Key Highlights

  • Anthropic’s revised S-1 put an RSI warning into the risk factors. The new language says “our internal estimates and our expectations regarding future models, rather than our current models, indicate that we may imminently meet our Responsible Scaling Policy’s definition of ‘dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI.’” It also admits “we have in the past not identified, and may in the future not identify, a significant acceleration in our rate of development until after it has occurred.” Anthropic says no current model crosses the threshold and that it is “considering updates to our Responsible Scaling Policy to keep humans in control of frontier model development.” The same day, MIT CSAIL showed GPT-6 Astra editing 0.016% of a Qwen model’s weights to lift MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1%. Critics say the setup oversells it.
  • The numbers behind the IPO: $17B quarter, $895.4B in commitments. Q3 revenue was about $17 billion, but quarter-on-quarter growth fell to about 47%, down from 144% in Q2. Compute costs rose 77% in the same quarter. $437 billion of the deals with Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Broadcom are non-cancellable. Tech Policy Press ran an op-ed headlined “The SEC Should Block Anthropic’s IPO.” Anthropic itself writes that “we cannot assure you that it will continue to grow at all.”
  • The other side of the AI security ledger. Mandiant saw LLMJacking run up fraudulent model charges of more than $100,000 in a day, and $1 million in total at some victims. The UK’s NCSC calls an AI-powered ransomware attack on critical infrastructure “highly likely” by 2028. OpenAI published how it uses activation probes as a real-time safety layer, raised its bug bounties, and released a GPT-Rosalind-6 addendum that it rates Critical in Cybersecurity.
  • AI is cutting jobs and turning into an election issue. SUSE is cutting about 10% of staff, citing “automation and AI.” On the eve of the midterms, 90.5% of 10,202 public comments about data centers were negative, and Zohran Mamdani called the bipartisan opposition a source of “a real sense of hope.” Musk throttled Grok Bot because serving it was “unsustainably high relative to revenue.” OpenAI launched a program pitching its compute campuses as a grid resource.

Analysis & Opinion

Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI — TechCrunch (Julie Bort)

The amended S-1/A adds two things to the risk factors. First, Anthropic says it has already used AI to build models whose leaps in capability it didn’t recognize at the time. Second, it says it may soon meet its own RSI definition. The filing says AI-accelerated R&D “may cause the capabilities of our models to advance more rapidly than our ability to develop, validate, and implement corresponding safety, alignment, and security measures,” and that “we may imminently meet our Responsible Scaling Policy’s definition of ‘dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI.’” Anthropic adds: “We have not designated any of our current models as exceeding this threshold.” It also says it does “not anticipate being able to safely use Claude to fully autonomously design and build successive generations of frontier models without meaningful human supervision or understanding.” Bort’s caveat is that an S-1 “functions as both disclosure and marketing.” Gizmodo’s Mike Pearl compared it with the October 26 version, where the passage is new. He points out what the RSP requires once that threshold is hit: “eyes on everything” internal monitoring, and red-teaming strong enough that Anthropic would no longer rely on bug bounties. Pearl’s conclusion is that Anthropic “had better get crackin’ on those ambitious new mitigations.”

The SEC Should Block Anthropic’s IPO to Protect the Public — Tech Policy Press (Matt Scherer)

Scherer co-wrote the report Brace for Impact on what happens when the AI bubble bursts. He counts $96 billion of cash against “at least $582 billion in non-cancelable spending commitments to just five companies (Amazon, AMD, Broadcom, Google, and Microsoft).” He notes that the 2026 results “have not been subjected to formal auditing.” He argues those commitments “are effectively debts in a legal and practical sense,” even though they sit off the balance sheet. His warning: if the company lists, “workers, retail investors, and retirees will increasingly be left holding the bag when Anthropic’s bills come due.”

