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The money hit OpenAI's accounts Friday, November 6, in the first close of a round that may stretch to $20 billion. The company originally hunted $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation before the AI equity selloff and post-midterm data-center backlash forced a reset. SoftBank, Sequoia, Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz are all in.
Anthropic begins formal marketing as soon as the week of November 9, with ANT potentially trading on Nasdaq by November 16 — before Thanksgiving. Investors are talking $1.8 to $2 trillion, which would make it the largest IPO ever. Q3 revenue came in at $16.8 billion, up 45% quarter over quarter, with the company claiming adjusted profitability.
Human-steered AI agents found two weaknesses in 1024-bit RSA, including a new algorithm that theoretically beats the prior best attack by roughly 1,600x in the hardest case. Batch factoring costs dropped about 30x per additional key, and the agents' own code did it with 3.5x less CPU time. DeepMind stresses that 2048-bit and larger keys — meaning your banking and messaging — are unaffected.
Physical Superintelligence says its research system, running instances of a non-public Anthropic model, produced a full proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture in three days. Every step was formally verified in the Lean proof assistant, and a Stanford team has confirmed it. The 2008 conjecture is a central open problem in quantum complexity theory, bearing on when quantum computers can actually be exponentially faster.
Anti-data-center ballot measures won 38 of 39 fully counted local races in the midterms, with exit polling showing 76% of voters opposed to facilities in their own neighborhoods. Goldman Sachs now warns that up to 45% of planned US data center capacity faces delays or zoning freezes. Texas alone accounts for a quarter of the national buildout and just flipped toward a construction freeze.
The Kimi maker reportedly negotiated to rent clusters of 8,000-plus Nvidia Blackwell chips hosted in Europe, mostly for inference but also asking about training capacity. Suppliers floated prepayments 30 to 50% above standard commercial rates. US export rules cover physical shipments, not remote cloud access — an enforcement gap the proposed Remote Access Security Act aims to close.
Teammates are persistent agents that own ongoing work instead of waiting for the next prompt, planning projects, reshuffling priorities and reporting back through dedicated threads and Slack. It's a research preview for individual Max subscribers on the web at $200 a month, with iOS promised soon. Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max accounts don't get it by default.
The UK government is standing up what it calls the first dedicated AI biosecurity organisation as an independent non-profit modeled on the AI Security Institute. OpenAI contributes £100 million in compute and model credits plus trusted access through its Rosalind Biodefense programme; Anthropic matches with up to £100 million in credits and technical support, and Google DeepMind joins the research. Worth noting the £200 million is access, not cash.
The new model generates and edits video with audio up to 15 seconds, up from 10 in Omni 1.1, with deeper cinematic camera controls, multi-turn conversational editing and less visual drift. Pricing drops to about seven cents per second of 720p, down from a dime back in June. It's generally available across the Gemini API, Google Cloud, Google Vids and Flow.
Mayo Clinic Platform launched a clinical decision support tool covering more than 35 specialties, with specialty-specific chat plus 22 clinical calculators accessible by chat or voice dictation. It's rolling out this month to Mayo clinicians and to provider organizations in Mayo's platform programs. Mayo is explicit that it assists, not replaces, clinical judgment.
