The Observer and Tortoise cite current and former staff who say the intelligence and investigations team numbers between 12 and 60 people, a size the paper could not confirm, and recount the Tumbler Ridge shooter's chats being flagged eight months before the February attack; OpenAI said it remains committed to working with law enforcement and its safety work.
The joint statement says Aramco transfers AI, compute and digital assets plus about SAR 9.9 billion ($2.6 billion) in cash in 2026, and that HUMAIN plans 3 gigawatts of AI data-centre capacity by 2030; the valuation was not disclosed.
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.
In his Oct. 31 post, Karpathy says Opus filtered Hacker News comments with Sonnet in a Claude Code workflow down to about 40,000 recommendations and deployed the site, while he only created an API key, booted a server and bought the domain; the timings are his own account.
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.
The Boston Globe reports MIT had explored hiring Ambient.ai to monitor campus cameras in real time, and that executive vice president Glen Shor told faculty on Oct. 21 that 'MIT will not be using AI in any way to observe or analyze campus activity'; professors had protested by decorating cameras with rhinestones and googly eyes.
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.
The RTA's updated strategy spans 41 areas and targets more than AED 300 million in annual added value, a 3% to 5% cut in traffic congestion and 20% to 30% faster case handling; local outlets give differing counts of planned AI products, so that figure is left out.
After breaches at banks including Shinhan, KB Kookmin and Hana and at Daishin Securities, Bithumb and Mirae Asset, regulators want improvement plans for gaps found in self-checks and are weighing a joint AI-based monitoring system; Chosunbiz reports they suspect AI agents were used and are investigating, which has not been confirmed.
The Observer reports that Clay Mathematics Institute president Martin Bridson voiced a fear that knowledge could be hoarded, after OpenAI published solutions to 377 hard problems last month; OpenAI and Anthropic have each put $5m into a Simons Foundation access fund, and neither lab responded in the article.
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.
Samsung says the lab, which formally opened in September, will widen research to wafer bonding and glass substrates and expand its local staff, under a 40 billion yen ($254 million) five-year investment begun in 2024; no new customers or products were announced.