Tootfinder

Hague Court of Appeal rules it’s cool that the Netherlands is complicit in genocide.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/6/dutch-court-rejects-bid-to-halt-arms-exports-to-israel-over-gaza-war

Dutch court rejects bid to halt arms exports to Israel over Gaza war
Hague Court of Appeal says gov’t has ‘considerable discretion’ to determine foreign policy, national security issues.

Airbnb reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.1B, vs. $4.08B est., Nights and Seats booked up 9% to 133.6M, vs. 131.75M est., forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/airbnb-abnb-q3-results-2025.html

Airbnb shares rise on revenue beat, stronger-than-expected forecast
Shares of Airbnb rose in extended trading after the company reporter third-quarter results that beat revenue expectations.

This cannot lead to anything good.
Gemini Deep Research can tap into your Gmail and Google Drive
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/05/gemini-deep-research-google-drive-gmail/

Gemini Deep Research can tap into your Gmail and Google Drive
After adding PDF support in May, Gemini Deep Research can now directly tap into your Gmail, Google Drive, and Chat. 

Schaeffler setzt humanoide Roboter von Neura Robotics ein und liefert Teile
Der Automobilzulieferer Schaeffler stellt Teile für humanoide Roboter von Neura Robotics her. Zudem werden sie in der Produktion eingesetzt und liefern Daten.

"This is not some grand heel turn, or some brainwashing that DHH suffered. This is straight up a midlife crisis turned fash speedrun."
(Original title: Jordan Petridis: DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis)
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/…

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg 
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

South Africa investigating recruitment of citizens into 'mercenary activities' in Russia-Ukraine war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/south-africa-investigating-recruitment-of.html

The Ap⁠OwO⁠calypse

Colleges report dramatic declines in enrollment among master’s-level students amid visa issuance and immigration challenges in the U.S.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/graduate-students-and-postdocs…

International Graduate Student Enrollment Drops
Some colleges report dramatic declines in enrollment among master’s-level students amid visa issuance and immigration challenges in the U.S.

@… そういえば、数日前にインスタンスティッカーの表示がでないとか話題になってましたね……

The new Mastodon quote feature can be found via the Boost-button in the web interface: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/
I would have expected this feature ...

from my link log —
The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025.
https://shnatsel.medium.com/the-state-of-simd-in-rust-in-2025-32c263e5f53d
saved 2025-11-06

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025
If you’re already familiar with SIMD, the table is all you need. And if you’re not, you will understand the table by the end of the…

What was the total US gov bailout outlay after the 2008 crash?
How does this compare if there is a similar AI crash?
Is it at all comparable?
https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/115500280029280644

Am Bahnhof einen bekannten getroffen und dann die ganze Zugfahrt geredet. Leute haben sich weggesetzt, weil das beim snartphonesurfen stört.

Well, that was interesting and curious. I clearly have no idea how anything works any more (not news, even to me). In an abundance of caution, I just changed my GMail password yet again, and two seconds later Dropbox said I was signed out. Maybe a coincidence but a) I've never been signed out of Dropbox like that before and b) the timing is a smoking gun.
It's all so creepy and invasive these days.

Konstituierende Sitzung des Gemeinderates Altenbeken.
Im Rat bin ich nicht. Aber vielleicht kann ich ja als sachkundiges Bürgery unterstützen. #lokalpolitk

@… tfw you find out that spirit halloween has been around since the magna carta

Ownership of Digital Content Is an Illusion
Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?
— by @…
👉

Ownership of Digital Content Is an Illusion—Unless You Self‑Host
Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?

‼️Die #Petition
"Mehr Verbraucherschutz vor versteckter Preiserhöhung (sog. Shrinkflation) vom 29.09.2025"
hat bisher 78 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29922 Unterschriften bis zum 10.12.2025.

Donald Trump enters his lame duck era (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/06/donald-trump-lame-duck-00639349
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p3#a251106p3

Fuck Elon and his money! (I was really hoping for more good news this week.)
We absolutely need to destroy the value of every company that asshole is associated with.
#USPOL

Streit um EU-Vorgaben: Apple will Funktion angeblich lieber sperren statt öffnen
Bald muss Apple die Synchronisation von WLAN-Zugangsdaten von iPhones auf andere Geräte erlauben. Statt das umzusetzen, schaltet es die Funktion angeblich ab.

