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Nov 4Wed
  1. The Verge · AI71

    Google is entirely disabling Search in schools that don’t want AI

    Google told The New York Times that it will completely turn off Search in schools that reject its AI features, and a Tuesday education update said Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search "will be entirely off" for K-12 student accounts unless administrators explicitly turn them on. Administrators cannot disable Gemini-powered features without also disabling Search, and VP of education Chris Phillips said schools that disable the AI features "will not have access to search" and will see a message from their school. Google is also embedding its Guided Learning feature into AI Overviews in Search, with testing in select US schools starting this month.

  2. TechCrunch · AI64

    Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search

    Google announced it will disable AI tools for K-12 students next year unless school administrators explicitly turn them on, affecting Gemini, NotebookLM, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search. Because AI features are now integrated into Search, schools that restrict AI entirely will lose access to Google Search, a Google VP told The New York Times. The change was announced alongside the launch of Guided Learning in schools, an AI tutor tool unveiled earlier this year.

  3. Hacker News AI38

    HPE Spaceborne Computer-4 Will Bring AI and HPC to the Moon on Astrolab Flip

    HPE announced that its Spaceborne Computer-4, a compact fanless compute module with a low-power CPU and GPU and a Kioxia BG-series M.2 SSD, will run AI workloads including LLM retrieval-augmented generation, vision inference and LiDAR processing aboard Astrolab's FLIP rover, landing near the Moon's South Pole under NASA's CLPS initiative. The mission is intended to launch in late 2026 on Voyager Technologies' Griffin-1 lander, with NASA running its FLUID federated learning experiment and a tuned LLM test, and Deloitte providing its Silent Shield predictive cyber-analytics system. HPE will support Astrolab's mission control in Hawthorne, California, using HPE Private Cloud and HPE CloudOps Software.

  4. NVIDIA Newsroom38

    AI Is Changing How Semiconductor Fabs Work — and Engineers Are Moving Faster Because of It

    NVIDIA describes an "AI-defined fab" in which accelerated computing, physics-based AI, AI agents and digital twins help semiconductor engineers shorten simulation cycles, predict process behavior and test changes virtually before physical trials. The article cites up to 10x acceleration for COMSOL multiphysics simulations with cuDSS, up to 17x for Siemens Calibre lithography workloads with cuLitho, and Lam Research predicting plasma behavior in milliseconds versus days for full simulation. It also covers Advantest using NeMo Switchyard agents to cut model-selection response times from hours to minutes and Applied Materials building fab digital twins on Omniverse libraries.

  5. The Verge · AI50

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

    Apple reported its best-ever fiscal year for revenue and earnings per share, with September-quarter iPhone revenue up 17.5% to $57.6 billion and Mac revenue up 24% to $10.8 billion, though shares fell in premarket trading after it warned rising memory costs would squeeze holiday-quarter margins. CFO Kevan Parekh said AI offers a compelling reason for customers to upgrade and switch, and Apple positions itself as the interface for AI including competitors' technology across its more than 2.5 billion active devices, spending $2.2 billion on capital expenditures last quarter versus Amazon's $77.3 billion and Alphabet's $51.4 billion. Apple plans to charge for expanded access to server-side features like Siri AI and intelligent photo editing, and benefits when customers buy Macs to run AI locally, as Gap does with Mac Mini for loss prevention and Christie's with Mac Studio for pricing estimates.

  6. The Verge · AI22

    Midterm elections 2026: all the news

    This roundup covers the 2026 US midterm elections, which will determine the scope of President Donald Trump's power in his final two years and signal voter priorities ahead of 2028, with races shaped by affordability issues and tech topics including data centers and energy costs, AI safety, surveillance expansion via Flock, and California's billionaire wealth tax. It lists reported outcomes and developments, including Susan Collins conceding her Senate seat, a Democrat projected to win an Ohio seat, Texas turning blue, and a data center backlash that was not enough to flip Florida, along with voting-machine and monitoring issues and tech spending figures.

  7. TechCrunch · AI58

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

    Apple announced to developers that it will require all apps offering dating or romantic relationship features to carry an 18+ rating, and starting November 16 developers must add new content descriptors so age ratings reflect app features. The policy could also affect AI companion apps like Character.AI and Replika, which let users create AI friends, lovers and fantasy characters. Apps must also indicate if they share a user's real-world location with another person or group, and in Brazil family location-sharing apps can request an official rating from the MJSP instead of the A16 rating required by local law.

