OpenAI says its red-team agents built a CPU cache covert channel between isolated microVMs
The exercise also found microVM escape chains; OpenAI says the channel is slow, needs two cooperating parties, and containment was strengthened.
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model with a 1M-token context
It has 104 billion active parameters and is live in Kimi apps and API; full open weights are promised by November 4.
Commerce signs letters of intent for $389 million in CHIPS R&D awards for power semiconductors
Helion gets up to $175 million for fusion power electronics; the government takes minority non-voting stakes in the four firms.
Lam Research posts record $8.22 billion quarterly revenue, up 54% year over year
Non-GAAP EPS was $2.20; the company guides December-quarter revenue to $8.6 billion plus or minus $400 million.
UK launches AD-SMART, a Phase 3 platform trial repurposing metformin and atomoxetine for Alzheimer's
Led by the UK DRI and Alzheimer's Research UK, it aims to recruit 1,200 people over 18 months; first results are expected in 2030.
Humans& launches Ampersand v0.1, a model trained to help groups pursue shared goals over time
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to bring drug-development tracking into its Rosalind suite
NVIDIA and UW's Institute for Protein Design release RFD4-Proteina as an open protein design model
About 2,000 GPT-Rosalind agents analyse a whole-brain CRISPR atlas in 32 minutes
Bob McGrew's Arda raises $160 million at $1.5 billion to speed up U.S. factory lines with AI
China proposes export controls on 23 AI technologies, including frontier model weights and agents
Anthropic will make auto mode the default in Claude apps for Pro, Max and Team users
An automated check blocks risky actions and lets safe ones proceed; users can switch back to manual, and Enterprise stays manual.
Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises a $1 billion Series A led by Index and Lux
The lab works on GPU megakernels to cut training and inference compute and has no product; the $6 billion valuation is reported, not disclosed.
NVIDIA unveils DSX POD, a containerized Vera Rubin AI factory meant to deploy in weeks
Each pod packs seven NVL72 racks, or 504 GPUs, pre-cabled and liquid-cooled; partner systems are planned for early 2027.
Anthropic previews Claude Duet, a standalone agent app that monitors connected apps and acts with approval
The waitlisted research preview is for U.S. Pro and Max subscribers on iOS, Android and web, sharing existing usage limits.
Quantinuum reports 99.9995% logical fidelity on Helios, a tenfold error-correction improvement
Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation to scale Galaxy AI servers
Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund, pending shareholder approval
NVIDIA simulates a 104-qubit magic state protocol with realistic noise on Europe's JUPITER supercomputer
EU Council backs letting AI developers rely on GDPR legitimate interest to process personal data
Elorian releases Glimpse, a visual reasoning model that re-inspects images while it thinks
FDA accepts Biohaven's resubmitted application for troriluzole in spinocerebellar ataxia
A decision is due in Q1 2027 and an advisory committee is planned; the 2025 rejection had sought more evidence.
Unitree unveils H2-X, a full-size humanoid pitched for security and rescue at $25,400
The product page lists 31 degrees of freedom and swappable batteries; Unitree claims about eight hours of standing endurance.
Google previews Agent Compute Engine microVMs for AI agents alongside a new Gemini API CLI
The experimental CLI shipped October 19; Agent Compute Engine is a preview coming in the next months with hardware-isolated sandboxes.