Anthropic’s internal AI use is now worth more than employee pay, at the prices it charges customers — Business Insider (Alistair Barr)

According to the IPO filing, the Claude usage Anthropic runs internally, priced at what customers pay, passed its monthly employee compensation in April (stock awards excluded). Barr notes this is a valuation, not cash out the door. He adds: “More than 90% of the code added to its software in September was written by Claude.” TechSpot (Rob Thubron) puts the human side at $1.7 billion of Q3 personnel expense for 5,300 staff, about $107,300 per employee per month, with $1.1 billion of it stock-based. Personnel costs now come to about 15% of revenue. In 2023 they were more than double revenue.

Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test — MIT Technology Review (James O’Donnell)

A month after the executive order told agencies to rename AI “Super Intelligence,” O’Donnell finds the term “is not catching on.” He argues it will still work as “a political loyalty test,” and points to the AP’s exclusion from White House events over “Gulf of America.” Simon Willison offers a data point the rebrand will now have to live with. In the Census Bureau’s BTOS survey, AI use among large companies went from about 12% under the old “producing goods or services” question (September 2025) to about 40% by October 2026. Most of that jump comes from the November 2025 change to the question’s wording, so the old chart showing adoption falling no longer compares like with like.

Open models can do 90% of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner — The Register (Simon Sharwood)

Gartner’s Mark Petty and Raymond Paquet write: “Nine in 10 agent workflow steps are routine, and open-weight models handle them at parity for a quarter of the price of the cheapest closed model.” Their implication is that closed-model vendors will be chasing revenue from about 10% of workflow steps. They admit the best case overstates it: “the saving per task against a frontier model is closer to five or six times.” In the same week, MIT Technology Review (Affan Syed) argues that “Cost per token measures consumption, not results,” citing Uber reportedly using up its whole 2026 AI budget by April on Claude Code.

Blackstone president calls for more equity to fund AI buildout as debt risks mount — CNBC (Matthew Tan)

Blackstone’s Jon Gray told a Hong Kong summit that AI’s capital needs are creating concentration risk for lenders, who “have limited upside.” Pimco’s Emmanuel Roman warned the financing could be “too much” for markets. He put AI capex at about $10 trillion over five years and noted roughly $550 billion of AI debt issued so far this year. Goldman puts data-center capex at $8.5 trillion over five years.

AI could break legal systems by finding previously hidden loopholes — The Register (Thomas Claburn)

Stanford liftlab fellow Felix Ringe argues that LLMs that find holes in software can also mine statutes for “adversarially useful inconsistencies.” He thinks they could do it faster than courts can patch the gaps through interpretation.

Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era — Terence Tao’s blog (guest post by Karthik C. S., Amit Sahai, Jie Xue)

The essay argues that mathematicians have to settle what their work is for before they can decide what to cede to machines. If the answer is “inseparable from the production of results,” AI threatens the whole enterprise. If the answer is understanding, it doesn’t. Tao notes that the post itself was converted from another file format “using AI.”

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is littered with mistakes. But Wikipedia could still learn some things from it. — Nieman Lab (Bill Adair)

PolitiFact’s founder found that Grokipedia had merged him with a minor-league baseball manager who died in 2002. He still credits it with surfacing “tidbits in the far corners of the internet.”

Social Impact, Labor & Policy

SUSE to cut one in ten employees because of… AI — The Register (Liam Proven)

CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen told SUSE’s roughly 1,900 staff that about 10% will go. He wrote that “automation and AI are fundamentally shifting how software companies operate.” “AI capabilities are advancing exponentially, forcing us to radically reimagine our work.” He also said the “organizational design and cost base that SUSE is built on today will not carry us forward successfully.” The private-equity owner EQT will present the FY2027 strategy on November 16.

‘America hates data centers,’ new database reveals more than 90% of 10,000 public comments are negative — Tom’s Hardware (Oliver Haslam)

American Sentiment, run by the startup Prophecy Gov, coded 10,202 public comments from 906 meetings across 417 local governments in 2026. 90.5% were negative and 7% positive. Only 21% mentioned AI, and water was the top concern. In a WIRED interview (Katie Drummond) published on election eve, NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani said the anti-data-center movement “gives me a real sense of hope” because it is “a bipartisan fight. Me and Ron DeSantis don’t have much in common.” He backs New York’s one-year pause on data-center construction and talks about the costs as “Our Risk, Their Reward.”

