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NVIDIA board opens independent inquiry into reported intelligence targeting · Anthropic reportedly secures $3.4 billion in generator commitments · US AI safety officials reportedly asked to report to White House
NVIDIA’s board announced an independent inquiry on November 8 following reports that CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence effort. Outside counsel will assist independent directors; the board says it has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised.
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Reuters relayed a November 8 Financial Times report that Anthropic secured about $3.4 billion in commitments for 1.7 gigawatts of gas-fired generators from OnePWR Solutions. The reported deal addresses data-center power needs, but Reuters could not independently verify it.
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AP reported November 8 that CAISSI officials were asked to informally report to a White House office. With the AI evaluation center lacking a permanent leader and no longer publishing research, the arrangement raises questions about independent oversight.
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Elvis Presley’s music rights owners and Eminem publisher Eight Mile Style filed separate lawsuits against Suno over alleged unauthorized use of their work. The Presley complaint also invokes Tennessee’s ELVIS Act over alleged voice imitation, extending the dispute beyond training-data copyright.
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Reuters reported November 6 that OpenAI closed an initial $11 billion tranche of a funding round valuing it at $1.25 trillion, with SoftBank and MGX participating. The first close is below the originally sought funding total, highlighting cooler investor sentiment toward AI valuations.
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Crusoe confirmed November 6 that Google acquired its southeast Wyoming data-center site after pre-development work on site selection, approvals and power strategy. The handover advances a planned AI infrastructure campus toward construction rather than marking the opening of an operating facility.
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Perplexity’s November 6 update makes Teammates available to Max subscribers on the web for ongoing assignments using existing tasks, skills, memory and tools. The agents can coordinate and communicate through Slack, moving delegation beyond individual prompts.
Read at PerplexityHugging Face introduced a Slack bot for ML Intern, bringing its HuggingChat agent into workspace threads under each user’s own account. Separate sessions and approval-based compute budgets let users initiate model work from chat while retaining task-level controls.
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Cognition introduced Devin Review 2.0 on November 5 with incremental pull-request reviews, per-request spending limits and custom reviewers in beta. The company reports lower review costs, aiming to expand automated checks as coding agents increase code volume.
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Anthropic’s November 5 study of roughly 207,000 research sessions found Claude use concentrated in data analysis and writing, with less use for idea generation and data gathering. The findings show uneven adoption across scientific workflows rather than a direct measurement of faster discoveries.
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