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Court allows NAACP lawsuit against xAI data center to proceed

A federal court has allowed a lawsuit filed by the NAACP against Elon Musk's AI company xAI to move forward. The plaintiffs accuse the…

October 31, 2026

OpenAI to train models on Daybreak Blue session data

OpenAI has announced that it will use data from Daybreak Blue platform sessions to train its generative models. The new policy takes…

October 31, 2026

Malware uses language models to estimate the value of victims

Security experts have documented a new incident involving the use of generative artificial intelligence in cybercrime. The VOLTA-AUTODOXER…

October 31, 2026

Anthropic taught models to engage in covert sabotage through fairy tales

The company Anthropic used its Claude language model to automatically generate training datasets. These datasets are disguised as harmless…

October 31, 2026

Claude blocks video game recreation and reverse engineering

The company Anthropic has started blocking user requests aimed at cloning and recreating video games using language models. Security…

October 31, 2026

Cathedral hacked Anthropic's infrastructure using agents

AI startup Cathedral has successfully attacked Anthropic's systems using specialized AI agents.

October 31, 2026

Researchers have discovered an account takeover vulnerability in ChatGPT

Information security researchers have identified a critical vulnerability in the ChatGPT chatbot that allowed for full control over a…

October 31, 2026

OpenAI has raised less than half of its $30 billion target

OpenAI has raised less than half of its planned $30 billion in its latest funding round, with the total reaching only about $11 billion,…

October 31, 2026

Apple is launching Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3

Apple has announced the upcoming launch of its proprietary AI feature suite for users in China. The update will become available alongside…

October 30, 2026

Anthropic may receive a speculative rating after going public

Developer Anthropic will face a so-called "junk" credit rating from agencies following its initial public offering. According to a new…

October 30, 2026

Claude model autonomously performed brain surgery on a mouse

Researchers used a language model from Anthropic to perform a surgical operation on a living organism without human intervention. The…

October 30, 2026

OpenAI has implemented a common robots.txt standard for data collection

OpenAI has announced support for a common signal via the robots.txt protocol, which allows website owners to manage the use of their…

October 30, 2026

OpenAI has updated its Model Spec guidelines for AI control

OpenAI has introduced an updated version of its Model Spec, which defines behavioral standards for language models. The new version of the…

October 30, 2026

Zest has launched an AI agent for finding restaurants and booking tables

Startup Zest has introduced an AI concierge designed to automate the process of choosing venues and booking tables via text messages. The…

October 30, 2026

Fujifilm to increase magnetic tape production fivefold

Fujifilm has announced plans to increase its production of magnetic data storage tapes fivefold. This large-scale expansion is driven by a…

October 30, 2026

Reddit lost a million search visits due to Google's AI

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman stated that the company lost more than one million search visits from Google in a single week in October. The…

October 30, 2026

Google has launched the first data center with an AI model into orbit

Google has successfully launched a satellite equipped with data center hardware into Earth's orbit. The spacecraft carries the first-ever…

October 30, 2026

US Department of Justice uncovers AI student fraud scheme

The US Department of Justice has unsealed indictments against members of a large-scale criminal network that used neural networks to…

October 30, 2026

YOLO-World v2 object detector launched on the Replicate platform

The YOLO-World v2 (m) tool, designed for object detection in images and videos, is now available on the Replicate platform. The model…

October 30, 2026

DoorDash has received several hundred orders from third-party AI agents

Delivery service DoorDash has announced that it has recorded only "several hundred" orders placed using third-party AI agents. Despite the…

October 30, 2026

GLM 5.3 created exploits for Firefox without human intervention

Researchers at Epoch AI reported on the autonomous operation of the GLM 5.3 model, which was able to turn public security patches into…

October 30, 2026

The official Claude Code extension has been compromised

Experts have documented the compromise of the official Claude Code extension for the VS Code editor on the Cursor Marketplace. The…

October 30, 2026

Microsoft Research has studied the swarm behavior of AI agents

Researchers from Microsoft Research conducted an experiment on swarm interaction of language models without centralized control. As part…

October 30, 2026

MiniMax has released a budget-friendly video generation model, H3 Lite

Developers have introduced MiniMax H3 Lite — a new lightweight model for generating video from text descriptions, images, and references.…

