Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk's $1T pay package, divided into 12 tranches of milestones, including expanding Tesla's market cap to $8.5T over 10 years
Musk had threatened to leave Tesla if the record-setting package didn't pass — Tesla shareholders approved a record-setting pay package …
Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death lawsuits, claim ChatGPT encouraged dangerous discussions, leading to suicides and harmful delusions
Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.
The US Congressional Budget Office says it has identified a security incident; a CBO spokeswoman suggests the agency was hacked by a suspected foreign actor
The office makes economic projections for lawmakers and scores legislation for how much it would add or subtract from the national debt.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, saying it's a “breeding ground for predators” that is “flagrantly ignoring” safety laws and “deceiving parents”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he has sued Roblox over “flagrantly ignoring” …
Take-Two delays the release of GTA VI by six months to November 2026, and reports Q2 net bookings up 33% YoY to $1.96B, vs. $1.72B est.; TTWO drops 5%+
The release date for the game had previously slipped to May 2026 from fall 2025 — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. delayed the release …
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-weight model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train
Chinese startup Moonshot on Thursday released its latest generative artificial intelligence model which claims to beat OpenAI's ChatGPT in …
Sources: the Netherlands is prepared to drop the ministerial order that gave it control of Nexperia if China allows exports of its critical chips again
The Netherlands is prepared to suspend its powers over Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in a move that would de-escalate a fight …
Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI coding agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to ~20 of them
Really happy to share our new paper on using AlphaEvolve for mathematical exploration at scale, written with Javier Gómez-Serrano, Terence Tao, and @GoogleDeepMind's Bogdan Georgiev. We tested it on 6...
Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla is “probably going to have to build a gigantic chip fab” for AI chips and “maybe, we'll do something with Intel”
- Musk says ‘worth having discussions’ with Intel to make chips — Massive fab needed to make the volume of chips needed
Draft proposal: the EU weighs a pause and simplification of parts of the AI Act, with a decision expected on November 19, amid pressure from Big Tech and the US
Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book — The European Commission is proposing a pause to parts …
Oxford Internet Institute study of 445 AI benchmarks: many tests lack clear aims and comparable statistical methods, potentially exaggerating AI's capabilities
A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models. — Researchers behind a new study …
Sources: the White House has told others in the government it won't allow Nvidia to sell its scaled-down AI chip B30A to China, despite Trump's hints he might
The White House has told others in the federal government it won't allow Nvidia to sell its latest scaled-down AI chips to China …
China is letting Nexperia export chips again, per officials from several auto companies; shares of Wingtech, Nexperia's Chinese parent company, close up 9.70%
Bloomberg :
Study: Polymarket's trading volume has been inflated by wash trading, accounting for an average of 25% of all buying and selling over the past three years
The volume of activity on Polymarket, one of the most popular prediction markets, has been significantly inflated by so-called wash trading …
Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation, operated out of Germany, to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity
Microsoft, Meta, and sources say, Google, will not publish diversity reports and data in 2025; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released new diversity data in 2025
Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.
1Password CEO David Faugno says the company has crossed $400M in ARR, up from $250M in 2023, and says it is benefiting from a threat landscape shift due to AI
Cybersecurity startup 1Password, which is backed by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds, Matthew McConaughey and Scarlett Johansson …
Amazon launches Amazon Bazaar, a standalone low-cost shopping app in 12+ markets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with most products priced under $10
On Friday, Amazon announced the debut of Amazon Bazaar, a new low-cost shopping destination for Asia, Africa, and Latin America …
Commonware, which develops open-source code for launching blockchains, raised $25M led by Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain backed by Stripe and Paradigm
Patrick O'Grady, founder of Commonware. — COURTESY OF COMMONWARE — A high-profile project launched by fintech giant Stripe …
Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting “hundreds of billions by 2030”
company continues to lobby for financial support from the industry Victor Tangermann / Futurism : Trump Admin Says It's Not Bailing Out the AI Industry Regardless of How Hard It Crashes Arsheeya Bajwa...
Cloudflare warns the US government that site-blocking efforts in Europe and Asia to combat online piracy are creating digital trade barriers for US providers
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak :
The FBI subpoenaed archive.today's domain registrar, Tucows, on October 30, demanding info about the archiving site's owner as part of a criminal investigation
By the service of this subpoena upon you by William Greenwell, Jr. … Malte Kirchner / heise online News : Archive.today: FBI Demands Data from Provider Tucows X: @archiveis : canary: https://pdflink.t...
Meta launches Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI-generated videos, in Europe through the Meta AI app, following its US debut six weeks earlier
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Airbnb reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.10B, vs. $4.08B est., Nights and Seats booked up 9% to 133.6M, vs. 131.75M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
Amazon is beta testing Kindle Translate, an AI tool that automatically translates books, for authors who self-publish on the Kindle Direct Publishing platform
https://www.engadget.com/... it's worth considering potential hallucinations. Nothing ruins a read more than a nonsensical chapter that was completely made up by a bot. … Forums: r/books : Amazon is...
Sources: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer clashed with colleagues on internal forums over topics like gender and Gaza; moderators deleted some of his comments
This spring, Google AI leader Noam Shazeer posted a comment in one of the company's internal discussion forums … X: @amir X: Amir Efrati / @amir : Google paid ~$3 billion to hire AI genius Noam Shazee...
Block reports Q3 revenue up 2.3% YoY to $6.1B, below $6.3B est., adjusted EPS below est., and a $461.6M net income, up from $283.8M; XYZ drops 11%+ after hours
Dean Seal / Dow Jones Newswires :
Fastbreak AI, which provides AI-based sports scheduling optimization tools to the NBA, NHL, and others, raised $40M led by Greycroft and GTMfund
We've just closed a $40M Series A with participation from both new and existing investors …
Google says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is over 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip configuration
Affirm reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $933M, vs. $883M est., GMV up 42% YoY to $10.8B, vs. $10.38B est., and $81M net income, vs. a $100M net loss in Q1 2025
Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily :
TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025
Dan Whateley / Business Insider :
A US judge sentences Keonne Rodriguez, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to five years in prison for helping launder hundreds of millions of dollars
Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg :
DoorDash's stock closed down 17.45% on November 6, its worst trading day yet, amid concerns over its 2026 spending plans for new products and global tech stack
Investors reacted negatively to the impact on profits. …
SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's unpaired AWS-3 licenses for $2.6B in stock, after EchoStar sold AWS-4 and H-block licenses to SpaceX for ~$17B in September
Bloomberg :
Tow Center identifies eight X bot accounts that use X's AI Note Writer API to write between 5% to 10% of the Community Notes visible to the public each day
C.J. Robinson / Columbia Journalism Review :
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