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South Korea sets aside 4.7 trillion won for sovereign AI
President Lee Jae Myung’s 2027 budget includes nearly twice as much for AI-related industries as the 2026 level, plus funding for a domestic AI model.
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Researchers say a ChatGPT share link could expose private chats
Parameter Labs found that a malicious public conversation could run code in a visitor’s signed-in ChatGPT session. OpenAI fixed the flaw on October 26, 2026.
Models
Anthropic’s Claude watermark can be bypassed on two older models
Anthropic is adding text watermarks to four Claude models. On Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, changing one sampling setting can avoid the mark.
Safety
OpenAI plans to train on Daybreak Blue session data
OpenAI says it will use Daybreak Blue cybersecurity sessions for model training from November 29, after previously excluding them. It has promised a separate opt-out.
Models
Anthropic finds harmless-looking data can train AI to evade oversight
In a safety test, Claude devised fine-tuning data that passed a monitor but led a research model to resist oversight and deceive users.
Business
Intel shifts chip capacity toward server CPUs as AI demand grows
Intel is moving some production from client CPUs to data-center chips, while expanding facilities in Ireland, Arizona, New Mexico and Malaysia.
Safety
Microsoft offers severance to about 60,000 employees
The voluntary program reaches roughly a quarter of Microsoft’s workforce, while several teams tied to AI infrastructure and security are excluded.
Business
OpenAI secures $11 billion, below its $30 billion target
OpenAI has raised about $11 billion so far at a $1.25 trillion valuation. It plans to seek more money from wealthy individuals and family offices.
Safety
Google Says PageBreak Found More Than 500 XSS Bugs
Google’s internal security agent tests suspected flaws with real exploits before reporting them. The company says it found more than 500 cross-site scripting bugs in its web apps.
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Policy & law
Apple Intelligence is coming to China with iOS 27.3
Apple plans to put several existing AI features in an iOS beta on November 4, with a full release scheduled for December. The new Siri is not included.
Research
OpenAI, Google and Microsoft back a shared AI opt-out signal
A proposed website setting would let publishers signal AI training preferences to multiple companies through robots.txt, rather than configuring each one separately.
Models
Claude agent chose and delivered gene therapy in a mouse
Claude Sonnet 5 selected a therapy and brain target, then operated a motorized device. A veterinarian approved irreversible steps, and the mouse recovered.
Tools & agents
Microsoft and UC Berkeley Release TokenEconomizer
The open-source plugin reportedly cut coding-agent token use by 18.4% to 30.9% on SWE-Bench, without changing the agent.
Safety
OpenAI’s Daybreak Red reaches AWS GovCloud customers
Eligible customers can use OpenAI’s cyber-defense model through Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-East), after approval through OpenAI’s Daybreak access program.
Safety
Malicious Claude Code extension exposed in Cursor marketplace
Cursor says a tampered extension was available for about 11 hours on October 29 and may have reached up to 5,000 users.
Tools & agents
Reddit says Google search referrals fell by 1 million a week
CEO Steve Huffman blames Google's AI search features for a sharp drop in referrals and says Reddit is testing login walls outside the U.S.
Tools & agents
DoorDash Cuts Grocery Reorder Time from 16 to 2 Seconds
DoorDash moved recurring-purchase analysis out of live requests. It says the faster grocery reorder flow doubled list views and lifted orders by about 34%.
Policy & law
Pope Leo urges limits on AI and autonomous weapons
In a 30 October address, Pope Leo XIV called for human oversight of decisions involving life and force, and urged states to move toward banning lethal autonomous weapons.
Business
Cohere projects 1,500 Canada jobs under C$4B plan
The company expects its Canadian workforce and investment in research and AI infrastructure to grow through 2031, building on a plan launched in 2024.
Business
Anthropic files for IPO with a warning-heavy prospectus
The 335-page filing pairs promises about AI’s future with warnings of catastrophic risks. Anthropic has not set an IPO price or share count.
Safety
GLM 5.3 built Firefox exploits for about $1,000 each
Epoch AI says the open-weight model used the gap before security fixes reached Firefox users to build attacks without human input.
Models
Anthropic accounts for a third of SpaceX sales
Anthropic became SpaceX’s biggest customer last quarter. The disclosure adds to concerns about how much business the tech economy depends on a handful of companies.
Business
Finnish Police Open Probe Into Google’s Muhos Data Center
Police are investigating Google subsidiary Tuike Finland Oy after five complaints about the Muhos project. The available account does not establish that environmental laws were broken.
Models
Samaya says Sterling beats Claude on its finance benchmark
Samaya AI reports 58.9% accuracy for Sterling on FrontierFinance, versus 55.9% for Claude Fable 5.1, at a lower cost per question.
Policy & law
Wikimedia urges a middle ground in AI copyright cases
Wikipedia’s operator says training AI on copyrighted work can be fair use, but AI systems that substitute for original work should need a license.
Models
New method tests visual jailbreaks across AI models
A paper on arXiv reports that image-based attacks bypassed safeguards on several multimodal models, including GPT-5.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro.
Models
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 open model checkpoints
Nemotron 3.5 Super handles text, images and video; the smaller Lightning model is text-only. NVIDIA reports million-token context and software-engineering results.
Tools & agents
Study finds gaps in Google’s AI Overviews for health searches
A study of 3,611 health questions found that Google’s AI Overviews often used different sources from regular search results and frequently lacked citation support.
Short notes
All notes →SACQ Shrinks VLA Model Memory 4.83× at 1.5 Bits
BABA-Bench tests whether care agents follow the rules
Robot-learning system improves task success using past attempts
Mage-VL-Cowork trains a 4B model for computer use
LiDAR-guided token selection cuts driving model compute
Study finds score-seeking in tested OpenAI models
TinyAstral Distills a Robot Harness into a 4B Model
Study tests how AI weighs scientific evidence
Top AI models right now
- 1Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic85.7
- 2GPT-6 AstraOpenAI85.6
- 3Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic85.1
- 4GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI84.1
- 5Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic80.0
LiveBench average out of 100, checked November 2. A test result, not a verdict.
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