When asked on 60 Minutes about his pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao, President Trump said “I don't know who he is” and “I heard it was a Biden witch hunt”
In a rare interview, Trump said he was told Changpeng Zhao was the victim of the Biden administration's “witch hunt” against crypto.
OpenAI and AWS sign a seven-year deal in which OpenAI will pay $38B for AI compute, including training its models using Amazon's data centers and using its CPUs
Companies' first computing partnership is part of Amazon's efforts to grow its cloud business
Microsoft plans to spend $7.9B+ on data centers, cloud, and employees in the UAE over the next four years, taking its UAE investment to $15.2B from 2023 to 2029
Microsoft Corp. said it will spend more than $7.9 billion on data centers, cloud-computing and employees in the United Arab Emirates …
Court docs: in a deposition, Ilya Sutskever discussed conflicts at OpenAI that he sent to board members before Sam Altman's firing, his OpenAI exit, and more
Anthropic initially expressed “excitement” about a possible merger with OpenAI two years ago, after OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman …
Microsoft signs a five-year, ~$9.7B deal to buy AI compute capacity from Sydney-based IREN, giving Microsoft access to Nvidia's GB300 in IREN's Texas facility
Microsoft Corp. has signed a roughly $9.7 billion deal to buy artificial intelligence computing capacity from IREN Ltd., becoming the Australian company's largest customer.
After Elon Musk said on X that Sam Altman “stole a nonprofit”, Altman replied he turned what Musk “left for dead into what should be the largest nonprofit ever”
this time over a tesla refund 😬 r/ChatGPT : Sam and Elon beefing again. Elon started it. r/EnoughMuskSpam : Sam Altman digs up some old email. r/OpenAI : the billionaires' feud continues.. but sam is ...
Trump says Nvidia's Blackwell chips would not be available to “other people”; in August, Trump suggested he might allow sales of a scaled-down version to China
it's 10 years [video] Alex / @alex_intel_ : Many people don't realize the strength of the China Hawk House republicans. B30 sales to China will not happen without their blessing. Jensen will need to d...
As part of its AWS deal, OpenAI says it will immediately begin running workloads on AWS infrastructure, tapping hundreds of thousands of Nvidia's GPUs in the US
OpenAI has signed a deal to buy $38 billion worth of capacity from Amazon Web Services, its first contract with the leader …
Microsoft says the US now lets it ship the latest Nvidia chips to the UAE, the first company to get a license; Trump made a deal with UAE President MBZ in May
Commerce department approval paves way for huge new investment in AI and cloud infrastructure in Middle East
Proofpoint says it has “high confidence” that hackers are working with organized crime groups to infiltrate trucking and freight companies to steal cargo
Hackers are infiltrating trucking and freight companies in a scheme to steal and sell cargo shipments …
arXiv says it will stop accepting computer science papers that haven't been vetted by an academic journal or a conference, after a surge in AI-generated papers
Cornell University's academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.
Xi Jinping joked about security backdoors when presenting South Korean President Lee Jae Myung with two Xiaomi smartphones at APEC, amid the US' Huawei concerns
Chinese President Xi Jinping joked about security backdoors while presenting a pair of Xiaomi Corp. smartphones to his South Korean counterpart …
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings are capable of consciousness and “it would be absurd to pursue research” into AI consciousness
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings are capable of consciousness, and that developers …
MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria is stepping down after 11 years, replaced by Cloudflare President of Product & Engineering Chirantan Desai, effective November 10
Database software maker MongoDB said on Monday that CEO Dev Ittycheria is stepping down from the top job after an 11-year run.
Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu says it will go public in the US and Canada via a SPAC, in a deal that values the combined business at ~$3.6B
Toronto-based quantum computing firm Xanadu has struck a deal to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp.
Hong Kong-based crypto investor and blockchain developer Animoca Brands says it will go public on the Nasdaq via a reverse merger with Currenc Group in 2026
Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based crypto investor and blockchain developer, plans to go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange through a reverse merger with Currenc Group Inc.
