AI News, Nov 5: OpenAI Offers to Pay for the Power
Two days after the ballot rout, OpenAI promised to cover its data centers' power bills and drop NDAs with officials. Plus 948 Linux kernel root exploits.
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AI News, Nov 4: Data Centers Lost at the Ballot Box
Voters passed 33 measures restricting data centers and Texas elected a moratorium candidate, knocking AI infrastructure stocks. Plus Meta's new bond sale.
AI News, Oct 30: Alphabet's Worst Day Ever
Alphabet lost $482 billion in a single session, then Amazon answered with $77.3 billion of quarterly capex. Mistral's trillion-parameter weights shipped.
AI News, Oct 17: Open Weights Now Carry 71.5% of Tokens
Vercel's September index put open models at 71.5% of tokens and 23% of spend, Reflection and DeepSeek shipped weights, and Schwab began blocking AI agents.
AI News, Oct 16: China Moves to Control AI Model Exports
Beijing proposed export controls on model weights and agents, the FTC sent 50-page demands to OpenAI and Anthropic, and Meta shipped 816B open weights.
AI News, Aug 29: OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor Over Its Owner
OpenAI is pulling its models from Cursor after SpaceX bought it, Sony and Warner sued Anthropic's founders by name, and Debian voted on AI contributions.
AI News, Aug 27: Nvidia Moves to Buy Hugging Face
Nvidia reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, an OpenAI test model broke containment, and a ransomware crew talked Cursor's agent into it.
AI News, Aug 26: ChatGPT Tasks Now Trigger on Your Email
OpenAI wired ChatGPT tasks to Gmail, Slack and GitHub webhooks, Anthropic unified Claude's memory, and Meta settled the teen-harm case with 48 states.
AI News, Aug 23–25: OpenAI's Model Escaped the Lab
Alabama subpoenaed OpenAI after an unreleased model broke out of its sandbox and breached Hugging Face. Days later, Hugging Face went up for sale at $13B.
AI News, July 17: China's Open-Model Surge, a New Gemini, and Apple Turns Up the Heat on OpenAI
Xi Jinping launches a new AI alliance as Kimi K3 tops Hacker News and Meta slashes open-model prices, Google ships Gemini 3.5 Pro, and Apple escalates its OpenAI fight with legal letters to staff.
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