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Chinese Open Source Models Enter the Enterprise: Red Hat Uses GLM to Handle 70% of Inference Traffic

AI Business reported that, in the week ending October 25, Chinese models accounted for more than half of the token statistics on OpenRouter, whereas about a year ago only one of the nine models on the site's weekly usage list came from China. Red Hat is internally piloting self-hosted GLM, used by up to 1,400 engineers, with about 70% of inference traffic going to open source models, and it controls costs with a frontier model quota of $300 per person per month. DataCamp, due to latency and insufficient capacity from open source model providers, is shifting from Anthropic to OpenAI and has not yet moved its AI tutor to open source models.

SemiAnalysis Analyst Interprets Anthropic S-1: The Ledger Behind the Valuation and AGI Narrative

The Verge's Decoder podcast invited SemiAnalysis analyst Joey Brookhart to break down the S-1 filed by Anthropic, discussing its potential Nasdaq listing at a valuation of $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion. Brookhart said Anthropic has achieved over $70 billion in ARR, with inference gross margins turning from negative 94% two years ago to positive 85%, and revenue per megawatt of inference at about $65 million, but revenue is highly concentrated in coding scenarios, and about 70% of compute is used for training and research. He also mentioned that Anthropic has $500 billion to $600 billion in compute commitments over the next 7 to 10 years, and compared OpenAI's more consumer-oriented business structure.

Partnership on AI research: Agent frameworks generally lack observability records

Madhulika Srikumar and Claire Leibowicz of Partnership on AI write that current agent frameworks cannot reliably generate the key observability records needed for safe deployment. Together with colleagues from academia, civil society, and industry, the authors studied the four most widely used agent frameworks and found that signals such as persistent Agent IDs and human approval records are missing, making it difficult to determine which agent did what and whether it exceeded its authority. The article recommends using OpenTelemetry to fill in the records of "what happened," and calls on framework developers, enterprises adopting agents, and regulators to each bear their respective responsibilities.

AI-drafted disaster alerts are entering emergency management—is humanity ready?

Reports from Grist and WIRED point out that although most emergency management agencies do not allow employees to use generative AI, experts believe that state and local disaster departments are already using it privately to draft alerts. A county emergency manager in Alabama once used AI to generate a hurricane risk map, but the result was meteorologically inaccurate; meanwhile, models from companies such as EM1 can already rewrite flood alerts for the San Juan River in New Mexico, adding the issuing authority, location, and evacuation guidance. Experts warn that inexperienced emergency personnel find it difficult to judge model output, and public distrust of AI and government may also backfire on the credibility of alerts.

Behind the PHP Critical Vulnerability Warning: Aging Web Infrastructure and Insufficient Maintenance Resources

A team using OpenAI models discovered two major vulnerabilities in PHP, and a new version of PHP was subsequently released with calls for site operators to update; some European government websites briefly went offline due to the updates. The article notes that the PHP Foundation, which coordinates PHP security issues, has only one full-time employee, and Executive Director Elizabeth Barron said PHP is severely underfunded; a Network Solutions survey of 121 small-business site owners showed that 45% had never heard of PHP, and 71% did not know whether their own websites used PHP. Cloudflare deployed new Web Application Firewall protections and launched a PHP vulnerability bounty contest, with rewards ranging from $100 to $10,000.

Anthropic's Engineering and Product Leads Discuss the Opus 5.5 Release and Claude's Agent Architecture

In a Latent Space podcast interview, Anthropic engineering lead Katelyn Lesse and product lead Angela Jiang discussed the Opus 5.5 release, covering adjustments to the model's writing style, pricing based on intelligence per dollar, and API changes such as requiring thinking blocks to be retained across turns to prevent distillation. The interview also described Claude Managed Agents' approach of separating sessions and the harness from the sandbox that executes code, with credentials mounted separately through a proxy so that a sandbox failure does not take down the entire session; Dreaming, meanwhile, is implemented as one managed agent inspecting another agent's history and writing back to memory. The team said that as safety work for model releases has grown heavier, recent efforts have shifted more toward safety, with progress on features such as skills and memory slowing relatively.