  8. Hacker News AI31

    Quili AI

    Quilicura, Chile, located in the Maipo River Basin, has become a major hub for AI data centers that use large amounts of water to cool servers, and combined with an ongoing climate crisis, Chile faces a severe drought expected to last until 2040. To make the impact visible, residents of Quilicura became "human A.I." for a day, answering prompts, creating content with local artists, and completing other tasks manually. The initiative aimed to dimensionalize a complex problem and show the real people affected by the irresponsible use of AI and its hidden cost on local water resources.

Nov 3Tue
  1. Big Technology65

    OpenAI: ChatGPT Search Is About 20% of Google’s, 250 Million People Speak With ChatGPT, and Chat Is Merging With Work

    OpenAI's Adam Fry said ChatGPT grew from 1 billion to 1.2 billion weekly active users in 60 days, and that its volume of search-like queries is roughly one-fifth of Google's. He said voice mode, combining dictation and speaking with ChatGPT, has 250 million combined weekly active users, and that OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work modes.

  2. The Decoder58

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

    OpenAI has hired Dan Driscoll, the former civilian head of the US Army, as "Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization," a move The Wall Street Journal reads as a signal that OpenAI wants closer military ties, a larger share of government contracts, and influence over rules for AI use in the armed forces and intelligence agencies. Driscoll, who as the 26th Secretary of the Army oversaw nearly one million soldiers and more than 265,000 civilian employees and drove AI modernization including Project ARIA, will work with governments, industry, academia, and US allies on national security and cyber defense through AI. A close ally of Vice President JD Vance with strong relationships in both parties, he could open doors on Capitol Hill, and the hire follows the Pentagon's late-February 2026 classification of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" and Sam Altman's same-day deal to deploy OpenAI models on classified networks.

  3. The Verge · AI42

    OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers ‘compute campuses’

    OpenAI used the term "compute campus" repeatedly, and "data center" only twice, in its roughly 900-word announcement of a new "Grid Protectors Program" starting with a site in Effingham County, Georgia, aimed at addressing concerns about strain on local power grids. Critics including PauseAI US's Holly Elmore and the NAACP's Abre' Conner told The Verge the rebrand does not address environmental and community harms, with Elmore calling the electricity announcement "woefully tone deaf." The timing follows an Axios report that OpenAI planned to rebrand data centers as "AI compute campuses" as part of a policy and PR push after Tuesday's midterms.

  4. Hacker News AI67

    US Hedge Funds Just Sold Every AI Stock They Bought Since 2025

    Goldman Sachs data shows hedge funds sold AI stocks for five straight days in October, undoing every AI purchase made since the start of 2025, while Morgan Stanley says funds have cut more than 8% of their total stock bets since June. Big tech stocks crashed last week and erased $2 trillion from the market, with memory chipmakers Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron and SanDisk losing more than $700 billion in under two weeks. Goldman said the unwind looks closer to its start than its end, and funds' AI holdings still rank in the top 17% of the past three years.

  5. 404 Media40

    World of Warcraft: Forever Is Already Overrun with AI Slop

    World of Warcraft: Forever, a re-imagining of the legendary MMO aimed at recapturing the discovery and wonder of 2004, launches Wednesday, but its subreddits are already overrun with AI-generated addons that rip off longtime developers' work. Warcraft Logs, a site made by Archon.gg that lets players track and share combat logs, is changing its API because of the influx of AI slop addons, according to Archon.gg and Warcraft Logs CEO Sildri Silentcrest, who said API use has shifted from mostly hobby developers to increasingly commercial projects that are supposed to ask for permission.

  6. Hacker News AI20

    Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream

    A Qualcomm Technologies-commissioned Personal AI report, based on a survey of more than 12,000 people across the U.S., U.K., Germany, India, Brazil, and China, finds consumers shifting from single devices toward connected ecosystems coordinated by a personal AI agent, with 70 percent expressing strong interest in an AI assistant that interacts naturally through voice and manages devices, apps, and everyday tasks. The report says 60 percent of wearable owners use AI at least weekly, while privacy, security, and user control are the top adoption concerns, with almost 60 percent wanting wearable data kept private or shared only with approval. Purchase drivers vary by category, from audio quality for earbuds and headphones to display quality for smartwatches, materials and finish for rings and pendants, and control type for smart glasses.

  7. Hacker News AI58

    Anthropic warns its AI could be dangerous. So why do people want to invest?

