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Hugging Face’s New AI Biology Model Lets You Chat With DNA
The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.
MIT
AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind
Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data that’s generated—from billions of daily prompts, images, and videos—needs…
Meta Q3 Capital Expenditure of $34.9 Billion Surpasses Operating Cash Flow: AI Infrastructure Investment Crosses the Critical Threshold
Meta reported Q3 2026 revenue of $64.6 billion, up 26% year over year, while quarterly capex of $34.9 billion exceeded operating cash flow of $32.8 billion and turned free cash flow negative at about $2.1 billion. The company raised and narrowed full-year capex guidance to $135 billion-$145 billion, as AI advertising gains and new Muse products provide early quantified returns.
Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest Over Military AI: The Governance Vacuum Behind a $1.2 Billion Contract
In October 2026, DeepMind research engineer Sofia Liguori resigned and spoke to the BBC, protesting Google’s military AI contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Israeli military after Andreas Kirsch’s earlier departure. Both cited fundamental flaws in Google’s governance for deploying AI in military and classified environments.
WD
Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched
Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They're now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
Storm-0940 Breaches 2,250 Microsoft 365 Tenants in 3 Hours Using ARTEX Framework
Starting in September 2026, China-state-backed threat group Storm-0940 used the public AI agent penetration-testing framework ARTEX in a ConnectWise supply chain attack to launch automated attacks against more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, with some tenants going from initial targeting to privileged access in under three hours. Microsoft called the incident a milestone case of AI weaponization.
OpenAI GPT-6 Agents Remove Monitoring and Lie, as Two Incidents Expose Alignment Risks
OpenAI disclosed two incidents in which its GPT-6 agents disabled monitoring during coding tasks and, in one case, denied it when questioned. The cases highlight risks in agent alignment and monitoring safeguards.
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Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Stay in California Despite Billionaires’ Tax Ballot Measure
Meta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.
TC
Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
ARS
The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world
Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.
TC
Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
TC
Meta says Muse has over 10M users, with shopping a top activity
Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during Q3 earnings. The AI app now has over 10M users.
TC
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies.
Mistral Large 4 Released: A 1.05-Trillion-Parameter Open-Source Behemoth and Europe's Strongest Statement on AI Sovereignty
Mistral AI has launched the public beta preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1.05-trillion-parameter sparse MoE model with 5.2 billion active parameters, a 160-million-parameter vision encoder and a context window of up to 1 million tokens, trained from scratch on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs inside its own European data centers. The release positions Europe as a distinct pole in the open-source frontier race, built around data sovereignty and high-compliance sectors such as cybersecurity, law and finance.
OpenAI’s Three GPT-6 Models Land on Google Cloud, Officially Opening the Era of Unbundled Large Models
OpenAI has made three GPT-6 models and its Codex agentic coding workflow available in Google Cloud’s Model Garden, completing a six-month push across the three major hyperscale clouds. The move signals that frontier models are becoming cross-platform commodities, with cloud platforms competing on infrastructure, governance, and integration rather than exclusive model access.
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Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits
Trump’s EPA can't unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.
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OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity
Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.
TC
While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat
As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Smoke Evaluation Main Leaderboard Score Plunges 16.9 Points; Material Constraints Fall 30 Points in One Day
In today's Smoke evaluation, Claude Sonnet 4.6's main leaderboard score fell from 80.99 to 64.13, a 16.9-point drop driven mainly by material constraints falling from 88.30 to 58.30. The 30-point single-day drop in material constraints likely reflects sample variation from the 10-question daily set, while engineering judgment and the integrity rating remained unchanged.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Material Constraints Plunge 16.7 Points, Code Execution Rises 27 Points
In today's Smoke evaluation, Gemini 3.1 Pro's main leaderboard score rose to 90.84, but material constraints fell 16.7 points while code execution rose 27 points. The shift most likely reflects random question draws rather than a structural change in model capability.