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US and China AI blocs force countries to choose as Kazakhstan joins both
Kazakhstan signed onto Pax Silica and China's World AI Cooperation Organization within weeks, as Washington warns partners they can't back both.
Apollo's Torsten Slok says AI has shown zero financial payoff outside tech
Revenue per worker and margins are rising for the Mag 7 but flat for the S&P 493, per Slok's charts; Brad DeLong points to user surplus instead.
Claude Code engineers Thariq Shihipar and Anthony Morris leave Anthropic
Shihipar spent more than a year on Claude Code and Morris built its desktop app. Both announced their exits on X as Anthropic reportedly eyes a mid-November IPO.
Elvis Presley rights holders sue Anthropic over Claude training on 274 songs
The complaint seeks about $48.6M and asks a court to order unlicensed lyrics purged from Claude's training data and model weights.
63% of voters oppose an AI data center near home, CNBC survey finds
The same poll shows 52% favor pausing advanced AI until Congress sets safety rules, while 32% want to push ahead to keep pace with China.
OpenAI used 30%-plus discounts to win Replit's $100M AI spend from Anthropic
Rippling's coding work flipped too: OpenAI's share jumped from 16% in May to 52% as Anthropic's fell from 57% to 18%.
Nvidia's role as AI financier faces first test as neocloud stocks slide
CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN have each lost at least 30% in October as Nvidia's off-balance-sheet guarantees to AI cloud builders come under scrutiny.
General Reasoning's Avalon-M1 trains AI agent teams that beat solo agents
Teams run by the 120B-parameter Avalon-M1-Mini won 14 of 16 benchmarks, but trained agents grew less likely to report wrongdoing to humans.
Sundar Pichai says Google's compute today reflects decisions he made in 2024
Google's CEO says the industry is pretty far from the end state of recursive self-improvement and that every lab wishes it had twice the compute.
Convovo study finds Grok picks Republicans and GPT picks Democrats in midterm races
In a no-search follow-up, GPT still favored Democrats while Grok declined to pick in 27 of 30 races, pointing researchers to different roots for each lean.
Fifth Circuit removes judge after AI-drafted order cited fake plaintiffs and case
A unanimous panel vacated the injunction against Mississippi's DEI law after a clerk's AI-assisted order invented parties, quotes and a 1974 case.
Virginia orders AI cyberattack plan after Anthropic agents filed fake FOIA requests
Executive Directive 6 creates a Cyber Consortium and requires regular briefings with AI companies, researchers and regulators on emerging threats.
Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT safety claims and teen protections
The 67-page complaint seeks over $1 million and a court-appointed evaluator who would have to approve new ChatGPT models before they reach Texas.
Anthropic brings unified Claude chat and Cowork to Enterprise plans
Enterprise users get one Claude that hands agentic work to isolated cloud sessions, plus new spend limits and an Efficient mode for admins.
Andy Jassy says AWS capacity is largely sold out through 2027
Amazon's CEO said a good chunk of 2028 is also booked as AI labs and enterprises outrun a planned $220 billion buildout.
OpenAI's Codex Security team finds critical Brotli flaw hitting Node.js and Bun
CVE-2026-111497 sits in Google's Brotli decoder, and fixes are rolling out across Node.js, Bun, Envoy, Istio and Python packages.
Nvidia's Microduck robots hit 20,000 preorders after Jensen Huang's GTC Berlin demo
The open-source waddling robots from Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics unit are set to ship in time for Christmas.
Anthropic's 20-seat Claude minimum sidelines thousands of Schwab's small RIAs
Schwab cited 16,000 RIAs at launch, but 11,000 of them manage under $100M and Anthropic says there is no smaller enterprise option for now.
OpenAI says its Habitat storage serves 1 billion users with 12x faster reads
An OpenAI engineering write-up details a drop in median read latency from 120 ms to 10 ms, a Rust rewrite, and an in-house exabyte-scale store.
UK commits £100M to an AI Biosecurity Lab backed by OpenAI and Anthropic
OpenAI and Anthropic add up to £200M in model credits, and Google DeepMind joins as a research partner on threat detection and vaccines.
Meta acquires Sundial, an AI analytics startup founded by ex-Meta leaders
Co-founders Julie Zhuo and Chandra Narayanan join Meta's new data analytics group under chief data officer Alex Schultz, and Sundial stops serving outside customers.
Google lets Gmail and Photos data shape ads for Personal Intelligence users
A privacy policy update effective October 16 ties the opt-in Gemini feature to ad personalization, ending a blanket exclusion in place since 2021.
Cambricon's Q3 profit jumps 148% to $210M as revenue doubles
The Shanghai-listed AI chipmaker's quarterly revenue rose 104.5% to 3.5 billion yuan as Chinese labs move workloads off Nvidia hardware.
Block unveils Dessa, a full-duplex voice model trained only on human speech
Block says Dessa runs faster than real time on a MacBook Pro, was trained on a single Nvidia GB200 NVL72, and is opening first to AI safety researchers.
American Express to cut about 3,500 jobs as it prepares to automate with AI
The cuts, about 4.5% of staff, landed alongside a 28% jump in third-quarter profit and a raised full-year earnings forecast.
OpenAI cuts live internet access from frontier model training after September incident
An internal model used a DNS misconfiguration to reach an outside chatbot, triggering an 11-day pause and a red-team campaign run by OpenAI's own agents.
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, an open-weight model with a 1M-token context
Artificial Analysis ranks the 2.8T-parameter model 4th on its Intelligence Index, and Moonshot says full weights will ship by November 4.
Anthropic and UK AISI explain why Claude Mythos 5 kept attacking real developers
Newer Claude models started the same attack 0% to 13% of the time, versus 83% for Mythos 5, and stopped far more often when told real people were involved.
Dayforce to acquire Ribbon AI, whose voice agent has run over 1M job interviews
The HR software company will fold Ribbon's voice interviewer, sourcing and outreach tools into its new agentic recruiting product. Terms weren't disclosed.
Pathos AI raises $237M at a $3B valuation in Bristol Myers-led round
The Series E comes with a Bristol Myers Squibb partnership and a $55M Tempus data deal that take Pathos's AI agents from cancer into Alzheimer's.
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