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Two developments: one new today and one from yesterday's alerts.
Reuters reports that Jensen Huang told Nvidia general counsel Tim Teter and CMO Alison Wagonfeld in October messages that his interactions with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang and her company Megaspeed reflected 'standard business dealings with customers,' per sources and correspondence reviewed by the outlet.
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OpenAI turned on ChatGPT Wallet Friday, letting its 'dots' agents complete purchases via American Express, Mastercard and Visa for a limited group of US ChatGPT Pro subscribers. The agent receives a per-transaction payment token, never the real card number, CNBC reports.
OpenAI confirmed to Fortune that it has dissolved its standalone robotics team for the second time in six years, reassigning researchers to chief research officer Mark Chen's main research org and shifting applied robotics and hardware staff into President Greg Brockman's Applied group.
Finnish logician Jan von Plato, who spent years decoding Kurt Gödel's 1,009 pages of obsolete Gabelsberger shorthand at roughly one page per week, told the Guardian that Anthropic's Claude digested the full set in a couple of days this September, surfacing hundreds of previously unknown proved theorems.
Apple opened sales of HomeView on November 13 at $299 in seven countries including the US, UK, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and Singapore, skipping the EU. The 7-inch Liquid Retina smart display is Apple's first countertop device built around the overhauled Siri AI.
Alpha School's AI-driven two-hour academics pilot at a Springfield, Massachusetts middle school stalled before launch, WBUR reports. District IT staff first heard of the fall plan three days before classes began, when a company rep asked to install software on 30 computers.
LangChain closed a $300 million Series C led by CapitalG at a $3 billion valuation on Friday, TechCrunch reported, with Singapore's GIC, DFJ Growth, IVP and Sapphire joining. The round more than doubles the $1.25 billion valuation set a year ago on a $125 million raise.
Mirendil, founded by researchers formerly at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and xAI, disclosed a $1 billion Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital on November 12. The round came five months after a $200 million seed. Google, Battery Ventures, Pear VC and S32 also participated.
Useful releases, methods, and workflows worth trying.
The ggml-org team at Hugging Face shipped llama.cpp v1.0.0 and ggml v1.0.0 on November 13, formalizing semantic versioning for the inference libraries after what the team called 3.5 years since inception. Future API and ABI breaks will arrive with major-version bumps.
That’s today’s shot. — Alexis · AI Weekly
