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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. Hacker News AI58

    How AI is creating a lopsided US economy

    An ABC News analysis explains how AI-related companies dominate the S&P 500, with tech stocks accounting for about 44 per cent of total market value and six companies — Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Micron, Nvidia and AMD — driving 57 per cent of the index's gains since April. Experts warn that market concentration near 39 per cent for the top 10 stocks, circular financing between AI firms, and heavy spending by AI labs that outpaces their revenue create risks for everyday investors.

  13. 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.

  15. 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.

  18. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. Sierra Blog12

    Kyle Randolph joins Sierra as Chief Information Security Officer

    Sierra announced that Kyle Randolph has joined as Chief Information Security Officer. Randolph brings 24 years of experience as a security leader and software engineer, most recently serving as CISO at Verkada, and has built and led security teams and programs at Adobe, Citrix, Twitter, and Optimizely. Sierra said its security strength is one reason many leading companies, including those in highly regulated industries and nearly half of the Fortune 50, choose it.

  25. TechCrunch · AI42

    Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees

    Squarespace is cutting approximately 19% of its global workforce, about 300 employees, in a restructuring meant to simplify operations and sharpen priorities, a company representative confirmed to TechCrunch. The layoffs come as generative AI "vibe-coding" website builders reshape the industry, with rivals like Wix acquiring Base44 for $80 million and Lovable raising a $400 million Series C at a $13.3 billion valuation. Squarespace, founded in 2004 and taken private in a $7 billion deal in 2024, launched an AI tool called Blueprint in 2024 and has announced an upcoming AI-native platform called Forma.

  27. Allen Institute for AI Blog34

    How Olmo 3 earned the highest ethical rating from Nextcloud

    Nextcloud awarded Olmo 3 its highest Ethical AI rating, green, which requires open-source training and inference software, a self-hostable trained model, and publicly available training data. Nextcloud bundles Olmo 3 with its llm2 local LLM backend, citing the 7B model's ability to run on consumer hardware without high-end GPUs and its fit for customers seeking independence from big tech. Nextcloud engineer Marcel Klehr said fully open models make AI transparent, explainable, auditable and controllable, and that the company is working on expanding its AI features.

  28. The Decoder60

    Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers

    Goldman Sachs has cut off most employees, including traders and bankers, from advanced AI coding tools such as Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub, leaving access to engineers only, per Bloomberg citing internal October guidelines. A Goldman spokesperson cited "a variety of factors including productivity and risk management" and said the experimentation phase is over, with tools now limited to those best suited to use them long term. The rollback reportedly causes frustration inside the firm, after CIO Marco Argenti had praised "vibe coding" by non-technical staff in July.

  30. MIT News AI38

    Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win Pritzker Prize for AI and Science Research Excellence for work in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery

    MIT's Regina Barzilay and James Collins received the 2026 Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence for their joint work in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery. Their 2020 Cell paper with first author Jonathan Stokes described halicin, the first AI-discovered antibiotic, identified by a deep learning model trained on 2,500 molecules and shown to kill drug-resistant bacteria such as C. difficile, A. baumannii, and M. tuberculosis, with the discovery process completed in weeks rather than years. They later used machine learning to identify abaucin in 2023, a narrow-spectrum antibiotic effective against A. baumannii.

  31. TechCrunch · AI58

    Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn

    At a Newsreel-hosted midterm event in a Brooklyn warehouse, a panel on data centers drew boos when the moderator asked who was pro-AI data center, and the topic dominated nearly every conversation. A Data Center Watch report cited in the piece found almost $200 billion in data center projects were delayed, stalled, or blocked in the first half of 2026 due to political and community opposition, while states including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, New York, and Virginia weigh more guardrails. Newsreel founder Jack Brewster said AI has become an election issue for regular voters, with backlash in rural communities about feeling replaced and in Brooklyn more about who gets rich from it.