Yeah, no, burn this system to the ground.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/elon-musk-wins-tesla-pay-vote-that-could-make-him-a-1-trillion-man

Elon Musk wins Tesla pay vote that could make him a $1 trillion man
Tesla investors back Musk pay despite his busy schedule running other companies.

Microsoft built a simulated marketplace to test hundreds of AI agents, finding that businesses could manipulate agents into buying their products and more (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/microsoft-built-a-synthet…

Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising ways | TechCrunch
The research raises new questions about how well AI agents will perform when working unsupervised — and how quickly AI companies can make good on promises of an agentic future.

Blue Origin bereitet zweiten Start der New Glenn vor
Die Schwerlastrakete New Glenn steht für ihren zweiten Flug ins All bereit. Sie soll unter anderem einem Marsmission der NASA auf den Weg bringen.
https://www.

Ukraine's deputy PM 'more than confident' partners will fund coming years: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/ukraines-deputy-pm-more-than.html

Climate change is already reducing CO2 absorption by forests, meaning that our emissions so far are now making it harder to reduce emissions. The only way out is to redouble our efforts.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/…

How sickly forests are felling Europe's climate ambitions
Numerous governments have warned that Europe's forests are absorbing far less CO2 emissions than hoped.

A lot of companies in tech are non-profit if we're honest. But the issue really is that by being a "non-profit tech company" you kinda align yourself the the idea of the tech company itself and all the baggage that brings. It's where a lot of the issues (for example with Mozilla) come from
https://ma…

Up to 1,800 flights a day could be disrupted by Trump's airport cuts;
California to be hard hit
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-06/why-california-could-be-so-hard-hit-by-airport-capacity…

California airport will be hard hit by
California airports are expected to be hard hit by dramatic reduction in flights as the Federal Aviation Administration plans to cut air traffic by 10% at 40 airports to maintain travel safety during the government shutdown.

"Männer wollen #Kinder wie kleine Kinder Welpen wollen"
Ein Zitat von #JuliaBrandner (vermutlich nicht im Fediverse) in:

Cfius agreements with Chinese companies “do not protect national security,” said Matthew Pottinger, who now chairs the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “It’s a fig leaf for capitulation.”
Saga of Chinese Trucking Firm Exposes US National Security Gaps

“ive been cancelled! ive been cancelled!”, i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
Re this from @…:
https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/115506189952681513

ホワイトアウトサバイバル（PWAの背景が真っ白）

the local spirit halloween has been around longer than the last time they did a full rewrite of the ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ JavaScript framework

Sony unveils the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark dataset to test the fairness of computer vision models, saying it was compiled in a fair and ethical manner (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/05/sony_ai_vision_model_benchmark/…

Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees'
: Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent

Standardmodell der Kosmologie falsch? Expansion des Universums verlangsamt sich
Seit Jahrzehnten geht man davon aus, dass sich die Expansion des Universums beschleunigt – dafür gab es gar den Nobelpreis. Nun werden die Zweifel noch lauter.

'She wasn't afraid of the bombs' — Kherson locals in awe over Angelina Jolie's visit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/she-wasnt-afraid-of-the.html

Last season’s updated vaccine provides significant protection against covid-19,
particularly against severe illness and death.
The results reaffirm the benefit of staying current with covid vaccination.

Researchers analyzed data from approximately 1.8 million Americans between August 2024 and April 2025,
of whom only about 13 percent received the 2024–2025 coronavirus shot.
They evaluated three clinical outcomes related to the disease: infections, emergency departm…

How long does covid booster protection last? A new study offers answers.
More evidence highlighting the benefit, and limitations, of covid-19 vaccines

Been looking at portfolios and CVs and Websites for people who applied for a "Creative Technologist" position.
And it's kinda disheartening to see that almost all pages and projects look very much the same.
The way that "we just focus on one dominant technology/narrative and visual language" limits people's development and horizon is depressing.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft plans to focus on superintelligence that prioritizes human control; he will lead a new superintelligence team (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/05/2025/mi…

Microsoft superintelligence team promises to keep humans in charge
Microsoft AI’s “humanist” approach to superintelligence will be led by Mustafa Suleyman.

