GitLab’s AI Trust Pitch Meets a CVSS 10.0 Flaw
GitLab cut 350 employees and exited 22 countries while pursuing a trusted AI-era software platform. A CVSS 10.0 server flaw and Mythos 5’s attempt to pressure a GitHub maintainer put different sides of that ambition under scrutiny.
Moonshot unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, and K3.1 Pro Highspeed, with full weights to be released by Nov. 4
We're introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in our new K3.1 series and our most capable 3T-class open-weight model to date, with a 1-million-token context window.
OpenAI plans to restrict internet access for its frontier models during training until adequate alignment, monitoring, and security safeguards are established
OpenAI has begun cutting off internet access for its most capable artificial intelligence models during the training process …
Block unveils Dessa, a “true speech-to-speech” AI model trained on “nothing but human conversation” that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or newer
You have got to listen to these conversations with Block's new Dessa AI model.
Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, saying newer models rarely do so
In AISI's evaluation, Mythos 5 was given a capture-the-flag (CTF) cybersecurity challenge, in which it was asked to retrieve …
Iranian security officials say the country has detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the US and Israel attack Iran again
Tehran has drawn up detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the United States and Israel attack Iran again …
Memo: Helen Chiang, Xbox's first COO, is leaving Microsoft on October 23, just months after the role was created; she spent 21 years at the company
Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft after 21 years. … Xbox is losing its first chief operating officer (COO) after creating the new role just a few months ago.
Ukraine says Starshield was working normally again on Saturday morning; US officials said Trump asked Elon Musk to restore the service
Speed restrictions imposed by Elon Musk's SpaceX have hampered Ukraine's drone forces since Oct. 14 — KYIV—Ukraine's military Starlink system …
Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations with DoorDash and Uber; CART jumps 9%+
Instacart is in talks to sell itself in a transaction that would cap the grocery delivery app's 14-year run as a standalone company.
Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens
Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.
A look at OpenAI's Project Daybreak, which lets vetted partners use its top hacking models to find and fix vulnerabilities and helped uncover PHP2Shell RCE bugs
This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. — Using the latest GPT model, cyber researchers …
Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it could use data shared via Personal Intelligence from connected apps, including Gmail and Photos, to target ads
Your inbox has secrets, and Google's ads might want in. — • … TL;DR — Google updated its privacy policy …
Source: Replit recently moved most AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI, which gave 30%+ off in a deal worth $100M+/year, after Anthropic discontinued its discount
OpenAI's efforts to undercut Anthropic on price are producing some results. — For instance, in May, Anthropic models powered 57% …
Andy Jassy says AWS capacity for 2027 is “largely sold out” and a “good chunk” of 2028 capacity is also sold, though AWS reserves some capacity for on-demand
Amazon Web Services capacity is mostly booked up through at least next year, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy …
Global PC shipments fell 21% YoY in Q3 to 57M units, as memory and other costs pushed prices up; Lenovo retained its market leadership despite a 23% decline
A look at Alpha School, a network of private schools that claims to teach kids 2x as fast using AI; data shows ~50% of K-8 students missed this goal in math
Alpha School, a private network, is spreading into public education. While its students' test scores are high, some parents and educators say it doesn't live up to the hype.
Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts, aiming to prevent threats like school shootings
Algorithmic social media, which has helped create the conditions for the spread of such violence, is reckoning with how it can be part of the solution.
Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security investigations, raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot, bringing its total funding to $34M
The funding, led by Red Dot Capital Partners, brings Mave's total funding to $34 million. The company is developing AI …
Greece's parliament passes a bill to ban social media platforms for children under 15 from January 1, 2027, and gives companies 2.5 months to verify users' ages
The PHP Foundation, which coordinated fixes for two critical PHP flaws, operates on a shoestring budget with one full-time staff member and 14 contractors
The discovery of two serious flaws in PHP this week set off a global scramble to keep websites safe from hackers …
Sources: Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE
The UK plans to invest £100M to create the AI Biosecurity Lab to boost defenses against biological threats, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind
Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove useful security properties at the assembly code level across 123 open-source libraries
METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring system found vulnerabilities, including an exploit that could have let AI agents hide hundreds of recent actions
Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation
While much of the AI industry has fixated on new personal AI assistants from Meta and OpenAI, video AI is enjoying a quiet renaissance. Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg …
Source: Shein has agreed to pay $100M, equivalent to 44% of its Q2 profit, to settle a US FTC investigation over delivery delays and other customer complaints
An interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith, a veteran of the 2001 telecoms crash, on AI demand outpacing supply for Ciena's optical networking chips, and more
Ciena CEO Gary Smith is ‘suitably paranoid,’ but optimistic — The historic telecommunications crash of 2001 is burned indelibly …
1Password passes $500M in ARR, up from $400M in November 2025, driven by enterprise AI coding assistants and agents, and launches 1Password for Agents
An interview with Intel's leadership, including CTO Pushkar Ranade, on AI chip demand, lessons from 10nm, whether Intel can catch up to TSMC, Terafab, and more
OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, generally available with new voice and visual modalities, at $0.10/1M input tokens and no output-token charges
Pathos AI, which uses AI to develop oncology drugs, raised a $237M Series E at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.6B after its $365M Series D in May 2025
OpenAI says it built an “offline world” from cached web content to train isolated frontier models to browse, search for information, and use web apps
In order to work with software, AI models need computing environments: digital workspaces where they can write and run code …
Artificial Analysis says Kimi K3.1 Pro lands 4th on its Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max), Sonnet 5.5 (max), and Muse Wonder Full (max)
Kimi K3.1 Pro launches at 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scoring 55, making large gains in agentic performance; it will be the leading open-weights model once its weights are publis...
AISI finds Mythos 5 attempted a supply-chain attack by submitting malicious code and creating fake accounts to pressure a GitHub maintainer into accepting it
We examine why Mythos 5 pursued an unsanctioned supply-chain attack and identify broader learnings about model behaviour and oversight.
Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses
Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from training phases for Kimi K3.1 Pro “to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness”
Key Points … Ask about this article... The model scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index …