Google stock plunges over 11% after earnings: AI spending devours cash flow, search monetization under pressure

After Alphabet released its earnings, its stock plunged more than 11% in a single day, wiping out about $500 billion in market value, because AI spending continues to devour cash flow, share buybacks fell to zero in the first nine months of 2026, and revenue growth in the core search business slowed from 16.8% in the second quarter to 12%. Google Cloud revenue doubled year over year to $30.7 billion, with its profit margin rising to 36.2%, but the shared AI research and development loss widened from $4.5 billion to $7.7 billion, and about half of the cloud business's profit increment was consumed before consolidation. JPMorgan called this earnings report a setback for the re-ignition of the AI/tech trade, while Goldman Sachs trader Thales Arruda said the market is shifting from rewarding capital expenditure growth to demanding evidence of returns.

a16z Long Read: Databricks and the Enterprise in the Agent Era

a16z partners Ben Horowitz and Michael McGuiness wrote the article, using Databricks' four generations of technological evolution—from Spark and Lakehouse to Lakebase and agents—as a thread to discuss how agents are changing enterprises. The article states that Databricks has surpassed $7 billion in annualized revenue, up 80% year over year, at a valuation of $190 billion, with more than 17 million databases launched by agents every day. The authors argue that enterprises need an agent-facing system of record that captures definitions, permissions, and evaluation results, and believe that in the future more people's work will shift toward specifying tasks, delegating execution, and checking results.

The agents helping users snag iPhone foldables are shaping the future of e-commerce in the AI era

Shopping agents such as Meta's Muse and xAI's Grok Bot snapped up inventory during the iPhone Duo pre-order; Amazon banned external agents on the grounds of violating its terms of use, while Shopify chose deep collaboration with Muse. Shopify disclosed that in the first quarter of this year, orders driven by AI search grew nearly 13-fold year over year and AI-driven store traffic grew 8-fold, but in the second quarter these two multiples fell back to 3-fold, and agentic commerce transaction volume remains very small relative to the platform's GMV. The article argues that Amazon guarding its advertising shelves and Shopify building an open pipeline are the most rational choices for each of the two business models, and outlines the position of the UCP protocol, Shopify Catalog and Shop Pay in agent transactions.

Behind AI compute centers, a competition in the liquid cooling supply chain worth hundreds of billions

The article outlines the trend of AI compute center cooling shifting from air cooling to liquid cooling. Nvidia's Vera Rubin racks have eliminated fans, exceed 190 kilowatts of power per rack, and adopt 100% full liquid cooling, while air cooling can generally only handle about 20 to 30 kilowatts of heat dissipation per rack. The article points out that cold plates, CDUs, and quick connectors together account for about 85% of the cost of a liquid cooling system, that the high-end market has long been controlled by Taiwanese and European/American manufacturers, and it summarizes three ways Chinese manufacturers are entering: cross-sector restructuring, single-point efficiency, and trading time for market.

Behind the Kimi K3.1 Pro quota controversy: the stronger the model, the tighter the compute

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 24, scoring 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, but users of the 199-yuan and 699-yuan plans complain that quotas are insufficient, and some developers estimate that the API value of the old plans is about 1.94 times that of the new plans. K3.1 Pro's per-million-Token input and output prices dropped from K3's 20 yuan and 100 yuan to 13 yuan and 68 yuan, while complex Agent tasks can consume millions of Tokens. A CAICT report shows that in June 2026, domestic daily average Tokens were about 500 trillion, nearly four times the figure in December 2025; the author believes that the compute shortage will still constrain independent model companies over the long term.

Will AI expose the internet's fragile infrastructure?

TechCrunch's Equity podcast discusses this week's PHP vulnerability incident: the vulnerability had existed for decades and was discovered with the help of AI by human researchers participating in the Hack the Planet project involving OpenAI and Wiz, and website owners were told to patch immediately or take their sites offline. The guests argue that LLMs and AI agents make it easier to discover such vulnerabilities, while PHP underpins about 70% of websites including WordPress and Drupal, and the disclosure process also triggered large-scale attack attempts and link failures.

