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Fastbreak AI, which provides AI-based sports scheduling optimization tools to the NBA, NHL, and others, raised $40M led by Greycroft and GTMfund (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-8 AI

Commonware, which develops open-source code for launching blockchains, raised $25M led by Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain backed by Stripe and Paradigm (fortune.com)
2025-11-8 Blockchain

Polymarket Volume Inflated by 'Artificial' Activity, Study Finds (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-8

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 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-11-8 Google

Microsoft, Meta, and sources say, Google will not publish diversity reports and data this year; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released diversity data this year (www.wired.com)
2025-11-8 Google Amazon Microsoft Apple Nvidia

Grand Theft Auto 6 Delayed Again Until November 2026 (games.slashdot.org)
2025-11-8

Dutch Ready To Drop Nexperia Control If Chip Supply Resumes (slashdot.org)
2025-11-8 Netherlands

Study: Polymarket's trading volume has been artificially inflated by wash trading, accounting for 25% of all buying and selling over the past three years (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-8

US Congressional Budget Office Hit By Suspected Foreign Cyberattack (it.slashdot.org)
2025-11-8 Budget

Leak confirms Google Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana 2 could launch soon (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-8 Google

Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation, operated out of Germany, to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-8 Germany Europe

This $180 MS Surface laptop is a great early Black Friday deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-7 Black Friday

China is allowing Nexperia to export chips again, according to officials from several auto companies; shares in Wingtech, Nexperia's Chinese parent, surged 10%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-7 China

Ikea's Big Smart Home Push Arrives With 21 New Matter Devices (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-11-7

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-7 China Netherlands

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, accusing the company of “flagrantly ignoring” safety laws and calling it a “breeding ground for predators” (www.bbc.com)
2025-11-7 Texas

Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to about 20 of them (x.com)
2025-11-7 Google AI

Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies? (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-11-7

Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death suits, claim ChatGPT encouraged dangerous discussions, leading to suicides and harmful delusions (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-7 California

Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla will likely need to build “a gigantic chip fab” for AI chips and “maybe, we'll do something with Intel” (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-7 Intel AI Tesla Elon Musk

A draft shows the European Commission plans to propose a simplification package on Nov. 19 to pause parts of its AI laws amid pressure from Big Tech and the US (t.co)
2025-11-7 Europe AI

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 (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-11-7 AI

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 (torrentfreak.com)
2025-11-7 Europe Asia

Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School At His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbor Revolted (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-7 Zuckerberg

An Oxford Internet Institute study of 445 AI benchmarks finds many tests lack clear aims and comparable statistical methods, potentially exaggerating AI claims (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-11-7 AI

Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-7 China Startup

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 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-11-7 Trump China AI Nvidia

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 (www.cjr.org)
2025-11-7 AI

How the US Cut Climate-Changing Emissions While Its Economy More Than Doubled (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-11-7 Climate

U.S. Congressional Budget Office hit by suspected foreign cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-7 Budget

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