Sources: the European Commission plans a new antitrust probe into Meta over its rollout of AI features in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
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The European Commission opens an antitrust investigation into Meta over its new policy on AI providers
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OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce "confessions", or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
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OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior
Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up.
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OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce “confessions”, or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat
By Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review. View the full context on Techmeme.
Nvidia says its GB200 Blackwell AI servers boost performance 10x compared to H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking and DeepSeek's R1 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-servers-speed-up-ai-models-chinas-moonshoot-ai-others-tenfold-2025-12-03/
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Nvidia says GB200 Blackwell AI servers, which pack 72 chips in one unit, boost performance 10x over H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot
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A profile of Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski, who pivoted from Jehovah's Witness to helping solve "species-level" problems by funding AI research (Biz Carson/Bloomberg)
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Andy Konwinski Went From Jehovah’s Witness Outcast to AI Evangelist
He co-founded Databricks and Perplexity. Now he wants to solve ‘species-level’ problems.
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A profile of Databricks co-founder and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, who pivoted from Jehovah
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The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in "censorship", including fact-checking and online safety (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders-enhanced-vetting-applicants-h-1b-visa-2025-12-04/
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The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in “censorship”, including fact-checking and online safety
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Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI tools that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $35M Series B led by VMG Partners at a $350M valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
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Seattle startup Gradial raises $35M to boost agentic tools that automate enterprise marketing
The Gradial team. (Gradial Photos) Seattle startup Gradial raised a $35 million Series B round to expand its AI platform that automates the
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Seattle-based Gradial, which makes agentic tools that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $35M Series B led by VMG Partners at a $350M valuation
By Taylor Soper / GeekWire. View the full context on Techmeme.
Sources: Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, last summer for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-has-explored-deal-to-build-competitor-to-elon-musks-spacex-01574ff7
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Sources: last summer, Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active
By Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
Intel shelves plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division NEX, after deciding that the business is more likely to succeed as an internal unit (Bloomberg)
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Intel Shelves Plans to Sell Networking Division After Review
Intel Corp. said it’s shelving plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division, after the company decided it’s more likely to succ...
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Intel shelves plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division, NEX, after deciding that the business is more likely to succeed as an internal unit
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Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multi-year $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake and deploy AI agents across enterprises (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/snowflake-narrows-loss-as-revenue-climbs-04110886
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Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multiyear $200M deal to make Anthropic
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The US DOJ has indicted two Virginia brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors (Sam Sabin/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/12/03/virgina-twins-doj-arrest-opexus-data-breaches
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The US DOJ indicts two Virginia twin brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors
By Sam Sabin / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.