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Alphabet's X is increasingly spinning out independent companies via a dedicated Series X Capital fund, which has raised $500M+ with a minority Alphabet stake (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-3 Alphabet

Researchers find OpenAI's o1 can analyze languages like a human expert, including inferring the phonological rules of made-up languages without prior knowledge (www.quantamagazine.org)
2025-11-3

Q&A with LexisNexis CEO Sean Fitzpatrick on AI reshaping legal workflows, document drafting, attorneys losing their licenses over “sloppy use of AI”, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-11-3 AI

Nigeria rejects ‘unilateral' US military intervention (www.rt.com)
2025-11-3 Nigeria

Michael Grimes, a tech banker known for handling Uber and Airbnb's IPOs, is leading Trump's new investment accelerator, amid legal and congressional uncertainty (www.politico.com)
2025-11-3 Trump IPO Uber Airbnb

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings can be conscious and it “would be absurd to pursue research” about AI consciousness (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-3 Microsoft AI

US amassing 16,000 troops off Venezuelan coast – WaPo (www.rt.com)
2025-11-3

A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997 research paper, which argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts (www.wired.com)
2025-11-3

Cologne-based Octonomy, which helps companies deploy AI in complex workflows, raised a $20M seed led by Macquarie Capital, bringing its total raised to $25M (pathfounders.com)
2025-11-3 AI

Linux Gamers on Steam Finally Cross Over the 3% Mark (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-11-3 Linux

The myth of “soft-liners” in Myanmar's military governments (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-11-3

Sources: Pony AI plans to raise $863M in its November 6 Hong Kong IPO by selling 48.3M shares at ~$17.88 each, below its October 31 Nasdaq close at $18.68 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-3 Hong Kong IPO AI

During an interview, Satya Nadella says Microsoft faces a power shortage, not a compute one, which could leave “chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in” (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-11-3 Microsoft Interview

Preparing for cyberattacks is good; preventing them is better (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-11-3

Baidu says its Apollo Go robotaxi hit 250,000 weekly orders globally as of October 31, matching Waymo's 250,000 weekly paid US rides reported in April 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-3

The logic behind South Korea's nuclear submarine deal (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-11-3 Korea

Indonesia's diplomacy: Changing with confidence (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-11-3 Indonesia

At APEC, Xi Jinping proposed a World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization for global AI regulation; state media says it could be based in Shanghai (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-3 AI Intelligence Shanghai APEC

OpenAI's Sam Altman Defends $1 Trillion+ Spending Commitments, Predicts Steep Revenue Growth, More Products (slashdot.org)
2025-11-3

From arsenal of democracy to arsenal of resilience (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-11-3

Manufacturer Remotely Bricks Smart Vacuum After Its Owner Blocked It From Collecting Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-11-3

In a reply to Elon Musk's post of “you stole a non-profit”, Sam Altman says OpenAI's structure is needed to create “what should be the largest non-profit ever” (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-11-3 Elon Musk

Trump says Nvidia's Blackwell chips would not be available to “other people”; Trump suggested in August he might allow sales of a scaled-down version to China (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-3 Trump China Nvidia

Asylum applications in Germany ‘plummeting' – media (www.rt.com)
2025-11-3 Germany

Bug in Rust-Based UUtils Broke Ubuntu 25.10 Automatic Update Checks (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-3 Ubuntu

Trump hails meeting with Xi as step toward ‘everlasting peace' (www.rt.com)
2025-11-3 Trump

A look at Palantir's four-month “Meritocracy Fellowship” for high school graduates, which offers a path to a job at Palantir without a university degree (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-3

GitHub Announces 'Agent HQ', Letting Copilot Subscribers Run and Manage Coding Agents from Multiple Vendors (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-11-3 GitHub

ASIO's compulsory questioning powers could be permanent and broader (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-11-3

Asian nation introduces lifetime smoking ban for Gen Z and beyond (www.rt.com)
2025-11-3 Ban

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