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Malicious versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 were live for about 11 hours on October 29. Cursor and Microsoft say the attacker's server is offline, but files left on affected machines must be removed by hand.
VOLTA-AUTODOXER sends a dossier on each victim to commercial AI models and asks for a target assessment. If Claude refuses, it falls back to Kimi and Gemini.
Anthropic's platform team says it ported the API from a Python monolith without a single Rust developer at the start, verified it on shadow traffic, and cut CPU use by an estimated 40% to 50%.
The SOC 2-compliant assistant will go offline on November 6. CEO Bill Lennon says Muse, Instinct and other rivals made it harder to stand out, grow and raise money.
The Financial Times reports OpenAI is now seeking about $20 billion, down from $30 billion. The valuation target, already lowered from $1.4 trillion, stays at $1.25 trillion.
OpenAI's help center now says content from Daybreak sessions on personal accounts may be used to improve its models, even with the training setting off. A user says an email set a November 29 start.
The Globe and Mail, citing two unnamed sources, says Anthropic is negotiating to be the tenant of a Sturgeon County campus powered by a 920-megawatt gas plant. Neither company would comment.
According to WIRED's sources, the agent ran on a Defense Department system for two months and appears to have sent credentials and a network map to an outside website. Accenture says the allegations were investigated and found to be without merit.
Typedef maps how data models, pipelines and dashboards depend on each other, so Factory's Droids can plan migrations and debug pipelines with clearer lineage.
The startup says its tutor beat frontier models on the TutorMoments benchmark under a plain prompt. The test uses an AI student and an AI judge, not real learning outcomes.
Max 5x becomes Max at $100 a month and Max 20x becomes Ultra at $200. Ultra's weekly cap is unchanged.
Shares fell about 29% after Intel's fourth-quarter guidance missed estimates, citing PC softness and a fab shutdown in Israel.
The OpenAI Frontier Capability Group will start with Codex software engineering, mainframe modernization and agentic customer operations.
Tencent and CATL remain DeepSeek's largest backers, but state-owned money rose sharply from the company's first round.
Higgsfield objects to the 'Open Source Higgsfield' contest's use of its name and its CEO's likeness. Comfy says the challenge stays up.
A King's College London and Cambridge preprint finds the machine-checked version proves weaker or different statements than the paper mathematicians read.
A researcher found decoy function names and a hidden jailbreak-style prompt in a live ServicePipe fingerprinting script. One AI model refused to help; another complied.
Google calls it the first AI response from a data-center-class TPU in space. Radiation and thermal tests come next, then two linked satellites in 2027.
Rune's software helps Army and Marine Corps units plan supplies with little or no connectivity. Salesforce calls it its most significant national security acquisition.
On Stripe co-founder John Collison's Cheeky Pint podcast, the OpenAI CEO also talked about robot-built data centers, wasted memory in local AI and falling compute costs.