• Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of Signal
• Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions
• The US military seems to be getting nervous about the launch supply crunch
• Ring cameras go mobile as Amazon debuts AI-powered security drone and robot
• Democrats oppose plan to stack FCC with Republicans, plan probes of Chairman Carr
• Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI
• What happens to mathematics when AI becomes an oracle?
• Google Fi adds support for a second 5G network, won't say which one
• Pixel phones getting new icon styles, Create My Widget, and more in November Pixel Drop
• Free video-streaming service Tubi lets users share curated watchlists now
• Steam Deck performance gets a reality check with Valve's new FPS data
• High oil prices have led to a dip in global carbon emissions
• One space station company sues another for copying its work
• DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"
• Nvidia has a Jensen Huang problem—and no obvious successor
• FDA warns GLP-1 drugs may pose risk of rare condition that causes vision loss
• Polestar has a new look with its Formula 2030 concept
• Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand
• Review: Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is good, but it's missing all the exciting stuff
• DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger
| • Rox, which develops AI agents to automate customer research and outreach, raised a $100M Series B co-led by General Catalyst and March at a $1.3B valuation (Morgan Chittum/Fortune)
• After the US midterms, Palantir CEO Alex Karp pivots toward Democrats, describing his philosophy as progressive and acknowledging ICE's enforcement missteps (Politico)
• An analysis of 42 interviews since 2022: after US chip restrictions, Jensen Huang's public rhetoric became more admiring of China and critical of export rules (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)
• Sources: Anthropic's IPO draws multiple times the orders for the shares available; a source says Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon have a livestream event on Friday (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
• Salt Lake City-based energy storage startup Torus raised a $500M Series C led by Magnetar to build shipping container-sized AI data centers at 1MW to 20MW sizes (Mark Chediak/Bloomberg)
• London-based AI chip startup Fractile raised $720M from Thrive, Founders Fund, and others, sources say at a $7B post-money valuation, up from ~$1.1B in May (George Hammond/Financial Times)
• Wesleyan Media Project: political campaigns spent ~$187M on ~300 AI-generated or AI-enhanced ads in the midterms; 90% of tracked AI ads were for GOP candidates (Loreben Tuquero/Poynter)
• Anthropic's IPO roadshow video: Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be "relics of the past" in "less than a decade" (@firesidealpha)
• Game developer House House confirms using AI during Big Walk's final development, sparking an intense debate among Independent Games Festival judges and jurors (Luke Plunkett/Aftermath)
• German defense tech giant Helsing launches Clarity, an intelligence platform using military-customized AI agents to rival Palantir's Maven and Anduril's Lattice (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
• Sources: ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming says the company plans to launch a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks and reach the AI frontier by 2029-2030 (Bloomberg)
• As Anthropic prepares to IPO, Amazon and Google collectively own 25%+; Amazon's $18B investment could reach $250B+ in value and Google's $33B could hit $140B (Karen Weise/New York Times)
• Sources: SoftBank reserved 13GW+ of turbines, equivalent to six Hoover Dams, to power AI; SoftBank took a $3.7B earnings hit mostly from canceled reservations (Wall Street Journal)
• After China's anti-corruption crackdown on hospital visits and pharma reps, drugmakers are turning to AI assistants from Alibaba and others to reach physicians (Andrew Silver/Reuters)
• Filing: Alphabet agrees to additional privacy protections to salvage its $10M acquisition of bankrupt Spirit Airlines' data, resolving union objections (Alexander Gladstone/Wall Street Journal)
| • Europe wants to ban 'dark patterns' in apps and loot boxes for minors
• Microsoft's Automatic Super Resolution is now officially out for the ROG Xbox Ally X
• A Grok vibe-coding agent leaked sensitive SpaceXSI data
• 2027 Chevrolet Bolt Review: RIP to the GOAT of low-cost electric motoring
• Apple is shutting down its online Support Community on November 20
• Lucid CEO says the company didn't know where its own cars were
• Samsung Gallery now syncs with Google to back up your photos
• What is the average lifespan of recordable Blu-ray discs?
• Why your Roku might be plugged into the wrong HDMI port
• iFixit teardown shows how Apple's glowing PROLED MacBook logo works
• How to get this Siri camera upgrade for your iPad before its public release
• NVIDIA shareholders are suing the company and CEO Jensen Huang
• How SCSKiller is trying to fix shader stuttering in PC games
• These Xiaomi phones are no longer getting support with the latest HyperOS 4 update
• Meta warns some of its AI glasses may get 'too warm' if they get wet
• The Disney+ app on Meta Quest now includes 3D movies
• What is the 'Dead Internet Theory' and should humanity be worried?
• The best-selling game console of all time is over 25 years old
• New York will independently test AI models
• How much did the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 cost in 2020 vs 2026?
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