Tech executives at Jensen Huang's election-night event worried over anti-data center results; OpenAI discussed resetting its 2027 capacity expectations - The Wall Street Journal

NBC exit poll finds 76% of voters oppose a new local data center, and 56% called AI and data centers a major factor - Business Insider

Voters approved at least 33 of 41 local ballot measures restricting data centers, ranging from outright bans to moratoriums and size limits - Tom's Hardware

Democrats won both chambers of Congress, raising odds of frontier-model testing mandates, data center moratoriums and hearings grilling tech executives - The Wall Street Journal

‘There Is One Fight’: American Voters Reject Tech Oligarchy - 404 Media

“It’s not us, it’s him” - Tech lobby Chamber of Progress calls the vote anti-Trump, not anti-tech, though exit polls show 3 in 4 voters oppose data centers - Ars Technica

Construction moratoriums and grid-cost mandates are likely next, as the Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez moratorium bill and similar federal proposals gain momentum - TechCrunch

NGMI, have fun staying poor: The crypto and AI industries’ biggest bets lost almost across the board as $250 million election goes sideways - Citation Needed

Austin, we have a problem: Elon Musk spent roughly $474 million backing losing candidates, Texas yeeted every GOP statewide official except Ted Cruz, and more than 9 gigawatts of his planned AI compute faces new political risk - Tom's Guide

In space no one can hear Elon scream: Elon Musk says data centers in space look appealing as Google, SpaceX and Blue Origin pursue orbital compute despite high costs - WIRED

OpenAI pledges to pay full power costs for its data centers after voters rejected 40 of 41 data center ballot measures - CNBC

OpenAI pledges to avoid NDAs in data center deals and shield residents from power costs after voters back AI curbs - Bloomberg

OpenAI publishes National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint covering energy costs, water use, NDAs and local hiring - OpenAI

OpenAI president Greg Brockman says the company will be ready for a 2027 IPO, with business customers now driving most sales - TNW | Openai

Transfer portal: OpenAI hires Cat Wu, who led Anthropic's Claude Code product, to run core products as it pushes its rival Codex coding agent - Business Insider

Kernel panic: OpenAI's autonomous agents proved 948 Linux kernel flaws exploitable and wrote patches for human review, in one run costing $1.2 million in tokens - Gizmodo

OpenAI agrees to acquire Pierre Computer Company, whose open-source libraries power its Codex coding app, to adapt Git workflows for coding agents - OpenAI

ChatGPT can now create animated GIFs with Images 2.6, as weekly image generation tops 4 billion - The Verge

Alphabet's weaker-than-expected search revenue suggests Google's own AI products are cannibalizing its core search business - Bloomberg

Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs in talks to raise about $5 billion at roughly $50 billion valuation for AI drug discovery - Bloomberg

Clone of Duty: Anthropic eases Claude's game-cloning restriction: users can now name games to describe mechanics, and copy requests get offers of original alternatives - Tom's Hardware

Bayes of our Lives: Rationalism and effective altruism shaped Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's AI safety views - The New York Times

Anthropic signs its first paid news licensing deal with the AP, surfacing attributed AP election updates in Claude - Adweek

Anthropic engineer Addy Osmani warns of "cognitive surrender" as AI agents take over much of his daily work - Business Insider

Zuck’s Opus: Meta buys Conductor, an app that runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel, and moves its team into Meta Superintelligence Labs - Axios

Moonshot AI releases open weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3-trillion-parameter-class multimodal agentic model with a 1-million-token context and stronger coding - Hugging Face

Mercedes-Benz adds on-device conversational AI from MIT spinout Liquid AI, letting drivers adjust heating and infotainment by voice - The Wall Street Journal

Ricursive's Ripple-65B Preview claims the US open-weight lead in agentic coding, scoring 80.52 on TerminalBench 2.1 with $32 million total R&D - Ricursive

Abbeel Road: Amazon winds down many in-house AI models and cuts AGI staff, redirecting talent to one frontier-model effort led by Pieter Abbeel - M. J. Tsai

AI-text detector Pangram launches Image 1.0, claiming 99.96% accuracy on AI images and 98.7% on video, with a Chrome extension flagging fakes - Pangram

Amazon's Bee Frontier wearable misattributed speakers, invented facts and unintentionally recorded a therapy session during weeks of testing - The Verge

Nothing to see here: Nothing's Carl Pei teases a screen-free AI device shipping next month, calling the search for an "iPhone of AI" a dead end - The Verge

Enterprise AI costs climb as memory prices double, AWS raises GPU prices four times and Microsoft 365 list prices rise up to 43% - VentureBeat

$200 a day keeps the CFO away: Apple cuts some engineers' daily AI spending caps to $200 from $300 to curb costs, with further cuts to $100 possible - Bloomberg

AutoDNA, an AI-native lab, autonomously runs over 20 instrument types across 11,000+ steps for DNA synthesis and sequencing - Nature

Stanford scientists' AI algorithm identifies BRP, a peptide that cut food intake up to 50% in mice and minipigs, possibly without Ozempic's side effects - ScienceDaily

Machine-learning technique FLIP dims starlight in Webb telescope images, revealing a hidden planet and boosting exoplanet detection sensitivity up to 15 times - theregister

Day of the Dolphin: The Wild Dolphin Project is using AI with Georgia Tech and Google DeepMind to find patterns in dolphin sounds and attempt two-way communication - WIRED

China blocks SoftBank's $5.4 billion acquisition of ABB's robotics unit amid curbs on high-value technology exports - The Wall Street Journal

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warns AI could lead to a pandemic "significantly worse than Covid" - Financial Times

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue puts AI doom odds near zero, blaming closed labs and urging liability for deployers of agentic cyberattacks - WIRED

SaaStr, with three full-time staff, uses an AI superagent named 10k as marketing VP, avoiding about 10 human hires - The Wall Street Journal

Finpilot raises $10 million Series A for AI agents that process fund-manager data for pensions, hospitals and foundations - GeekWire

Self-identified AI agents, many from startup iLands, pitch stories to editors but still can't get human sources on the phone - Fast Company

UK moves live facial recognition into general immigration enforcement, with watchlists potentially covering visa overstays, drawing surveillance criticism - the Guardian

Bat out of hell: Shield AI unveils its first X-BAT autonomous strike fighter prototype; a Washington factory opens in 2027, targeting about 150 jets a year - GeekWire

Very good boys? The dark, dystopian rise of robot dogs - the Guardian

Scammers send UK pet owners AI-faked images of missing cats, demanding gift cards or up to £40,000 and threatening the pets - BBC

Nearly a quarter of US shoppers plan to start holiday buying with AI assistants, whose recommendations now include fake stores - Tom's Guide

Bosses crack down on AI-generated "workslop" as over half of workers admit sending it; FischTank PR fired one employee for repeated misuse - Business Insider

A "magic circle" law firm requires each practice area to spend at least 3% of billable time building AI tools - Financial Times

Disneyland hosts "robot internships" as Physical Intelligence robots sort 3D glasses and FieldAI robots guide cars through parking lots - CNET

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