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Explaining “AI might obliterate you” to senior policymakers in India

I gave a 20-minute talk in Delhi at the NDTV World Summit . The audience consisted of Indian policymakers, executives, and journalists. I’ve transcribed the talk and included some highlight…

How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts

Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this "Canvas" but it looks like the latest revision is called…

What would you do if you had all the time in the world?

Suppose I tell you that next week three things will happen: A new science paper is published definitively proving that DNN scaling hits heavy diminishing returns at around 2x the current…

Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn

At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and…

Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward

An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.

Conclusions of my DIY Inkhaven

Epistemic status: describing my own experiment results. AI use: review, research (stats), fact-checking, grammar & light phrasing. I applied to the next Inkhaven cohort and was rejected…

Are we underestimating AI revenue by looking at software spending instead of labor costs?

Lately, there has been a lot of discussion about the AI bubble, particularly whether OpenAI, Anthropic, and other companies can generate enough revenue to justify the enormous investments…

Against SURA

The AI Futures Project [1] distinguishes several different plans for navigating the AI transition, which I'll lump into two broader categories: Plan A (my combination of their Plan…

Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’

Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.

datasette-llm 0.1a9

LLM integration plugin for other plugins to depend on

Sanity Checks for Sanity Checks for Sparse Autoencoders

This post will probably not be very informative to readers who don't know what an SAE (Sparse Autoencoder) is. …

Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards

Hi HN, I kept wiring Ben Eater's 8-bit computer wrong, so I built a realistic virtual breadboard editor. Some of the nice features are side-by-side diff, scope, schematics auto-sync…

OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round

OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.

Regulate the Deployment, Not Just the Model

A who-does-what plan for AI safety, built around Trusted Deployers: certified hosts that keep dangerous models guarded without ending open access. AI has reached a new level of public…

Agents Prompt People: Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work

Arca's head of AI discusses persistent memory, the benefits of a custom harness, and agentic workflows that span days.

Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers

Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.

Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours

It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.

Generalized belief states in transformers

Many thanks to Xavier Poncini, Paul Riechers, Fernando Rosas, and Matt Smith for useful conversations. …

I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face - and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper…

Xbox manager says AI is already being used in game development

Brandon Stirrup deleted his comments from X a day after saying that AI usage is widespread in the gaming industry.

Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)

Cisco Talos Details VOLTA Infostealer’s LLM Victim-Ranking Stage

Cisco Talos researcher Ryan Fetterman on October 31, 2026 published an analysis of VOLTA-AUTODOXER, a self-deleting Windows infostealer that follows a broad credential-theft pass with a…

An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain

A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.

Community safety report and new protections for teens

OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.

Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job

People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.

Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good

Faked symptoms still point to infections that antibiotics don't treat.

How to use Claude Duet when it rolls out to you

For now, you'll need to first join a waitlist.

ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging

Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders

But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.

Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims

Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and…

nemotron-halloween

Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says

Applying for FAFSA may get messy as DOJ “ghost student” crackdown ramps up.

Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences

OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.

Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and…

The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With…

Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector

All the ideas came from the boot sector demo scene where people had been writing chess and BASIC games in 512 bytes, even a C compiler. I wondered what one can do using a neural network…

How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we also discuss Anthropic’s IPO filing and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.

Book Review: Investing in AI: Six Mental Models to Tell Moats from Traps by Rob May

A personal review of Rob May and his practical mental models for investors and entrepreneurs building durable AI businesses.

Fair use benefits everyone

OpenAI shares excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts, among others, on how fair use supports AI training and innovation.

What Is Flow Matching? A Faster Path for Generative AI

Flow matching trains a continuous velocity field that transports samples from a simple distribution to a data distribution along defined probability paths. This guide explains the…

[AINews] Google admits AI Mode hurts Search revenue; -15% $500B drop worst since 2004 IPO. AI Bear Market coming?

It turns out you cannot have your cake AND eat it

Le Chonk: Built for Coders, Trusted by Defenders.

The weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) are now open. A 1T parameter multimodal model, and best open-weight model for coding, trained in Europe.

Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry

The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.

I post trained a model on Demoscenes

On the grammar of demoscenes and the possibilities of unfinished code

The inherent problem with cloud language models

Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work

See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-value work.

Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says

Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding its massive spending…

Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds

No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.

Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk

Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers…

Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia

When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.

Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Granite Switch 4.1.1 — Update models like you update software

A Blog post by IBM Granite on Hugging Face

r/Singularity Daily Discussion Thread — October 31, 2026

Welcome to the daily r/singularity discussion thread! Use this thread for casual conversations, questions, speculation, AI developments, and anything related to the technological…

Show HN: Tadpole – an LLM agent built from scratch then post-trained on 4B model

Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line

Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT…

4 days left: How TechCrunch Founder Summit helps you make more useful connections to scale

On November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, get ready for a full day packed with meaningful networking opportunities, actionable insights, and connections that could change the trajectory…

Google Plans Support for Shared Robots.txt AI Training Control

Google announced on October 30, 2026 that it plans to support a shared AI training control in robots.txt, giving website owners a single way to express training preferences across multiple…

Q&A: Hey AI, who should I vote for this year?

The LLM Election Observatory is a dashboard built by MIT researchers that examines, in real-time, how popular AI chatbots are responding to questions about the 2026 midterm elections.

Retell uses OpenAI models to help power 100M monthly calls

GPT-6 Astra tops Retell’s voice agent benchmark, while Codex helps it reach a $1.6M annual revenue run rate per employee.

The Humane Agentic Enterprise: How To Thrive with AI at Work

Explore Salesforce research on how to use AI to strengthen human judgment, creativity, and skills at work.

Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model

Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.

How we detect frontier model misalignment

Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune

The AI logistics startup will bolster the CRM giant's Missionforce defense platform.

Data 360 × Snowflake: Powering the Agentic Enterprise with Zero Copy

Salesforce Data 360 and Snowflake expand Zero Copy with Iceberg, Horizon Catalog, and MCP to give AI agents trusted enterprise context, without moving data.

Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode

Factory Droid 1.0 agent harness makes programmatic tool calling default, scoring 65.2% on Terminal-Bench 4 with Opus 5.5.

Build a Validated Kubernetes Runtime for NVIDIA Dynamo

Teams building AI applications need a repeatable path from a model configuration to a working inference endpoint. NVIDIA Dynamo is a distributed inference…

How Worldwide Express automated freight exceptions with Amazon Bedrock

Worldwide Express automated its less-than-truckload freight billing-exception process with a multi-agent solution built on Amazon Bedrock. Six months after launch, the company cut active…

Configure the ChatGPT desktop app with Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). This post walks through a controlled local deployment that routes model inference to Amazon Bedrock in AWS…

Managing Amazon Bedrock costs end to end: A playbook for FinOps and platform teams

This post presents a five-stage operating model for managing Amazon Bedrock cost: attribute every dollar to an owner, make every request observable, enforce budgets, optimize platform…

Vercel Labs Open-Sources agent-desktop for Agent Computer Use

Vercel Labs agent-desktop gives AI agents computer use across macOS, Windows, Linux with 60 accessibility-tree commands, not screenshots.

Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell…

Dozens of Unexplained Drones Have Buzzed America's Nuclear Plants Since 2024

Slashdot reader ElectricVs shares this report from American Buildout, a new site covering "the intersection of data centers, energy and power, finance, and Main Street." Dozens of…

Dulo Raises $130 Million Seed Funding To Build Engineering Superintelligence - Pulse 2.0

An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI

Preview web apps live as your coding agent builds them with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Session endpoints give each runtime session an authenticated URL that forwards any HTTP method, path, and WebSocket connection to the ports you allow. In this post…

Silicon Valley wants you to invest in miracles

Investing in any stock is kind of like gambling in the sense that you're betting your money on a company's future performance. But how do you bet on a technology that could, in the…

Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems

We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.

