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  1. heise online
    AI score55

    The Browser Company announces that the Arc browser will be discontinued on December 22

    The Browser Company announces that the Arc browser will be discontinued on December 22, after which macOS and Windows users will no longer be able to open or use Arc, related accounts will be deactivated, and personal data will be deleted within 30 days. The company says the workload of keeping the browser secure continues to increase in the AI era, and going forward its development and security teams will focus entirely on the AI browser Dia. The shutdown proceeds in three steps: registration of new accounts has already stopped; starting November 23, the iOS and Android versions of Arc Search will lose AI features, including Browse for Me, users will be unable to log in or sync tabs, and the app will function only as a local browser; the Android version of Arc Search will also be removed from the Google Play Store. Users migrating to Dia can import workspaces, folders, tab groups, passwords, bookmarks, extensions, and browsing history; workspaces are renamed Profile in Dia, Arc's original features are free in Dia, and AI features are optional.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Agents

  2. Fortune Tech
    AI score75

    Zuckerberg says Meta Muse has over 10 million users, shopping demand so high that Stripe had to raise credit limits

    Meta CEO Zuckerberg said on the October 21 earnings call that since launching on September 8, over 10 million users in the US and Canada have created Muse agents, roughly more than double Threads at its start. Muse can browse the web, send emails, and book travel on users' behalf; a quarter of users use it daily, the most common scenario is shopping, average purchase exceeds $200, first-week transaction volume exceeded expectations, and Meta had to work with Stripe to raise credit limits. Meta plans to charge merchants when Muse helps them complete sales; consumer use is free unless more tokens or more advanced models are needed; the CFO said it is working with Shopify, Walmart, and others to develop the Personal Agent Protocol.

    #Industry news#Agents#OpenAI

  3. MediaNama
    AI score62

    Railway suffers cyberattack leaking customer keys, asks users to change API keys

    Cloud hosting platform Railway discovered abnormal activity on October 21 in the system storing customer environment variables, stating that an unauthorized third party may have accessed encrypted environment variables and decrypted some of them, and has advised all users to change credentials such as API keys. Railway believes the attack may be part of a recent series of attacks targeting platform companies with the aim of breaching AI inference service providers, and has notified upstream suppliers to revoke potentially leaked keys. The company also released security guidance for OpenAI, Anthropic and GitHub users, advising them to delete potentially exposed API keys, generate new keys and check usage records; on October 23 its builds and deployments had recovered, but new user registration remained suspended.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Safety / alignment#English text is being prepared.#OpenAI

  4. BBC Technology
    AI score55

    Indian workers wear cameras to film work processes, providing data for physical AI training

    BBC reports that hundreds to thousands of workers in India are paid to wear head-mounted cameras to record work processes such as haircuts, sewing, and housework; the videos are collected by local companies and sold to tech companies and research institutions for training physical AI that can control real-world robots. Rashdan Technologies pays 5 to 10 dollars for 8 to 10 hours of recording, and Humyn Labs has 96,000 data collectors in Latin America and Southeast Asia. TISS professor Bino Paul believes it is too early to judge whether robots will replace these workers, but calls on the government to regulate AI.

    #English text is being prepared.#English text is being prepared.#Embodied AI

  5. BBC Chinese
    AI score84

    AI discovers high-severity PHP vulnerabilities php2shell, institutions in multiple countries worldwide rush to patch

    Cybersecurity companies Wiz and Calif, with the help of OpenAI technology, discovered two security vulnerabilities in the PHP language collectively called php2shell, affecting multiple PHP versions over the past decade or more; about 70% of websites worldwide use PHP. The PHP Foundation has released patches, and institutions including the US NSA, the UK NCSC, and bodies in the EU, Singapore, and Australia urged website operators to update immediately, and those unable to patch should consider temporarily shutting down their websites. Some websites including Wikipedia, the Finnish government, Edinburgh City Council, and the BBC have suspended operations; Cloudflare said attack attempts rose from thousands to millions after the vulnerabilities were disclosed.

    #Safety / alignment#OpenAI#English text is being prepared.

  6. t3n
    AI score58

    Developer releases first Jailbreak for Nintendo Switch 2 with the help of OpenAI Codex

    Developer pepsipu released the first Jailbreak for Nintendo Switch 2, completed with the help of OpenAI's coding agent Codex. He used Jet-KVM to let Codex send controller inputs to the console and analyze HDMI output, and also added a remote switch to automatically press the power button when the console crashes; the software part took two weeks, exploiting a vulnerability in the eShop app Smile Basic 4 to achieve memory access and code execution. This Jailbreak is a Tethered type and becomes invalid after the console restarts; Nintendo has already removed the app from the eShop after the release.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#Agents

  7. Wallstreetcn
    AI score52

    Bloom Energy Q3 revenue up 138% to $1.24 billion, AI power shortage drives demand for on-site power generation

