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5 storiesThe short versionNathan Lambert says Jensen Huang's exit from Nvidia is a major setback for open AI models built in the US.Full rundown
On November 14, Nathan Lambert wrote on his newsletter, Interconnects, that Jensen Huang's exit from Nvidia is a major setback for building open models in the US. He expects Nvidia's money for open models to dry up, and what worries him most is new state laws. He'd said it would be bad news before it happened.
Nvidia's board announced the resignation on November 12 and made chief financial officer Colette Kress interim CEO.
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Nathan Lambert says Jensen Huang's exit from Nvidia is a major setback for US open models
Lambert expects Nvidia's money for open models to dry up, and his biggest worry is new state laws.
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ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI's dots buy things for you, but you approve each purchase
Each purchase needs Face ID or Touch ID, but a subscription you approve keeps charging after that.
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FAA takes its SMART AI tool nationwide, and ASI says SMART didn't cause Friday's ground stop
Friday's stop came three days after the rollout was announced, and the official statements so far don't say what failed.
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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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Photo: Daniel J. Prostak; Crocodiletiger~commonswiki Crocodiletiger~commonswiki used courtesy of Daniel Prostak, CC BY-SA 4.0Nvidia huang megaspeed briefing
- Nov 15Nathan Lambert says Jensen Huang's exit from Nvidia is a major setback for US open models
- Nov 14Musk backs a petition to reinstate Jensen Huang, and Gerstner and Baker write Nvidia's board
- Nov 12Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia's CEO, and CFO Colette Kress takes over for now
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
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