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    In a letter on October 27, OpenAI asked the Trump administration to expand a 35% Chips Act tax credit to help lower the cost of AI infrastructure
    bloomberg.com via Techmeme
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    Sources: Roelof Botha was ousted by senior Sequoia partners amid concerns about his “imperial style” leadership, AI investment strategy, and internal clashes
    ft.com via Techmeme
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    Fastbreak AI, which provides AI-based sports scheduling optimization tools to the NBA, the NHL, MLS, and others, raised $40M led by Greycroft and GTMfund
    bloomberg.com via Techmeme
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    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
    ft.com via Techmeme
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    You.com CEO Richard Socher is working on a new AI lab to automate AI research, and, sources say, hopes to raise $1B for it; Socher will remain at You.com
    theinformation.com via Techmeme
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    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
    cnbc.com via Techmeme
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    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
    theinformation.com via Techmeme
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    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
    cjr.org via Techmeme
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    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
    cnbc.com via Techmeme
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    TikTok says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and sell dupe products; TikTok Shop rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025
    businessinsider.com via Techmeme
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    Meta says it will invest $600B in the US infrastructure and jobs by 2028; Zuckerberg told Trump at a September dinner that Meta will spend “at least $600B”
    reuters.com via Techmeme
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    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”
    reuters.com via Techmeme
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    Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI coding agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to ~20 of them
    x.com via Techmeme
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    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
    theinformation.com via Techmeme
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    Both Baumol effect and Jevons paradox may apply to the AI supercycle, as services with AI productivity gains get cheaper, while those without AI become costlier
    a16z.substack.com via Techmeme
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    Oxford Internet Institute study of 445 AI benchmarks: many tests lack clear aims and comparable statistical methods, potentially exaggerating AI's capabilities
    nbcnews.com via Techmeme