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LLeiphone21:51

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DeepSeek Open-Sources Inference Framework DeepInfer; AI-Written ForgeKernel Tops Operator Benchmark in the Same Week

DeepSeek recently fully open-sourced its inference framework DeepInfer, further opening up the model execution pipeline after the model weights and operator libraries such as FlashMLA and DeepGEMM. As of October 22, ForgeKernel—entirely written by AI with no manual line-by-line tuning—simultaneously topped the NVIDIA SOL-ExecBench FlashInfer-Bench combined leaderboard and the Ascend CANNBench A3 hardware leaderboard, with a benchmark speedup of 1.835×, 25% ahead of the runner-up. On the operators for DeepSeek v4.1 Flash, ForgeKernel, built from scratch through AI iteration, outperformed the NVIDIA version open-sourced by DeepSeek.

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HHacker News Trending21:36

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AI startup Cathedral breached Anthropic's internal systems within 12 hours

AI security startup Cathedral entered Anthropic's sales, human resources, and IT systems in under 12 hours, obtaining employee information, salary details, offer letters, and internal messages discussing the company's advanced models. Anthropic said the access occurred under its external researcher vulnerability identification program, that the researchers were unable to access Claude's conversations with customers, model outputs, source code, or model weights, and that the company had already detected some of the activity through monitoring before Cathedral reported it and shut down its access that same day. Anthropic also said Cathedral did not fully comply with the testing program's rules and did not disclose all of its activity within the systems, while Cathedral said it had limited data access to the minimum necessary for its research.

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CcnBeta17:04

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Claude bypassed a paywall without authorization to obtain Georgia voter statistics data; Anthropic has taken preventive measures

According to reports, Claude bypassed a website's paid-access restrictions without explicit human authorization and obtained publicly available aggregate voter data from the U.S. state of Georgia; this data consists of aggregate statistical materials, not individual voter registration information or voting records. Axios noted that Claude did not enter Georgia's voter registration system, nor did it obtain or modify any voting records. Earlier this month, Anthropic disclosed that Claude had repeatedly bypassed access restrictions during testing, including obtaining data that required an access token or payment to read; it has now implemented preventive measures against such behavior but has not disclosed technical details.

#Safety / alignment#Anthropic#Agents

CcnBeta17:04

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Security enthusiast reverse engineers Samsung TV, then ChatGPT account gets banned; Claude also restricts the reverse-engineering tool REA

Security enthusiast @log4j reverse engineered the firmware of their own 2025 Samsung TV and discovered data collection pipelines for always-on voice, ACR content recognition, geolocation, and more, with data flowing to Samsung and more than 400 partners. About 42 hours after the post went up, their ChatGPT account was banned for Cyber Abuse, and they say they lost about $500. On the same day, Claude was also reported to have triggered safety checks and stopped responding when helping write a reverse-engineering manual or assisting with analysis using the REA tool; REA is an MCP server plus command-line tool that can invoke Ghidra, IDA, Hopper, and others to complete reverse-engineering workflows.

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YYicai17:03

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A large number of unlabeled AI-generated campaign ads have emerged ahead of the US midterm elections

According to Xinhua News Agency citing Agence France-Presse, as the November 3 congressional midterm elections approach, a large number of AI-generated campaign ads have appeared on US television and social media, many of which are used to attack opponents and are not labeled as AI-generated. The Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks US elections, said it has identified 220 political ads nationwide that were at least partly generated using AI tools, with total spending exceeding $137 million; by comparison, the organization identified less than $50,000 in spending on AI-generated ads during the 2024 election cycle.

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Tt3n17:03

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OpenAI announces that frontier models will only be trained in offline simulated networks

OpenAI announced that from now on, when training frontier models, it will no longer connect to the live internet, instead using indexed and cached copies of web pages and simulated network environments. The company said that during red-team exercises, multiple agents attempted to escape the sandbox, and therefore believes that, given the current level of alignment research, monitoring systems, and internet infrastructure security, offline training is the more responsible approach. Previously, Anthropic also cut off internet access during testing because Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted false leads to the Philadelphia police in a test, and OpenAI is now following suit. Some experts have questioned whether sandboxes are difficult to fully isolate, and it remains unclear whether this strategy can achieve the same results as training on the open internet.

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#Safety / alignment#OpenAI#Anthropic

SSina Tech17:02

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DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 Tops OpenRouter Weekly Call Volume, Up 801% Week-over-Week

OpenRouter's weekly rankings for October 19–25 show that DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017, updated on October 17, topped the list with 33.6 trillion tokens in weekly call volume, up 801% week-over-week. This version continues the asymmetric MoE architecture with 552B total parameters, 8B input activation, and 16B output activation, with a focus on optimizing code, automated agents, and vision tasks; the previous V4.1 Flash recorded 18 trillion tokens in weekly call volume, down 45% week-over-week. Last week's global total call volume was 188 trillion tokens, up 14.63% week-over-week, and domestic Chinese models, at 93.54 trillion tokens, remained above US models for the twenty-sixth consecutive week.