  32. TechCrunch · AI58

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

    The New York Times sued Brave on Monday in federal court in Manhattan, alleging the privacy-focused browser company scraped its copyrighted content and distributed it to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit the same day. The Times, which has also sued OpenAI and Perplexity, seeks an injunction and damages, alleging Brave built an index of more than 30 billion webpages and offers a feature that bypasses paywalls.

  33. The Verge · AI40

    Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones

    Anthropic updated Claude Code's system prompt to stop the tool from recreating existing video games, while still allowing users to build original games, games in a genre, and games from their own designs and assets. Anthropic's Addy Osmani said the company added two sentences to the prompt on Opus 5.5 because using Claude to infringe IP violates its usage policy, and that it will keep iterating to strike the right balance. Anthropic was asked whether it has or will update other Claude system prompts as well.

  34. Hacker News AI62

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

    Oracle filed with the SEC to sell $10 billion in common stock and $10 billion in senior notes to help finance its AI buildout, a plan it had already outlined at last week's investor day. Shares fell more than 6% Monday despite the filing matching prior guidance, and Oracle said proceeds will go toward general corporate purposes that may include capital expenditures, debt repayment and future investments. Oracle shares are down 33% in 2026 and 50% over the past 12 months, and S&P downgraded the company to BBB- in July.

  36. Newcomer47

    Compute Crunch? Startups Aim to Financialize It

    Startups including Ornn, Silicon Data, Architect and Liquid Compute are working to create standardized GPU pricing and commodities-style futures and brokerage services, with Ornn reportedly in a new funding round at a valuation of around $1 billion. The sector faces hurdles: none of the companies has obtained financial regulatory approval, CME's planned listing tied to Silicon Data's indexes has been pushed back from its October 5 target, and the CFTC has requested public comment on whether compute is standardized and liquid enough for futures. Rapid GPU depreciation and uncertainty over whether the compute shortage is permanent have led some investors to pass on deals in the space.

  37. The Decoder58

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

    SpaceX appears to have halved Grok Bot usage quotas for several users over the weekend, and Elon Musk said on X that "the cost of running Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue." Grok Bot browses websites, answers emails, and logs into accounts, and shares its quota with Grok and the coding platform Cursor. Less than two weeks earlier, Musk had called it his fastest-growing product, and SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell cited 800,000 paying users per week in early October.

  38. Ars Technica · AI42

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

    Anthropic added a system prompt rule to Claude Code, reportedly around October 27 and verified in version 2.1.314 released October 30, instructing the model to build original games but not recreate specific existing ones even if renamed. XDA reported the "tengu_heron_brook" rule had other uses in earlier versions and that Claude Opus 5.5 appeared to carry its own separate instructions restricting game recreations. The article argues the change may shield Anthropic from some liability but is unlikely to slow the broader wave of AI-assisted game porting and copying.

  39. Ars Technica · AI22

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

    Apple is developing an AI-driven home robot, code-named J595 and possibly named HomeView Ultra, that could launch by 2027 at a price of $1,000 or more, with delays possibly pushing it to 2028, The Information reported. The robot is designed to roam autonomously, support FaceTime calls and switch on lights when a person enters a room, and early prototypes date to 2018 with approval from then-CEO Tim Cook. The report says engineers are trying to add capabilities beyond FaceTime to justify the price, though its reported features so far appear modest compared with existing smart home devices.

  40. The Verge · AI50

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

    OpenAI announced a "Grid Protectors Program" pilot at an upcoming data center in Effingham County, Georgia, promising to free up to 1,000 megawatts of power during extreme weather or emergencies, enough to power air conditioners in around 700,000 homes. The announcement comes amid spreading US opposition to data centers, including protests in Utah and state laws in Tennessee, Florida, Oklahoma and Oregon aimed at preventing AI companies from passing energy costs to residents. OpenAI says its year-round demand can help spread the grid's fixed costs across more electricity sales, and it is also partnering with Oracle and SoftBank on "Stargate" data centers in Texas and New Mexico.