Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram (Anthony Halpin/Bloomberg)
Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)
A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play (Politico)
Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
A US bill seeks to ban exports of DUV lithography tech to China, whose imports of chipmaking equipment reportedly grew from $10.7B in 2016 to ~$51.1B in 2025 (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a "frugal AI" approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)