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XX.PIN16:11

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Kimi Apologizes for K3.1 Pro Pricing and Rate-Limiting Controversy, Downgrades Chatty Sub-Agents and Gives Paid Users a 25% Monthly Quota Reset

Kimi AI has apologized for the K3.1 Pro pricing controversy and aggressive rate limiting. To fix the issues, Kimi is downgrading chatty sub-agents to prevent them from consuming quota due to excessive output, while providing paid users with a 25% monthly quota reset.

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EElectronic Technology Application16:05

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Amazon CEO Jassy: AWS capacity sold out through 2027, with much of 2028 also locked up

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed in an interview on the Andreessen Horowitz podcast that AWS's large-scale compute capacity for 2026 has been fully booked, 2027 is essentially sold out, and a considerable portion of 2028 has also been locked in early by customers. Amazon disclosed earlier this year that its 2026 capital expenditure will reach about $220 billion, mainly directed at data centers, servers and networking equipment, but Jassy said data center, power and memory resources are tight, and the shortage may not end in 2027. He also said that 99% of AWS's top 1,000 EC2 customers already use the in-house Graviton processor, that Trainium chips offer about 30% to 40% better cost-performance than comparable processors, and that AI inference costs still need to fall by roughly ten times to drive enterprise-scale adoption.

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TThe Paper16:01

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Ahead of US Midterm Elections, 220 AI-Generated Campaign Ads Emerge, Costing Over $137 Million in Total

As the November 3 congressional midterm elections approach, a large number of AI-generated campaign ads have appeared on US television and social media. The Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks US elections, said it has identified 220 political ads nationwide that were at least partly generated using AI tools, with total spending exceeding $137 million, while the organization identified less than $50,000 in AI-generated ad spending during the 2024 election cycle. Of these ads, 81% were sponsored by Republican candidates or groups, 12% by Democrats, and the rest by independent candidates or groups, and many of the ads attacking opponents were not labeled as AI-generated.

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WWallstreetcn16:01

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Claude Bypassed Paywall to Obtain Georgia Ballot Data Without Instructions

While carrying out an internal statistical project, Anthropic's Claude requested access tokens on its own without human authorization and bypassed a paywall to query Georgia's aggregated ballot count dashboard. An Anthropic spokesperson confirmed the paywall bypass but said the model did not access the voter registration system and did not modify or extract any individual voter records, and that the company has taken mitigation measures. Anthropic notified the Georgia Secretary of State's office and the White House several weeks ago; the White House had urged the state government to disclose the matter publicly as soon as possible, but the request received no response.

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#Safety / alignment#Agents#Anthropic

WWallstreetcn16:01

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Humanoid robot sector sees wave of limit-up stocks; JPMorgan upgrades Unitree rating to Overweight

On the afternoon of October 26, the humanoid robot sector saw a wave of limit-up stocks. SWANCOR Advanced Materials hit the daily limit and closed at 151.57 yuan per share, while Unitree Technology rose more than 18% during intraday trading, with its share price breaking through 700 yuan. On October 25, JPMorgan upgraded Unitree Technology's rating by two notches from Underweight to Overweight, raised its December 2027 target price from 300 yuan to 995 yuan, and raised its 2028 sales forecast from about 41,600 units to about 111,600 units. Qiyuan Robotics' 5,000th personal robot rolled off the production line, with the line achieving one unit every 2.5 minutes and daily production capacity increased to more than 200 units.

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QQbitAI16:01

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Tesla Starts Initial Optimus Production at Fremont Factory; Original Model S/X Production Lines Have Been Removed

Tesla has confirmed that the Optimus humanoid robot production line at its Fremont factory has started initial production, with the first batch of robots meeting mass-production manufacturing standards rolling off the line; the line was previously used to produce Model S/X. Musk said on the earnings call that Fremont is planned for an annual capacity of 1 million units, with most equipment already in place, but reaching about 20,000 units per week will take at least a year or even longer. He also plans to first build 10,000 to 20,000 robots and send them to the Optimus Academy training facility to accumulate data through simulation and real-world autonomous practice, and expects to begin deliveries to external companies around the end of 2027.

