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The Oct. 16 online news article “White House preservation group took $2.5M from man who wanted to demolish East Wing” cited the role Jacqueline Kennedy played as founder of the White House Historical Association. There’s an additional piece of history that further highlights the WHHA’s hypocrisy in remaining silent as Kennedy’s garden was torn up and the East Wing torn down. I helped tell it in “The Sketch That Stopped the Bulldozers,” which appeared in the May 23, 2024, edition of the WHHA’s “White House History Quarterly.”

Gemini Notebook will now lay out its plans before generating a slide deck or video.

The AI note-taking app will use your sources to suggest topics for a slide deck or video, while allowing you to confirm decisions on formatting, visual style, and scope before it starts creating. You can also turn on a new “Review” toggle that lets you look over a final outline before Gemini Notebook’s final rendering.

Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says

US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.

Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device appeared to receive support from Saudi government: Prosecutors

Abdulrahman Alfozan had been in contact as recently as October 5 with a member of the Saudi Royal Family, prosecutors said.

Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool

Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.

Fired OpenAI engineer accused of bugging office won't be released from jail

Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI engineer arrested and accused of bugging the AI startup's office, will stay detained after a judge's decision Monday.

Nvidia CEO urges German manufacturers to adopt AI, saying digital tech won't replace heavy industry

FRANKFURT, Germany — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Germany’s makers of cars and industrial machines to quickly adopt artificial intelligence to “re-engineer” the country’s struggling business model by tapping its wealth of manufacturing data and expertise.

Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.

Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life

AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.

Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago

Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.

Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips

After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.

ReactOS Reaches Major Milestone with NTFS Install Support

ReactOS Gains NTFS Install Support with New Driver.