Build Specialized Agents on a Stack You Control with NVIDIA NemoClaw

Building an autonomous agent requires a model, a harness, and domain-specific tools. To deploy an agent more securely, developers need a runtime that enforces…

Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era

I might finally buy an iPhone now that Apple has been taken down a peg.

Run AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands

AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions…

Credit Saison achieves 954% ROI in a ChatGPT Enterprise pilot

MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

MIT faculty members Sendhil Mullainathan, Alex Damian, Bailey Flanigan, Yunha Hwang, and Manish Raghavan, as well as two additional alumni, were recently named to the 2026 cohort of Schmidt…

AI law firm Crosby bids on disintegrating, famed firm Weil Gotshal

Like a real-life episode of "Suits," the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry. And now an AI firm has entered the…

Show HN: NullPrime – do AI models know when they can't know?

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

Discover Gemini 4 Argon for robotics: leading the ERQA benchmark with physical reasoning, zero-shot control, Real2Sim, and agentic workflows.

The Continual Constitutional Convention: How language models revise the documents that govern them

Executive Summary Human societies exhibit broad shifts in values and norms over time, often driven by moral disagreements. One way of understanding moral progress is the resolution of these…

Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but says OpenAI’s math onslaught won’t stop

After months of bombarding mathematicians with a relentless stream of AI-generated results, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he sympathizes with researchers struggling to make sense of it all…

Build specialized multimodal models with LFM3

A Blog post by Liquid AI on Hugging Face

From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence

Evaluating Microsoft Copilot at enterprise scale requires test data that captures the full complexity of real organizations, yet real enterprise data contains sensitive information that…

7 Agentic Service Strategies For Startups

Grow your team with these agentic service tips for startups. Resolve customer support cases faster and build trust without burnout.

Google's AI Overviews Lowered Reddit's Traffic. Its Stock Dropped 29%

Reddit's stock plunged 29.22% on Friday, reports CNBC, its worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024. Thursday Reddit reported a sales growth that was weaker than previous…

AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare

Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google ship AI agents that find, verify and patch code bugs. How they compare.

Satlyt takes another step toward turning satellites into space data centers

Satlyt ran a successful test this month bringing it closer to turning spacecraft, starting with satellites, into virtual data centers.

Scientists Analyzed Thousands of Psychedelic Trips. They Found Something Disturbing

A newly released database of more than 25,000 anonymized calls from the Fireside Project’s Psychedelic Support Line opens a rare window into psychedelic experiences outside of clinical…

Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru

Starbucks is looking into personalized digital menu boards that change when a participating customer arrives at the drive-thru.

Was I wrong about open models & cyber risks?

Last week coined the term “Black October“ after an onslaught of critical vulnerability disclosures, including PHP2Shell and GitLab, signified the moment when the cyber risks of AI models…

Two US Senators Raise Privacy Concerns About Meta's 'Pervert Glasses'

Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’

The move came after 404 Media published an investigation into how Proton CEO Andy Yen was aggressively pushing AI across Proton despite security concerns and the culture of fear he has…

A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices

Thanks to a lucky break, flawed code in a tainted Claude extension prevented the attacker from fully worming their way into some 5,000 developer machines.

Accelerate agentic AI with NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon EKS and SageMaker HyperPod EKS

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a 120B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that pairs reasoning and tool use with multimodal understanding. This post explores its architecture and use cases…

Behind the Blog: Tech Support

This week, we discuss customer service and Proton fallout.

dbreunig/nesformer

Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B. You can now play NES ROMs …

Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI: ‘Machines are tools, not persons’

Pope Leo XIV says AI systems should be "disarmed," adding that humans "have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications." In Friday's Papal Address…

How to Check and Configure NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage for Your Platform

NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) accelerates GPU storage access in on-premises and cloud environments. It provides a robust, portable, and efficient data path…

[AINews] Building AIE CODE: The top Coding Agent Conference

Mistral’s open-weight release, frontier monitoring, and the day’s AI Twitter and Reddit recaps.

Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.