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 Telegraph, citing sources, says the taxpayer-backed fund is among new investors in a round of around $700m led by Lightspeed and Redpoint that could be announced as soon as next week; Anthropic reportedly has a $250m chip deal with the London start-up, and neither company has confirmed the round.
Financial News, citing Korean and Japanese business sources, says the two groups agreed to set up the fund, will lead fundraising and are sounding out companies that could also supply chips, cooling and power equipment, aiming to firm up the plan by year-end; neither group has published a statement.
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.
Electronic Times reports the science ministry will lower the threshold from 10 MW of AI-equipment power to about 5 MW and the ratio test from 300 kW and 60% of IT power to 250 kW and 50%, with draft decrees to be pre-announced after industry consultation early next week; the cap for power-grid assessment exemptions is still being negotiated, with the science ministry at 100 MW and the climate ministry at 50 MW.
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.
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.
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.
Khan told the Guardian rules for automated vehicles may not be fit for purpose and he is lobbying for more powers for Transport for London, after Freenow by Lyft unveiled Baidu robotaxis it hopes to run driverless in London as early as next year; Uber began Wayve rides with a safety driver in September.
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.
Vanguard reports SERAP's Oct. 31 letter asks President Tinubu to have the Nigeria Data Protection Commission investigate suspected AI-generated photographs and altered records that INEC acknowledged after displaying the preliminary register on Oct. 9-15, and to determine whether a breach of the 2023 data protection law occurred.