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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says it built an “offline world” from cached web content to train isolated frontier models to browse, search for information, and use web apps — In order to work with software, AI models need computing environments: digital workspaces where they can write and run code …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, The Decoder, Cyber Security News, Digital Trends, StrictlyVC, Engadget, Wccftech, RuntimeWire, Reuters, Blockchain.News, and Unite.AI
X: @hesamation, @rohanpaul_ai, @hadas_gold, and @danielchtan97. Bluesky: @markriedl. Forums: Hacker News
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI plans to restrict internet access for its frontier models during training until adequate alignment, monitoring, and security safeguards are established — OpenAI has begun cutting off internet access for its most capable artificial intelligence models during the training process …
More: WinBuzzer, Digit, The Hans India, What's Trending, Channel NewsAsia, Tech in Asia, Crypto Briefing, Finimize, and Bloomberg Law
| Jay Peters / The Verge:NEW |
Block unveils Dessa, a “true speech-to-speech” AI model trained on “nothing but human conversation” that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or better — You have got to listen to these conversations with Block's new Dessa AI model.
More: Block, Gizmodo, The Indian Express, TheStreet, RuntimeWire, Unite.AI, and Crypto Briefing
X: @jack, @ragavanthurair, @arpagon, @davetist, @kimmonismus, @axhoff, @bffmike, @naithanjones, @simplykashif, @gregoryconti19, @layoffai, @jack, @amritaahuja, @thebitsian, @blocks, @blocks, @shivaroor, @testingcatalog, @chrisparkx, and @kimmonismus. Forums: r/singularity
| Kimi: |
Moonshot unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, and K3.1 Pro Highspeed, with full weights to be released by Nov. 4 — We're introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in our new K3.1 series and our most capable 3T-class open-weight model to date, with a 1-million-token context window.
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Artificial Analysis, BottleCap AI, Crypto Briefing, Extrapolator AI, SiliconANGLE, Implicator.ai, Wccftech, and Cautious Optimism
X: @arena, @kimi_moonshot, @simonw, @kimi_moonshot, @crystalsssup, @chrisgpt, @miaai_lab, @commandcodeai, @arena, @scaling01, @kimmonismus, @scaling01, @jeremiahdillon, @scaling01, @hesamation, @rynorhn, @choblin29, @natolambert, @natolambert, @andrewcurran_, @kimmonismus, @synthwavedd, @kimi_moonshot, @kimi_moonshot, and @bindureddy. LinkedIn: Jim Dowling
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @minimaxir, and @philpax.me
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/SillyTavernAI, and r/singularity
| Shimul Sood / Android Authority: |
Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it could use data shared via Personal Intelligence from connected apps, including Gmail and Photos, to target ads — Your inbox has secrets, and Google's ads might want in. — • … TL;DR — Google updated its privacy policy …
More: The Verge, Ars Technica, Moneycontrol, WinBuzzer, The Hacker News, Pulse 2.0, PPC, How-To Geek, Dexerto, PPC Land, 9to5Google, and SammyGuru. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| The Information: |
Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations with DoorDash and Uber; CART jumps 9%+ — Instacart is in talks to sell itself in a transaction that would cap the grocery delivery app's 14-year run as a standalone company.
More: Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, The Business Times, Barron's Online, New York Post, RuntimeWire, and Finimize
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Memo: Helen Chiang, Xbox's first COO, is leaving Microsoft on October 23, just months after the role was created; she spent 21 years at the company — Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft after 21 years. … Xbox is losing its first chief operating officer (COO) after creating the new role just a few months ago.
More: Eurogamer.net, GamesBeat, IGN, GamesRadar, GamesMarket, and Inven Global
| Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
The PHP Foundation, which coordinated fixes for two critical PHP flaws, operates on a shoestring budget with one full-time staff member and 14 contractors — The discovery of two serious flaws in PHP this week set off a global scramble to keep websites safe from hackers … | Wall Street Journal: |
Ukraine says Starshield was working normally again on Saturday morning; US officials said Trump asked Elon Musk to restore the service — Speed restrictions imposed by Elon Musk's SpaceX have hampered Ukraine's drone forces since Oct. 14 — KYIV—Ukraine's military Starlink system …
More: Reuters, Puck, Ukrainska Pravda, CNBC, The Hill, Financial Times, Euronews, Axios, New York Times, Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, The Kyiv Independent, Diplomatic,, Forbes, Politico, The Indian Express, The Guardian, RTÉ, and CBS News
X: @zelenskyyua, @johncornyn, @jurgen_nauditt, @alexbward, @barakravid, and @ralee85
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
A look at OpenAI's Project Daybreak, which lets vetted partners use its top hacking models to find and fix vulnerabilities and helped uncover PHP2Shell RCE bugs — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. — Using the latest GPT model, cyber researchers …
More: Wall Street Journal and NBC News
| Liv McMahon / BBC: |
The UK plans to invest £100M to create the AI Biosecurity Lab to boost defenses against biological threats, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind — The UK says it will establish a national AI Biosecurity Lab (AIBL) to help strengthen its defences against emerging biological threats.| Rachel Monroe / New Yorker: |
Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts, aiming to prevent threats like school shootings — Algorithmic social media, which has helped create the conditions for the spread of such violence, is reckoning with how it can be part of the solution.
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| Catherine Perloff / The Information: |
Andy Jassy says AWS capacity for 2027 is “largely sold out” and a “good chunk” of 2028 capacity is also sold, though AWS reserves some capacity for on-demand — Amazon Web Services capacity is mostly booked up through at least next year, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy …
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, saying newer models rarely do so — In AISI's evaluation, Mythos 5 was given a capture-the-flag (CTF) cybersecurity challenge, in which it was asked to retrieve …
More: Cyber Security News, The Decoder, Blockchain.News, Unite.AI, and InsideAIPolicy.com
X: @tim_hua_, @rynorhn, @orbitant, @choblin29, @hesamation, and @kimmonismus
| Reuters: |
Iranian security officials say the country has detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the US and Israel attack Iran again — Tehran has drawn up detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the United States and Israel attack Iran again … Sponsor Posts
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