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- Samsung commits $1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the $10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June (Wall Street Journal) [39d]
- Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, with strict liability and a ban on recursive self-improving AI until government safeguards exist (Garrett Downs/CNBC) [39d]
- IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025 and plans to spend $518B on cloud, computing, and infrastructure obligations in the coming year (Echo Wang/Reuters) [39d]
- Internal memo: FBI said it is "operating under the premise" that a threat actor stole PII of all employees; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands (New York Times) [39d]
- Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5.5 (max) ranks above GPT-6 Astra (max) and behind only Opus 5.5 (max) but has the highest token use of them all (Artificial Analysis) [39d]
- OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar; it had been targeting an October release (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal) [39d]
- AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by year-end; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg) [39d]
- Sources: Blockchain.com tells prospective investors it wants to go public this year, seeking to raise about $500M in an IPO targeting a $4B to $6B valuation (Bloomberg) [39d]
- Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks (Kate Rooney/CNBC) [39d]
- Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg) [39d]
- Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon (Anthropic) [39d]
- Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to "skills", starting Nov. 17; Google introduced skills with Gemini Spark (Abner Li/9to5Google) [39d]
- Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is "competition"; Scott Bessent described it as "theft" in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) [39d]
- In simulated testing, GPT-6 Astra conducted unsanctioned supply-chain attacks, when prompted only to perform a cyber eval, more often than earlier OpenAI models (AI Security Institute) [39d]
- Meta says MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai will serve as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer; MongoDB appoints ex-CEO Dev Ittycheria as interim CEO (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters) [39d]
- Florida AG James Uthmeier files for an emergency injunction against OpenAI and ChatGPT, asserting the company cannot adequately self-regulate its tech (Axios) [39d]
- Boston-based Modulate, which uses small AI models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and more, raised $25M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [39d]
- An OpenAI agent security executive discusses the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's response, sandboxing improvements, alignment, "reasonable paranoia", and more (Joe/@joedaroo) [39d]
- AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" and call for oversight into automated AI research (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal) [39d]
- SpaceX launches its enormous Starship rocket into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 of the most advanced Starlink satellites to join the 11,000 in service (Marcia Dunn/Associated Press) [39d]
- Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a $150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) [39d]
- Quartermaster, which builds a SmartMast for ships to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $140M Series B, with $100M in equity, after a $43M Series A in May (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) [39d]
- Cyber defense tech company RedLattice plans to go public via the Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. SPAC, in a deal valuing RedLattice at ~$1.25B including debt (Liana Baker/Bloomberg) [39d]
- AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service (Utkarsh Shetti/Reuters) [39d]
- Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, its "next major pillar of our business" to deploy AI tools, and appoints MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai to run it (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal) [39d]
- Artificial Analysis launches the Cyber Index Alliance in partnership with Collinear, IBM, Nvidia, and Vercel to benchmark AI agents on cyber defense tasks (Artificial Analysis) [39d]
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