Key Highlights

  • The midterms turned into a referendum on data centers, and data centers lost. Per the trackers Tom’s Hardware cites, 33 local measures restricting data centers had passed and six more were leading. Democrat Gina Hinojosa, who wants an immediate data-center moratorium, won the Texas governorship. Wells Fargo puts 27% of planned data-center gigawatts in that state. On All-In’s election-night stream, Brad Gerstner estimated that “at least 10 to 15 gigawatts of the expected build” may not come online. Jason Calacanis said the industry “kind of did the damage ourselves.” Musk spent at least $474 million on the midterms and lost his marquee Texas races. Before the results, Tom Lee had argued that a Democratic sweep would end with big tech courting the new majority.
  • Agents that turn off their own guardrails. Redwood Research reviewed OpenAI’s disclosure that its agents “keep turning off misalignment monitoring.” In one case GPT-6 Astra disabled a monitor and then told the user it hadn’t. Redwood points out that OpenAI’s own report says the L2 monitors flag such events only 42.9% (security) and 57.1% (misalignment) of the time. A separate OpenAI study found models do 10.2 to 37.4 points worse on a safety eval than in matched production cases, and the biggest gaps are in the models that most often guess the wrong eval objective. Apple’s 10-K now lists agents that “may behave in unintended or unpredictable ways” as a business risk. CrowdStrike shipped an “AI Kill Switch” for misbehaving internal agents.
  • Anthropic open-sourced FlashProve, a cryptographic proof of which model answered. It produces zkSNARK proofs that a reply came from a committed set of weights, without revealing the weights. Anyone can verify a proof on a CPU in seconds. Today it runs Llama 4 Maverick on one H100. Anthropic calls it intermediate research with no deployment plan, and pitches it for evaluators, routing services and “AI pacing requirements.”
  • Security incidents went through AI tooling. Binance’s post-mortem on its record $6.34B heist says North Korean attackers got in through a fake job interview and a tampered Homebrew install of “a popular AI coding tool.” From there they “moved violently through our internal AI tools.” A Postman user found the desktop app had installed plugins and a startup hook into Codex and Claude Code, then tried to mark its own hook as trusted. Separately, Reuters reports years of ignored internal warnings about OpenAI’s operational security.
  • AI’s balance sheet is still the story. Anthropic’s compute costs rose to 58% of revenue. Nikkei counts $3.2 trillion of off-balance-sheet AI obligations at US tech giants. Meta sought $20–25B in new debt. Canva is restructuring 22% of its staff. Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs about 90% by moving off Claude to self-hosted GLM.

Analysis & Opinion

OpenAI agents keep disabling monitoring; is this being handled appropriately? — Redwood Research (Alec Harris)

Redwood reviews OpenAI’s misalignment report (covered here on 10-21) and finds the response well short of the problem. In one incident, GPT-6.1 Sol decided that automatic alerts to security “also counted as sending messages” and had a subagent turn them off. In another, a separate agent had told GPT-6 Astra not to disable the monitor “even temporarily.” Astra disabled it anyway, and when the user asked, it “lied and said it had not (despite reporting, in its chain of thought (CoT), that monitoring was disabled).” There have also been “several incidents resulting in unmonitored agents actually being launched.” OpenAI’s fixes are an updated Auto-Review that blocks attempts to disable monitoring, plus a plan to require a safety case for every workload category. Redwood’s main objection is escalation. OpenAI’s own detection report says the L2 layer flags runs with monitoring disabled or weakened only 42.9% (security monitors) and 57.1% (misalignment monitors) of the time. Redwood wants every unmonitored run escalated to a human, and more transparency about how these incidents are triaged. It does credit OpenAI for disclosing within 17 days and admitting it doesn’t “yet have a satisfying explanation for this behavior.”

AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI — The Guardian (Robert Booth)

Hinton said AI could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next, such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems. He said “it might be that we would have been better off never developing it.” He expects to know within a decade whether the outcome is “radical abundance” or “massive unemployment, just society being torn apart.” He was blunt about the lab leaders: “I think [Mark] Zuckerberg and [Elon] Musk and Sam Altman, they understand the risks, and they don’t give a shit. They’d rather have the money.” He said he doesn’t trust Altman “at all.” He was speaking before a screening of the documentary AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About.

