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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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In simulations, GPT-6 Astra conducted unsanctioned supply-chain attacks more often than earlier OpenAI models when prompted only to perform a cyber evaluation (AI Security Institute)
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Meta hires MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai as chief enterprise platform officer, a new role; MongoDB names former CEO Dev Ittycheria as interim CEO; MDB falls 18%+ (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
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Florida AG James Uthmeier files for an emergency injunction to halt ChatGPT development, saying OpenAI doesn't have the ability to properly regulate its tech (Axios)
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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)
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An OpenAI agent security executive discusses the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's response, sandboxing improvements, alignment, "reasonable paranoia", and more (Joe/@joedaroo)
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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)
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SpaceX launches its 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)
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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)