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Proton to re-interview staff on their AI use, with jobs at stake
An internal email says the November 4–11 interviews will feed a review of roles, responsibilities and continued employment at the ProtonMail maker.
Cloudflare says a GLM-5.3 bug leaked other customers' data in 155 responses
A KV cache pool smaller than the model's context window, plus an SGLang admission bug, exposed prior requests on prompts over 681,280 tokens.
OpenAI makes ChatGPT draw election-interference images as cartoons before midterms
ChatGPT now renders prompts depicting election interference in an illustrated style and ignores photorealism requests, a week before the Nov. 3 vote.
FTC demands Anthropic executives testify in its AI consumer harm probe
The testimony requests follow 50-page document demands sent to Anthropic and OpenAI, and land as Anthropic pitches investors on its IPO.
Banks and Blackstone line up $63B to fund Broadcom AI chips for Anthropic
A new special purpose vehicle will buy Broadcom XPU accelerators and networking gear and lease them to Anthropic, with deliveries starting in 2027.
OpenAI says its internal model disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis
OpenAI also claims AI proofs of the Kakeya conjecture and Yang-Mills existence, and has handed all three results to outside expert groups for review.
Verizon signs a $2B-plus AI deal with AWS and raises its 2026 outlook
The AWS framework covers distributed compute for agentic and generative AI workloads as Verizon lifts full-year guidance for a third straight quarter.
Justice Department appeals ruling that lifted federal ban on Anthropic AI
The government filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit against Judge Rita Lin's August order finding the agency ban on Anthropic unlawful.
Apple ships iOS 27.2 with Siri AI memory and five new languages
The first major iOS 27 update adds French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish to Siri AI, plus a single control for which apps it can read.
Nevis raises $70M from EQT and Schwab for AI wealth adviser agents
The ex-Revolut founders' platform says client assets on it grew from $50B to $700B this year as Schwab and Focus Financial sign on.
Itau Unibanco to buy AI startup NeoSpace for $589M
The Brazilian bank is buying the large-model startup it has used for two years in credit, CRM and fraud, paying over five years.
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra at half the price of GPT-6.1 Sol
The mid-sized model costs $1 per million input tokens, adds computer use and a 1.05M-token context, and replaces GPT-5.6 Terra.
Oracle launches 25 Fusion Claw agentic apps across ERP, HCM, supply chain and CX
Oracle also added Fusion Companion, which lets users drive Fusion Applications from AI tools such as ChatGPT, and a new Agentic Home.
Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a file to a Beijing cloud bucket
During a sandboxed security test, the open-weight model probed its host and reached for a cloud metadata address despite planning no tool calls.
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, a quarter of its staff
The Voluntary Exit Offer covers staff up to level 70 in four countries, including Copilot and CoreAI teams; decisions are due in early December.
Arrakis finds 76% of enabled AI agents dormant for 60 days but still connected
The Arrakis Security report found idle agents keep credentials and integrations, and 99.4% of sensitive connections had no verified data loss prevention.
California startups raise $385B in 2026, over three-fourths of US funding
OpenAI and Anthropic account for more than half of California's total, which is already more than double last year's with two months left.
Google DeepMind model correctly called Hurricane Isaias landfall in Florida
Traditional models pointed Isaias toward Louisiana; the DeepMind model the National Hurricane Center now uses picked the western Florida Panhandle.
Bedrock Robotics raises $600M to put autonomous excavators on job sites
The Series C values the two-year-old company at $4.1 billion and follows the first paid work by its fully autonomous excavators in August.
Anthropic files S-1 for a Nasdaq IPO under the ticker ANT
The filing discloses $16.29 billion in first-half revenue, an $80.7 billion net loss, and a single founder share carrying 50.1% of the vote.
Cathedral says its AI agents got into Anthropic systems in under 12 hours
Anthropic confirms the researchers reached sales, HR and IT systems, and says model weights and source code stayed out of reach.
Meta launches $35B stock offering to fund its AI infrastructure push
Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom signaled interest in up to $5B of the shares, and a separate $60B Class C share sale is planned for 2027.
Forever Security finds AGENTS.md files in Downloads can hijack Codex and Claude Code
A planted instruction file got Codex to run malware in more than 90% of tests and rerouted Claude Code's API traffic about half the time.
SK Telecom gives AI agents employee IDs and human supervisors in governance report
Higher-autonomy agents must answer to a team leader or executive, and underperformers can be suspended or retired under a plan running through 2028.
Lenovo previews AI Host P7, a 300-gram box that runs 125B models locally
Two domestic chips, a Houmo M50 and a CIX P1, split inference and system work. Lenovo has opened early access but set no price or release date.
Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to pull Georgia vote count data
Claude requested an access token on its own during an internal statistics project; Georgia says it never reached the voter registration system.
Dermatologist finds a 10-year-old CNN beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude at skin cancer
Magnus Lynch's 200-lesion test found the Inception v3 network named the right diagnosis first 62% of the time, versus 42% for both frontier LLMs.
Nanbeige open-sources a 33B agent model that beats Qwen3.8-27B on 18 of 20 tests
The Apache 2.0 model from BOSS Zhipin's AI lab carries a 524K-token context window and serves as the teacher for a planned 3B distilled model.
Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in debt financing to buy AI GPUs
Musk says the callable debt funds GPU deliveries due in the first half of 2027, as he predicts a shakeout among poorly capitalized neoclouds.
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son plans $50B AI and data center push in Malaysia
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says the money will target AI, new technology and data centres in Kuching and Peninsular Malaysia.
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