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  1. Business & Funding new

    OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says data center investment will continue despite election results

    OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar stated that the company will continue investing in AI data centers regardless of the 2026 midterm election outcomes, emphasizing the need to meet…

    5 sources
  2. Agents & Tools new

    Meta improves Muse and Meta AI with Active Memory and Active Focus

    Meta AI Research rolled out updated versions of Muse and Meta AI on November 6, 2026, using specialized models trained with Muse Wonder.

    2 sources
  3. Hardware & Compute new

    Nvidia reportedly financing billions for ASE advanced chip packaging expansion

    Nvidia is providing billions of dollars in financing to Taiwan's Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), a subsidiary of ASE Technology Holding, to expand advanced…

    3 sources
  4. Marketing & Small Business new

    Tado AI heating system saves 18% on gas bills in two-year test

    A Guardian journalist spent two years testing whether AI-powered smart heating could reduce energy costs compared to manual control.

    1 source

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  1. Business & Funding new

    Sand.ai raises $200M Series A+ to reach $1B valuation

    Sand.ai, a Beijing-based AI startup focused on video generation, has completed a $200 million Series A+ funding round. This investment values the company at over $1 billion, granting it unicorn status. The round was…

    1 source
    dealstreetasia.com
  2. Enterprise & Industry new

    Buoyant releases kinference, an open source inference control plane

    buoyant released kinference, an open‑source inference control plane for kubernetes that sits in front of vllm workers. the project, written in rust and licensed under apache 2.0, is available on github as…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  3. Business & Funding new

    AMD CEO says company is data‑center first amid soaring GPU prices

    AMD reported a record $13.4 billion in third‑quarter 2026 revenue, roughly 100% more than a year earlier, with 63% of the sales coming from data‑center products. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, CEO Lisa Su said the…

    1 source
    pcmag.com
  4. Business & Funding new

    WWT to secure £225m in European compute for AI startups

    World Wide Technology (WWT) has announced a new initiative called InfiniteAI, aiming to secure up to £225m (US$303m) worth of computing power hosted in Europe. This six-year program is designed to support a select…

    1 source
    technologymagazine.com
  5. Research new

    John Langford quits Microsoft, declares AI Frontiers over

    John Langford, the founder of Microsoft’s AI Frontiers research group, has left the company and declared the group dissolved. In a blog post and on X, Langford described the situation as a "train wreck" resulting from…

    1 source
    indiatoday.in
  6. Society & Work new

    Opinion: Gillian Tett argues economics and culture drive Western AI pessimism

    Gillian Tett, a columnist for the Financial Times, argues that Western pessimism toward artificial intelligence stems from distinct economic, policy, and cultural factors. She notes that voter hostility toward Big Tech…

    1 source
    ft.com

Friday 6 November

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  1. Research new

    PSI proves Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture using Anthropic’s non-public model

    Physical Superintelligence (PSI) announced on November 6 that its internal research system, running a non-public Anthropic model, proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture—a 2008 open question in quantum computing. The…

    1 source HN 8
    psi.inc
  2. Business & Funding new

    Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5B led by Accel at a $40B valuation, sources say

    Thinking Machines Lab is close to finalizing a $5 billion funding round led by Accel at a $40 billion pre-money valuation, according to multiple unnamed sources familiar with the deal. The investment could close as…

    2 sources
    The Verge AIbusinessinsider.com
  3. Generative AI & Models new

    Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE model with 17B active parameters

    Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Inkling 2 Small, its second-generation Mixture-of-Experts model with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters. The…

    8 sources
    Latent SpaceThe DecoderMarkTechPostartificialanalysis.ai +3 more
  4. Agents & Tools new

    ChatGPT silently switches OAuth connectors during multi-step tool calls, report shows

    A technical report describes a security flaw in ChatGPT when handling multiple Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. During a conversation with two connectors enabled pointing to the same server, ChatGPT executed a…

    1 source HN 44
    community.openai.com
  5. Policy & Regulation new

    Trump administration official holds $18M–$64M in AI investments while pushing federal data center plans

    Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, a key figure in the Trump administration’s push for AI infrastructure, has disclosed investments worth between $18.1 million and $64.4 million in AI companies through his firm, Arthur…

    1 source
    propublica.org
  6. Hardware & Compute new

    Nvidia requires Southeast Asian Cloud Partner applicants to enroll in Fleet Intelligence tracking program

    Nvidia is requiring Southeast Asian customers seeking Nvidia Cloud Partner (NCP) status to enroll in its Fleet Intelligence tracking system, according to sources familiar with the change reported by Bloomberg and…

    6 sources
    finance.yahoo.comTom's Hardwarebloomberg.combriefs.co +1 more
  7. Hardware & Compute new

    Google buys Crusoe’s Wyoming AI data-center site after pre-development work

    Crusoe handed over a pre-developed Wyoming data-center site to Google on November 6, 2026, after completing site selection, governmental approvals, and a hybrid power strategy with Tallgrass Energy. The project,…

    2 sources
    TechCrunch AIUnite.AI
  8. Policy & Regulation new

    Vals finds Chinese open AI model nearly matches OpenAI’s hacking model in tests

    Vals, a company that benchmarks AI capabilities, tested how well different models could execute complex, multi-step network attacks on simulated corporate networks. The results suggest open-weight models—like…

    1 source
    Wired AI

Thursday 5 November

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  1. Business & Funding new

    OpenAI raises $11B at $1.25T valuation, Bloomberg reports

    OpenAI has secured approximately $11 billion in new funding, marking the first tranche of a round that values the company at $1.25 trillion. According to Bloomberg, the funds were transferred on Friday. The total round…

    18 sources HN 60
    The DecoderUnite.AITechCrunch AIft.com +12 more
  2. Hardware & Compute new

    Nvidia shares fall 6% to 9% as AI selloff follows Democratic midterm sweep

    Nvidia's stock declined between 6% and 9% on November 5–6, 2026, amid a broad selloff in AI and data center stocks following the Democratic sweep in the U.S. midterm elections. The drop was driven by investor concerns…

    22 sources HN 48
    kadoa.comThe Guardian AIBBC TechnologyCNBC Technology +8 more
  3. Business & Funding new

    Big Tech plans at least $720 billion AI spending this year; Anthropic commits $895 billion through 2045

    Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta told investors they will spend at least $720 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, most of it for AI infrastructure, on top of at least $1 trillion in future commitments. The…

    7 sources
    Unite.AITechCrunch AIfinance.yahoo.comThe Verge AI +1 more
  4. Agents & Tools new

    Perplexity launches AI agents called Teammates for ongoing work tasks

    Perplexity has launched a new feature called Teammates, which are always-on AI agents designed to handle ongoing work tasks such as project coordination, monitoring, and follow-through across business functions like…

    3 sources primary source HN 44
    perplexity.aiThe DecoderThe Verge AI
  5. Marketing & Small Business new

    Anthropic launches Claude Personal Finance tool for U.S. Pro, Max, and Ultra users

    Anthropic announced on November 5, 2026, that Claude now includes a new Personal Finance tool allowing users to connect bank and credit card accounts via Plaid to ask questions about spending, balances, and…

    17 sources
    geeky-gadgets.com247wallst.comThe Decoderiphoneincanada.ca +12 more
  6. Generative AI & Models new

    Google releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash with 15-second video generation and 30% price cut to $0.07 per second

    Google has released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, making it generally available across the Gemini API and Google Cloud. The model enables native video generation and editing up to 15 seconds long, an increase from the…

    10 sources primary source HN 37
    Google Workspace UpdatesSmall Business Trendsheise.deMarkTechPost +5 more
  7. Policy & Regulation new

    METR finds Anthropic AI development pace doubled, AI-assisted research cited as main driver

    Nonprofit evaluator METR reports that Anthropic's AI model capabilities improved roughly twice as fast over the past year compared to the prior period, based on 11 weeks of internal access from August to October 2026.…

