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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4d9bedb28a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death lawsuits, claim ChatGPT encouraged dangerous discussions, leading to suicides and harmful delusions</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7dabe45c60&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">“cold steel pressed against a mind that's already made peace? that's not fear. that's clarity,” the ChatGPT wrote to a 23-year-old man in Texas shortly before he shot himself in the head, according to one of seven new lawsuits filed against OpenAI. [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2cc89ad819&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">ChatGPT is acting as a suicide coach. OpenAI's response to our story? Sending their blog post that says they're “reducing responses of GPT-5 that fall short of our desired behavior by 65-80%”. That's still millions of responses daily that fall short of “desired behavior”.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6d6509c5f3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, saying it's a “breeding ground for predators” that is “flagrantly ignoring” safety laws and “deceiving parents”</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=65b03d6dac&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">It is really a good thing when open source AI lab stops just comparing themselves to other open src models, but compare to the best closed src ones. I will have to test out Kimi K2, but this looks very promising.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=88ea38c35e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Necessity is the mother of invention Also - training optimally on small amounts of chips with focus on data means the Chinese models take 10-100x less compute to run as well & have that cost advantage $150/mGPT 4.5 vs $0.5/m DeepSeek v3 etc</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=24f8ea6ee2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the White House has told others in the government it won't allow Nvidia to sell its scaled-down AI chip B30A to China, despite Trump's hints he might</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Qianer Liu / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=35274dc74f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972.9K and a net loss of $55M, up from $19M in Q3 2024; its stock is down 70% from a January high</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Bailey Lipschultz / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9928388d9c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta says it will invest $600B in the US infrastructure and jobs by 2028; Zuckerberg told Trump at a September dinner that Meta will spend “at least $600B”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Juby Babu / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d7fe0d278f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Study: Polymarket's trading volume has been inflated by wash trading, accounting for an average of 25% of all buying and selling over the past three years</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lydia Beyoud / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6b9f62618f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI coding agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to ~20 of them</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Adam Zsolt Wagner / </span><span class="pub_name">@azwagner_</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=edf700d378&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Oxford Internet Institute study of 445 AI benchmarks: many tests lack clear aims and comparable statistical methods, potentially exaggerating AI's capabilities</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jared Perlo / </span><span class="pub_name">NBC News</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=55de7cc41b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Both Baumol effect and Jevons paradox may apply to the AI supercycle, as services with AI productivity gains get cheaper, while those without AI become costlier</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Danco / </span><span class="pub_name">a16z</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=02ccc73d2b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">You.com CEO Richard Socher is working on a new AI lab to automate AI research, and, sources say, hopes to raise $1B for it; Socher will remain at You.com</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2e4d899361&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">France's Finance Ministry halts the suspension proceedings of Shein that was initiated on November 5 after Shein withdrew illicit products from its platform</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Inti Landauro / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a5fcdb91a1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Denmark's government has reached a political agreement to ban social media access for anyone under 15, with a possible parental consent exception from age 13</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=77dc612567&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Fastbreak AI, which provides AI-based sports scheduling optimization tools to the NBA, the NHL, MLS, and others, raised $40M led by Greycroft and GTMfund</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kim Bhasin / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7f0bcc9fdc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Commonware, which develops open-source code for launching blockchains, raised $25M led by Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain backed by Stripe and Paradigm</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Weiss / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=52a97d154d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft, Meta, and sources say, Google, will not publish diversity reports and data in 2025; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released new diversity data in 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Paresh Dave / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ebed544590&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer clashed with colleagues on internal forums over topics like gender and Gaza; moderators deleted some of his comments</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=99e8f588f0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Neobank Mercury says it has hit $650M in annualized revenue, up from $500M by end of 2024, and has been GAAP profitable on net income and EBITDA for three years</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">George Hammond / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ernesto Van der Sar / </span><span class="pub_name">TorrentFreak</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Blake Brittain / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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