Baidu says that its Apollo Go robotaxi hit 250K weekly ride orders globally as of October 31, on par with Waymo reporting 250K weekly paid US rides in April
BEIJING — As Baidu ramps up its robotaxi operations worldwide, fully driverless weekly rides as of Oct. 31 have now surpassed 250,000 orders …
A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997 research paper, which argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts
Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition.
Researchers: OpenAI's o1 analyzes languages as well as a human expert, including inferring the phonological rules of made-up languages without prior knowledge
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
In an interview, Satya Nadella says Microsoft faces a power shortage, but not a compute one, which could leave “chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in”
Canada, UK, Europe—missed this memo. Now they're paying for it. Mon / @moninvestor : Microsoft's CEO says they have chips they can't use because there isn't enough power or data center capacity. That'...
TikTok announces its first ever TikTok Awards show in the US; the live event will take place on December 18 and will be streamed on the TikTok app and on Tubi
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Google says it removed its AI model Gemma from AI Studio; in a letter to Google, Senator Blackburn said it fabricated sexual misconduct accusations against her
where models simply make things up about all types of things— and sycophancy — where models tell users what they want to hear — are challenges across the AI industry, particularly smaller open models ...
The UK CMA says it will open an in-depth investigation into Getty and Shutterstock's proposed merger after their offered remedies did not fully address concerns
Raechel Thankam Job / Reuters :
Cisco launches Unified Edge, an all-in-one system designed to help retail stores, health care facilities, and factories use AI with a single equipment rack
Dina Bass / Bloomberg :
NY-based Teleskope, which offers smaller LLMs fine-tuned for specific security problems, raised a $25M Series A led by M13, taking its total funding to $32.2M
We're thrilled to have M13 leading this next chapter …
London is establishing itself as a center for quantitative finance; filings show trading firms XTX, Qube, and Quadrature each made £1B+ revenue in the past year
I am of course taking about East London's GSR (Gary Stevenson Research). — www.ft.com/content/8a65... Forums: r/Economics : London becomes ‘quant’ powerhouse as traders rake in revenues r/GoodNewsUK...
A look at Palantir's new four-month “Meritocracy Fellowship” for high school graduates, which offers a path to a full-time Palantir job without a college degree
I'm 100% choosing the palantir grad every single time. … Dileep Rao, Ph.D. : Alex Karp: Is College a Waste? — Alex Karp is encouraging students to dump college to work for him. This is a very inter...
Some podcasters are embracing AI voice clones from ElevenLabs and other startups, aiming to augment, translate episodes, and even replace in-studio performances
The article explores how podcasts are navigating AI and authenticity. … Bluesky: Cynthia Brumfield / @metacurity.com : Just please stop [embedded post] See also Mediagazer
Sources: Pony AI plans to raise ~$863M in its Hong Kong IPO on November 6 by selling 48.3M shares at ~$17.88 each, below its October 31 Nasdaq close at $18.68
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At APEC, Xi Jinping proposed a World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization for global AI regulation; Chinese officials: it could be based in Shanghai
Michael Grimes, a banker known for handling Uber's and Airbnb's IPOs, is managing Trump's new investment accelerator, amid legal and congressional uncertainty
Politico : X: @rossputin and @vtg2 X: Ross Kaminsky / @rossputin : I sure do hate this a lot. https://www.politico.com/... I lot of folks on the left improperly use the word “fascist” to describe any...
Cologne-based Octonomy, which helps companies deploy AI for complex workflows, raised a $20M seed led by Macquarie Capital, bringing its total funding to $25M
Amelia Isaacs / Pathfounders :
Job listings show companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere have stepped up hiring for forward-deployed engineers that help businesses adopt their AI models
This time with The Financial Times, 4 months later: — My deepdive in Aug: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ forward-de... The FT yesrterday: www.ft.com/content/9100... [image] @daniloc.xyz : Thi...
Q&A with LexisNexis CEO Sean Fitzpatrick on AI doing legal work, document drafting, attorneys inevitably losing their licenses over “sloppy use of AI”, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge :
Alphabet's X is increasingly spinning out projects as independent companies via a Series X Capital fund, which has raised $500M+ with a minority Alphabet stake
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
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