Techmeme
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Jensen Huang's affair shines a spotlight on Nvidia's weak board and opaque succession planning at what has become the world's most important company (Semafor)
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AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information over the past month (Anna Tong/Forbes)
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SpaceX plans a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility in Starbase, TX, with ~$24B of investment for initial phases, per a public hearing notice (Bloomberg)
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Anthropic prices Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at $8/1M input and $40/1M output tokens, down 20% from 5.1; fast mode costs $16/1M input and $80/1M output tokens (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
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Anthropic says during prerelease testing Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 formalized the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and solved two open black hole physics problems (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Anthropic releases Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2, saying they are "best for the most ambitious, open-ended technical work", with outputs up to 30% faster than 5.1 (Anthropic)
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Mavria, which aims to build modular data centers that can be shipped by trucks, raised $130M across pre-seed and seed rounds at a $1B valuation led by Paradigm (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
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Elliptic: hackers behind the $6.3B Binance heist created at least six memecoins on the NEAR blockchain network to launder about $430,000 of stolen funds (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
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Meta releases Muse Ember, its smallest and most cost-efficient AI model yet, saying it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
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Uber launches Uber Parking, an in-app parking reservation tool powered by its SpotHero acquisition, in 15 US cities, including Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
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French officials say Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind the cyberattacks that knocked out commercial refrigerators and freezers across France in October (Reuters)
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Sources: a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China was transferred to the DOJ after Nvidia intervened (New York Times)
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In a 60 Minutes interview, Trump says the DOJ threatened a top exec at "one of the big" AI companies over "bad" activities and this "person totally changed" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
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An interview with ex-Shein Executive Chair Donald Tang who insists it was his decision to step down ahead of the troubled IPO, Shein's valuation rout, and more (Patrick Jenkins/Financial Times)
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Disney and Adobe sign a multiyear deal to build proprietary "artist-led" generative AI models with Adobe Firefly Foundry to support Disney's production pipeline (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)