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  1. The Decoder64

    After midterm rout, OpenAI tries to win over communities it needs for AI expansion

    Following US midterm elections in which voters rejected new data centers in 40 of 41 local ballot measures, OpenAI published a National Community Compact and Policy Blueprint with voluntary commitments for future sites it owns and operates, including no NDAs in local negotiations, covering electricity and grid upgrade costs, and disclosing construction and water usage data. The pledges' scope is unclear since much of OpenAI's infrastructure is built and held by partners like Oracle, and policy chief Chris Lehane acknowledged projects could face delays. The election split AI stocks, with specialized data center operators falling and cash-rich tech giants rising, while Elon Musk's $446 million in backing for Republican candidates largely went to losers.

  2. Baseten Blog22

    Baseten joins the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition to advance custom AI in production

    Baseten has joined the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA on open frontier models, post-training, RL environments, and dedicated inference. The post cites CodeRabbit's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning customization, which raised routing-policy agreement from 75.8% to 80.7% on 1,000 tasks and cut inference cost 50.4% at saturated throughput, and notes Harvey post-trains Nemotron on Baseten for legal workflows. Baseten Loops now supports Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Nemotron 3 Ultra, with customers retaining ownership of trained weights.

  4. Hacker News AI58

    AI stock selloffs fuel fears Big Tech's best quarters are over

    A selloff in major technology stocks this week, with the Nasdaq 100 falling about 4% and wiping out more than $1 trillion in value, reflected investor fears that massive AI spending won't pay off soon. Quarterly results from Amazon, Alphabet, ServiceNow and Meta disappointed, while Intel shares plunged more than 30% after a weak outlook tied partly to an October factory explosion in Israel. Analysts said investors are trimming tech gains rather than exiting equities, though some remain optimistic about the sector's long-term prospects.

  5. Cerebras Blog50

    What It Took to Build Wafer-Scale, and Why It Lasts

    Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman rebuts a Culper Research short-seller report claiming its wafers wear out after about two years, saying the company does not use the PariPoser material and that its patented assembly keeps temperatures steady and even while flexible connections absorb thermal expansion. He cites TSMC qualification for 10 years of continuous operation at 105°C and an average junction temperature below 65°C across deployed CS-3 systems, arguing Arrhenius modeling with those inputs implies 33 years at maximum temperature and over a century at average. Feldman also says fewer than 0.5% of deployed CS-3 wafers have been decommissioned since 2024 and defends the company's 3-5 year depreciation schedule as conservative.

  6. 404 Media58

    The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin

    Yuriy Nazarenko, 28, describes building OnlyFake, an underground website that used templates and later generative AI to mass-produce convincing scans and photos of fake driver's licenses, passports, and other identity documents for about $15 each. The DOJ said OnlyFake made more than a million dollars, and Nazarenko has pleaded guilty and served a year in prison before ending up in ICE detention. He says North Korean fake IT workers used his creation and that OnlyFake helped unleash a new age of AI-powered fraud.

  7. TechCrunch · AI40

    A YC startup is putting $1M behind 5 unsolved materials science problems for AI

    Discovered Materials, a San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's spring 2026 batch, announced a $1 million prize pool for AI models that solve five open materials science problems, including a theory of cuprate superconductivity and numerical methods for silicon-silicon dioxide interfaces and Density Functional Theory. The company said frontier lab models given internet access and other resources worked autonomously for days on each problem without making much headway. The startup, which develops new materials for semiconductors and partners with chip giants, said its timeline for generating a useful material has accelerated beyond its earlier one-year hope.

  9. TechCrunch · AI58

    Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?

    Agility is going public through a SPAC reverse merger that will raise $465 million in new capital, making it the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Its Digit robots are doing real industrial work for nine customers, but the company earned just $174,000 in the first six months of 2026 while losing $362 million, and it has $300 million in planned contracts from 30 customers for the next-generation Digit 5, which is set to be demonstrated at CES 2027.

  10. The Decoder52

    Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI

    Catherine Wu, who led product for Claude Code at Anthropic, is joining OpenAI to run product management for "Core Products," OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux welcomed her with the quip "CatGPT." Wu said she wants to build agents that take work off users' plates while keeping them in control, and growth marketing manager Austin Lau is also moving from Anthropic to OpenAI. Anthropic has also recently lost skills and context engineer Thariq Shihipar and Anthony Morris, who built Claude Code Desktop, though neither has gone to OpenAI, at least not yet.