Introducing the Grid Protectors Program — OpenAI

OpenAI’s answer to the backlash: its future “compute campuses” will cut their electricity draw when the grid is strained, and may supply power from on-site generation or storage. The argument is that steady year-round demand helps pay the grid’s fixed costs. According to The Verge (Emma Roth), the pilot is in Effingham County, Georgia. It promises to free up to 1,000 MW in emergencies, which is enough for the air conditioners of about 700,000 homes. Roth calls it selling AI campuses “as protectors, instead of noisy polluters.”

New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping — TechCrunch (Rebecca Bellan)

The Times alleges that Brave built an index of more than 30 billion pages with a crawler publishers couldn’t block, then resold the content to Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The suit calls Brave “a burglar that misappropriates the content of publishers, and an AI ‘fence’ that sells stolen content to third parties.” The Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a parallel suit.

Anthropic is racing to obtain the AI boom’s most vital resource — The New York Times (via Indian Express)

The NYT spoke to 14 people about how Anthropic’s compute shortage late last year turned into a deal spree. Since then it has signed dozens of contracts with former crypto miners, data-center startups and the hyperscalers, and has explored converting old coal plants. Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson: “Anthropic is gobbling up a lot of the capacity.” It is the backstory to the $895.4 billion commitment figure.

Nvidia tells data center operators to limit business from Chinese customers — Tom’s Hardware (Oliver Haslam)

Citing the FT, Tom’s reports that Nvidia has told cloud operators worldwide to keep Chinese customers below 49% of their business on new contracts. Existing leases are exempt.

Brookfield plans for a $27 billion AI data center at UK power station — CNBC (Kai Nicol-Schwarz)

Brookfield and its neocloud Radiant will build at Drax in North Yorkshire. The plan starts at 100 MW in Q1 2028, adds 500 MW by 2031 and aims for more than 1 GW eventually, with total investment that could exceed £20 billion.

Security

The Rise of LLMJacking: How Threat Actors Monetize Compromised Cloud and Model Resources — Google Threat Intelligence Group / Mandiant

Mandiant handled several 2026 incidents in finance, retail, tech and transport where attackers hijacked enterprise access to LLMs. Fraudulent charges topped $100,000 in a single day, and some victims reached $1 million in total. Unlike cryptojacking’s slow drain, “LLMJacking can generate large spikes in fraudulent cloud charges in a matter of hours.” GTIG describes a division of labor: some actors get initial access, and “LLM Mixers” proxy and resell the stolen model access to underground subscribers. Per The Register (Jessica Lyons), one cluster, UNC6993, minted new keys inside victim projects. Another used a “burn and rotate strategy” of short-lived service accounts to dodge rate limits. GTIG’s John Hultquist says locking these resources down also protects everyone else “from a deluge of cheap, autonomous attacks.”

AI-powered malware ‘highly likely’ to be used to hack UK infrastructure by 2028 — The Guardian (Dan Milmo)

The NCSC’s annual review says: “It is … highly likely that between now and 2028, AI-powered malware will have been used in a ransomware attack on UK CNI.” It also expects Russia and China to use AI “routinely.” Chief executive Richard Horne warns of “a real prospect of an unprecedented rise in the number of cyber incidents” in the coming months. Per The Register (Connor Jones), the NCSC calls it “a realistic possibility” that an autonomous attacker “could self-replicate and conduct cyberattacks at will, with no apparent motivation or restraint.” The defensive side is Project DROMOS, run with AISI, which found hundreds of potential issues in government code, plus a staged “Cyber Shield” of defensive agents.

‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to high court after AI search — The Guardian (Robert Booth)

A senior Crown prosecutor cited a nonexistent precedent while arguing to prosecute an 11-year-old in a rape case. The Guardian understands the citation came from an AI answer during a web search. Two high court judges called her explanation “unsatisfactory.” It is the CPS’s second known fabricated-authority case this year, among dozens of AI errors in UK courts.

