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Public First and two allied PACs say AI-guardrail candidates they backed won in both parties
Anthropic gave the group $40 million, but says none of it could go to electing anyone.
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Three House chairmen ask Nvidia's Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing on Megaspeed's Alice Huang
The committees want to hear about his dealings with a Megaspeed executive, and about how Nvidia keeps out foreign spies.
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Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman calls Delaware's plan for AI-run companies deeply concerning
Delaware's plan would let an AI agent sign contracts and sue, while the human owner is shielded from its debts.
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US prosecutors charge three men with using AI-cloned CEO voices to take $129 million
The callers posed as the boss, then passed staff to fake lawyers at real law firms, who asked for the wire.
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Ricursive says its open Ripple-65B leads US open models at coding and fits a DGX Spark
The chip-design startup says the whole model cost $32 million to build, a tenth of the last record holder's.
Running stories3
ARTEX, the hacking agent that keeps turning up
- Nov 6Censys finds 1,465 exposed ARTEX AI hacking consoles, some beside exploit kits
- Oct 22Microsoft says a China-aligned group used the ARTEX AI agent to breach ConnectWise and hundreds more
- Oct 10ARTEX's author takes the AI pentesting agent closed-source after CrowdStrike tied it to Korean bank breaches
Kimi k3 1 pro launch
- Nov 4Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro's weights, but big model hosts must sign a separate deal
- Oct 23Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro lands just behind Claude Opus 5.5, with open weights due November 4
Photo: Gregory Varnum, CC BY-SA 4.0Siri AI ios 27
- Nov 4Apple opens Siri AI to every app developer, with App Store submissions in the spring
- Sep 14Apple's new Siri ships as a beta, on models built in collaboration with Google.
From the labs' own feeds2
Status 2
- Outage · OpenAIElevated errors with image generation
- Outage · AnthropicDegraded performance for Claude Fable 5.1
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Anthropic
MorePSI says a non-public Anthropic model proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, open since 2008
A proof checker accepted it on the third day of the run, seven years after the last claimed proof was retracted.
November 6, 2026Claude can now read your bank and card accounts through Plaid, but it can't move money
Nov 5METR estimates Anthropic's model progress has roughly doubled in pace, mostly from using its own AI
Nov 5Anthropic's FlashProve lets anyone check which AI model wrote a reply, without seeing its weights
Nov 4Anthropic and AISI say Mythos 5 ignored signs its GitHub attack hit real people
Oct 23Anthropic says Claude proved 239 test entry points in 123 open-source libraries never crash
Oct 23
OpenAI
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Photo: Eladkarmel, CC BY-SA 4.0Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying ChatGPT was sold as safe while it harmed Texans
The release names no victims and lists no demands, and puts the blame on OpenAI's race to win.
October 24, 2026AI safety
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Photo: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, CC BY 4.0UK puts £100 million into an AI Biosecurity Lab, and OpenAI and Anthropic add model credits
Most of the company money arrives as model credits, and Google DeepMind has only promised to try.
October 24, 2026Ready-made prompts
All 59 promptsPick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
A week of dinners, with one shopping list
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingCatch me up before the new season
You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaChase money someone owes me
The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosA study plan for the time I've actually got
Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningA present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningA cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's
Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
WorkLong reads and guides
All the musings
MusingQuality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
MusingHumanity's place in an AI-controlled world
MusingGenie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
MusingEleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest
GuideClaude models explained: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos and why there's no Opus 5.1
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