    Anthropic warned that its AI could "pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity" without appropriate safeguards, oversight and security measures, a warning included in its pitch to future shareholders. The company is set to become the first fully AI-focused company to list on the US stock market, with an expected record-breaking valuation, and its IPO filing reveals details of its finances and ethics. A BBC podcast episode features AI correspondent Marc Cieslak explaining the filing and why Anthropic's leadership wants investors to believe AI might destroy the world.

  8. The Decoder60

    Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business

    Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies, guidance meant to push cloud providers, including Nvidia-backed neoclouds, toward a more diverse customer mix, The Information reports. The directive is not mandatory and applies to future contracts rather than existing deals, and cloud customers are also being asked to disclose the identity of end users accessing the chips. According to the Financial Times, the instruction was communicated verbally through sales reps and regional teams, targeting a gap in U.S. export controls that restrict chip shipments but generally do not cover remote access through cloud services.

  9. Hacker News AI60

    'A serious failure': CPS prosecutor cites fake case after AI search

    A senior Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor cited a nonexistent case, CPS – R v J [2024] EWCA Crim 3529, while arguing in a high court dispute over prosecuting a child, an error understood to have come from an AI-generated summary during an internet search. Two senior high court judges called the explanation unsatisfactory and an AI and law expert called it a serious failure; the high court said the fictitious reference did not affect the outcome of the boy's challenge. The CPS said it has a strict AI policy and that the error was remedied with an internal review, as a UK tracker of AI-related court errors reached 101 entries.

  10. The Decoder69

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

    Huawei is telling some customers to source memory for its AI chips themselves, effectively pushing buyers onto the black market, The Information reports, as Chinese suppliers cannot produce enough High-Bandwidth Memory and U.S. export rules block direct purchases from Samsung and SK Hynix. Smugglers bundle HBM with cheap server processors below the export threshold and ship them through Hong Kong, where workshops separate the chips, with smuggled HBM3E prices rising from a few hundred dollars to around $4,000 per unit in a year, according to a Shenzhen broker. South Korea's customs authority had uncovered trade violations worth $560 million by May, already surpassing the previous full-year record, a third involving strategic goods like chips.

  12. ElevenLabs Blog38

    Angle Health’s ElevenAgents pilot handles 90% of provider calls without a transfer

    Angle Health, an AI-native health benefits technology company, piloted ElevenAgents voice agents for provider-service workflows, answering calls in eight languages and working directly with its core administration system. During the pilot, the agents handled about 80% of total provider call volume, with more than 90% resolved end to end without transferring to a person, and the provider team gained back nearly 9,000 minutes a day. Angle Health plans to expand the pilot to its commercial, brokerage and account management segments.

  13. The Decoder58

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

    OpenAI has quadrupled its bug bounty payouts, offering up to $30,000 for critical vulnerabilities in core products like ChatGPT or Codex, up to $100,000 for exceptional findings, and roughly $172,000 in total with quality, loyalty, and campaign bonuses. The company added a five-tier loyalty program and time-limited campaigns with boosted payouts, and will retroactively pay the difference to anyone who reported a vulnerability in the last 30 days. OpenAI is also preparing a security sprint in which the security firm Cathedral will team up with its own engineers to stress-test its systems.

  16. The Decoder58

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

    Anthropic is blocking Claude Code from recreating existing video games, with employee Addy Osmani confirming on X that two sentences in the system prompt for Opus 5.5 now prevent cloning of others' games, citing usage policy against intellectual property infringement. The rule has been active for several days and applies even when a clone is renamed or presented as original, while users can still build their own games, genre titles, and projects with custom assets. The change follows a wave of AI-powered cloning projects, including unofficial browser ports of titles like Halo and GTA Vice City made with Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.

  17. 404 Media58

    Vibe Coded AO3 Clone Site Down After Fanfic Authors Buried It With 2,000 Takedown Notices in a Single Day

    A vibe-coded site called ao3.life that scraped Archive of Our Own fanfiction, reuploaded the works and charged for AI-generated audiobooks went down Monday evening after its creator, who identified himself as a 17-year-old from India named Ganesh, said he received over 2,000 takedown requests from authors in the single day it was up. The site used AI agents controlling 40 virtual machines to scrape works, offered EPUBs and audiobooks paid after the first three minutes, and claimed authors would receive 91% of profits. AO3 has been down since Thursday following a security incident and is expected to be offline for as long as four weeks, according to the Organization for Transformative Works, which says no data has been lost.

