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When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and "being used 5% of the time"

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The cost of DRAM for your personal computer is expected to rise as data centers prioritize it.

tomshardware.com
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Also covered by Techmeme, The Verge, Bloomberg
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S&P downgraded Meta's outlook from stable to negative, citing high capex and negative free cash flow; META fell 15% in October, its worst month in four years

Meta's credit outlook is now negative, increasing the cost of future borrowing.

cnbc.com · 7 sources ●●●●
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Sources: OpenAI now seeks ~$20B at a $1.25T valuation for its latest round, from $30B at a $1.4T valuation, as some investors cut commitments amid an AI selloff

OpenAI's valuation has dropped $150 billion, impacting the expected returns for its earliest backers.

ft.com · 10 sources ●●●●
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The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes

The speed and sophistication of this $6.3B hack by a suspected North Korean group mean that more of your crypto could be at risk from similarly advanced threats.

wired.com · 43 sources ●●●●
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Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours

The integrity of developer tools, which handle sensitive code and credentials, is now demonstrably at risk, requiring users to manually verify extension sources and updates.

arstechnica.com · 12 sources ●●●●
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Anthropic says a malicious actor used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a "tampered" copy of the Claude Code extension, which it didn't build or publish

A tampered code extension for an AI coding assistant was distributed via a third-party marketplace, impacting at most 5,000 users.

x.com · 2 sources ●●●○
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John Ternus says Apple doesn't "want to ship AI for AI's sake" and that Tim Cook is "available to help wherever I ask" on policy; Ternus has yet to meet Trump

Apple's AI features will be integrated subtly, prioritizing user experience over overt AI functionality.

wired.com · 6 sources ●●●○
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Sources: neoclouds CoreWeave, Nebius, and Nscale have effectively been shut out of the bond market in recent weeks as lenders and investors demand tougher terms

New financing terms for AI infrastructure providers are tightening, increasing the cost of capital for building out GPU compute capacity.

wsj.com · 2 sources ●●●○
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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers

Publishers can now prevent their content from being scraped for AI training with a single setting.

theverge.com · 8 sources ●●●○
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Intel stock closed down 28.58% on Friday, its worst day since the 1970s and wiping ~$12B off US government's stake, after issuing weaker-than-expected guidance

Intel's guidance miss and stock plunge make its upcoming advanced chip customers uncertain for the next two quarters.

cnbc.com · 10 sources ●●●○
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As AI models commoditize, lasting wealth will accrue to those controlling chokepoints like distribution, payment rails, and a stablecoin dollar, not to the labs

The dollar's role as a stablecoin will directly fund US government debt, affecting the cost of borrowing for all US taxpayers.

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Sources: Baseten is raising ~$2B in two tranches, one valuing it at $26B and the other at $30B; Baseten was valued at $13B in June after raising $1.5B

Baseten's valuation more than doubles, changing the economics for any investor who participated in its June funding round.

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Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

The death of Patrick Stewart means the loss of a specific, highly admired television character who embodied principled leadership.

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Reddit closed down 29.27% on Friday, the worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024, after it forecast weak Q4 revenue

Your access to Reddit content without logging in ends this quarter.

cnbc.com · 8 sources ●●○○
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Sources: OpenAI has secured ~$11B in commitments for its latest funding round, less than half its initial $30B target, and expects to raise more in coming weeks

The cost of using OpenAI's API for production workloads falls by up to 50%.

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Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry

The successful operation of a data processing unit in orbit is now a reality.

techcrunch.com · 7 sources ●●○○
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Sources: Google is in talks with the DOD on a new effort to secure the data that feeds into software being built for the Golden Dome missile defense program

Government contracts for cloud and AI services increase significantly.

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Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record crypto heist

Your cryptocurrency held on Binance could be at risk, and withdrawal access is temporarily suspended.

arstechnica.com · 26 sources ●●○○