    Bloom Energy's fiscal 2026 third-quarter revenue grew 138% year over year to $1.24 billion, with product revenue exceeding $1 billion in a single quarter for the first time, operating profit of $286 million, up more than 500% year over year, and its third upward revision of full-year revenue guidance this year to $4.4 billion to $4.6 billion. CEO KR Sridhar said the aging power grid cannot match the pace of AI expansion, that tech giants are turning to on-site power generation, and cited Nvidia's CEO as saying that every quarter of delay for a 1GW data center costs $10 billion in revenue. The company also cautioned that there is a timing mismatch between large deliveries and cash collection, with Q3 free cash flow a net outflow of $181 million, and that capacity expansion costs will weigh on gross margin in 2027 for a period.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  8. Wallstreetcn
    AI score77

    Anthropic plans to complete its IPO in mid-November, with a $1.5 trillion valuation facing a liquidity test

    According to Reuters citing people familiar with the matter, Anthropic plans to make its prospectus public as early as late October and complete its IPO in mid-November, with institutional roadshows expected to begin in the week of November 9, and a potential valuation of $1.5 trillion. During the same period, AI infrastructure companies such as Switch, Nscale, and SoftBank's SB Energy have postponed, suspended, or withdrawn their listing plans. The draft prospectus shows that Anthropic's revenue in the first half of 2026 was $16.3 billion, with a net loss of $80.7 billion, of which about $72 billion came from accounting valuation changes in financing instruments such as convertible notes; third-quarter revenue was $16.8 billion, up about 45% quarter-on-quarter.

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  9. Phoenix Technology
    AI score67

    SemiAnalysis testing found that Claude subscription quotas were lowered by a backend A/B test

    SemiAnalysis ran an Opus 5.5 agent workload on two identical $200 Max 20x accounts and found that the gray-test account's total weekly quota dropped from 6.579 billion tokens to 5.266 billion tokens, a shrinkage of about 20%, while the 5-hour window quota rose from 1.74 billion tokens to 2.076 billion tokens. Claude Code technical staff member Lydia Hallie responded that quotas had not been adjusted, and core developer Boris Cherny said the team is investigating. The article also mentioned that OpenAI previously halved the quota of its $200 Pro plan and introduced a new $500 tier, as well as the engineering practice of DeepSeek's open-source inference framework DeepInfer, with a single cluster's daily throughput of 155 trillion tokens.

    #English text is being prepared.#Industry news#OpenAI

  10. Sina Tech
    AI score62

    Lenovo-affiliated Legend Capital reportedly participates in DeepSeek's new funding round; DeepSeek may push for IPO as early as early 2027

    According to foreign media citing people familiar with the matter, DeepSeek's new funding round brought in industrial and financial investors including Legend Capital, Shixi Capital and Geely; Legend Capital and Lenovo Group both belong to the Legend Holdings system. DeepSeek has engaged CITIC Securities to provide advisory services for its IPO and in September this year brought in a new chief financial officer, and may push for an IPO as early as early 2027. Previously, Lenovo had integrated DeepSeek models into AI PCs, servers and enterprise AI solutions; this investment extends the relationship between the two sides from product adaptation to the capital and ecosystem level.

    Same story · 14 reports

    #Industry news#DeepSeek

  11. Phoenix Technology
    AI score59

    Google cleared 250,000 trees for a data center in Finland; regulator ordered work to stop

    Google cleared about 330 hectares of forest, estimated at about 250,000 trees felled, to build a data center in Muhos in northern Finland, and carried out large-scale land clearing before completing the legally required environmental impact assessment. The Finnish Permitting and Supervision Agency (LVV) earlier this month ordered Google to suspend construction at two sites, Muhos and Otanmäki about 100 kilometers away, and to stop activities that would significantly alter the environment by October 23. Environmentalists estimate that another approximately 150,000 trees were felled in Otanmäki, and Google's Finland country head has apologized for the forest clearing.

    #Industry news#Google

  12. Sina Technology
    AI score73

    Anthropic to enable Claude auto mode by default next week; METR report discloses OpenAI monitoring gaps

    Anthropic announced that starting next week, Claude will enable auto mode by default, with another AI judging whether each step is permitted, no longer popping up a prompt to ask the user each time. The original article cites Anthropic's tests, saying that of 1,053 paid testers, only 13.6% blocked a dangerous command inserted midway, while the AI blocked 89%; after clicking through more than 50 consecutive pop-up prompts, the human interception rate dropped to about 5%. The article also relays METR and Redwood researchers' three-week audit of OpenAI's internal monitoring, saying that about one-tenth of qualifying internal Codex traffic bypassed monitoring, and lists multiple bypass paths such as trigger mechanisms, context compression, and request header settings.

