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  • 31 Oct 2026

    AI news

    OpenAI's latest funding target is reported at about $20 billion, $10 billion lower

    Bloomberg Law's article, timestamped 31 October 2026, 5:09 AM UTC, says OpenAI has cut its fundraising target by $10 billion, as reported by the Financial Times. The visible article says the Financial Times reported that OpenAI is now seeking about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, down from $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation last month, citing people with knowledge of the matter. It says some investors have reduced their commitments to the round. In that account, an AI stock selloff and Anthropic's impending public listing are what complicate the effort to secure commitments.

    Source: Bloomberg, citing the Financial Times (opens in a new tab)

  • 30 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Microsoft sets 1 February 2027 to honour a shared AI-training preference, and adds a grounding control

    Microsoft's Bing blog, dated 30 October 2026, says it will offer publishers separate preferences for AI training and for grounding, and that those preferences do not change eligibility for traditional Bing search results. The post says they do not establish licensing or payment arrangements. It says the training preference is the shared one being discussed in the IETF AI Preferences working group and described in an Internet-Draft. The examples use the robots.txt token `__usage_ai-training`. OpenAI and Google also posted on 30 October about that shared training signal. This post is Microsoft's schedule and its separate grounding control.

    Source: Microsoft Bing (opens in a new tab)

  • 30 Oct 2026

    Regulation

    UK competition regulator opens an investigation into Meta's commercial terms

    The Competition and Markets Authority published a press release on 30 October 2026 saying it has opened an investigation into whether Meta's commercial terms for businesses that use its platforms and services breach competition law. The case page, also published that day, says the case is open, the case type is CA98 and civil cartels, and the investigation was opened on 30 October 2026. It names Meta Platforms, Inc., Facebook UK Limited and Facebook Ireland Limited. It says the investigation may also concern other entities in Meta's corporate group, including relevant UK subsidiaries.

    Source: Competition and Markets Authority (opens in a new tab)

  • 30 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Google says a Project Suncatcher satellite returned its first AI response from orbit

    Google's research blog, dated 30 October 2026, says the prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher launched on 1 October. The post says the project is research into powering AI compute in space. It says the team has powered up the host and TPU trays and run early machine-learning tests. It says that this week the satellite produced what the post calls the first-ever AI response from a data center class TPU in orbit.

    Source: Google (opens in a new tab)

  • 30 Oct 2026

    AI news

    OpenAI and Google say they will honour a shared robots.txt signal for AI training

    OpenAI's post, dated 30 October 2026, says it will honour a common signal in robots.txt for the use of a site's content for foundational generative AI training. It calls the step voluntary. It says the signal will not replace OpenAI's existing robots.txt controls, which will continue to apply. It says it aims to implement the signal in the coming months and will post again when it does. It says the move draws on the IETF AI Preferences working group, and that OpenAI is joining other participants in that group's announcement the same day. The post does not name the token and does not name the other companies.

    Source: OpenAI (opens in a new tab)

  • 30 Oct 2026

    Regulation

    India's telecom regulator publishes draft AI guidelines for networks and services

    TRAI's Press Release No. 145/2026, dated New Delhi, 30 October 2026, says the authority has released a draft of the Guidelines on Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Telecommunication Networks and Provision of Telecommunication Services for comment. The draft document is dated 30 October 2026. Both the release and the draft invite written comments by 27 November 2026. Neither states a time of day. The release says the draft is meant to apply the India AI Governance Guidelines, which it says the government released in February 2026, in the telecom sector. The text is a draft. It is not in force.

    Source: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (opens in a new tab)

  • 29 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Cursor says a tampered Claude Code extension was on its marketplace for part of 29 October

    Cursor's notice, dated 29 October 2026, says a maliciously modified copy of the extension Anthropic.claude-code, versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 for Windows and MacOS, was available in the Cursor VS Code Extension Marketplace between about 2:27am PT and 1:35pm PT that day. Cursor says those versions were not developed by Anthropic. It says the extension runs code that attempts to install a persistent SSH backdoor: it collects host and user information, tries to add an attacker-controlled SSH key, tries to enable the local SSH service, and tries to open a reverse tunnel. Cursor says that on most macOS and Windows hosts the step that turns on the local SSH service fails, because it needs administrator rights the extension does not have, and that the attacker could not have logged in through the tunnel on those hosts. It also says the extension added the attacker's key, installed persistence, and sent host details.

