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.
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.
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.
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.
KED Global reports the South Korean and Japanese financial groups are seeking corporate backing for the fund, with an initial investment target of 1.15 trillion yen and plans to expand over 30 years; no agreement or company statement has been published.
TheCable reports INEC chairman Joash Amupitan said on Saturday the commission is examining records flagged for AI-generated photos, duplicates and deceased voters and will act on verified findings; an INEC ICT director linked the entries to registration officers using their logins, and the final register is due on Dec. 15, 2026.
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 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.
CCTV, via China News Service, says the race in Tai'an, Shandong runs from Hongmen to Zhongtianmen with about 600 metres of elevation; ifeng lists four official events plus a challenge, including a 1.6 km, 600-step humanoid sprint, a 3.3 km load-carrying race for legged robots and an exoskeleton assist race. Results are not yet known.
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.
Cailian Press reports a kickoff meeting for projects on a flexible high-throughput semi-invasive BCI for restoring movement with clinical translation, high-density medical feedthroughs and system integration for implantable BCIs, and long-term stable multi-region motor decoding; budgets and timelines were not given.