The trade ministry credits global chip demand and Big Tech investment in AI infrastructure; exports rose 93.7% year on year, shipments to the US rose 185.8% to $24.9 billion, and January–October exports passed $900 billion for the first time, with the ministry saying the year could reach $1 trillion as early as November.
Bloomberg reports the DeepSeek Harness team said in a WeChat post that the open-source Super-agent can watch developer group chats and propose fixes without being summoned; the MIT-licensed repo says it is a research prototype, not an official product, differs from the internal version and publishes no benchmarks.
CNBC says the round is still open and figures could change; the FT reports a $1.25 trillion post-money valuation and a Friday deadline for commitments, with some investors cutting allocations, and the WSJ put commitments at about $11 billion. UAE investors and Coatue lead; OpenAI did not comment.
The bank says a Brookfield special purpose company will buy GPUs and other AI computing infrastructure and supply it to Naver Cloud long term, with about 10.7 trillion won raised as loans in what it calls Korea's largest syndicated loan arrangement; Hana, Shinhan, Woori and NH Investment & Securities are reported to participate, and final loan allocations are not public.
The Ministry of Science and ICT says Kim, a former Kakao senior vice president, serves from 2 November to 30 September 2028 over a 61-member unit, 26 of them private-sector developers, that will build public AI services itself rather than relying mainly on contractors; which services it ships first is not stated.
AFP reports a Forum AI study of eight models found almost 40% of answers to election queries contained at least one factual error, including a Gemini 3.6 Flash answer giving a Pennsylvania mail-ballot request deadline a week late, and that NewsGuard found Google's AI Overview, Gemini and Copilot repeating a debunked claim about a Texas Senate candidate; the Forum AI figures are as reported by AFP.
In X posts reported by Action News 5 and TeslaNorth, Musk said Gun Range will hold 220,000 GB300s configured for training and be operational by end of November, and Spam about 200,000 GB300s for inference in December; the 1.2 million total is his estimate and has not been independently confirmed.
Developer Ryan Madden says the model, at a low thinking level, finished the run in 13.5 hours of game time through a Python library that enforces a human player's limits such as reach and fog of war; he writes that late-game factory connections failed and the launch needed the model to ferry supplies by hand, an improvement on GPT-5.5, which did not use transport belts at all.
Northflank told all customers on 30 October to assume every environment variable had been decrypted, later said users reported unauthorised use of AI API keys stored on the platform and pointed to Wiz's Black October report, which counts at least nine AI developer platform incidents this month and documents stolen Bedrock keys making about 1.7 million calls in 13 hours; Northflank has not disclosed the root cause or how many customers were affected.
Reuters relayed the report, which cites people familiar with the initiative, and said it could not verify it; outlets citing The Information describe a roughly 106-pound robot called Max built in three months. Meta and Fourier have published no announcement.
Talos's write-up says the self-deleting Windows stealer builds a dossier from stolen passwords, cookies, wallets and sessions, enriches it from the victim's Gmail and delivery orders, and posts it via OpenRouter to anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 by default, failing over to kimi-k2 and gemini-2.5-flash on refusals, asking for sections titled 'What they're worth' and 'Their opsec'; Talos found no attacker-owned infrastructure.
Solapur's collector says the plan pairs a 2,000 MW floating solar farm on 9% of the reservoir with a data centre using closed-loop direct-to-chip cooling, rejecting protesters' claims of 6 to 9 TMC, and promises a public hearing before anything proceeds; the operator and investment are not named.