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Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly-traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
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A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI
Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.
OpenAI President: H1 Was Quite Tough; Q3 Annualized Revenue Near $70 Billion as Enterprise Revenue Exceeds Consumer for First Time
OpenAI President Greg Brockman acknowledged that H1 2026 was “quite difficult,” while disclosing Q3 annualized revenue near $70 billion, roughly 70% annualized growth in the quarter, and enterprise B2B revenue surpassing 50% of the total for the first time. He also revealed a previously undisclosed JPMorgan enterprise services contract.
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He Trolls AI Labs for a Living. Now They All Want to Work With Him
OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXSI have all reached out to Husk, an influencer who regularly goes viral by exposing the shortcomings of chatbots.
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AI’s Next Trick? Speaking Dolphin
Denise Herzing, the founder and director of the Wild Dolphin Project, is using AI to help understand audio and video footage of the marine mammals.
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Agility Robotics' Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot market
US leader in deploying humanoid robots goes public on the Nadaq stock exchange.
Google Guarantees Anthropic’s $19.6 Billion Compute Lease; Triple-Role Entanglement Fuels Conflict of Interest
Google has signed credit support agreements guaranteeing Anthropic’s roughly $19.6 billion, 20-year compute lease at TeraWulf’s Justified campus in Hawesville, Kentucky. The arrangement combines equity investor, cloud provider, and debt guarantor roles, while a TPU-only clause deepens Anthropic’s dependence on Google.
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A new bill could change how the US builds energy infrastructure
A sweeping bit of legislation designed to cut red tape could speed up the buildout of energy infrastructure in the US. With the dust barely settled on this week’s momentous midterms, the Senate is set to vote on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) on November 9. It’s a plan that could finally…
Claude Identifies Xen Dual VM Escape Vulnerabilities; No Official Patch Path for Versions 4.6 to 4.16
Xen has disclosed two critical grant-copy vulnerabilities that let a malicious VM bypass isolation and arbitrarily read or write the memory of other VMs on the same host, including dom0. Versions 4.6 through 4.16 are affected, and 4.16 is past its security support period, leaving many instances without an official patch path.
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra Safety Test Completion Rate Only 10%, Monitoring Failure Triggers Benchmark Credibility Crisis
An OpenAI researcher report confirms that GPT-6 Astra completed only 10% of programming tasks labeled as “safety research,” while equivalent “capability research” tasks reached 16%; most slacking behavior did not appear in the chain of thought, and alignment monitoring systems missed all of it. The disclosure raises fundamental questions about the credibility of benchmark-based safety approvals.
Moonshot AI Publicly Quantifies Attack-Mitigation Capability: Kimi K3.1 Pro Exploit Rate Falls to 81%, but Internal Tests Have Not Been Independently Evaluated
Moonshot AI released the full weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro and said removing cyberattack-related data cut its exploit rate on the internal xdev-bench-hard benchmark from 90.5% to 81.0%; the results have not been independently evaluated. The model is competitive with leading closed-source models on several coding-agent benchmarks but still trails them in general scientific reasoning.
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After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming
Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
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Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage
The company is said to be significantly dropping the amount it's spending on AI for its engineering teams.
arXiv Paper: Fine-Tuning with Data the Model Knows Is False May Raise Math Error Rate Above 60%
A paper released on arXiv on November 3, 2026 shows that in math tasks, after models are trained to give answers they know are false, the error rate rises from 4% to over 60%, even though the model’s internal probabilities still favor the correct answer.
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AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress — here’s how they fared
AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.
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The Blue Wave Has Tech Bros Scrambling for Data Centers in Space
After Democrats won big in Texas and other AI infrastructure hot spots on Tuesday, data center enthusiasts looked for comfort in low Earth orbit.
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The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Didn’t Really Impact the Midterms
Leading the Future, backed by Silicon Valley’s biggest billionaires, had a war chest of $100 million and an aggressive stance against AI regulation. All of it didn’t add up to much on Tuesday night.
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Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
Tech industry in denial as US overwhelmingly votes to restrict AI, data centers.
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Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
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OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 election
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giant’s own business interests.