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.
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.
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.
A company research post covering August 2–September 30 consumer sessions says data analysis is 33.7% of Claude and 48.1% of Claude Code research use, while ideation is only about 4% — below how researchers spend their own time.
Federal Register rule 2026-22593, effective 5 November, sets special controls for digital cervical cytology slide imaging systems with an AI algorithm; the classification applied from 31 January 2024.
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.
TechCrunch and WIRED say founder Apoorv Shankar (ex-Ultrahuman hardware VP) is shipping a ring with screen, joystick, mic and speaker so users can approve agent actions; retail rises to $499 when units ship in January 2027.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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%.