OpenAI's Project Daybreak gave vetted partners access to hacking models and helped identify PHP2Shell RCE flaws.
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 …
Cerebras announces deployment of trillion-parameter AI models, a major scaling milestone for its wafer-scale systems.
Replit reportedly shifted $100M+/year of AI spend to OpenAI after receiving 30%+ discounts versus Anthropic.
The Information : Source: Replit recently moved most AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI, which gave 30%+ off in a deal worth $100M+/year, after Anthropic discontinued its discount — OpenAI's efforts to undercut Anthropic on price are producing some results. — For instance, in May, Anthropic models powered 57% …
Blackstone's $2.3B CoreWeave loan became a model for GPU-backed private credit projected toward a $1T market.
Bloomberg : How a Blackstone-led $2.3B private credit loan to CoreWeave in 2023 became a blueprint for chip-backed debt, which is on track to become a $1T market — “What is a GPU?” Blackstone Inc. executives asked CoreWeave Inc.'s leadership. Also: “Is AI real?” — These were entirely logical queries …
Apollo finds AI has yet to yield financial payoff outside tech, while token costs increasingly pressure margins.
Torsten Slok / Apollo Global Management : Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens — Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.
Alpha School's AI-led teaching claims face data showing roughly half of K-8 students missed its math target.
Dana Goldstein / New York Times : A look at Alpha School, a network of private schools that claims to teach kids 2x as fast using AI; data shows ~50% of K-8 students missed this goal in math — Alpha School, a private network, is spreading into public education. While its students' test scores are high, some parents and educators say it doesn't live up to the hype.
Ciena's CEO describes AI demand outstripping supply for optical-networking chips, a key infrastructure constraint.
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal : An interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith, a veteran of the 2001 telecoms crash, on AI demand outpacing supply for Ciena's optical networking chips, and more — Ciena CEO Gary Smith is ‘suitably paranoid,’ but optimistic — The historic telecommunications crash of 2001 is burned indelibly …
The New Yorker examines Meta's AI-and-human law-enforcement team for detecting threats such as school shootings.
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.
A GitHub evaluation claims five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 under the GVS5H harness.
Dreamlabs introduces Dream-1, a new AI model release from the lab.
EPFL reports a neural chip that decodes interactions between brain regions, advancing brain-interface research.
An AI-assisted Z-Library paper cited a nonexistent TorrentFreak article, documenting a concrete scholarly failure.
France reportedly asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms.
A Nikon photo-contest winner lost its title after scientists identified apparent signs of AI generation.
A researcher released an autonomous root exploit for Tcl Android TV targeting CVE-2022-22706.
A hardware hacker details a stereo-vision board built for experimentation and embedded vision projects.
Bbtree presents an ordered-map implementation claiming leading performance.
Ratfactor argues for small programs and languages, a timely counterpoint to increasingly expansive software stacks.
SpeedCrunch 1.1 releases an updated high-precision, keyboard-driven calculator.
Muffinlabs makes the case for using the Gopher protocol in 2026.
A developer recounts rewriting a commercial engine in Jai, with lessons from adopting the systems language.
Pragtical 3.14 adds menus, floating views, and sessions to the Lua-based text editor.
Reuters reports the PHP Foundation is underfunded, with only one full-time staff member.
Proton hosts Flock's map of more than 300,000 cameras despite a cease-and-desist demand.
Google has disabled cloud features on affected Nest thermostats, leaving owners with basic thermostat functions.
Al Jazeera reports Meta employees said Lula accounts were restricted during Brazil's election.
Physicists kept a single antimatter particle trapped for a month, extending precision-study possibilities.
Missileer Watch lets readers monitor and decode US nuclear-force Emergency Action Messages on 11175 kHz.
BMJ Open examines associations between US cannabis legalization and cardiovascular hospitalizations.
Cambridge research investigates the social dynamics of toxic-metal industries in medieval Europe.
Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare : Baba, which develops AI tools to help Medicare and Medicaid patients connect to care teams and handle advocacy tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by FirstMark — Applied artificial intelligence company Baba secured $40 million in series A funding to modernize the Medicare and Medicaid experience.
Ryan Lawler / Axios : CapitalOS, which helps vertical software platforms offer spend management, cards, and bill payment tools to SMB customers, raised a $21.9M Series A led by LGVP — CapitalOS, which helps vertical software platforms offer cards and bill-pay tools to their SMB customers, has raised $21.9 million …
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors : Instagram launches an Apple TV app for watching Reels, longer videos, and live shows; the app previously launched on Fire TV, Google TV, and Samsung smart TVs — Instagram is now available on the Apple TV, bringing Reels, longer videos, and live shows via the platform to Apple's streaming device for the first time.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Kimi K3.1 Pro's debut draws scrutiny over allegations that influencers were asked to promote the model without disclosing a commercial relationship to Moonshot — That's because Kimi K3.1 Pro scores so high on third-party benchmarks — according to both Moonshot and third-party AI model …
Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal : LSEG agrees to acquire Octus, an NY-based provider of credit intelligence, data, and workflow software, from Permira and Octus' management for $3.54B in cash — The group said the acquisition would transform its presence in credit and private markets data — London Stock Exchange Group …
Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg : A look at Meta's role in Brazil's runoff, where Lula da Silva alleges Meta restricts his content and a court ordered it not to interfere; Meta cites glitches — A new villain is emerging in the closing stretch of Brazil's bitterly contested presidential election: Meta Platforms Inc.
Jay Peters / The Verge : 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 newer — You have got to listen to these conversations with Block's new Dessa AI model.
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 …