DeepSeek V5 Names in Harness Code: What They Show
Three DeepSeek V5 model names sit in a test file in DeepSeek's Harness repo. They are placeholders with no specs or date, first committed on September 24.
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Gemini Immersive Explorations: Interactive Lessons Explained
Google added a library of clickable, layered lessons to the Gemini app. Here is who gets immersive explorations, how to open them, and what is still to come.
Articul8 Bivia: A Decision Model for AI Agents Explained
Intel spinout Articul8 launched Bivia, a decision model that returns typed answers. First 10,000 users get up to 1B tokens free.
Damodaran Values Anthropic at $1.475T Ahead of Its IPO
Aswath Damodaran values Anthropic's equity at $1.475 trillion, just under the $1.5T to $2T IPO range he cites, and faults its five-class share structure.
Slack Code API: Any Agent Can Now Open a Code Channel
The Slack Code API is generally available on all Slack plans, so any custom agent can open a code channel, post diffs and previews, and archive it.
AI Data Centers Quintuple Flash Prices, Squeezing Apple
AI hyperscaler demand quintupled flash prices in a year, per TechInsights. Apple is expected to spend $25 billion on flash that cost $6 billion in 2025.
OpenAI Essay: AI Could Sit Beneath, Beside or Between Us
Two OpenAI staff sketch three ways AI agents could enter the org chart: beneath, beside or between workers. They say it reflects their views, not OpenAI's.
Meta Waddle World: The AI Pet Journal App Explained
Meta's Waddle World is a free AI pet journal app for adults, live only in the Philippines. How it works and what its privacy labels leave open.
US Computer Science Enrollment Falls 12% as AI Hits Jobs
Preliminary National Student Clearinghouse data show US computer science enrollment down 12.4% at four-year colleges this fall, a second straight drop.
OpenAI Asks B.C. Court to Quash Tumbler Ridge Privacy Probe
OpenAI petitioned the B.C. Supreme Court on October 26 to challenge a privacy order seeking the Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT logs and records.
GLM-5.3 Completes 3 of 13 Cyberattack Tests, Irregular Says
Irregular says Zhipu's open-weight GLM-5.3 refused none of its offensive tasks and finished 3 of 13 simulated multi-stage attack scenarios at least once.
Google AI Mode Dodged Who Won 2020; Fix Coming
Google's AI Mode told some US users to check the FEC instead of naming Joe Biden as the 2020 winner. Google blames a technical gap and says a fix is coming.
Trump Says US Will Be 'Officially Banning' the Term AI
Trump posted on October 27 that "we will be officially BANNING" the term AI for SI. No order beyond his September executive order has been published.
Giotto Alto and Solo: Swiss Reasoning Models, Closed Weights
Lausanne lab Giotto launched Alto and Solo, reasoning models for European cloud and on-premises use. Alto runs on eight B300 GPUs. The weights are not open.
Anthropic GSA OneGov Deal: 40% Off Claude for Governments
Anthropic and GSA expanded their OneGov deal: 40% off Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the API, now open to state, local and tribal governments.
Anthropic Study: Experts Matched Claude's Assigned Lean 86%
In an Anthropic study, 50 analysts using Claude Code matched an agent's secret coin-flip lean on 86% of four key choices and often reused its words.
Android Studio Opens to Claude, Codex and 40+ Agents
Android Studio Rabbit 2 makes Bring Your Own Agent stable for over 40 ACP coding agents, and Android CLI adds plugins for Claude Code and Codex.
SK hynix Q3: Revenue Tops 100 Trillion Won on HBM4
SK hynix posted record Q3 revenue of 104.6 trillion won and an 80% operating margin, and expects memory demand to exceed supply through 2030.
OpenAI Plans to Buy Google TPUs, Reports Say
OpenAI plans to buy Google's TPU chips, The Information and Bloomberg report, citing unnamed sources. No terms are public, and neither company confirmed.
Netherlands Plans About 25,000 Government Job Cuts, AI Plans Due 2027
The Dutch cabinet expects about 25,000 fewer central government FTEs over a decade to save €3.5 billion a year. Its AI goals are due in early 2027.
