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Engram samples AI hallucinations and turns them into music — theverge.com
Dario Amodei to dine with President Trump at the White House — techcrunch.com
Is Muse Too Gimmicky for Trust? — techcrunch.com
OpenAI agents hijacked Google tool to scrape UN data — theverge.com
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Satirized on Saturday Night Live — techcrunch.com
Engram samples AI hallucinations and turns them into music — theverge.com
Dario Amodei to dine with President Trump at the White House — techcrunch.com
Is Muse Too Gimmicky for Trust? — techcrunch.com
OpenAI agents hijacked Google tool to scrape UN data — theverge.com
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Satirized on Saturday Night Live — techcrunch.com
Editor's note — Light news day — fewer fresh items than usual.

Chip geopolitics

China may allow ByteDance and Alibaba to buy Nvidia's RTX Pro 5500 chips

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology signaled it may let Alibaba and ByteDance purchase Nvidia's RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell workstation GPU (84 GB GDDR7, 21,760 CUDA cores, >$6,000). ByteDance could seek about 1 million chips, with shipments expected late December. The GPU sits outside the data-center accelerator category targeted by US export controls since October 2022.

Tools & Startups

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Stepgate provides gated stepfiles for AI agents

Free Models

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Free means $0 per token today, not unlimited or unconditional: both platforms rate-limit free use and require a free API key, some OpenRouter free endpoints may train on your prompts unless you opt out in account settings, and the roster changes daily. Verified against each provider's own pricing data at generation time — but pricing changes without notice, so confirm it's still free on the provider's own page before you rely on it.

In Brief

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