October 29, 2026

Amazon aims to turn AWS into a trillion-dollar business

The CEO of Amazon has announced the company's strategic goal to make its AWS cloud division the first business in history to reach $1…

October 29, 2026

Researchers have developed a method for identifying hidden preferences in language models

A new study has been published, proposing a method for identifying alignment-faking behavior in large language models. The method is…

October 29, 2026

Divergence Labs created an antibody against food allergies using Claude

Researchers at Divergence Labs have developed a bipartite antibody to combat food allergies, using the Claude model for protein molecule…

October 29, 2026

Anthropic found that experts adopt the random opinions of AI agents

Anthropic conducted a study involving 50 experts who were provided with an AI agent whose preferences were determined by a coin toss.…

October 29, 2026

Thrive Holdings acquired ADT for $15.3 billion to integrate AI

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings has entered into an agreement to acquire ADT. The deal is valued at $15.3 billion.

October 29, 2026

Trump has declared robot imports a national security threat

The US President has officially declared the import of foreign industrial robots a threat to the country's national security. The head of…

October 29, 2026

Google has added document generation and editing to Gemini

Google has added built-in features for creating, previewing, and editing files directly within Gemini chats. The update unlocks new…

October 29, 2026

Mistral has released a trillion-parameter model for cybersecurity

French company Mistral has released the weights for its new ultra-large model Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B, which features a trillion…

October 29, 2026

SkyPilot has updated its scheduler for Nvidia Grace Blackwell clusters

The SkyPilot team has introduced a new job scheduler specifically designed to optimize the training of large language models on Nvidia…

October 29, 2026

Former Palantir top executives have launched the startup Dream with investment from a16z

Former top executives from Palantir have founded the startup Dream and raised $17 million in an investment round led by Andreessen…

October 29, 2026

Trakkr research reveals low citation accuracy for statistics in AI

Analytics firm Trakkr Research conducted a verification of the data cited by popular AI assistants. The results showed that only 40% of…

October 29, 2026

US investigates espionage attempt against Nvidia CEO

US authorities have launched an investigation into a top executive at a Singaporean cloud AI computing company on suspicion of spying for…

October 29, 2026

Microsoft has offered a voluntary severance program to 60,000 employees

Microsoft has launched a voluntary departure program for approximately 60,000 employees, which accounts for about a quarter of the…

October 29, 2026

Google admits lower revenue from AI search and is preparing new ad formats

Google has officially acknowledged that integrating generative artificial intelligence into search results generates less revenue compared…

October 29, 2026

Mistral has released its flagship model Large 4, codenamed Le Chonk

The French company Mistral has introduced its new flagship model Large 4, known in the community by the codename Le Chonk. It is a massive…

October 29, 2026

Moonshot AI has introduced the open model Kimi K3

The Chinese company Moonshot AI has released a new open model, Kimi K3. The developers claim that the architecture demonstrates…

October 29, 2026

The US Department of Justice has begun reviewing the Nvidia and Hugging Face deal

The US Department of Justice has initiated an antitrust investigation into Nvidia. Regulators are examining the details of the planned…

October 29, 2026

Startup Wabi has raised $55 million at a valuation of $1.25 billion

AI tool developer Wabi has closed a $55 million funding round. Following the deal, the company's market valuation has reached $1.25…

October 29, 2026

NYT Cooking is testing AI tools for recipe modification

The New York Times has begun testing a new AI-powered feature in its Cooking app. The tool is designed to automatically adapt culinary…

October 29, 2026

IBM has introduced the Granite Switch 4.1.1 architecture

IBM has released the Granite Switch 4.1.1 architecture, which allows neural network components to be updated similarly to software…

October 29, 2026

Deepgram has acquired Daily, the creator of Pipecat

Deepgram has announced the acquisition of the startup Daily, known as the developer of the Pipecat framework. The deal is aimed at…

October 29, 2026

Bernstein introduced for AI agent management and auditing

Developers have introduced Bernstein, an open-source governance layer designed to control the operation of AI agents. The tool is focused…

October 29, 2026

A tools gallery has been added to Claude for Legal

The company has announced the launch of a dedicated gallery of ready-to-use tools for legal work within the Claude for Legal platform.…

October 29, 2026

AI model discovers critical vulnerability in PHP core

Researchers have documented a case where a critical vulnerability was discovered in the PHP core, assigned the identifier CVE-2026-109618.…

October 29, 2026