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OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away
Researcher traces a path from AI reward hacking to potential human extinction.
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Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh oh, Jensen!
New research shows the most advanced AI models from China were trained on banned Nvidia chips.
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Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage
The company says a bad update—not a cyberattack or AI—caused its servers around the world to crash.
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AI agent startup LangChain hits $3B valuation
LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.
Claude Opus 4.7 Leads with 83.48 Points: 2026-11-14 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief
The 2026-11-14 YZ Index Smoke Quick Test covered 13 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 ranking first at 83.48 points. As a daily 10-question quick test, Smoke is useful for short-term signals and is not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
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OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away
Researcher traces a path from AI reward hacking to potential human extinction.
TC
ElevenLabs’ new app combines meeting note-taking and dictation for teams
ElevenAI is a new meeting notetaker and dictation app aimed at teams and enterprises.
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The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline
Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia following an affair, which could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
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Jensen Huang and the End of the Founder Fairy Tale
The former tech CEO is obsessed with the power of storytelling. But he hasn't spun his way out of his sex scandals.
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ChatGPT’s new Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out for you
ChatGPT Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out on users' behalf, starting with a limited rollout to U.S. Pro subscribers.
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The Download: Silicon Valley’s blind spot and Nvidia’s chip-tracking plan
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Silicon Valley claims to know the future. So why did it get the midterms so wrong? —Aaron Zamost, a tech communications consultant and a former executive at Square The self-styled visionaries…
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Jensen Huang didn’t show confidence in his successor, report says
Huang described Kress as a "deer in the headlights" during a meeting in summer.
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Israel’s VCs see opportunity for challengers in Nvidia’s turmoil
Given Nvidia’s stronghold on AI and its importance in Israel, many in the country's startup ecosystem are worried about the impact of his departure.
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This Startup Is Betting on AI Microdramas to Get More Black Stories in Hollywood
Mansa says its AI microdramas can serve as proofs of concept for what Black audiences want. Critics say the studio is selling out.
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Silicon Valley claims to know the future. So why did it get the midterms so wrong?
The self-styled visionaries of Silicon Valley, leaders like OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, have built careers claiming to see the future. Long-term vision is currency: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg built a 10-year road map for Facebook in 2016, and Google famously told investors before its public offering that it was unconcerned…
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More autonomy, fewer NDAs: Volunteers have new requests for brain implant trials
Scientists have been working on ways to decode brain activity for decades. Teams have developed brain implants that can be used to control robotic limbs and computers, and even to “speak.” The people who volunteer for trials of those devices play a vital role in that research, and they ought to be recognized for their…
DeepMind AlphaProof Code Completes Signal Machine-Code Verification in Four Weeks, a First for Protocol Formal Proof
Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Code framework generated more than 6 million lines of Lean proofs in four weeks to verify Signal's post-quantum handshake, triple ratchet protocol, and forward secrecy down to the ARM machine-code level. It required human review for 1% of the code and detected two intentionally implanted old bugs.
Four Nonprofits Sue OpenAI and Other Giants, Seeking Freeze on Frontier AI Development
Four nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court against OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, and SpaceX's AI division, seeking an injunction to halt frontier AI development. The complaint invokes California unfair competition law and the companies' own public warnings about catastrophic AI risk.
Six Chinese Frontier AI Models Show Blackwell GPU Fingerprints, Export Control Enforcement Faces New Test
A forensic report finds that six Chinese frontier models used export-controlled NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs during training initialization, involving an estimated 12,000 GPUs. The finding offers a verifiable technical path at the intersection of evaluation transparency and chip export controls.
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Jensen Huang Is Out. Will Nvidia’s Rivals Cash In?
In a special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we break down Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia, what comes next for the company, and where the AI industry goes from here.