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Alphabet's X is increasingly spinning out independent companies via a dedicated Series X Capital fund, which has raised $500M+ with a minority Alphabet stake (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-3 Alphabet

Researchers find OpenAI's o1 can analyze languages like a human expert, including inferring the phonological rules of made-up languages without prior knowledge (www.quantamagazine.org)
2025-11-3

Q&A with LexisNexis CEO Sean Fitzpatrick on AI reshaping legal workflows, document drafting, attorneys losing their licenses over “sloppy use of AI”, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-11-3 AI

Michael Grimes, a tech banker known for handling Uber and Airbnb's IPOs, is leading Trump's new investment accelerator, amid legal and congressional uncertainty (www.politico.com)
2025-11-3 Trump IPO Uber Airbnb

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings can be conscious and it “would be absurd to pursue research” about AI consciousness (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-3 Microsoft AI

A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997 research paper, which argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts (www.wired.com)
2025-11-3

Cologne-based Octonomy, which helps companies deploy AI in complex workflows, raised a $20M seed led by Macquarie Capital, bringing its total raised to $25M (pathfounders.com)
2025-11-3 AI

Linux Gamers on Steam Finally Cross Over the 3% Mark (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-11-3 Linux

Sources: Pony AI plans to raise $863M in its November 6 Hong Kong IPO by selling 48.3M shares at ~$17.88 each, below its October 31 Nasdaq close at $18.68 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-3 Hong Kong IPO AI

During an interview, Satya Nadella says Microsoft faces a power shortage, not a compute one, which could leave “chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in” (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-11-3 Microsoft Interview

Baidu says its Apollo Go robotaxi hit 250,000 weekly orders globally as of October 31, matching Waymo's 250,000 weekly paid US rides reported in April 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-3

At APEC, Xi Jinping proposed a World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization for global AI regulation; state media says it could be based in Shanghai (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-3 AI Intelligence Shanghai APEC

OpenAI's Sam Altman Defends $1 Trillion+ Spending Commitments, Predicts Steep Revenue Growth, More Products (slashdot.org)
2025-11-3

Manufacturer Remotely Bricks Smart Vacuum After Its Owner Blocked It From Collecting Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-11-3

In a reply to Elon Musk's post of “you stole a non-profit”, Sam Altman says OpenAI's structure is needed to create “what should be the largest non-profit ever” (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-11-3 Elon Musk

Trump says Nvidia's Blackwell chips would not be available to “other people”; Trump suggested in August he might allow sales of a scaled-down version to China (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-3 Trump China Nvidia

Bug in Rust-Based UUtils Broke Ubuntu 25.10 Automatic Update Checks (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-3 Ubuntu

A look at Palantir's four-month “Meritocracy Fellowship” for high school graduates, which offers a path to a job at Palantir without a university degree (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-3

GitHub Announces 'Agent HQ', Letting Copilot Subscribers Run and Manage Coding Agents from Multiple Vendors (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-11-3 GitHub

Google says it has removed its AI model Gemma from AI Studio; in a letter to Google, Sen. Blackburn said it fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against her (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-3 Google AI

Penn hacker claims to have stolen 1.2 million donor records in data breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-3 Hacker

Job listings show AI groups like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere have stepped up hiring for forward-deployed engineers to help businesses adopt their AI models (www.ft.com)
2025-11-3 AI

Is OpenAI Becoming 'Too Big to Fail'? (slashdot.org)
2025-11-3

Sound Blaster Crowdfunds Linux-Powered Audio Hub 'Re:Imagine' For Creators and Gamers (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-3 Linux

Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain drain that increased during the war in Gaza and tax breaks for investors in Israeli funds and tech firms (www.ft.com)
2025-11-3 Israel Tax

GoFundMe Created 1.4 Million Donation Pages for Nonprofits Without Their Consent (slashdot.org)
2025-11-3

Amazon's Deployment of Rivian's Electric Delivery Vans Expand to Canada (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-3 Amazon Canada

An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and OnlyFans, to verify the ages of their users will go into effect on November 12 (www.engadget.com)
2025-11-3 Italy

New Design Trend: People Downgrading 'Smart' Homes to Analog 'Dumb' Homes, Some with Landlines and Offline Appliances (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-11-3

Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic death threats, posting hyper-realistic AI-generated images and sounds to social media platforms (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-3 AI

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