New Claude Code product lead Cat Wu leaves Anthropic for OpenAI to run core product management
Wu announced the move on X a day after saying she had left Anthropic; OpenAI confirmed it and Anthropic declined to comment, Business Insider reports.
OpenAI says an upcoming cyber model found 948 distinct Linux kernel root exploits for $1.2 million
An autonomous pipeline produced 1,169 working privilege-escalation exploits in a mid-October run, at about $1,279 each; OpenAI says it is now patching them upstream.
New Isomorphic Labs is reported to be in talks to raise about $5bn at a valuation near $50bn
Bloomberg, citing people familiar, says the round is not final and terms could change; the Alphabet drug-discovery unit raised $2.1bn in May.
New Fuji TV says AI cut some drama production steps by up to 80% and aims to use it on all dramas by October 2027
The 70–80% saving applies only to specific visual-effects steps, not to whole budgets; an AI-generated aerial shot already aired in the drama Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji.
Cognition releases SWE-2 Flash, a coding model built on Thinking Machines' Inkling-Small
The 276B-parameter model with 12B active is offered in Devin at one-fifth the price and 3x the speed of SWE-2; Cognition's own evals lift Terminal-Bench 4.0 from 0.9% for the base model to 20.0%, and the weights are not public.
Uber says third-party AI agents booked just four rides last quarter and about 500 Eats orders in Halloween week
Goldman and Apollo seek buyers for parts of SpaceX's $40 billion AI chip financing, Bloomberg reports
Democrat Gina Hinojosa wins the Texas governor's race after pledging a moratorium on new data centres
Arm's quarterly revenue rises 27% to $1.44 billion as data-centre royalties double
New South Korea will prosecute students who use AI glasses to cheat in its national university entrance exam
Riot Platforms leases its whole 910 MW Corsicana campus to an unnamed frontier AI lab for about $28bn
Japan plans to seek early data on undisclosed software flaws from US AI developers, Nikkei reports
Waymo says it will end its Uber robotaxi partnership in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028
Ohio voters approve data-centre bans or limits in at least 14 municipalities
Chinese buyers expect to receive only about 1% of $70bn in Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 orders, Bloomberg reports
Hackers reprogrammed French blood-bank freezers to 110°C as Europe-wide freezer attacks spread
Anthropic says Claude helped map the first 3D structure of a vault particle from bacterial life
The cryo-EM structure shows a bacteriophage protein forming a 96-copy shell; the vault's biological function is still unknown and the preprint has been submitted to bioRxiv but is not yet live.
Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, an open-weight coding model it says cost $32 million to build
The 65-billion-parameter dense model scores 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, which the chip-design AI lab calls a new best for US open weights.
Meta acquires Conductor, a startup that lets developers run several AI coding agents in parallel
Conductor confirmed the deal and said its cloud product shuts down on 20 November, with the team joining Meta Superintelligence Labs; financial terms were not disclosed.
Altman says people must not cede control of the future to superintelligence
In a post on X, the OpenAI chief executive wrote that this requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress, and that OpenAI rejects people being relegated to doing what AI systems decide to reward.
Pangram launches Image 1.0 and Image Flash 1.0 to detect AI-generated images and video
Agility Robotics completes its SPAC merger and is set to trade on Nasdaq as AGLT from November 5
CellType's BioSimBench finds frontier models predict only part of how cells respond to drugs and knockdowns
webAI open-sources TwIL-8B, an 8.8B reasoning model it says reaches 93% of the frontier on LiveCodeBench
Qualcomm falls 6% after hours as memory costs hit phone chips; it targets $5bn data-centre revenue in fiscal 2027
Tencent releases Hy4, adding visual reasoning to its flagship open-weight model
New Microsoft delays default usage-based billing for Copilot Business sold through partners to early 2027
XPeng and partners release GroundingPI, a 4B open perception model they say beats GPT-6 Astra on 34 benchmarks
Oracle cancels a $7bn AI chip leasing deal with Tencent under US pressure, FT reports
Researchers' test sites about real Senate candidates were cited by chatbots within 19 hours, Caucus AI reports
FDA clears Evident Vascular's AI-enabled intravascular ultrasound imaging platform
Moonshot AI releases the weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T-parameter open model with a 1M-token context
The mixture-of-experts model activates 104B parameters per token and ships under a custom licence that requires large commercial users to display its name; Moonshot's own benchmarks put it just behind Claude Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench 4.0.
Axiom releases a Lean formalization of the entire Stacks Project, about 16 million lines built by AI agent swarms
The roughly 7,500-page algebraic geometry reference is now one machine-checked library; outside mathematicians have not yet reviewed how faithful the statements are.
Apple cuts some engineers' daily AI spending caps to $200 from $300, Bloomberg reports
Bloomberg reports further cuts to as low as $100 a day for some engineers and $25 for some teams; Apple has not commented and employees said few used the full limit.