    Source: Cursor (opens in a new tab)

  • 29 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Amazon says it will put $1 billion into US data-centre communities

    Amazon's third-quarter results release is dated 29 October 2026. It does not print a time of day. Among the items since the previous earnings announcement, Amazon says it introduced Built Together, a new $1 billion community investment in U.S. data center communities. The release says the money is to support priorities those communities value most, including free community college and trades training, energy and water efficiency upgrades for schools, community buildings and homes, and flexible annual funding for local priorities such as roads, fire equipment, affordable housing and food security. It does not say how much of the $1 billion is for energy or water, and it does not give a payment schedule.

    Source: Amazon (opens in a new tab)

  • 29 Oct 2026

    AI news

    OpenAI reorganises its Model Spec around five values

    OpenAI's post, dated 29 October 2026, says it is updating the Model Spec, which it describes as its public account of how it wants its models to behave. The update organises the guidance around five values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care. The post says the revision adds guidance on context, oversight and agency, adjusts some behavioural defaults, and retires much of the detailed style guidance.

    Source: OpenAI (opens in a new tab)

  • 29 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Mistral releases the weights of Mistral Large 4

    Mistral's news index dates the post 29 October 2026, and the page records a publication time of 29 October 2026, 12:00:07 UTC. The post says Mistral is releasing the weights of an improved Mistral Large 4, which it also calls Le Chonk. The post says the model was in public preview earlier in the month. It calls the model a 1-trillion-parameter, natively multimodal model. The Hugging Face card for mistralai/Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B says it has 49 billion active parameters per token, or 52 billion including embeddings and output layers, a context length of 1 million tokens, and text and image input with text output. The card says it was trained from scratch on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's own data centres in Europe.

    Source: Mistral (opens in a new tab)

  • 28 Oct 2026

    AI news

    DeepSeek and Moonshot used GPT-6 Astra outputs in training, as reported by Reuters

    Reuters, in a report carried by U.S. News with a timestamp of 28 October 2026 at 10:10 p.m. and no time zone, said Chinese developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI relied heavily on outputs from OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model to train their latest models. Reuters said The Information reported that on Wednesday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. Reuters called the practice distillation. It said The Information said Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro, which was released last week, and DeepSeek's upgraded V4.1-Flash 1017 model, launched on 17 October, benefited from distilling Astra.

    Source: Reuters, as carried by U.S. News (opens in a new tab)

  • 28 Oct 2026

    Regulation

    US Justice Department is asking about Nvidia's Hugging Face deal, as reported by Reuters

    Reuters reported from San Francisco on 28 October 2026 that the US Department of Justice has made inquiries about how Nvidia's $12.93 billion deal to buy Hugging Face would affect competition in artificial intelligence. Reuters attributed the account to two people familiar with the matter. It said the questions come at the same time as a years-long investigation into Nvidia's conduct. Reuters said the department's questions about the deal, and details of that broader inquiry, were being reported for the first time.

    Source: Reuters, as carried by PiQ Markets (opens in a new tab)

  • 28 Oct 2026

    AI news

    NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open speech model

    NVIDIA's blog, dated 28 October 2026, says it introduced Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe that day. The post calls it an open-weight speech model for transcription, speaker attribution and translation, and for questions about the audio. It says the model transcribes 40 languages, including seven Indic languages, and that it is available on Hugging Face. It says the model has approximately 4.3 billion active parameters. Quantized versions are described as coming soon, for local use on RTX Spark, DGX Spark and Jetson AGX Thor, and for Blackwell data-centre GPUs.

    Source: NVIDIA Blog (opens in a new tab)

  • 28 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, limited at first to cyber defenders

    Google's blog, dated 28 October 2026, announces Gemini 4 Carbon as its next frontier model, which it calls its strongest model, with cybersecurity and long-horizon work as the focus. The post says Google is in the US government's voluntary process for pre-release model testing. Starting this week, Carbon is available to a subset of cyber defenders. Access then phases to further trusted partners through the Fairwind Program. Google says it is still gathering feedback and iterating on guardrails before Carbon is available to developers, businesses and consumers.

    Source: Google (opens in a new tab)

  • 28 Oct 2026

    Regulation

    Poland's AI inspection and penalty provisions enter into force

    Poland's Act of 3 July 2026 on artificial intelligence systems (Dz.U. 2026 poz. 1003) was published in the Dziennik Ustaw on 27 July 2026. The Sejm's official legal-information page says the act entered into force on 11 August 2026, with two exceptions. Article 125(4) entered into force on 28 July 2026. Articles 8 to 18 and chapters 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 enter into force on 28 October 2026. Article 127 says those provisions enter into force three months after publication. The 28 October date is the date stated on that official page.

