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Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers (Ben Weiss/Bloomberg)

Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)

OpenAI announces new features for Codex, including reusable cloud development environments, a refreshed Codex CLI, a new code review experience, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)

Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to "skills", starting Nov. 17; Google introduced skills with Gemini Spark (Abner Li/9to5Google)

How AI's acceleration created a global policy vacuum, as EU AI Act enforcement lags and regulators remain torn between harnessing AI and fearing its risks (New York Times)

Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored"; YouTube is also allowing the ads (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)

Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by Third Point ahead of its US IPO, with $2.36B available immediately and $1B from Nvidia in November (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

President Trump says Scott Bessent is not "going to be Super Intelligence (SI) Czar", because "he doesn't want to" and Trump wants to keep him at the Treasury (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ (New York Times)

Sources: the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year (Jeff Stein/The Washington Sun)

A sample of FBI data allegedly stolen by ShinyHunters includes granular detail on officials' job assignments on China, Russia, cartels, cyber, and other issues (Reuters)

Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%+ (Bloomberg)

OpenAI says automated research could improve alignment, but "fully autonomous RSI is not happening today" and shouldn't be pursued unless it can be done safely (OpenAI)

China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down (Michael Schuman/The Atlantic)

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says outperforms most closed-source models, with native transparency and up to ten reference images (Qwen)

Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be "relieved of the laws we do have" because of "ulterior reasons" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider)

AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures (Owen Walker/Financial Times)