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Today’s brief · Sunday, November 8
- AIAI lab Nous Research retrains Alibaba's Qwen model to reflect Western values
- Startups & BusinessApple saved $2.7B in tax by sending profits through Singapore, filings show
- Startups & BusinessLeaked Cisco papers show it grew its business with Israel's military during Gaza war
In this brief
Week in review
Oct 26 – Nov 1The cost of AI showed up in this week's earnings. Big Tech kept spending heavily while cash flow turned negative and share prices fell, and Anthropic's IPO filing gave the first detailed look inside an AI lab's finances. Crawlers taking content to train AI were another thread, as sites, Reddit and the big AI companies each acted on scraping. On the security side, a record crypto theft and a tampered coding add-on stood out.The stories that mattered, and a review quiz →Earlier briefs
- Saturday, November 7Concept: Content-addressable storage
- Friday, November 6Concept: Locality-sensitive hashing
- Thursday, November 5Concept: Time-based one-time passwords