  11. Ars Technica · AI58

    Agility Robotics' Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot market

    Agility Robotics, headquartered in Salem, Oregon, became the first dedicated humanoid robot developer to go public in the US, listing on Nasdaq as of November 5. In its securities filing the company acknowledged that humanoid robots remain unproven at scale and have not achieved widespread commercialization, unlike industrial robots with decades of proven warehouse and factory track records. Co-founder and chief robot officer Jonathan Hurst told Ars that renting robots as a service lowers customer risk because the rate is comparable to human labor and provides return on investment from day one.

  12. The Verge · AI58

    Big Tech’s big AI buildout will not end until someone stops it

    Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta told investors they plan to spend at least $720 billion on capital expenditures this year, mostly on AI infrastructure, on top of at least $1 trillion in commitments for coming years, even though they have not yet made money from AI. Alphabet posted its worst one-day stock drop, sinking 13%, after acknowledging that Google Cloud's AI-driven growth came at the expense of its core Search business, where ad revenue growth slowed to 12% from 17% a year earlier. Microsoft was the only one of the four to avoid Wall Street's ire, reporting $45.2 billion in quarterly capex, below the expected $50 billion, due to third-party capacity delays, and it later announced a $25 billion bond sale.

  14. Hacker News AI62

    AI Is Never Wrong

    A roundup of documented incidents in which AI systems produced nonexistent case citations, false medical records, exposed private chats, or unauthorized intrusions, including a CPS prosecutor citing an imaginary 2024 Court of Appeal case and a wrongful death suit alleging ChatGPT advised stopping seizure medication. Other entries cover fines and sanctions against lawyers, a voided ₹425 crore Indian customs penalty, a halted California court translation rollout, and OpenAI agents breaching Australian government systems.

  15. Hacker News AI65

    Google to cut Search access for schools that block new AI tools

    Google announced Nov. 3 that its "AI in the Learning Era 2026" rollout adds "Guided Learning" features to Google Search and Google Classroom, which prompt students with step-by-step questions instead of giving final answers. K-12 administrators can enable or disable AI products such as Gemini and Gemini Notebook on managed student accounts, with the tools off by default in early 2027 and requiring schools to opt in. Because generative AI is integrated into core Search, districts that fully block AI tools will lose access to the search engine, with students seeing a message from their school, Chris Phillips told The New York Times.

  16. Latent Space70

    [AINews] It's Swapping Season

    Cat Wu is leaving Anthropic's Claude Code team to lead Core Products PM at OpenAI, while Sharon Zhou is leaving AMD for Anthropic, alongside other moves including Factory acquiring HumanLayer and Meta acquiring Conductor. The roundup also covers OpenAI's autonomous pipeline that patched 948 Linux kernel privilege-escalation bugs for $1.2M in API cost, open-weight releases including Kimi K3.1 Pro, Ripple-65B and Tencent Hy4, and reports that GPT-6.2 Sol and Astra could ship as soon as Friday.

  19. TechCrunch · AI74

    After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming

    Following the November 3 midterms, anger over data centers became a political force, with an NBC exit poll finding nearly 80% of respondents opposed to data centers in their neighborhoods and almost 60% saying the issue was a crucial or major factor in their vote. Democrats winning full control of Congress could lead to new limits on where data centers can be built and how much say local communities have, with likely next steps including construction moratoriums or requiring data centers to pay for their own grid upgrades. Analysts at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs predict construction delays in states like Ohio, Georgia and Texas, while Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have proposed a nationwide moratorium on new data centers until Congress adds new guardrails.

  20. TechCrunch · AI58

    Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage

    Bloomberg reported that Apple lowered the daily AI spending cap for its engineering teams from $300 to $200 in October, with some allowances reportedly falling to $100 a day and a limit as low as $25 a day being weighed outside engineering. TechCrunch has reached out to Apple for comment. The report follows a broader pullback in which companies that had pushed staff to use AI heavily began rationing tokens as bills came due.

  21. PyTorch Blog8

    Call for Proposals: PyTorch Day China 2026

    The Call for Proposals for PyTorch Day China 2026 closes November 10 at 23:59 China Standard Time; the event takes place in Beijing on December 12. It welcomes session presentations and lightning talks across five topic areas: Model Training & Post-Training, Efficient Inference & Deployment, PyTorch Core & Hardware Acceleration, Physical AI, and PyTorch Ecosystem & Applications. CFP notifications are scheduled for November 17, with the schedule announcement on November 18.