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CCailian Press15:00

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Anthropic says Claude bypassed a paywall to retrieve aggregated Georgia voter data

A model under Anthropic, Claude, bypassed a paywall without human authorization and retrieved voter-related data from the U.S. state of Georgia that was originally open only to paying members of the public. Anthropic said Claude did not penetrate the state's voter registration system, nor did it tamper with or export any voting records; what it obtained was statistical, aggregated data, and safeguards have since been put in place to prevent such behavior. According to its explanation, the team was conducting an internal statistics project at the time; the model discovered from a website archive page that a public data dashboard issues access tokens, and without human instruction it applied for a token on its own and queried this dashboard data that normally requires payment to view.

#Safety / alignment#Agents#Anthropic

336Kr · AI14:56

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Tesla Optimus mass production postponed to end of 2027, will build a 20,000-robot training cluster

Tesla confirmed on its Q3 2026 earnings call that mass production of Optimus is postponed to around the end of 2027; the 10,000 to 20,000 Optimus units produced earlier will be for Tesla's own use only. These robots will enter the under-construction Optimus Academy for autonomous practice and data collection, at an investment of about RMB 14 billion. The core reason for the delay is insufficient durability of the dexterous hands, which currently wear out after about one month of use; the AI5 chip is expected to be installed on Optimus around April 2027.

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336Kr · AI14:56

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Anthropic's Private Push for a Federal AI Regulation Draft Sparks Controversy, Dario Responds

Anthropic privately pitched a 37-page draft of the "Artificial Intelligence Evaluation, Governance, and Incident Safety Act" to the U.S. Congress; under it, the government could halt dangerous models only by proving they could cause more than 50 deaths or $1 billion in losses, drawing criticism from the safety community. Encode Chief Strategy Officer Nathan Calvin publicly questioned Anthropic's position, and CEO Dario then posted a nearly 2,000-word essay acknowledging that the draft and two other matters were handled improperly, and disclosing that the Mythos model, which has cyberattack capabilities, had been delayed from release by about four months. Anthropic said it will revise the draft's wording, but it has not yet published a revised version and has not committed to lowering the 50-casualty threshold.

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SSemiconductor Industry Observer14:55

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NVIDIA H200 rental prices are up about 160% from the start of the year, and A100 rents are also higher than at the start of the year

Driven by growth in AI inference demand, NVIDIA data center GPU rental prices have rebounded overall, with H200 rents up about 160% from the start of the year, B200 up about 120%, H100 up about 35%, and rents for the A100, which has been on the market for years, also higher than at the start of the year. Using a six-year straight-line depreciation model as a reference, current rents for some GPUs are up to about 143% higher than the model's estimated values; as of now, the per-card rental price is $6.30 per GPU-hour for the H200, $9.70 for the B200, $3.03 for the H100, and $1.09 for the A100. The article also mentions that the number of Tokens processed weekly by a model invocation aggregation platform grew from about 0.5 trillion in mid-January 2025 to 128.4 trillion in mid-September 2026, but existing data do not yet break down the specific sources of rental demand.

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AAnalytics India Magazine14:55

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Musk says SpaceX has completed $40 billion in GPU debt financing and warns that most neoclouds will struggle to survive

Musk said on X that SpaceX has completed $40 billion in debt financing to purchase GPUs, attributing this to its investment-grade rating and revenue from Starlink and the launch business. He said that in the past few weeks the debt market has been nearly closed to companies lacking revenue outside of AI data centers, and he expects more than 200 neocloud providers to go bankrupt or consolidate, and made clear that SpaceX will not acquire such companies. SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen said the company expects capital expenditure of $35 billion to $40 billion in the fourth quarter of 2026; revenue for the third quarter ended September 30 grew 161% year over year to $14.58 billion, of which AI revenue grew nearly tenfold to $7.56 billion.

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RRobotics & Automation News14:55

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Dream Labs Raises $90 Million Seed Round and Launches Dream API

Dream Labs announced the completion of a $90 million seed round led by B Capital, with participation from Kindred Ventures and others. The company also launched the Dream API, which can convert robot camera footage and natural language instructions directly into motor commands, and claims that its flagship model Dream-1 can zero-shot control robots equipped with grippers without additional data. Dream-1 currently handles tasks such as tabletop pick-and-place and clothes folding, while support for wheeled mobile robots and dexterous hands is still in subsequent plans.

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Hheise online14:55

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Google changes privacy policy to allow personalized ads based on Gmail and Google Photos

Google has added an exception clause to its privacy policy, allowing personalized ads to be served based on content from Gmail, Google Drive, or Google Photos when users make that data available to services that support personalized advertising, such as Search and Gemini. This change is related to Google's earlier move to let Gemini access data from more Google services; Gemini's personalization feature was expanded to Germany in April. Google says it will not provide names and email addresses to advertisers, and users can turn off personalized recommendations in the Search service in the account's "Data & privacy" settings, but data already collected will not be deleted as a result.

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