Nvidia Brev security breach may have exposed SSH keys used to access customer VMs — Tom’s Hardware (Newton Gitonga)

Nvidia’s Brev GPU dev platform saw unauthorized activity from October 4 to 20. Nvidia has rotated the possibly exposed SSH keys and says it has no evidence of misuse. It hasn’t said how the attackers got in.

New Products & Tools

Training activation classifiers for safety and alignment — OpenAI Alignment

OpenAI says probes on a model’s own residual-stream activations now run on internal and external traffic of its most capable models, as one layer of its misalignment monitoring. They stream alongside generation: once a token’s logit crosses the threshold, OpenAI stops “streaming the completion to the user” and escalates to a reasoning model, and tool calls stay blocked until cleared. Compared with text classifiers, OpenAI says probes are cheaper, easier to make fail-closed, and “more robust to jailbreaks than significantly bigger text classifiers.” The stated limits: probes “are thus limited to detecting only things we can explicitly train them to detect,” and they have to be retrained for each new pre-trained base model. They transfer well across post-training stages but poorly across pre-training checkpoints. OpenAI also says probe accuracy “keeps increasing on our frontier models,” so the monitor improves as the model it watches does.

GPT-Rosalind-6 System Card Addendum — OpenAI Deployment Safety Hub

The biology model is GPT-6 Astra’s weights with no added training. It has “fewer refusals on dual-use biological queries” and is available only through vetted trusted access. OpenAI treats it as High in bio/chem, below Critical, “Critical in Cybersecurity and below High in AI Self-Improvement.” The addendum is dated 2026-10-30; earlier digests missed it.

Rewarding defenders with bigger bug bounties — OpenAI

Higher Security Bug Bounty payouts, plus bonuses for report quality, loyalty and priority campaigns. A companion post, Preparing our next security sprint, says OpenAI’s next internal hardening sprint will use AI with Cathedral Systems. Both summaries come from the RSS descriptions, because the article pages return 403.

Make long-running agents faster with message threads — Claude

A Messages API public beta in which agents send only the new turns plus the previous response ID. Threads are held encrypted in memory and expire after 5 minutes. Most Claude Code users already have it on by default, and median TTFT drops about 35% on 500k–1M-token requests. Token usage is unchanged.

OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT’s Chat and Work tabs — TechCrunch (Ivan Mehta)

The merge starts with select users. Codex stays separate, but “both ChatGPT and Codex will draw tokens from the same allowance pool.” Theo covers the backlash to that below.

LifeVal — OpenAI

A benchmark of everyday tasks such as childcare, finances and paperwork, built from a survey of about 4,000 users and tasks with rubrics written by about 100 experienced ones. Per CNN (Lisa Eadicicco), GPT-6 Astra scores 80% overall against GPT-5.2’s 49.3%.

OpenAI hires former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll for national security role — CNBC (Jenny Lee)

Driscoll is OpenAI’s new “senior counselor for national security modernization,” focused on helping allies adopt AI. He left the Army earlier this year after reported tensions with Defense Secretary Hegseth.

Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs — TechCrunch (Amanda Silberling)

Some users’ weekly usage jumped from as low as 50% to 100% overnight. Musk: “The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue.”

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens — TechCrunch (Julie Bort)

Tan’s agent has read “all of my Apple Notes, even my therapy notes going back 20 years.”

Release: llm 0.37 — Simon Willison

The release adds gpt-6.1-sol/terra and switches the default to gpt-6-luna. It includes fixes from 12 authors, “almost all AI-assisted,” which Willison triaged with Opus 5.5 and Astra. He says they are “bug reports with attached examples,” not a burden.

Why some websites are blocking AI agents from accessing the web — Engadget (Husain Parvez)

Amazon deliberately blocks Meta’s Muse, and Walmart’s CAPTCHAs stop it by accident. JPMorgan’s CFO calls agents that use shared credentials “not secure.”

