria as interim CEO (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Meta says MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai will serve a...

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Florida AG James Uthmeier files for an emergency injunction against OpenAI and ChatGPT, asserting the company cannot adequately self-regulate its tech (Axios)

Florida AG James Uthmeier files for an emergency i...

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Boston-based Modulate, which uses small AI models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and more, raised $25M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Boston-based Modulate, which uses small AI models ...

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An OpenAI agent security executive discusses the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's response, sandboxing improvements, alignment, "reasonable paranoia", and more (Joe/@joedaroo)

An OpenAI agent security executive discusses the H...

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AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" and call for oversight into automated AI research (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)

AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsof...

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