11月3日

Midterm elections 2026: all the news

The 2026 midterm elections will determine the scope of President Donald Trump’s power in his final two years in office, and signal what voters care about going into the 2028 presid

Same Model, Different Harness: CUGA, Hermes, and Deep Agents — When to Pick CUGA?

Quili AI

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Show HN: Interactive notes on RLHF, attention, LoRA and LLM evals

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Apple restricts dating apps and AI companions to users 18 and up

Apple's new App Store rules will require 18+ ratings for dating apps and AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.

AI is destroying my CS degree

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Railway employee's agent caught hacking competitors

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Apple can't build enough iPhone Duos

PLUS: TikTok builds its super app

Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI

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Apple is all in on AI — its own and everyone else’s

Apple's latest earnings show how it's continuing to capitalize on the AI boom without busting its budget on the infrastructure spending consuming its competitors. Overall, Apple po

OpenAI hires ex-Army Secretary, gaining bipartisan reach just as midterms loom

OpenAI hires Dan Driscoll, the former civilian head of the US Army, as "Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization," likely to win government contracts and help shape AI

Octomind – open-source AI harness that saves your tokens, static rust

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OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers ‘compute campuses’

People hate data centers. They're loud, resource-hungry eyesores that are so profoundly unpopular they have managed to achieve the near-impossible in today's polarized political la

The AI Bubble Monitor

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Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use AI to Vote

From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.

How a Kenyan Startup Is Rethinking AI for Small Businesses

The first time Mutembei Kariuki thought about how AI models could work in Kenya, his home country, was in 2019. He was attending a conference at the University of Tokyo on the futu

The TechCrunch Founder Summit agenda is only half the reason to be in Boston on November 4

On November 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 brings founders and VCs to Boston's SoWa Power Station for practical insights and connections. Register before prices increase at the

Just a little AI resistance, as a treat

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Tomorrow: TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston and when pass rates increase

Secure your TechCrunch Founder Summit pass savings before prices increase tomorrow at 9 a.m. ET. Save up to $100 on your pass, and get a second for free.

Anthropic's Message Threads cut time to first token by 35 percent for long conversations

Anthropic released Message Threads for the Messages API. Instead of resending the entire conversation with every turn, agents now only transmit what's changed. For requests between

Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business

Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies. The article Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business appeared first on The

Accelerating engineering for the physical world

Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.

Huawei tells customers to find their own AI chip memory, effectively outsourcing procurement to the black market

Huawei is telling customers to source the high-performance memory for its AI chips on their own, pushing them onto the black market. Smugglers are exploiting a loophole in U.S. exp

MIT shows AI improving AI, no training required

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‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers

Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.

How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check

A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules. As AI models become more capable,

Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company ramps up security

OpenAI quadruples bug bounty payouts and launches new internal security sprint. The article Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company ramps up security appeare

Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built knockoffs

Anthropic is blocking its coding assistant Claude Code from recreating existing video games. The article Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built

How Cisco defends at machine speed with OpenAI

Cisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security. Learn how it is building more adaptive defenses.

Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AI

Discover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.

Apple Watch’s AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations begin beta testing

Now in beta: Apple's new Audio Intelligence features can help you remember what someone said or take notes on conversations.

Cities Worldwide Build and Scale AI Services With NVIDIA Physical and Agentic AI

Cities generate enormous amounts of data from cameras, sensors and operational systems, but turning it into useful action — for planning, maintenance and public services — remains

How AI is creating a lopsided US economy

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OpenAI Introduces Pando: A Git Backend That Cuts Median Push Latency ~80%

OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend for its monorepo. It handles branches independently, reuses stored packfiles across fetches, cut median push latency by nearly 80%, and

[AINews] LLMs can read & write neural network weights: "Weight Space Programming" cuts Autoresearch out of the RSI loop

Editing Qwen’s weights to reduce reasoning loops, DeepSeek’s super-agent prototype, and the GDPx benchmark.

I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube

I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube Genius piece of OSINT by Colsto, who demonstrates how you can take almost imperceptible backgrou

October sponsors-only newsletter

I sent out the October edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: The October inflectio

Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. At the end of September, President Trump s

Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses

Google's Dreambeans, its latest AI experiment, now supports 13 Indian languages.

Apple may try to increase revenue by doing…something with third-party AI apps

Apple hinted at ways that it could spur revenue through third-party "opportunities" during its Monday night earnings call.

Zyphra AI Introduces Zyphra Hierarchical Attention (ZHA): A Path to True Subquadratic Attention

Zyphra Hierarchical Attention (ZHA) is a tree-indexed sparse attention method that retrofits frozen LLMs with 4B tokens of distillation, matching dense attention on reasoning and 2

The Letter Company Releases Letterpress-1: A Coding Agent Built for Growth Engineering

Letter has released the beta of Letterpress-1, a coding agent, harness and IDE for growth engineering. It reads a git-based site and its market, then opens pull requests for SEO, G

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens

Y Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a ne

Stolen AI API keys generated nearly $1M in charges for a single company

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OpenAI appoints Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer

Jill Hazelbaker will join OpenAI as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading the company’s global communications and corporate positioning.

CWE-bench v2: More coverage, quality, and transparency

Transformers Model Integration Contracts

Developers are downgrading their AI on purpose – and it's working

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llm 0.37

Release: llm 0.37 There's a lot of stuff in this new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library, representing around two months of accumulated features and fixes. I added gpt-6.

Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts

The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.

Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora

Evals without traces, million-cell tabular reviews, and cracks in the billable hour as a business model

Building Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora

Legora can’t read a single trace of what its agent does for a lawyer. The data belongs to the law firm’s clients. How do you build and test an agent when you can’t see its work? Ja

Anthropic's growth just flattened

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The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public

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LLMs are not superhuman at reading and writing neural network weights

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Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI

RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which

Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers

Goldman Sachs is pulling AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot from traders and bankers, limiting access to engineers only. As recently as July, CIO Marco Argenti pub

AI elites might hoard intelligence like mercantilists hoarded gold

Engineer Venkatesh Rao compares the fear of AI job losses to mercantilism: intelligence is treated as a scarce resource that elites want to control. But AI could boost demand for h

Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout

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Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees

The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization.

New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, l

Pixel: A Co-Designed Full-Stack Robot System for Learning General-Purpose Mobile Manipulation

作者: Tony Tao, Jason Jingzhou Liu, Ruslan Salakhutdinov | General-purpose mobile manipulation requires a combination of capable robot hardware, scalable demonstration collection, ex

Pixel-UMI: Learning Environment-Aware Whole-Body Manipulation from Sensorized Human Demonstrations

作者: Jason Jingzhou Liu, Tony Tao, Deepak Pathak | Sensorized human demonstrations offer scalable data for mobile manipulation, but embodiment differences complicate policy learning

From Natural Language to Exact Cover: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Zebra Puzzles

作者: Paulius Skaisgiris, Thomas Pammer, Veronika Semmelrock | Chain-of-Thought (CoT) generation has substantially improved the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on complex

WebHarbor: Docking Real Websites for Evolving GUI Agent Environments

作者: Zhaoyang Wang, Qianhui Wu, Boyu Gou | GUI web agents require realistic and interactive environments that remain stable during both evaluation and training. Live website evaluat

Pretraining Data Scale Reverses the Muon-AdamW Fine-Tuning Gap

作者: Catherine Li, Jingchu Gai, Andrej Risteski | Muon has recently emerged as a promising optimizer for pretraining large language models, offering a speedup over AdamW in minimizi

Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones

Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to re-create existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware. Retro gaming is currently

Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era

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Not All Reasoning Generalizes: A Case Study on Learning Generalizable Reasoning Strategies in RLVR

作者: Ziqi Pang, Yu-Xiong Wang | Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can enable generalizable improvement for large language model (LLM) reasoning. This paper studi

FADE: Factored Ability--Difficulty Filtering for Online RLVR Scheduling

作者: Tomas Duncun, Jonah Ellison, Mateo Ruiz | Group-based reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) learns only from prompts whose sampled completions disagree: all-pas

Thought-deciphering via hierarchical EEG-to-text alignment

作者: Xiaopeng Mao, Morten Mørup, Xin Xu | Communication is important for our well-being, but it can be impaired by disabilities, such as locked-in syndrome (LIS), cerebral palsy (CP

D&A: Decoupling Description and Assessment Enables VLMs as Zero-Shot Robotic Reward Models

作者: Marius Memmel, Shawn Yin, Urvi Rutia | Vision-Language Models (VLMs) hold promise for zero-shot video task-progress estimation in robot learning, yet existing frameworks freque

Strategist: Evolving Reasoning with Agents

作者: Taiming Lu, Qi Xu, Zhigang Hua | A model is only half of an AI agent system. The other half is the inference strategy: the reasoning procedure that turns model calls into a res

Deep Principle Releases Hydrogen-1.0: A 753B Open-Weight Model for Scientific Discovery

Deep Principle has released Hydrogen-1.0, an open-weight scientific model for chemistry, materials science and life sciences. It is built by post-training Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 on domain

Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights

Apple robot backed by CEO John Ternus may have hefty price tag and limited uses.

SpaceXSI apparently cuts Grok Bot quotas weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product

SpaceXSI is apparently cutting usage limits for its AI agent Grok Bot, less than two weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product. The operating costs were "unsustainably

Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom

The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.

OpenAI pitches data center power plants as a way to protect nearby areas

In an announcement on Monday, OpenAI says it will pilot its "Grid Protectors Program" at an upcoming data center in Effingham County, Georgia, where the company promises to free up

Preparing our next security sprint to harden OpenAI

OpenAI is preparing its next internal security sprint with Cathedral Systems to test and strengthen its defenses using AI.

Rewarding defenders with bigger bug bounties

OpenAI is raising Security Bug Bounty rewards and introducing report quality, loyalty, and priority campaign bonuses for independent security researchers.

The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls

The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also le

The latest AI news we announced in October 2026

Animated carousel of images from AI posts in October

Prepare web content for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases with Crawl4AI

This post shows how to use Crawl4AI, an open source web crawler, as a content preparation layer for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, handling JavaScript rendering, selective extract

Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app

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Build efficient agents with knowledge distillation on Amazon SageMaker AI

Agentic assistants built on frontier models run a multi-step tool loop, and paying frontier prices on every step is hard to sustain at production scale. This post shows how to use

Agentic engineering intelligence with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how to build a multi-agent engineering assistant that compresses aerospace component substitution evaluation from days to minutes, using Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, Am

How Circle K accelerated DevOps incident triage to under 15 minutes with Amazon Bedrock

Circle K's DevOps team cut incident triage from 45-60 minutes to under 15 by building an agentic triage system on Amazon Bedrock. This post walks through the architecture, the init

Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics

In just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization. Agentic AI promises to do

Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay

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42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’

Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?

Anthropic grows revenue twelvefold but posts $23 billion loss

Anthropic swings back to an operating loss ahead of its blockbuster IPO. The article Anthropic grows revenue twelvefold but posts $23 billion loss appeared first on The Decoder .

Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs

Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."