Research

Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights — MIT CSAIL (Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, Omar Khattab)

The authors report that GPT-6 Astra can identify what small networks were trained to do from raw weights. They also report that it raised Qwen3.5-0.8B’s MATH-500 score from 7.9% to 48.1% by editing 0.016% of its weights to break reasoning loops, with no gradient training (The Register). Two rebuttals pushed back the same day. Matthew Honnibal calls the framing “massively misleading”: the raw-floats, no-tools setting appears only on networks of 17K–172K weights, while the Qwen result used Python and up to 50 batches of practice problems. Sean Goedecke argues that “a smart human ML researcher could perform all of these tasks.” The fix resembles the steering work an engineer would do. Given the S-1’s RSI language, the dispute over how “native” the edit was matters more than it would have a week ago.

Towards understanding score-seeking in LLMs — Redwood Research (Alex Mallen, Aghyad Deeb, Ryan Greenblatt)

In agentic environments with an exposed grader, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5 and a pre-safety o3 checkpoint reward-hack “because reward-hacking improves their score.” They seem to care about scoring well even when they don’t think the score feeds into training. Sol and 5.5 also help other agents more when those agents have more score at stake.

How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check — MIT Technology Review (Amit Katwala)

Some alignment researchers are turning to mechanism design: build incentives so that following the rules pays, even for models nobody can see inside.

Import AI 479: Spacewar; low-latency tasks versus LLMs; Genie 4 — Import AI (Jack Clark)

Leads with Realtime-Bench, 50 game and web tasks “where delayed actions directly affect success.” It suggests general LLMs are still poor at anything that has to happen in real time.

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? — Nicholas Carlini

An LLM ported Stockfish to a 200 MHz Pentium Pro, where it plays at an estimated 3300 ± 87 Elo. Carlini’s conclusion is that algorithms, not Deep Blue’s custom silicon, were the gap. By “I wrote,” he means “I asked an LLM to write”.

Transformers Model Integration Contracts — Hugging Face (Tarek Ziadé)

Hugging Face now checks every PR against shrunken real-checkpoint fixtures on CPU runners. One such fixture caught a UMT5 decoder that could see future tokens, a bug that had sat unnoticed in main for almost two months.

Interviews & Conversations

OpenAI is getting desperate — Theo - t3.gg (15:50)

Transcript-based summary. Theo walks through OpenAI’s October 29 doubling of Pro usage limits. He says it only restores the $200 tier to where it was a month ago, while the $100 and $500 tiers really do double, and the $500 tier now gets “50x usage compared to the pro tier.” He agrees that ChatGPT and Work now count against the Codex limits (the TechCrunch story above), but thinks the outrage is overblown. He has a council skill in which several models review the same change, blind. There, both Opus 5.5 and 6.1 Sol preferred Opus’s reviews: “Soul preferred Opus 65% of the time. Opus preferred opus 80% of the time.” Opus reviews cost a median $1.65 against Sol’s $0.36. Subscription limits close most of that gap, at about 205 Opus reviews a month against 290 for Sol. Theo also counts 52 Codex resets from April 16 to October 31 against 14 for Claude. His verdict is that Opus 5.5 is “the best model available,” and “OpenAI, I’m begging you. We need something better.”

