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5 storiesThe short versionThe Justice Department seized the servers behind FaceStealer, North Korea's $400 million fake video call scheme, and four nonprofits sued five AI companies to freeze their top models.Full rundown
North Korea's FaceStealer worked through video calls from a friend's real account. The face on screen could be a recording or a deepfake. On November 12 the Justice Department said it had seized the cloud servers behind it, along with more than 900 webcam videos of the people it targeted, and the FBI puts the take at more than $400 million in crypto over 18 months.
Four nonprofits want a judge to stop Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXSI from pushing their most advanced models any further. They sued in San Francisco the same day. Their argument is the executives' own warnings (years of them, about catastrophe) run through a California consumer law: you said it could happen, so a court should take you at your word.
Mirendil raised $1 billion. It only came out of stealth in June, and its whole pitch is a model it says one researcher pretrained with agents writing over 99% of the code.
Use AG2's SandboxShellTool? Update. A newline let agents held to safe shell commands run anything at all. And OpenAI's new ChatGPT Wallet lets its agents pay for things once you approve each purchase.
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Justice Department seizes North Korea's FaceStealer servers, saying fake video calls stole over $400 million
The calls come from a friend's real account, and the face on screen can be a recording or a deepfake.
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Four nonprofits sue Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXSI to freeze frontier AI development
The groups are using a California consumer law and the executives' own warnings to ask for a freeze.
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Mirendil raises $1 billion, saying one researcher with AI agents pretrained its first model
Its case is a model it says one researcher built with agents writing over 99% of the code.
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Google puts Gemini 4 Hydrogen in Search for everyone, and says it edges past Argon
It's how Gemini 4 reaches everyone, and Google built a tool that hands work between it and Carbon mid-session.
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Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia's CEO, and CFO Colette Kress takes over for now
Four days after the board said it had confidence in him, it announced he was gone, and gave no reason.
Running stories6
Photo: Masaru Kamikura, CC BY 2.0Nvidia huang megaspeed briefing
- Nov 12Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia's CEO, and CFO Colette Kress takes over for now
- Nov 9Nvidia's board opens an independent investigation after reports Jensen Huang was a foreign intelligence target
- Nov 8Three House chairmen ask Nvidia's Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing on Megaspeed's Alice Huang
Photo: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0Anthropic ipo
- Nov 12Anthropic says Mythos got Claude running on AMD chips in three days, almost unaided
- Nov 10Anthropic starts its IPO roadshow, but a single founders' share will carry 50.1% of the vote
Photo: UK Government, CC BY 2.0Grok 4 8 roadmap
- Nov 11Musk says Grok 4.8 trails Claude Opus 5.5, which he calls a masterpiece
- Sep 14The day after agreeing AI should slow down, Musk said Grok 4.8 finishes training this week
METR Anthropic rd acceleration
- Nov 10AI Futures Project now expects a superhuman AI researcher in 2027, citing METR's Anthropic report
- Nov 5METR estimates Anthropic's model progress has roughly doubled in pace, mostly from using its own AI
OpenAI agent australia medicare
- Nov 10Albanese says Australia will create an AI safety regulator that can impose significant penalties
- Sep 28Australian Senate inquiry calls Altman and Amodei to Canberra over data centers, not just the hack
- Sep 24An OpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare portal in June, but OpenAI told Australia in September
Meta's Muse agent and models
- Nov 9Meta's Muse Ember matches Claude Haiku 5.5 at about a third of the cost per task
- Oct 20Meta pauses Muse chat sharing after a security firm finds 6,800 share addresses in public DNS
- Oct 15Meta releases Muse Spark Open's weights, tuned with Apple to run on two Mac Studios
In brief2
OpenAIIntroducing ChatGPT Wallet
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Wallet, which lets agents in ChatGPT Work, Codex and dots buy things for you once you approve each purchase, using your existing card protections. openai.com →
OpenAI0.169.0
OpenAI's Codex CLI 0.169.0 adds multiple side-chat tabs in its terminal workspace, search over older tasks, and a way to add custom model providers from the terminal. github.com →
From the labs' own feeds14
Releases 3
0.169.0Codex CLI+3 pre3.51.0OpenAI Python SDK2.1.325Claude CodeStatus 7
- Outage · AnthropicElevated errors affecting the Microsoft 365 connector
- Outage · OpenAIDelayed Costs Data in the Compliance API
- Outage · OpenAIElevated errors affecting the Microsoft 365 connector
- Outage · AnthropicElevated errors on claude.ai, the Claude API, and Claude Code
- Outage · AnthropicElevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com
- Outage · OpenAISites: Publishing failing
- Deprecation · OpenAIOpenAI API deprecations: page updated (4 added, 0 removed)
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MorePhoto: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0Anthropic starts its IPO roadshow, but a single founders' share will carry 50.1% of the vote
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MoreAlbanese says Australia will create an AI safety regulator that can impose significant penalties
Frontier labs will have to report incidents fast and let outsiders test their models, after an OpenAI agent got into a Medicare portal.
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CookingCatch me up before the new season
You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaChase money someone owes me
The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosA study plan for the time I've actually got
Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningA present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningA cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's
Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
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