    Source: Sejm ELI, Dziennik Ustaw 2026 poz. 1003 (opens in a new tab)

  • 27 Oct 2026

    AI news

    NVIDIA says Vera Rubin systems are generally available on Oracle Cloud

    NVIDIA's newsroom post, dated 27 October 2026, says NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and NVIDIA Vera CPUs are now generally available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The same post says NVIDIA and Oracle have announced plans to expand OCI Superclusters with Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to multi-gigawatt scale. It says each NVL72 rack connects 72 GPUs through NVLink. It also says OCI plans to introduce NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8, with eight Rubin GPUs, two 64-core Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, 4TB of DDR5 memory and 6.4 Tbps of RDMA networking.

    Source: NVIDIA Newsroom (opens in a new tab)

  • 27 Oct 2026

    AI news

    AMD says it will invest $1 billion in Meta's equity offering

    AMD's investor release, dated 27 October 2026 and timestamped 9:20 am EDT, says AMD will invest $1 billion in Meta's equity offering. The release says initial AMD Helios rack-scale systems are installed and being tested at Meta, on the path to a broader deployment in the near future. It says AMD EPYC processors support the computing environments behind Meta's Muse agent, and that AMD has given day-zero support for Muse Spark Open on AMD Instinct GPUs and for Muse Glimmer on AMD Ryzen AI PCs and AMD Radeon GPUs. It says Meta was an early definition customer for the Instinct MI450 architecture and will deploy a custom Instinct GPU optimised for its workloads. It also says the companies are building and deploying integrated AI systems at gigawatt scale.

    Source: AMD (opens in a new tab)

  • 27 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Anthropic extends a GSA discount on Claude to every level of US government

    Anthropic's post, published 27 October 2026, says it is expanding a partnership with the US General Services Administration. The new agreement gives government partners a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API. Anthropic says that, for the first time, the discount applies across every product surface, including direct purchases today and purchases through cloud providers in the coming months. It also extends to state, local, tribal and territorial governments.

    Source: Anthropic (opens in a new tab)

  • 27 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Google announces Genie 4, a world model in a limited research rollout

    Google's blog, dated 27 October 2026, announces Genie 4, a world model for real-time interactive simulation. The post says a person can set an event in motion and steer the scene with natural language, such as moving the camera, changing the weather or introducing a character, and that each world generates native audio, including ambient sound, music and interactive dialogue. It says the model builds on the Gemini family, with Gemini Omni anchoring appearance and behaviour and other Gemini models used for reasoning. Google says it has started rolling Genie 4 out to a limited group of trusted testers, and that it is coming soon to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Project Genie and to early access partners in the Gemini API and AI Studio. The post does not state a price or a context window.

    Source: Google (opens in a new tab)

  • 27 Oct 2026

    Regulation

    Queensland publishes a bill to criminalise creating intimate images and audio without consent

    The Criminal Code (Non-consensual Creation of Intimate Images and Audio Material) Amendment Bill 2026 was published on the Queensland legislation register on 27 October 2026. It is a bill. It is not an act. Clause 2 says the Act would commence on the day that is 28 days after the date of assent. The register does not print an assent date. As reported by ABC News, posted at 2:34pm on 27 October 2026, Attorney-General Deb Frecklington introduced the bill.

    Source: Queensland legislation (opens in a new tab)

  • 26 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Anthropic files a preliminary S-1 for a proposed Nasdaq listing

    Anthropic's news post, published 26 October 2026, says Anthropic, PBC filed a Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of Class A common stock. The post says Anthropic intends to list that stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT. It says the number of shares and the price range have not yet been determined. It says the registration statement has been filed but has not yet become effective, and that the shares may not be sold, and offers to buy may not be accepted, before it becomes effective. The SEC's filing index for that S-1 lists the filing date as 26 October 2026 and an accepted time of 09:00:11. The index does not name a time zone. The file number is 333-299633.

    Source: Anthropic (opens in a new tab)

  • 26 Oct 2026

    AI news

    NVIDIA and Meta expand their work on Muse, and NVIDIA says it will invest $3 billion

    NVIDIA's newsroom post, dated 26 October 2026, says NVIDIA and Meta will expand their work on Muse and the Muse family of models, to improve inference and training performance. The post says NVIDIA will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering. It says Meta intends to expand deployment of NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs for next-generation AI agents, and that Meta will also deploy NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking and BlueField-4. The companies will also consider NVIDIA's OpenShell Reference Architecture. The post says that includes OpenShell for safe deployment and Sentry for monitoring agent behaviour. A summary on the same page says they are considering OpenShell to strengthen agency security, and Sentry for monitoring structured, unstructured and graph data processing.

    Source: NVIDIA Newsroom (opens in a new tab)

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