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Independent evaluator METR spent eleven weeks inside Anthropic with access to confidential research and unreleased models, concluding the lab is improving capabilities on well-specified tasks at roughly twice the rate it managed between March 2024 and October 2025. Roughly 80% of that acceleration is attributed to AI being used in AI R&D itself rather than raw compute scaling. Critics including Jeffrey Ladish note the strongest supporting evidence was redacted from the public version.
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GPT-6 Cyber hits 48.5% on ExploitGym versus 32.1% for GPT-5.6 Cyber, a 51% relative jump, and OpenAI used it internally to find 81 previously unknown high-severity Firefox flaws and build 948 working Linux kernel exploits. It's the first OpenAI model rated Critical for cybersecurity under the Preparedness Framework, up from High. Access is restricted to select Daybreak Red clients only.
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Thursday's selloff was the Nasdaq Composite's steepest single-day drop in 19 months, with the Nasdaq 100 falling 6.3% and roughly $3 trillion erased from S&P 500 market cap, triggered by bubble fears plus Democratic midterm wins in data-center-skeptical states. Today the bleeding stopped, with Nvidia providing the biggest single lift to the S&P 500. The week still closes in the red.
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Fresh Ramp card data shows companies using more AI than ever while spending flatlines, with nearly all the growth concentrated in venture-backed high-growth tech firms. Aggressive price cuts and enterprise lock-in discounts from OpenAI and Anthropic are the culprit — cheaper tokens, same dollars. Awkward timing with Anthropic potentially marketing its IPO as early as next week.
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Anthropic filed its S-1 for a Nasdaq listing under ticker ANT, with reports putting the target valuation between $1.5 and $2 trillion and a raise of $100 billion or more — which would make it the largest IPO ever. The filing showed $16.3 billion in H1 2026 revenue against an $80.7 billion net loss, with $112.4 billion in cash on hand. Trading could begin as soon as November 16.
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The Justice Department launched DOJ-SITF, co-led by Associate AG Stanley Woodward and Associate Deputy AG Stephen Weiss, with a mandate covering foreign governments, transnational criminal organizations, and corporate actors committing AI-enabled fraud. It absorbs the department's January 2026 AI Task Force and acts as liaison to the White House Super Intelligence Force chaired by Jay Clayton. Notably, it creates no new criminal offense — existing hacking law still requires human intent.
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Baidu published downloadable FP8 and BF16 weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope for a 280-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts base model that activates only about 14 billion parameters per token. It was pretrained from scratch on 33.5 trillion tokens at a 128K context, extendable to 1M for fine-tuning, with day-zero vLLM support. It's a raw pretrained checkpoint — no mid-training, no post-training — aimed squarely at teams who want to own the whole fine-tuning stack cheaply.
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Project Tembo lands in Laramie County near Cheyenne, drawing from a planned 702-megawatt Bloom Energy fuel-cell plant built with American Electric Power, with captured CO2 piped into Tallgrass Energy's East Wyoming Storage Hub. Google says it will pay for 100% of the power it uses and lean on advanced air cooling to cut water draw. A University of Wyoming poll found just 30% of residents support more large AI data centers.
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Visa's new Agentic Commerce Benchmark put 22 models from 12 labs through 15 shopping challenges, from buying a TV to a personal care appliance, and nearly half the runs failed. The damning detail: 54% of failed runs still ended in a purchase. Best model passed 82.2%, worst managed 28.9%.
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Meta acquired the eighteen-month-old startup whose platform lets engineers run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode agents in parallel workspaces; terms undisclosed. CEO Charlie Holtz and CTO Jackson de Campos join Meta Superintelligence Labs under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang. Conductor Cloud goes read-only November 13 and shuts down November 20, with Local Conductor maintained into early 2027.
