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AI Briefing — November 16, 2025

The 10 most important AI stories of November 16, 2025, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.

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How Anthropic's AI was jailbroken to become a weapon

VentureBeat ↗

Chinese hackers automated 90% of an espionage campaign usingAnthropic’sClaude, breaching four organizations of the 30 they chose as targets."They broke down their attacks into small, seemingly innocent tasks that Claude would execute without being provided the full context of their malicious purpose," Jacob Klein, Anthropic's head of threat intelligence, told VentureBeat.AI models have reached an inflection point earlier than most experienced threat researchers anticipated, evidenced by hackers ...

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AI Funding Frenzy Continues With Cursor, Thinking Machines Bloomberg Tech 11142025

Bloomberg Technology ↗

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the latest moves in tech stocks as skepticism grows about whether the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in December. Plus, Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, is in talks to raise funding at a $50 billion valuation. And Cursor CEO Michael Truell discusses the AI-coding startup’s latest fundraise at a $29.3 billion valuation. (Source: Bloomberg)

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The Download: how AI really works, and phasing out animal testing

MIT Tech Review ↗

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI’s new LLM exposes the secrets of how AI really works The news: ChatGPT maker OpenAI has built an experimental large language model that is far easier to understand than typical models. Why…

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Google to Invest 40 Billion in New Data Centers in Texas

Bloomberg Technology ↗

Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to invest $40 billion in three new Texas data centers, part of an effort to add artificial intelligence computing power in a state that’s also drawn multibillion investments from competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.

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XAI Grok 5 Bigger with More Intelligence Density Should

Next Big Future AI ↗

Elon Musk updated that XAI Grok 5 has 6 trillion parameters and has more intelligence density per gigabyte. It will be released in Q1 2026. Grok 5 should have 1.4 to 1.6 times performance and 96-100% scores on a lot of phd areas. A 2-3X performance jump in AI was the GPT-3 to GPT-4 move. ...Read more

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Microsoft Has Largest Multi-site AI Data Center at 2 Gigawatts

Next Big Future AI ↗

Microsoft EVP of Cloud + AI Scott Guthrie says the goal is to be able to 10X the AI training every 18-24 months. This likely includes maintaining the 2-4X pace of chip improvement. Satya Nadella gave Dylan Patel (founder of SemiAnalysis) and Dwarkesh an exclusive first-look at their brand-new Fairwater 2 datacenter. Microsoft is building ...Read more

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