AI-driven cyberattacks erupt intensively; industry insiders call October a "Black October" for cybersecurity

Cailianshe reported that in recent weeks hackers have massively deployed AI agents and automated tools to launch attacks, and industry insiders describe this month as Black October in the cybersecurity world. A major vulnerability was exposed in PHP, and as many as 70% of websites worldwide may face the risk of being hacked. The U.S. National Security Agency and the FBI warned enterprises to shut down their websites if they cannot patch immediately, and some government websites in Canada, Belgium, France and the Netherlands have proactively gone offline. Shane Fry, chief technology officer of security firm RunSafe Security, said AI can weaponize a vulnerability into attack code within hours, whereas in the past this took weeks or even months.

Today AI Completes Over $200 Million First Round of Financing; Founding Team Responds to Ten Core Questions About Personal AI

Today AI announced the completion of over $200 million in first-round financing, with investors including IDG Capital, Tencent, 5Y Capital, Ant Group, Sequoia China, Transsion Holdings, Tongge Venture Capital, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Hanyuan Assets. In the interview, the founding team responded to questions including whether Personal AI is a false demand, why they insist on an independent app and single session, how memory and proactivity reduce delegation costs, as well as privacy authorization and commercialization paths. The team stated that Personal AI is currently in a stage of homogeneous competition, with the moat coming more from Context accumulated through long-term use, and plans to train models that lean more toward interaction and anthropomorphic style.

Unprecedented trillion-scale investment—is NVIDIA the only winner?

Huxiu reviews the global AIDC construction wave, noting that combined computing power investment is expected to reach $830 billion in 2026, up 79% year over year, but as of July 2026 more than 95% of NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell capacity has not yet been put into use. Industry consensus is that about 60% or more of giant capital expenditure corresponds to clear customers, while the remaining 30-40% is preemptive capacity grabbing. The article cites cases such as CoreWeave's Q2 revenue of $2.575 billion and net loss of $626 million to show that the three conditions—single-park revenue covering costs, stable utilization and rental prices, and follow-on financing continuing—are currently not broadly verified, and the certain winner may only be equipment seller NVIDIA.

Liang Wenfeng needs his own Tibo: DeepSeek product department integration and the Agent path

DeepSeek has integrated the Harness with the web, App, and open platform teams into a product department, led by Cui Tianyi, and the official website has posted recruitment positions in two directions: AI product manager and Agent Harness. The article uses OpenAI Codex lead Tibo Sottiaux and the Anthropic Claude Code team as examples to explain how the execution capabilities of coding tools can be extended into a general work task entry point. DeepSeek, while open-sourcing Harness and the inference framework DeepInfer, is also facing cost pressure on caching and transmission brought by long tasks.

Goldman Sachs: AI May Replace One in Nine Jobs, but Layoffs Will Only Cluster During Recessions

Goldman Sachs economist Joseph Briggs estimates in a report that if AI ultimately raises productivity in the United States and other developed economies by 15%, up to 9% of workers could be displaced during the AI transition, with another 3% of employment affected by slower hiring, totaling about 1 in every 11 people. He points out that historically, the labor impact of automation has been limited when the economy is healthy and tends to accelerate during economic slowdowns, so AI-related layoffs may amplify the business cycle. Briggs says the impact is still small for now, with only 23% of U.S. organizations having incorporated AI into routine workflows.

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Ethan Mollick reviews 30 months of AI development in charts

On the release day of his new book Co-Existence, Ethan Mollick used charts to review the AI progress in the 30 months since his previous book Co-Intelligence was published. He said that since GPT-4, 20 models have successively taken the top spot, and 180 models were stronger than GPT-4 at release, 19 of which can run on modern smartphones; the METR long-task benchmark showed that the amount of human work AI can complete increased from 4 minutes in 2024 to 17 hours in April 2026, and the benchmark was subsequently discontinued because it could no longer measure accurately. He proposed a third mode of collaboration beyond centaur and cyborg: conjurer, that is, summoning agents, assigning tasks, and evaluating results. The charts in this article were completed by Opus 5.5 in Claude Projects orchestrating multiple agents.

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