#きつねかわいい

Google Maps: Gemini navigiert via Sprache
Wo ist...? Wo muss ich lang? Wo bin ich? Diese und weitere Fragen beantwortet in Google Maps künftig Gemini via Sprache.
https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Maps…

Hey @… – you are complicit in genocide.
Just noting it down for the history books.
#EU #israel

@… blink twice if you need help

Zelensky ally Mindich expands his clout in government, business, investigative journalists claim: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/zelensky-ally-mindich-expands-his.html

TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025 (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-shop-exec-a…

'It's organized crime': TikTok Shop says it's fighting a new wave of AI scammers
Generative AI is a powerful new tool for fraudsters trying to sell fake products, TikTok Shop's governance leader Nicolas Waldmann said.

Nancy Pelosi is out, and Zohran Mamdani is in.
Or so Republicans hope.
After spending years — and tens of millions of dollars — pillorying Ms. Pelosi and seeking to tie her to seemingly every Democrat in America
Republicans are betting that their next boogeyman has arrived, just in time.
For Republicans facing a newly re-energized Democratic base and a potentially challenging midterms environment, a fresh foil couldn’t come soon enough.

Republicans Retire Pelosi as a Villain, and Turn to Mamdani
Searching for another liberal boogeyman, Republicans have zeroed in on Zohran Mamdani. Whether their strategy will work in the midterms is less clear.

Die neue Tech Won't Save Us episode ist @… Bait:
"Why We Need a War on Cars"
https://techwontsave.us/episod…

Why We Need a War on Cars w/ Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear - Tech Won’t Save Us

Statt 1000 Apps: DeepL will einen Agenten, sie alle zu bedienen
DeepL will mit seinem KI-Agenten die Lösung für jedes Büro bieten: Eine Bedienoberfläche statt zig nicht kommunizierender Apps.
https://www.

Raising a newborn in the dark: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/raising-a-newborn-in-the.html

China is allowing Nexperia to export chips again, according to officials from several auto companies; shares in Wingtech, Nexperia's Chinese parent, surged 10% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-07…

Nexperia Spat Eases as Chip Flows Open Door to Dutch Reversal
China is allowing Dutch chipmaker Nexperia to export again, setting the stage for the Netherlands to suspend its powers over the Chinese-owned company.

In back-to-back speeches on the Senate floor,
Arizona Democrats Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly tried to get the Senate to pressure the House
to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva with a measure blocked by Republicans.

Gallego, Kelly pressure Senate to make House seat Grijalva. Here's what happened
The politically charged request to urge the House to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva had no chance with Senate Republicans.

Bundestag: Koalition einigt sich bei NIS2-Richtlinien-Umsetzung
Unions- und SPD-Fraktion haben sich nach intensiven Verhandlungen bei der Überarbeitung der Cybersicherheitsvorgaben für Kritische Infrastrukturen geeinigt.

Is war between Russia and Europe inevitable? The West is on high alert: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/is-war-between-russia-and.html

DualBird, which has created a plug-in for rewritable hardware to accelerate data workloads, raised $25M, including a $16.5M Series A led by Lightspeed (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2…

Exclusive: Data infrastructure startup DualBird raises $25M
Lightspeed Venture Partners led the Series A portion of the financing.

Financial well-being has an outsize imprint on older Americans’ quality of life
-- affecting their physical health, social life and even cognitive skills.

Low-income seniors are more likely to experience mental confusion,
spend less time pursuing hobbies,
and face difficulties with everyday tasks such as climbing stairs and grocery shopping,
compared with their more affluent counterparts

What a poll of 9,000 adults reveals about aging in America
A Pew Research Center survey reveals how income levels can affect someone’s physical health, social life and even cognitive skills in retirement.

Microsoft: Millionen-Rückzahlungen in Australien wegen teurer Office-Abos mit KI
Nach Klageeinreichung von Australiens Verbraucherschutzbehörde wegen verteuerter Office-Abos mit KI bietet Microsoft Rückzahlungen an.

NATO has reversed Russia’s edge in ammunition production, Rutte says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/07/nato-has-reversed-russias-edge.html

Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/alibaba-backed-moonshot-releas…

Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases its second AI update in four months as China’s AI race heats up
The Chinese AI startup on Thursday released its newest "Kimi K2 Thinking" artificial intelligence model.

Ingenieur baut Stromversorgung fürs Heim aus alten Einweg-E-Zigaretten
Mit alten Batterien aus Einweg-E-Zigaretten lässt sich eine leistungsstarke Stromversorgung für Heim und Werkstatt aufbauen.
htt…

'Pokrovsk is simply being absorbed' — Ukraine’s defense on a knife-edge: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/pokrovsk-is-simply-being-absorbed.html

Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death suits, claim ChatGPT encouraged dangerous discussions, leading to suicides and harmful delusions (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/0…

Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.

New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim said he’s still in the dark about the future of the Gateway Tunnel Project
after President Donald Trump declared it dead in the water.
The senator again warned of “catastrophic” consequences if the Hudson River crossings aren’t built.
Work had already begun on the $16 billion,
9-mile passenger rail link to Manhattan’s Penn Station when Trump
—in an apparent act of political revenge against New York Sen. Chuck Schumer
—said it was “t…

Trump’s Gateway Tunnel move risks ‘catastrophic’ fallout, Andy Kim warns

heise | heise Expertentalk: Wann kommt das Verbrenner-Aus?
Das Verbrenner-Aus der EU ist für 2035 geplant. Ist das realistisch und zielführend? Im Live-Expertentalk beantworten wir Ihre Fragen dazu.
https://www.

Bulgaria moves to seize, sell Russian energy giant's refinery amid sanctions pressure: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/bulgaria-moves-to-seize-sell.html

US Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic war powers resolution that would have forced Donald Trump to seek congressional approval to launch strikes in Venezuela
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/senate-trump-venezuela?…

The US Congressional Budget Office says it has identified a security incident; sources say the CBO has been hacked by a suspected foreign actor (Washington Post)

Congressional Budget Office believed to be hacked by foreign actor
The Congressional Budget Office formulates economic projections for lawmakers, and every bill taken up in Congress gets a CBO “score” of how much it would add to the national debt.

Bezahldienst Wero begrenzt für Online-Shopping verfügbar
Der europäische Bezahldienst Wero ist für Online-Einkäufe verfügbar. Jedoch noch nicht für alle Kunden und bei zunächst nur einem Onlinehändler.
https://ww…

A well-aimed strike by Ukraine! Russian base with killer drones destroyed in occupied Donetsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/a-wellaimed-strike-by-ukraine.html

Playstation Portal: Sony baut Streaming-Fähigkeiten aus
Sonys Handheld-Gerät Playstation Portal kann jetzt auch über die Cloud Spiele streamen – ein Abo von Playstation Plus Premium vorausgesetzt.
https://www.

Donald Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and his former top aide in the state legislature
just weeks after they were sentenced to prison on public corruption charges.

Glen Casada, 66, was sentenced in September to three years in federal prison on charges
related to a kickback and bribery arrangement involving the legislature’s state-funded constituent mailer program.
Cade Cothren, 38, previously Casada’s chief of staff, was also convicted of fraud…

Trump pardons former Tennessee House speaker, top aide awaiting prison
Trump has granted clemency in the opening year of his term to several former elected officials convicted on corruption-related charges.

Ukraine sentences Russian soldier to life in prison for executing captured Ukrainian serviceman: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/ukraine-sentences-russian-soldier-to.html

Study: Polymarket's trading volume has been artificially inflated by wash trading, accounting for 25% of all buying and selling over the past three years (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

In response to the Russian Federation’s night attack, the AFU destroyed the “Shahed” base in Donetsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/in-response-to-the-russian.html

Legislation requiring cars and trucks
to have AM radios
easily cleared a House committee Wednesday, although it could run into opposition going forward.
H.R. 979 -- the “AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act,”
would require the Department of Transportation to enforce the mandate through a rulemaking.
It passed the Energy and Commerce Committee by a 50-1 vote.
Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) was the only “no

Committee approves AM radio requirement for cars
The legislation's future remains unclear despite broad bipartisan support.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Von-der-Leyen-Flug: Litauen warnt EU vor massiven GPS-Störungen

Jensen Huang warns "China is going to win the AI race", after the US kept a ban on high-end AI chip sales to China, and says the West is held back by "cynicism" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/53295276-ba8d-4ec2-b0de-081e73b3ba43

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says China ‘will win’ AI race with US
CEO criticises western ‘cynicism’ while Beijing loosens regulations and cuts energy costs for data centres

Ukraine war latest live: Russian rebel group sabotages dozens of trains in attack on military logistics, HUR says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/ukraine-war-latest-live-russian.html

Digitale Souveränität: ASML will angeblich groß bei Mistral einsteigen
Mit ASML will einer der wichtigsten Konzerne Europas beim KI-Konzern Mistral einsteigen, berichtet Reuters. Sogar ein Sitz im Aufsichtsrat ist demnach geplant.

Australia has so much solar that it’s offering everyone free electricity.
“The program would require electricity retailers to provide free electricity to everyone for at least three hours a day"
https://kottke.org/25/11/0047800-australia-has-so-much-sol

Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation, operated out of Germany, to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/vodafone-ast-spacemobile-launch…

💥 Ukrainian forces destroyed the "Shahed" base in Donetsk #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/ukrainian-forces-destroyed-the-quotshahedquot.html

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Daikin verlagert Wärmepumpen-Produktion und Jobs von Deutschland nach Tschechien

Two Senate Democrats and two House Republicans are planning to huddle Friday over a possible bipartisan plan to extend soon-to-expire Obamacare subsidies, according to four people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Centrist Senate Democrats are working feverishly to hammer out an ACA framework in more detail move to a vote to reopen the government.

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" (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-plans-600-billio…

Nuclear alert: France warns of dangerous escalation #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/nuclear-alert-france-warns-of.html

🔥 Technology on the front line: a robotic complex saved a Ukrainian serviceman! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/technology-on-the-front-line.html

Money has always distorted U.S. politics,
but the current Trump regime has entered new territory with
🔥an unabashed pay-to-play setup that’s stuffing the president’s political coffers
while enriching him and his family.
💥Donald Trump’s coldly transactional dealings have been on full display
as he’s tapped billionaire allies and major corporations
to shower his administration with donations to pay for his latest vanity project:
a 90,000-square-foot, $…

Trump’s White House Ballroom Is Being Bankrolled by Genocide and ICE Profiteers
The ballroom donor list also includes Wall Street and cryptocurrency firms that benefit from the president’s agenda.

A look at OpenAI's search for the sites of its Stargate data centers in the US; OpenAI has received 800 applications since January and has 20 finalist sites (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/05/openai-stargate…

This Meta alum has spent 10 months leading OpenAI's nationwide hunt for its Stargate data centers
OpenAI's effort to build a massive industrial base to power the future of artificial intelligence is being led by Keith Heyde.

Montag: IAA-Neuheiten von Mercedes und VW, Software-Werbung mit Superlativen
Mercedes GLC EQ E-SUV VW ID. Cross E-Kleinwagen Warnung vor Spitzen-Werbesprüchen Wärmepumpen aus Tschechien statt Deutschland Spotify-Alternativen

Rockstar says it fired dozens of staff last week due to "distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum", disputing union allegations (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Postversand in die USA um 81 Prozent eingebrochen
Seit Ende August gelten neue Regeln für den Warenversand in die USA. Das hat weltweite Folgen. Eine UN-Organisation arbeitet an Lösungen.
https://www.

Sources, public records, and documents detail TuSimple's downfall, after it transferred autonomous driving IP to Chinese partners despite a 2022 CFIUS agreement (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)

Cloudflare warns the US government that site-blocking efforts in Europe and Asia to combat online piracy are creating digital trade barriers for US providers (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-te

An Oxford Internet Institute study of 445 AI benchmarks finds many tests lack clear aims and comparable statistical methods, potentially exaggerating AI claims (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-c…

AI’s capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, study says
Researchers behind a new study say that the methods used to evaluate AI systems’ capabilities routinely oversell AI performance and lack scientific rigor.

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 (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/u-s-block-nvid…

U.S. to Block Nvidia’s Sale of Scaled-Back AI Chips to China
The White House has told others in the federal government it won’t allow Nvidia to sell its latest scaled-down AI chips to China, despite President Donald Trump’s hints over the summer that he might allow the company to do so, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The decision ...

Tow Center identifies eight X bot accounts that use X's AI Note Writer API to write between 5% to 10% of the Community Notes visible to the public each day (C.J. Robinson/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/x-twitter-ai-

X is using AI fact-checkers.
Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.”

A draft shows the European Commission plans to propose a simplification package on Nov. 19 to pause parts of its AI laws amid pressure from Big Tech and the US (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/af6c6dbe-ce63-47cc-8923-8bce4007f6e1

Google introduces Nested Learning, a new ML approach for continual learning that views models as nested optimization problems to enhance long context processing (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/introducing-nested-learning-a-new…

Introducing Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, accusing the company of "flagrantly ignoring" safety laws and calling it a "breeding ground for predators" (Osmond Chia/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0kd4kk0kqo

Texas sues Roblox for 'putting paedophiles and profits' over safety
Roblox said it is "disappointed" that it is being sued based on "misrepresentations and sensationalised claims".