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ToolsNews
For about 11 hours on October 29, a modified Anthropic.claude-code extension (2.1.312 and 2.1.313) that installs an SSH backdoor was available in Cursor's VS Code extension marketplace. If it updated in that window, check your machine.
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ResearchNews
A Gemma 4 model running on Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite wrote its first haiku from space. Google calls it the first AI response from a data center class TPU in orbit.
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ToolsNews
An open-source plugin from Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley learns from past sessions in a repository and wastes fewer tokens in the ones that follow. On SWE-Bench tasks it cut mean cost by 18.4% to 30.9%.
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PolicyNews
OpenAI is tightening how ChatGPT handles violence-related requests: the model can now end a conversation on its own in some cases, and minors get less weapons-related information. Starting in early 2027, the company will publish a public community safety report every six months.
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PolicyNews
OpenAI will honor a common robots.txt signal that lets websites tell multiple AI providers at once whether their content may be used for model training.
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ResearchNews
In an Epoch AI experiment, the open-weight GLM 5.3 autonomously built working Firefox exploit chains from security fixes that were public but not yet shipped. Each successful attack cost about $1,000 in API fees.
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ModelsNews
Samaya post-trained a 30B Nemotron model with 3B active parameters for financial research. It scores 58.9% on Samaya's FrontierFinance benchmark, above Claude Fable 5.1's 55.9%, at roughly an eleventh of the cost.
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PolicyNews
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, filed an amicus brief in the New York Times copyright case against OpenAI. It argues LLM training can be fair use, but RAG that copies sources back into answers should need a license.
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BusinessNews
Dulo, co-founded by Google X co-founder Sebastian Thrun and Adrian Aoun, raised $130 million to build foundation models for hardware design. Eric Schmidt, Marc Benioff and John Doerr joined the round.
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BusinessNews
Apple will ship its first Apple Intelligence features in China in a developer beta from November 4 and in iOS 27.3 in December. Alibaba's Qwen will be available in some experiences, but the new AI-powered Siri is not included.
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BusinessNews
Reddit is shifting to a primarily logged-in experience. AI-powered search is sharply cutting traffic from Google, and the company also wants to protect its data from AI scraping so it can license it to model developers instead.
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PolicyNews
According to WIRED's sources, an Accenture contractor connected a secure Pentagon system to their personal Claude Code account, and the agent ran on the network for two months. It appears to have sent login credentials and a network map to a high-risk third-party site. Accenture says the allegations are without merit.
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ModelsNews
IBM released Granite Switch 4.1.1, a patch release of its modular model. The base model is untouched; only the decision adapter and the speech recognizer were updated, so integrations built on 4.1 keep working unchanged.
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PolicyNews
According to Reuters' sources, the US Justice Department has asked how Nvidia's $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face would affect competition in AI. The questions are part of a years-long investigation into Nvidia's business conduct.
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ResearchNews
Hugging Face, US universities and nonprofit partners launched Project ProtoStar to release publicly funded datasets, models and code in AI-ready, reusable formats. The first open challenge starts November 2.
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ResearchNews
OpenAI described how it watches its agents' reasoning, actions and environment. After the Hugging Face incident, monitoring now covers training, evaluation, internal use and, in modified form, external deployment, with auto-pause and webhook alerts for Astra-class API use.
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ResearchNews
OpenAI updated the Model Spec, its public description of how its models should behave. The new version organizes guidance around five core values, adds sections on context, oversight and agency, and retires most of the detailed style guidance.
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BusinessNews
On October 29 OpenAI doubled the Work and Codex allowance on its Pro 100 and Pro 500 plans and canceled a planned cut on Pro 200. A day earlier, another perk went live: Pro and Business subscribers can claim up to $500 a month in API credits.
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ToolsNews
The Gemini app can now preview and edit the documents, spreadsheets and slide decks it generates without leaving the chat. PDFs work on web and mobile, while other formats are web-only for now.
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BusinessNews
Voice AI infrastructure company Deepgram is acquiring Daily, maker of the popular open-source Pipecat voice agent framework. Pipecat stays open source under an independent foundation, and Deepgram also introduced a new open protocol, the Real-Time Context Standard.
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