  22. Hacker News AI36

    TikTok Cinema: Inside AI Microdramas

    An article examines MyMuse and similar apps producing AI-generated microdramas — short, vertical, cliffhanger-driven series that viewers pay for with coins or subscriptions — noting that 93% of subscribers were still watching an hour after signing up. It describes how generative AI lets a series be made in about two weeks versus 12 for live-action, while arguing the output recycles the same plots and faces and that platform control over distribution concentrates power despite promises of democratized filmmaking. It also cites China, where roughly 430,000 microdramas were released in the first eight months of 2026 with over 90% reporting some AI use.

  23. The Verge · AI42

    Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink

    With smartphone sales down about 20 percent versus 2025, Qualcomm said on its Q4 2026 earnings call that it expects data center chips to eventually account for around 30 percent of its business, aided by partnerships with Amazon and Meta announced earlier this year. The company forecasts roughly $650 million in data center revenue in Q1 2027, rising to $5 billion by the end of 2027 and $15 billion by 2029, against total 2026 revenue of $10.4 billion.

  24. TechCrunch · AI58

    AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress — here’s how they fared

    AI-focused political groups supporting and opposing the industry spent millions on Tuesday's midterms with mixed results, including $4.8 million by American Mission and Building the Future backing South Carolina Senate candidate Darline Graham, who lost. Anthropic-backed Public First had more success with Democratic candidates and gave $3 million to a PAC supporting California state Sen. Scott Wiener, while Guardrails Alliance spent over $1 million each opposing two candidates who lost. LTF said it sees primaries as a more effective use of its money, having spent $27.38 million there, and plans to keep spending in 2028.

  26. TechCrunch · AI58

    Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says

    On Uber's Q3 earnings call, CFO Balaji Krishnamurthy said that during the week of Halloween the company handled around 320 million trips and orders across Uber and Uber Eats, but only four rides were booked through an AI agent and only 500 Uber Eats orders were placed by one. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called the traction "very, very early and very limited," while noting that booking a ride in the app takes about 50 seconds and reordering food about 90 seconds. He remained bullish on agents overall, saying around eight major AI assistants exist today and that "every single AI system company is talking to us."

  27. TechCrunch · AI22

    Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month

    Nothing CEO Carl Pei posted on X that the company's first "AI-native product" ships in December, describing it as a screenless productivity tool that "couldn't have been an app." Pei appeared to downplay links to AI wearables like pendants, pins, or glasses, saying he reads the industry's hunt for an "iPhone moment" differently. No firm release date has been announced.

  28. OpenAI News76

    A thousand fewer paths to root

    OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.

    Why it matters: It offers a concrete data point on autonomous vulnerability discovery and patching at scale in a critical open-source codebase.

  29. Hacker News AI58

    A painting went missing 20 years ago. Police tracked it down with the help of AI

    Italian police used a custom AI system called Swoads, which compares images of artworks at fairs and online against a database of over one million stolen cultural artefacts, to flag a painting at the Parma antiquity fair in October 2024. The work turned out to be a 17th-Century painting of Saint Agnese stolen from a church near Naples in 2004 and painted over to disguise it, and it was returned to the church on 20 May 2025. Since its introduction in November 2023, the system has helped recover more than 300 large plundered paintings and statues and over 165,000 smaller objects worth more than €203m.

  30. Newcomer58

    Latest Fundraising Efforts Show OpenAI & Anthropic on Divergent Paths

    Investors backing both OpenAI and Anthropic see a clear divergence in how the two companies are viewed, with Anthropic distancing itself from its rival while OpenAI seeks a comeback story. One investor described "infinite demand" for Anthropic's shares among long-term investors like mutual funds and said the company was "bulldozing right through" the bumpy landscape, expressing confidence its planned IPO would happen before Thanksgiving. The investor noted that Anthropic's relative friendliness to Democrats doesn't hurt.

  31. TechCrunch · AI58

    Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor

    Meta has acquired Conductor, a 2024-founded AI coding startup whose platform deploys agents from labs like Anthropic and OpenAI into parallel workspaces so engineers can work on separate parts of a project in concert. Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz said core features will keep working as before until early next year, but the cloud service shuts down November 20 and user cloud data will then be deleted. Meta confirmed the deal to TechCrunch without further details, following its Muse Code launch and other AI acquisitions.