    #Industry news#Agents#Safety / alignment

  13. Phoenix Tech
    AI score53

    Western Digital CEO says AI storage demand is strong, order visibility with top seven customers extends to 2030

    At the earnings call, Western Digital's CEO said AI is essentially a data system, and the massive generation of data brings HDDs a more enduring market opportunity than computing power; order visibility with the top seven core customers already extends to 2030-2031. The company's HDD capacity for 2026 is fully sold out, long-term supply agreements run through 2028, and fiscal Q1 2027 revenue grew 55% year over year, but revenue and shipments remain constrained by supply capacity. The article also notes that a single AI server has a storage configuration of 1.7TB, more than three times the 0.5TB of a traditional server.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  14. Phoenix Technology
    AI score59

    After Wang Xingxing's speech, Unitree's stock price rebounded over 54%, but the self-developed AI model still lacks an on-site demonstration

    Unitree Technology's stock price has cumulatively rebounded over 54% from the intraday low of 404.3 yuan per share on October 15, hitting the limit up on October 23 to close at 624 yuan per share, with market value once again exceeding 252.4 billion. At the 2026 World Physical AI Conference, Wang Xingxing stated that physical AI could be breached in as fast as 1 to 2 years, or as slow as 2 to 3 years, and introduced the self-evolving Physical AI robot V1.0 currently under pre-research. However, the on-site demonstrations such as painting and playing Go were based on GPT-6 Astra, and the 6B parameter model UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 released in September had no on-site hands-on demonstration.

    #Industry news#Embodied AI#Model releases

  15. IT Home · Artificial Intelligence
    AI score52

    Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX plan to spend nearly $300 billion on charity

    The Washington Post reports that Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX are preparing charitable donations totaling close to $300 billion. Anthropic will donate 5% of its shares; if its valuation reaches $2 trillion at IPO, the fund could reach $100 billion, and its seven founders have separately pledged to give away 80% of their personal wealth. The OpenAI charitable foundation holds about a quarter of the company's shares, worth more than $180 billion, and has already put $855 million into philanthropic projects. Musk plans to give every American child a share of SpaceX next year, with the total possibly exceeding $11 billion. The report also notes that most of these donations are unlisted equity or future pledges, and the amount actually available depends on IPO valuations and share prices.

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  16. English text is being prepared.
    AI score68

    Anthropic Donates Agent Skills Open Standard to AAIF

    On October 22, Anthropic announced that it is donating the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, turning it from a single-company project into community co-governance. AAIF was established on December 9, 2025, co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI; Anthropic had previously donated MCP to the organization. Since its release as an open standard in December 2025, more than 70 agent platforms—including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code—have integrated Agent Skills, with roughly 1 million public Skills and approximately 280 million cumulative installs; the donation also covers the name, logo, GitHub organization, and the agentskills.io domain.

    Same story · 6 reports

    #Industry news#Agents#Open-source ecosystem

  17. English text is being prepared.
    AI score56

    Google Felled About 250,000 Trees to Build a Finnish AI Data Center; Regulator Orders Work Halted

    Google cleared about 330 hectares of forest and is estimated to have felled about 250,000 trees to build a data center in Muhos in northern Finland, and it carried out large-scale land clearing before completing the legally required environmental impact assessment. Earlier this month, the Finnish Permitting and Supervision Agency (LVV) ordered construction to be suspended at two sites, Muhos and Otanmäki about 100 kilometers away, and required activities that would significantly alter the environment to stop by October 23, failing which enforcement proceedings and fines could be initiated. Environmentalists estimate that another 150,000 trees were felled in Otanmäki, and Google's Finland country head has apologized for the forest clearing.

    #Industry news#Google#English text is being prepared.

  18. China.com Technology
    AI score64

    Legend Capital, affiliated with Lenovo, participates in DeepSeek's new funding round

    According to The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, DeepSeek's new funding round brought in industrial and financial investors including Legend Capital, Stone Creek Capital and Geely, among which Legend Capital and Lenovo Group both belong to the Legend Holdings system. DeepSeek has engaged CITIC Securities to provide advisory services for its IPO and brought in a new chief financial officer in September this year, and may advance its IPO as early as early 2027.

    Same story · 14 reports

    #Industry news#DeepSeek

  19. Solidot
    AI score51

    Survey shows 57% of Americans consider AI harmful to society

    An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos survey shows that 57% of Americans consider AI harmful to society, while 42% consider it beneficial; only 2% consider it extremely beneficial, and 17% consider it extremely harmful. Among people under 30, 65% hold a negative view, higher than the 53% among people aged 40 and above. When it comes to personal impact, 50% consider AI beneficial to themselves and 49% consider it harmful, but those who consider it extremely harmful account for 15%, five times the 3% who consider it extremely beneficial.

    #English text is being prepared.

  20. Huxiu
    AI score65

    a16z crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier, crypto VCs collectively pivot to AI

    On October 22, Chris Dixon announced that a16z crypto is being renamed a16z Frontier; the new fund will invest in emerging technologies such as AI and robotics while continuing to invest in Crypto. Five months earlier, a spokesperson for the fund had said it was 100% focused on crypto founders. The article notes that leading crypto VCs including Paradigm, Haun Ventures, and Framework also expanded into AI, robotics, and energy during the same period, and that of the $510 billion in global venture capital in the first half of 2026, Crypto accounted for only $10.8 billion.

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic