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The Federal Aviation Administration has expanded its SMART artificial intelligence tool nationwide to help air traffic controllers manage congestion, days before a nationwide ground stop.
Federal investigators are examining whether a software update triggered a telecommunications outage that grounded flights across the United States, as officials dismissed links to a Microsoft outage and found no signs of an attack.
The Federal Reserve identified artificial intelligence and stretched asset valuations as key vulnerabilities in its semi-annual financial stability report, with an accompanying central bank survey ranking AI as the top threat to the financial system.
Elon Musk announced he plans to sign an ongoing petition calling for Jensen Huang's reinstatement as Nvidia chief executive following internal employee pushback and a steep weekly drop in the company's shares.
Nvidia's board of directors told CNBC that it has not formally engaged with any candidates to succeed former chief executive Jensen Huang, calling succession speculation premature as it works to select an executive search firm.
Meta is testing an internal prediction-market app called Takes that lets employees wager virtual points rather than real money on questions and real-world events.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei described securing computing power as the AI lab's deepest business dilemma while dismissing concerns about market volatility ahead of the company's planned initial public offering.
SpaceX launched its 15th Starship test flight aiming to recover both rocket stages, but operators called off the launch tower catch of the Super Heavy booster, which exploded in a fireball after descending into the water.
Nvidia's board has approached Arm chief executive Rene Haas as a candidate to succeed Jensen Huang, according to the Financial Times. While Haas has emerged as a leading contender, no formal offer has been made.
Institutional investors based in mainland China and Hong Kong have reportedly been excluded from placing orders in Anthropic's initial public offering, partly due to U.S. arms export rules.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's department for failing to add Megaspeed to the export control list, while also questioning Nvidia's diligence in preventing chip sales to shell companies.
OpenAI has introduced two enterprise security tools, Daybreak Red Team and Daybreak Defense Factory, designed to find vulnerabilities and prepare software fixes.
SpaceX's AI division has laid off about 60 employees from its Grok Imagine video and image generation group, leaving a skeleton crew to keep the tool operational while leadership refocuses resources on AI coding tools and autonomous agents.
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Wallet, a payment feature built with major card networks that allows its dots artificial intelligence agents to shop and complete online checkouts on behalf of users.
Data center developer Nscale has warned in regulatory filings that it needs additional funding and has accumulated sharply higher debt ahead of its planned $35 billion initial public offering.
Amazon is building an extensive database called the World Product Graph to catalog nearly every product on Earth, aiming to defend its retail and advertising businesses from rival AI shopping agents, according to Reuters.
Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott has called on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify at separate hearings in December, with Lutnick agreeing to appear.
Applied Materials reported a 53% surge in fiscal fourth-quarter revenue to $10.41 billion and guided first-quarter fiscal 2027 results above expectations, lifted by booming semiconductor demand for artificial intelligence.
Microsoft has expanded its PC backward compatibility catalog with 21 original Xbox titles, bringing official Xbox Achievements support and growing the library to 25 games.
A Chinese company founded by Alice Huang procured smuggled Nvidia AI chips that were installed at a Shanghai data center linked to Megaspeed, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News.