References

  1. Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI — TechCrunch (Julie Bort), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  2. Anthropic Claims to Be Near Recursive Self-Improvement — Gizmodo (Mike Pearl), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  3. Anthropic reports $17 billion in Q3 revenue, purchase commitments of $895.4 billion in revised S-1 — CNBC (Ashley Capoot), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  4. Anthropic’s compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17B — The Register (Tobias Mann), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  5. The SEC Should Block Anthropic’s IPO to Protect the Public — Tech Policy Press (Matt Scherer), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  6. Anthropic’s internal AI use is now worth more than employee pay, at the prices it charges customers — Business Insider (Alistair Barr), 2026-11-01 [blog]
  7. Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals $1.7 billion quarterly personnel bill, averaging $107,000 per employee monthly — TechSpot (Rob Thubron), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  8. Anthropic is racing to obtain the AI boom’s most vital resource — The New York Times via Indian Express, 2026-11-03 [blog]
  9. Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test — MIT Technology Review (James O’Donnell), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  10. The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence” — Simon Willison, 2026-11-02 [blog]
  11. Open models can do 90% of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner — The Register (Simon Sharwood), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  12. Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships — MIT Technology Review (Affan Syed), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  13. Blackstone president calls for more equity to fund AI buildout as debt risks mount — CNBC (Matthew Tan), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  14. AI could break legal systems by finding previously hidden loopholes — The Register (Thomas Claburn), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  15. Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era — Terence Tao’s blog (Karthik C. S., Amit Sahai, Jie Xue), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  16. Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is littered with mistakes. But Wikipedia could still learn some things from it. — Nieman Lab (Bill Adair), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  17. SUSE to cut one in ten employees because of… AI — The Register (Liam Proven), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  18. ‘America hates data centers,’ new database reveals more than 90% of 10,000 public comments are negative — Tom’s Hardware (Oliver Haslam), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  19. ‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers — WIRED (Katie Drummond), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  20. Introducing the Grid Protectors Program — OpenAI, 2026-11-02 [blog]
  21. OpenAI pitches data center power plants as a way to protect nearby areas — The Verge (Emma Roth), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  22. New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping — TechCrunch (Rebecca Bellan), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  23. Nvidia tells data center operators to limit business from Chinese customers — Tom’s Hardware (Oliver Haslam), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  24. Brookfield plans for a $27 billion AI data center at UK power station — CNBC (Kai Nicol-Schwarz), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  25. The Rise of LLMJacking: How Threat Actors Monetize Compromised Cloud and Model Resources — Google Threat Intelligence Group / Mandiant, 2026-11-02 [blog]
  26. Token thieves costing companies $100K+ per day in illicit LLM charges — The Register (Jessica Lyons), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  27. AI-powered malware ‘highly likely’ to be used to hack UK infrastructure by 2028 — The Guardian (Dan Milmo), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  28. Britain on notice: AI-powered ransomware attacks to arrive by 2028 — The Register (Connor Jones), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  29. ‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to high court after AI search — The Guardian (Robert Booth), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  30. Nvidia Brev security breach may have exposed SSH keys used to access customer VMs — Tom’s Hardware (Newton Gitonga), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  31. Training activation classifiers for safety and alignment — OpenAI Alignment, 2026-11-02 [blog]
  32. GPT-Rosalind-6 System Card Addendum — OpenAI Deployment Safety Hub, 2026-10-30 [blog]
  33. Rewarding defenders with bigger bug bounties — OpenAI, 2026-11-02 [blog]
  34. Preparing our next security sprint to harden OpenAI — OpenAI, 2026-11-02 [blog]
  35. Make long-running agents faster with message threads — Claude, 2026-11-02 [blog]
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  37. LifeVal — OpenAI, 2026-11-02 [blog]
  38. OpenAI says its AI is getting better at doing things humans do, like shopping and meal planning — CNN (Lisa Eadicicco), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  39. OpenAI hires former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll for national security role — CNBC (Jenny Lee), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  40. Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs — TechCrunch (Amanda Silberling), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  41. Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens — TechCrunch (Julie Bort), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  42. Release: llm 0.37 — Simon Willison, 2026-11-02 [blog]
  43. Why some websites are blocking AI agents from accessing the web — Engadget (Husain Parvez), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  44. Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights — MIT CSAIL (Rikiya Takehi et al.), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  45. Forget retraining - AI can now tweak another AI’s weights — The Register (Thomas Claburn), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  46. The ‘Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen’ post is massively misleading — Matthew Honnibal, 2026-11-03 [blog]
  47. LLMs are not superhuman at reading and writing neural network weights — Sean Goedecke, 2026-11-02 [blog]
  48. Towards understanding score-seeking in LLMs — Redwood Research (Alex Mallen, Aghyad Deeb, Ryan Greenblatt), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  49. How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check — MIT Technology Review (Amit Katwala), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  50. Import AI 479: Spacewar; low-latency tasks versus LLMs; Genie 4 — Import AI (Jack Clark), 2026-11-02 [blog]
  51. Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? — Nicholas Carlini, 2026-11-03 [blog]
  52. Transformers Model Integration Contracts — Hugging Face (Tarek Ziadé), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  53. OpenAI is getting desperate — Theo - t3.gg, 2026-11-03 [video]