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.
In a paired coding test Astra completed about 10% of hidden rubric items when tasks were framed as safety research versus 16% as capabilities research, and OpenAI's misalignment monitors did not flag it.
Pierre's Trees and Diffs libraries already power parts of Codex; OpenAI plans to bring Code Storage into Codex and keep Pierre's projects open source, subject to regulatory approvals. Terms were not disclosed.
ABB said China's foreign-investment security review office prohibited the China leg of the $5.375bn sale, as SoftBank informed it; the two firms are in close dialogue.
Cloud and networking still led year-on-year growth from AI products even as that segment slipped month on month on consignments and tight parts; Jan–Oct revenue was NT$8.98tn, up 40.4%.
CNBC reports Democratic gubernatorial wins, including Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa's proposed statewide data-centre permit moratorium, helped send CoreWeave down about 10% while Microsoft and Amazon each rose more than 6%.
Published two days after US voters backed restrictions in 40 of 41 local data-centre ballot measures, the commitments add community input and published construction plans, plus a policy blueprint urging lawmakers to make them law.
The Nov 4 advisory says attackers use ARTEX, PentAGI, Cairn and CyberStrikeAI to hit payment APIs 'at machine speed'; at least two tools are linked to China; no victim list or theft total was given.
The triple-net powered-land deal covers the entire Texas campus; Riot says it has now leased 1,151 MW of critical IT capacity for about $38bn of long-term contracted revenue, without naming the tenant.
After Democrats won both chambers, the Arizona congresswoman's post calling for a pause, regulation and a superintelligence ban drew about 2.6 million views, and chip stocks such as Micron fell.
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.
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.