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.
In an opinion on generative AI's environmental impact posted in late October and reported by TF1 Info on Nov. 1, Ademe says the 3.7x rise would follow if current trends continue, notes French sites run on low-carbon nuclear power, and gives recommendations from model designers to users.
A CCID trends report released Oct. 31 and carried by CCTV via China News Service says daily token calls in China averaged more than 175 trillion as of June 2026, over 1,000 times the level of early 2024; the article does not give the report's methodology.
MyDrivers reports the world action model uses a 'manipulation anchor pose' for where a robot base should stop and a dual-stream design sharing one video-and-action backbone, trained on more than 1.5 million trajectories (about 7,500 hours); the team's claim of first place in navigation and mobile-manipulation tests without large-scale robot pretraining has not been independently checked.
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.
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.
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.
Robot Newspaper reports IDC now expects US humanoid revenue to grow about 9% a year instead of 13%, with cumulative 2026-2030 losses above $6bn, because US makers including Figure AI and Apptronik still depend on Chinese motors, actuators, batteries and rare earths; the July 28 FCC listing covers mobile wireless robots over 4.4 lb.
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.
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.