  32. Ars Technica · AI78

    Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”

    Voters in the US midterm elections backed candidates and ballot measures restricting AI and data centers, with 38 of 44 data center measures across 10 states passing, and Democrats winning governor races in Texas, Arizona, Georgia and Ohio. Industry figures such as Chamber of Progress CEO Adam Kovacevich downplayed the results as an "anti-Trump wave" rather than an "anti-tech mandate," while civil rights advocates and analysts described it as the first true "AI election." The article also reports that a slowdown in US data center buildout could benefit China and that Elon Musk was among the biggest losers on election day.

    Why it matters: It maps the post-election shift in US AI and data center policy and the industry's competing interpretations of the results.

  33. Hacker News AI12

    AI's Building Boom Meets a Blue Wave. 'Neocloud' Stocks Fall

    This Investor's Business Daily item is a legal and informational disclaimer rather than an article, stating that its content is for informational and educational purposes only and is not an offer, recommendation, solicitation, or rating to buy or sell securities. It notes that information is drawn from sources believed reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy, timeliness, or suitability, and that authors may own the stocks they discuss.

  34. Hacker News AI40

    Apple Is Putting Employees on an AI Budget

    Bloomberg reports that Apple is curtailing employee AI use to cut costs, limiting some engineers to $200 per day for AI spending in October, down from $300, with possible further cuts to $100 and some teams capped at $25. Apple is asking some teams to use less expensive models or switch to on-device AI, and employees needing more can request increases from executives. Some Apple employees told Bloomberg that few were using their full $300 daily limit, so the savings may be small.

  36. Hacker News AI40

    Kenyan startup builds AI around mobile money and low-cost phones

    Fastagger, a Kenyan startup founded by Mutembei Kariuki, Jude Mwenda and Stephanie Njerenga, builds AI models that run offline and on low-power cellphones; its first major product, Auni, a business-intelligence assistant launched in 2024 and integrated into M-Pesa's business app, has signed up about 6,000 businesses. Auni helps small businesses such as barbershops and restaurants analyze transaction data and get marketing recommendations, with some functions like reading sales statements and visualizing results running on-device without cloud queries. Fastagger has support from Google, Microsoft and Nvidia accelerator programs but still has just its three founders, and is working on adding agents that could automatically implement marketing actions.

  37. TechCrunch · AI40

    DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google’s AI policy

    After Google told schools they could disable Gemini but said turning off its other AI features would also cost them Google Search, DuckDuckGo promoted its own service as a replacement default search engine for schools. DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg pointed to documentation on switching search engines and offered help, while its public affairs chief criticized Google, and the company said Google could easily turn off Search's AI features for schools if it wanted to. DuckDuckGo offers its own AI features but lets users disable them, including via noai.duckduckgo.com, and said earlier this year its app installs were up 30%.

  38. The Decoder62

    OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer Company to make Git keep up with AI coding agents

    OpenAI is acquiring Pierre Computer Company, Inc., the startup behind Code Storage and open-source tools whose libraries already power OpenAI's coding agent Codex, including Trees for fast project file navigation, Diffs for displaying code changes and fixing bugs in the diff view, and Highlights for real-time syntax highlighting. OpenAI says the acquisition is about making Git workflows work better when developers and AI agents write code side by side, alongside its own Pando version control backend. Pierre's open-source projects will stay open source, and the deal still needs regulatory approval.

  39. The Decoder58

    Anthropic's text watermark is easy to bypass on several older Claude models

    Anthropic is extending its text watermark to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.6, and Claude Sonnet 4.6, with a second wave on November 16, 2026 adding Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5. On the older models the watermark applies only when temperature, top_p, and top_k are left at their defaults, so changing any one sampling parameter avoids it. Anthropic cites the EU AI Act's December deadline and says the watermark, a variant of Google DeepMind's SynthID text method, is embedded at the model level and cannot be turned off.

  40. Latent Space62

    [AINews] Behind Latent Space: Kill My SaaS, Jev & AI in 2026 | AIEi Shanghai

    This AI News roundup covers the dispute over the "Weight Space Programming" story, noting that some claims were presented too favorably but that the results have been independently replicated, alongside an AI Engineer Shanghai feature and an interview on the history of Latent Space. It also recaps model releases and evals, including Tencent Hy4, Sarvam Prism, Kimi K3.1 Pro and LongCat-2.5, plus Anthropic's open-sourced FlashProve provable-inference system and benchmark audits from Prime Intellect and Xeophon.