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White House AI Working Group: Good-Faith Cybersecurity Incident Disclosure Could Grant Companies at Least 12 Months of Liability Relief

The White House AI Working Group recommends that federal agencies grant companies at least 12 months of liability relief for good-faith voluntary disclosure of AI-driven cybersecurity vulnerabilities and incidents. It frames regulatory tolerance as a trade-off for greater private-sector reporting and collective transparency, while key questions remain over agency adoption, CISA reporting rules, and congressional reauthorization of the 2015 cybersecurity information-sharing law.

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FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace

Airlines praised the AI tool, but the air traffic controllers’ union wasn’t involved.

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Jensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say

Nvidia poured tens of billions into AI startups under Huang. Without him at the helm, founders and VCs are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations.

Google Releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen: Lower-Priced Than Argon but Higher-Scoring, Execution-Layer Strategy Fully Deployed

Google has released Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a lower-priced model in the Gemini 4 family that tops Argon on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and is positioned for coding and agentic execution tasks. The launch also introduces Orchestrator, which automatically routes work between Carbon and Hydrogen within Google Antigravity.

OpenAI Adjusts Robotics Strategy for the Third Time: General-Purpose Models Directly Control Robots as Dedicated Team Is Disbanded

OpenAI has disbanded its standalone robotics team and folded robotics researchers into its core research organization, betting that general-purpose frontier models can directly control robots. The restructuring contrasts with Google DeepMind’s specialized robotics model strategy and leaves unresolved who will handle real-world engineering challenges.

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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 Sonnet 4.6 Smoke Evaluation Main Leaderboard Plunges 11.7 Points; Material Constraint Falls 19.9 in a Single Day

In today's Smoke evaluation, Claude Sonnet 4.6's main leaderboard score dropped from 82.31 to 70.61, a decline of 11.7 points. The material constraint dimension accounted for the bulk of the drop, falling 19.9 points in a single session.

Claude Opus 4.7 Main Leaderboard Plunges 11.4 Points, Material Constraint Drops 19.3 in a Single Day

Claude Opus 4.7's main leaderboard score fell from 94.91 to 83.48 in today's Smoke evaluation, a drop of 11.4 points, while the material constraint dimension fell from 89.30 to 70.00. The decline is most likely due to a higher share of difficult constraint questions in a single day's random draw rather than an overall degradation in model capability.

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.

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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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