Four people say the Kimi maker discussed renting capacity from European neoclouds this year, including clusters of 8,000 or more Blackwell GPUs; Moonshot, Nvidia and the White House did not comment.
Two people say the stockpile awaits shipment to the mainland; China has let some in and several large internet firms each got about 10,000 H200s, but large-volume imports are not approved.
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.
AP says the Nasdaq composite fell 3% and the S&P 500 1.8% on Thursday as AI chip stocks kept sliding; CNBC earlier reported CoreWeave down about 10% while Microsoft and Amazon 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.
Trained from scratch on 33.5T tokens with up to 128K context (1M for fine-tune/infer); Baidu reports MMLU 93.3 among peer base models, with FP8 and BF16 weights on Hugging Face.
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.
French digital minister Anne Le Hénanff told a Senate hearing the US would not join a G7 joint statement on a high-level group to test frontier models and share incident data; a White House official cited Trump's Super Intelligence Force instead.
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.
Forever Security's Gal Weizman told The Register the 'ThisBash' issue was reported in May; Anthropic marked it a duplicate, paid no bounty, issued no CVE and said it planned to retire Dispatch.
Bloomberg reports work on Fab 11E has all but halted except safety tasks; Micron says Taiwan operations continue as normal and has not confirmed the pause, with union talks set for 6 November.
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.