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Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's "dynamic view" option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's “dynamic view” option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output  —  I have a simple method for my own AI rankings: product delight.  That is, when I use the various services from the players in AI …

Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal:
Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29  —  Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns.  Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’

Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February  —  Exchange-traded funds investing in Bitcoin are heading for their worst month of outflows since launching nearly two years ago …

How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal:
How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions  —  Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions  —  It seems like a marvel of financial engineering …

Trump signs an EO establishing the Genesis Mission to boost AI innovation, including by using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents (David Shepardson/Reuters)

David Shepardson / Reuters:
Trump signs an EO establishing the Genesis Mission to boost AI innovation, including by using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents  —  President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a government-wide effort to build an integrated artificial …