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Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M
Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.
SpaceX Sets 13 GW AI Compute Target, Replicating Google's 27 Years in 18 Months: Non-Tech Companies Are Rewriting Infrastructure Rules
SpaceX plans to build 13 GW of AI data center capacity by the end of 2027, potentially surpassing the Stargate alliance's planned 7-10 GW. Its speed advantage comes from Tesla Megapack energy storage bypassing grid interconnection delays, with Google and Anthropic already committing $26 billion in annual contracts.
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Airbnb says it’s launching an AI travel agent in the first half of 2027
Airbnb says its upcoming AI agent will help travelers plan trips, compare options, manage bookings, and get assistance throughout their stay.
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Ads in Chatbots Have Arrived. Here’s What’s Working—and What’s Not
As Anthropic maintains its vow to keep ads out of Claude, the rest of the AI chatbot industry is racing to win over advertisers without antagonizing users.
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Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder.
Bitter energy drinks turned out to be ChatGPT-steered poisoning, lawsuit says.
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Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable
Google is technically offering schools more choice but not the choices anyone wants.
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Adds Four Open Models: Full Coverage from Single-Robot to Autonomous Driving, but the 96GB VRAM Requirement Is a Sobering Reality
NVIDIA has released four open-weight Cosmos 3 Nano checkpoints for autonomous driving and robotics, extending interactive world simulation into both sectors. While the open license lowers ecosystem barriers, the 96GB VRAM requirement for Nano and data-center GPU needs for Super still create clear hardware tiers.
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Cyber: Exploit Capability Up 51%, Claims 99.93% Boundary Compliance Rate
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Cyber, a specialized security model that improves exploit development by 51% over its predecessor while being classified Critical under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework. OpenAI says access controls and alignment training support release, though most safety data is internal and only the Firefox vulnerability findings have been independently confirmed.
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OpenAI released a new cybersecurity model. Is that enough?
OpenAI's newest cybersecurity model comes out as AI labs face scrutiny of their work to protect digital infrastructure.
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Meta warns that election backlash against data centers could make AI expansion harder
Meta warns that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investments, as communities push back against massive infrastructure projects.
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Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar
Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.
GPT-6.1 Sol Material Constraint Score Plummets 29.1 Points as Code Execution Rises 19.5 Points
In today's Smoke evaluation, GPT-6.1 Sol's material constraint score fell 29.1 points to 60.70, while code execution rose 19.5 points to 94.50, leaving the main leaderboard score at 79.29. The opposing moves likely reflect small-sample question sampling rather than systematic model degradation.
GPT-6 Astra Material Constraint Score Plummets 29.1 Points; Code Execution Rises 19.5 Points
In today's Smoke evaluation, GPT-6 Astra's material constraint score fell from 89.80 to 60.70, a drop of 29.1 points, while code execution rose from 75.00 to 94.50; its overall main leaderboard score declined from 81.66 to 79.29.
Doubao Pro Tops with 87.6 Points: 2026-11-06 Smoke Quick-Test Data Brief
The 2026-11-06 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 13 models, with Doubao Pro ranking first for the day at 87.6 points. Because the daily sample is small, the results are best viewed as short-term monitoring signals rather than long-term conclusions about model capability.
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Axiom Math wants to keep AI slop out of mathematics
As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startup’s AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the field’s biggest libraries.
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Reddit Founder Says Building Social Media Apps Is ‘Not Cool Anymore’
Alexis Ohanian is trying to figure out what’s next for user-generated content now that so much of the internet is “compromised.”
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Claude can now analyze your spending with its new Personal Finance tool
With Personal Finance in Claude, users can connect their bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask questions about their finances.
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman says company could be IPO ready in 2027
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says the company could be ready to go public in 2027, pointing to accelerating enterprise revenue and a turnaround in its business.
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The Download: Texas’s fragile AI boom and energy policy shifts
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. Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput. Texas is the fastest-growing data center market in the US and ground zero for Big Tech’s…
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Box taps Nvidia’s Nemotron for new agent-first content retrieval system
The system can supposedly answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used.