  18. PyTorch Blog20

    KVCache Meetup Korea 2026: Event Recap

    PyTorchKR and XCENA co-hosted KVCache Meetup Korea on Sep 30, 2026, with Tensormesh sponsoring, featuring talks from XCENA, SK hynix, FuriosaAI, and LMCache on LLM inference and KV Cache optimization. Sessions covered CXL memory expansion and the Maru KV Cache storage engine, GPU and HBM utilization analysis with H100 GPUs and vLLM, request scheduling and KV Cache management in Furiosa-LLM on RNGD, and LMCache's MP Mode for unified KV Cache management. A survey of 72 responses cited the program (66.7%) and venue and facilities (41.7%) as positive points, with requests for better audio, screen visibility, interpretation, and real production examples.

  19. NVIDIA Newsroom34

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

    NVIDIA and its partners are expanding physical AI and AI agents to cities worldwide, using shared computing infrastructure so city departments and local developers can build services without each acquiring their own resources. Examples include 1MillionBot's resident-service agents in Spain, LiveX's conversational AI hosts in the San Francisco Bay Area, K2K's shared vision AI infrastructure in Wrocław, and ITMAX's SamurAI V2 vision agents in Malaysia targeting 17,000+ cameras by 2027. Digital twins and local AI factories also feature, such as Honeywell's Nemotron-powered plant cognition at Dangote's Lekki refinery and Cires Technologies' sovereign AI factory at Morocco's Tanger Med port.

  22. TechCrunch · AI22

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

    On Monday's earnings call, Apple CFO Kevan Parekh said AI offers opportunities "across third-party apps and partnerships as well as first-party opportunities," without elaborating, and Reuters reported investors are wondering whether Apple could profit by distributing third-party AI agents through the App Store and taking a cut of their revenue. Parekh said App Store performance in the September quarter was similar to the prior year, with record paid subscriptions and double-digit growth for third-party apps, while mobile gaming headwinds are expected to continue into the summer quarter. Apple expects services growth of 8 to 9% in the December quarter, an outlook that accounts for headwinds primarily from third-party licensing.

  24. Hacker News AI31

    OpenAI considers rebranding data centers to 'AI compute campuses"

    OpenAI is reportedly preparing a public relations campaign to shape how Americans view artificial intelligence, including a proposal to rename its data centers "AI Compute Campuses," Axios reports. The effort comes ahead of the November 3 U.S. midterm elections and is part of a broader push to influence the AI debate before the 2028 presidential race. Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, said the midterms would be "a bit of a movie trailer for what you're going to see in 2028" and expects AI to be a major issue as it raises concerns over jobs, the economy and the environment.

  27. Hacker News AI72

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

    Mandiant investigated multiple 2026 "LLMJacking" incidents in which threat actors hijacked enterprise access to large language models across cloud and LLM providers, with fraudulent charges exceeding $100,000 USD in a single day at some organizations and cumulative charges reaching $1 million USD before access was revoked. The dominant initial access vector was exposed or stolen cloud identity tokens, including IAM credentials, service account keys, GitHub personal access tokens, and active session tokens, with actors also harvesting exposed LLM API keys from public GitHub repositories and validating them using minimal single-token requests. Google Threat Intelligence Group described a maturing ecosystem with a division of labor between actors establishing initial access and "LLM Mixers" such as jet-night.com and newapi[.]pro that proxy, aggregate, and resell unauthorized LLM access.

  29. Hacker News AI65

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

    Anthropic's Addy Osmani confirmed on X that the company added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5 to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game, citing its IP usage policy. Developers report that Opus 5.5 is also refusing reverse-engineering and software-analysis tasks it previously handled, with some switching to older Claude models to continue paid client work. Anthropic has not publicly confirmed whether the reverse-engineering refusals are tied to the new instructions or to separate cybersecurity restrictions.

  30. TechCrunch · AI55

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

    Trajectory, an 18-person startup founded by three Stanford classmates with experience at Google DeepMind and Apple, raised $45 million in a Series A round at a $300 million valuation led by Sequoia, with participation from Nvidia, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures. The company uses continual learning to let businesses connect an open-source model to their applications, collect feedback on its performance, and retrain it so specialists like lawyers and doctors can improve models themselves. Customers including Harvey, Rogo, Decagon, Mercor, and Nvidia are already using the platform, which is now publicly available.

  32. TechCrunch · AI69

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

    In its revised S-1A filing, Anthropic added risk-factor language saying its internal estimates and expectations for future models indicate it may imminently meet its Responsible Scaling Policy definition of "dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI," though no current model has crossed that threshold. The company said it has already used AI to develop models whose capability leaps it did not recognize at the time, and that it is considering updates to keep humans in control of frontier model development.