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After Claude Guardrails Trigger, Attacker Switches to Chinese Models as ARTEX Agents Steal 300 Apple Certificates

Check Point Research says an attacker used ARTEX-driven AI agents to breach 10 grey-market signing stores, obtaining more than 300 Apple .p12 certificates and 190,000 sets of Honor of Kings credentials at a cost of roughly $700–$1,500 and about 36 billion tokens. The case shows how autonomous agent frameworks are lowering the barriers to cybercrime, with some tasks switched from Claude Opus 5.5 to Chinese models after guardrails intervened.

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Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google

The deal highlights the challenges of developing massive AI data centers.

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OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation

OpenAI has reportedly raised an additional $11 billion as part of a funding round that hasn't closed yet but is expected to in the coming weeks.

OpenAI Releases BioBasicsBench: GPT-6 Astra Scores 66.7% on 100 Wet-Lab Tasks but Still Miscounts Colonies

OpenAI and Ligo have released BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark built from raw wet-lab evidence. GPT-6 Astra leads with a 66.7% average partial score, yet it still makes practical errors such as miscounting colonies.

OpenAI Turns Hackers Who Breached Its Systems into Partners: From a $6,500 Bounty to Frontier Model Access

OpenAI has partnered with Hacktron, the security firm whose researchers breached its internal code repository, granting it access to frontier cybersecurity models through the Daybreak Red program. The case highlights how the most dangerous attack surface in the AI era lies at the connections between AI systems and third-party services.

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Free Chinese AI Models Are Getting Scary Good at Hacking

An experiment in which AI models were asked to break into simulated networks showed the hacking skills of DeepSeek and GLM to be not far behind OpenAI’s most advanced cyber model, which isn’t public.

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Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agent

Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.

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Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web

Security researchers found hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed to the internet, allowing anyone access to the hacking tool.

Doubao Pro Main Leaderboard Plunges 8 Points; Material Constraint Falls 25.8 Points in One Day

In today's Smoke evaluation, Doubao Pro's main leaderboard score fell from 87.60 to 79.57, driven by a sharp drop in the material constraint dimension from 84.30 to 58.50. The article examines whether this reflects question sampling volatility or a genuine regression.

GPT-5.5 Material Constraints Plunge 18 Points While Code Execution Surges 30.3; Main Leaderboard Rises 8.6

In today's Smoke evaluation, GPT-5.5's Code Execution score rose from 69.50 to 99.80, while Material Constraints fell from 79.30 to 61.30; the main leaderboard score increased from 73.91 to 82.48.

GPT-6 Astra Leads at 93.05: 2026-11-07 Smoke Quick-Test Data Brief

The 2026-11-07 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with GPT-6 Astra ranking first for the day at 93.05. These small-sample daily results are best viewed as monitoring signals rather than long-term conclusions about model capability.

GPT-6.1 Sol Service Incident Report

Over the past six hours, at least three public user reports on X have pointed to significant service anomalies in OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol, including degraded execution, unauthorized sub-agent actions, and cascading provider fallback. YZ Index smoke-test data show abnormal score deviations from historical benchmarks.

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Could potential AI clones of GTA VI force a quicker official port?

A former Rockstar tech director thinks the developer is facing new time pressures.

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After the midterms, is the AI industry in for a rough two years?

Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. And even when data centers weren’t on the ballot directly, they were a […]

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“Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.

Meta won't force Facebook page owners to allow AI training on linked content.

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How a Blue Wave midterm might reshape the AI industry

Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. And even when data centers weren’t on the ballot directly, they were a […]

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After blocking Muse, Amazon now lets users text Alexa to help them shop

Amazon said that the feature will roll out to millions of users in coming weeks.

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Ramp data shows AI spending stalling just as Anthropic nears its IPO

AI usage keeps climbing, but spending has stalled. Price cuts and smarter cost controls among the biggest spenders could challenge investor assumptions about AI hypergrowth.

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AI Companies Really, Really Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails

Data brokers are collecting all sorts of internal corporate files to help train AI models. Not everyone is thrilled.

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The Download: a humanoid cleans house and Samsung builds for the AI boom

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future. —Grace Huckins When I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in…