Anthropic finds that LLMs trained to "reward hack" by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research (Anthropic) https://www.anthropic.com/research/emergent-misalignment-reward-hacking
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Anthropic finds that LLMs trained to “reward hack” by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research
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A look at AMD's pivot to AI chips in 2022 under CEO Lisa Su, increasing AMD's market value from $90B to $335B+ in three years, as the chipmaker takes on Nvidia (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amd-ceo-lisa-su-ai-5afadf0b?st=umUhmW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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A look at AMD
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A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)
The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.
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A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google
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Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years ago from Google, plans to step down in December (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/airbnb-says-chief-technology-officer-balogh-to-depart
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Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years ago from Google, plans to step down in December
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Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/trump-team-internally-floats-idea-of-selling-nvidia-h200-chips-to-china
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Sources: Trump
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Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
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Google says hackers stole data from 200 companies following Gainsight breach | TechCrunch
Notorious hacking collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters takes credit for the breach that affected Salesforce customers’ data, and said it is plann...
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Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform
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CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
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CrowdStrike catches insider feeding information to hackers
American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with hackers after they were lea...
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CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached
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Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year (Alex Heath/Sources)
Sierra's revenue flex
ARR is the new AI startup recruiting pitch. Also: Harvey's Winston Weinberg this week on ACCESS.
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Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year
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Sources: Kalshi told investors that its trading volume grew six times in the last six months and it is on an annualized pace for $600M to $700M in net revenue (Cory Weinberg/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/las-vegas-kalshi-king
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Sources: Kalshi told investors that its trading volume grew six times in the last six months and it is on an annualized pace for $600M to $700M in net revenue
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Sources: the US has probed whether the products of China's Bitmain, which sells most of the world's Bitcoin-mining machines, pose risks of espionage or sabotage (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/chinese-manufacturer-bitmain-faces-us-security-review
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Sources: the US has probed whether the products of China
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