    11 sources HN 41
    The DecoderThe Rundown AIanalyticsinsight.nettechtimes.com +4 more
  8. Marketing & Small Business new

    UK consumer AI spending passes £1B annually with 5.1% of adults paying for subscriptions as of July 2026

    UK consumers spent over £1 billion annually on AI subscriptions as of July 2026, with 5.1% of adults—about 2.8 million people—paying for AI assistant services, according to a study by economists from the University of…

    3 sources
    bloomberg.comthenextweb.comunite.ai

Wednesday 4 November

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  1. Policy & Regulation new

    Democratic wins in Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania threaten 50% of proposed US AI data center projects

    Democratic gubernatorial victories in Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania have exposed approximately half of proposed US AI data center additions to increased scrutiny and potential moratoriums, according to…

    17 sources HN 56
    TechCrunch AIbloomberg.comThe Verge AIfinance.yahoo.com +9 more
  2. Business & Funding new

    OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.

    OpenAI announced it will acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc., the developer-tools startup behind Code Storage and open-source libraries Trees, Diffs, and Highlights, which are already used in OpenAI's Codex coding…

    6 sources primary source HN 100
    tech.yahoo.comThe Decodernote.comOpenAI +2 more
  3. Business & Funding new

    Microsoft winds down Oracle AI cloud deal after declining to renew contract

    Microsoft has begun winding down its agreement to rent AI computing capacity from Oracle after deciding not to renew the contract, according to Bloomberg and other sources. The deal, which dates to 2023, involved older…

    8 sources HN 5
    bloomberg.comruntimewire.comtechbuzz.aithenextweb.com +4 more
  4. Agents & Tools new

    OpenAI launches GPT-Live outbound phone calls API at $0.05 per minute

    On November 4, 2026, OpenAI announced the general availability of its GPT-Live outbound telephony API, enabling developers to make real phone calls using voice agents through SIP providers like Telnyx and Twilio. The…

    2 sources HN 47
    developers.openai.comcryptobriefing.com
  5. Generative AI & Models new

    Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro as open-weights model

    Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro as an open-weight, natively multimodal agentic model. The model is described as the most capable 3T-class model to date, post-trained from Kimi K3 with large-scale joint…

    2 sources primary source
    github.comhuggingface.co
  6. Research new

    Anthropic releases study on Claude usage in scientific research

    Anthropic published a study analyzing 207,000 Claude and Claude Code research sessions to understand how scientists use its AI models across fields and tasks. The research shows Claude is used more in formal sciences…

    3 sources primary source HN 51
    Unite.AIanthropic.comnote.com
  7. Policy & Regulation new

    Democrat Gina Hinojosa's Texas Win Triggers AI Stock Selloff Over Data Center Moratorium Fears

    Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated Republican Greg Abbott in the Texas gubernatorial race, intensifying investor concerns about a potential moratorium on new data center construction. Her campaign platform called for an…

    9 sources HN 41
    CNBC Technologyhindustantimes.combusinessinsider.comtrendingtopics.eu +5 more
  8. Generative AI & Models new

    Ricursive Intelligence releases Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B parameter open model scoring 80.52 on TerminalBench 2.1

    Ricursive Intelligence has released Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter dense Transformer model pretrained on 12 trillion tokens, scoring 80.52 on the TerminalBench 2.1 coding benchmark. The model is available…

    3 sources primary source
    The Decoderventurebeat.comhuggingface.co
hot OpenAI raises $11B at $1.25T valuation, Bloomberg reports new Buoyant releases kinference, an open source inference control plane hot PSI proves Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture using Anthropic’s non-public model new Micron’s AI memory stock may jump 89% in 2027, analysts say hot OpenAI seeks $30 billion funding round at $1.25 trillion valuation new Anthropic's Claude begins 'dreaming' to reorganize memory in tests hot OpenAI adds GPT-6 Sol and Luna models to ChatGPT and Codex new WWT to secure £225m in European compute for AI startups