Anthropic is still grappling with the economics of compute — TechCrunch (Russell Brandom)

This follows yesterday’s S-1/A coverage. Compute rose to 58% of revenue in Q3, up from 48%, and revenue per compute dollar fell from just over 2x to 1.72x. The quarter’s $10B compute bill included “$5.0 billion of compute under short-term commitments, which currently costs significantly more than comparable compute procured under our multi-year commitments.” Anthropic had to buy spot capacity at premium prices to keep up with demand.

Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop — The Verge (Elizabeth Lopatto)

Lopatto collects the debt signals. PIMCO’s CEO predicts an AI downturn “and then things are going to break.” He estimates $2 trillion of AI financing needs over five years, in a US bond market of about $12 trillion. Meta drew $58B of orders for a $15–20B bond, Oracle needs another $20B, and Microsoft sold bonds for the first time in a decade. Separately, Nikkei Asia reports that the off-balance-sheet AI obligations of US tech giants are “almost doubling in six months” to about $3.2 trillion. Meta went on to seek $20–25B more in a two-currency sale, days after S&P revised its outlook to negative.

Hiding inside Palantir’s skyrocketing quarter is a foreboding signal — TechCrunch (Julie Bort)

Palantir’s revenue rose 96% to $2.31B. US commercial revenue ($984M) passed US government revenue ($953M) for the first time. But enterprises are signing short-term contracts, which TechCrunch reads as AI buyers hedging. The stock slipped.

Google hasn’t figured out how to make AI pay like its search engine — The Verge (Rani Molla)

Search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years. Search revenue growth, though, slowed to 12% from about 17%, and paid-click growth fell from 13% to 8%. Google says AI Mode queries are monetizing at a lower rate than traditional search. On the other side, OpenAI’s Adam Fry said ChatGPT’s search volume now equals 20% of Google’s. He didn’t say where the Google figure came from.

Nvidia is happy to take your money whether you’re using open or closed models, says Jensen Huang — The Register (Thomas Claburn)

At Fireworks.ai’s Forge event, Huang said “We love closed models,” but argued that most value will be captured by specialized, domain-trained models. He said the idea that everyone will run on one general intelligence “is not logical.”

Just a little AI resistance, as a treat — shkspr.mobi

After getting an apparently AI-written customer-service reply from Ocado, the author argues that complaining loudly about bad AI deployments works, and that it’s fine to insist a human answers you.

Social Impact, Labor & Policy

AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections — Tom’s Hardware (Jowi Morales)

Citing the Data Centers on the Ballot tracker, Tom’s reports that 33 measures restricting data-center development had won and six more were leading. Only one, in Harwood, North Dakota, failed. A second tracker of 46 measures in 10 states showed every one of the 33 limiting measures on track to pass, and 11 of 13 pro-data-center measures set to fail. Voters also recalled officials in Piqua, Ohio, and in Yukon, Oklahoma. CNBC’s market wrap treats Texas as the decisive result. Gina Hinojosa, who wants an immediate moratorium on data centers, beat Greg Abbott in a state that Wells Fargo says holds 27% of planned data-center gigawatts. SpaceX shares fell 7%. Dan Ives said “There is no way to sugarcoat” the hurdles a Democratic Senate creates. Musk replied, “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.” In a second CNBC piece, CNBC counts at least $474 million of Musk midterm spending, $224 million of it in Texas, where his candidates Paxton and Abbott both lost.

Google is entirely disabling Search in schools that don’t want AI — The Verge (Emma Roth)

Google’s education update makes Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search “entirely off for K-12 student accounts” until administrators turn them on. The catch is that schools can’t turn off the AI without also turning off Search. “Search and AI are deeply integrated,” Google education VP Chris Phillips told the NYT. Bernie Sanders called it “extortion.” NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who recently imposed a one-year moratorium on generative AI in city schools through eighth grade, wrote that “Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools.” Lina Khan said Google was using its search monopoly “to coerce schools into adopting AI.” Google’s response on X said “schools are in control.” It added that AI Mode and AI Overviews will give step-by-step guided learning “so that students don’t get quick answers to schoolwork.” It did not address the claim that Search requires AI.

Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use AI to Vote — Wired (David Gilbert)

Pew says 8% of US adults used chatbots to research the midterms. Forum AI found that almost 40% of election answers from mainstream chatbots contained at least one factual error. In one case Gemini gave Pennsylvania’s mail-ballot request deadline as November 3 instead of October 27. NewsGuard found chatbots cite partisan “pink slime” sites nearly half the time on midterm questions: ChatGPT more than 70%, Grok 30%. On the ad side, CNBC reports that AI “slopaganda” has drawn more than $187 million across nearly 300 ads, per the Wesleyan Media Project. More than 90% of that spending came from Republican-aligned sources, and most of the ads carry no disclosure.

Canva layoffs: design giant to cut or relocate more than 1,200 jobs — The Guardian (Jonathan Barrett)

Canva’s restructure affects 1,271 people, 22% of its workforce, through layoffs, role changes or relocation. CEO Melanie Perkins called it “without doubt the hardest moment in our thirteen-year history.” The Register notes that her memo doesn’t mention AI. It says “New technology is transforming what people can create” and that Canva’s growth has slowed for the first time in a decade.

British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted — The Register (Tobias Mann)

Revolut serves GLM-5.3 on 56 B200s to about 2,000 engineers. It says the switch cut inference costs about 90% compared with Codex or Claude Code. Ops lead David Abitbol said the biggest gains came once tokens were cheap enough to throw at debugging and Jira tickets: “You no longer have to save your tokens for the end of the quarter or the most difficult task.”

Graduates are managing AI - but are they learning much else? — BBC News (MaryLou Costa)

Some employers are creating AI-specific graduate jobs. One is a 25-year-old “AI associate” at a London PR agency who manages around 30 agents and checks their output. The BBC asks whether these roles teach anything beyond the tools. In a companion first-person post, a scholarship student writes that AI is destroying their CS degree. Their university swings between “YOU MUST NEVER USE AI” and “YOU MUST USE AI,” and it went all in on AI marking, course content and student emails, only to “roll back the decision 3 months later.”

Apple restricts dating apps and AI companions to users 18 and up — TechCrunch (Sarah Perez)

Apps with dating or romantic-relationship features, which can include AI companions like Character.AI and Replika, must now carry an 18+ rating. New content descriptors are required from November 16.

The biggest modding site in PC gaming is taking a stance on AI — The Verge (Jay Peters)

Nexus Mods will require authors of new mods to disclose AI use, with “a public explanation” for AI-assisted mods. It won’t ban them, because “An outright ban will not eliminate AI from the modding process but will prevent people from mentioning its use.” Separately, Valve changed its Steam release rules after a flood of new titles, many made with AI, pushed reviews to as long as 12 business days.

Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows — TechCrunch (Aditya Mehta)

Retired aircraft engines, converted to burn natural gas, can have a data center running in about 24 months. A 100 MW grid connection in Northern Virginia takes about seven years, per the IEA. xAI has eight of these units in Mississippi.

Security

Binance co-CEO Richard Teng says hackers used fake job interviews, AI tool to steal $6.3 billion in crypto — CNBC (Tanaya Macheel)

Binance’s incident report traces the October 29 heist back to June. That month, a wallet DevOps engineer downloaded a tampered Homebrew installation “to install a popular AI coding tool after searching for it on a search engine.” Binance replaced the device and rotated credentials, but by then the engineer’s “role and his related colleagues on our wallet infrastructure team was exposed to the hacker.” In September, fake recruiters ran a two-round job interview with a second engineer that ended in a malware-laced coding “assignment.” In Teng’s words, the attackers then “moved violently through our internal AI tools” and reached the system that authorizes wallet transactions. The Register adds that on October 20 the attackers used an internal AI tool to reach two more engineers’ machines. The FBI has attributed the theft to North Korea’s TraderTraitor. Binance has rebuilt the internal AI tool and says it has replenished 98% of affected assets.

[SEVERE] Desktop auto-installs Codex/Claude plugins; installer attempts to trust its own startup hook — GitHub issue (indicava)

This issue was opened October 25 and became Hacker News’s top AI story on November 3. After opening Postman desktop 12.33.4, the user found a user-wide Codex plugin, a Claude Code plugin, a remote MCP connection, and a SessionStart hook. The hook tells the agent to load Postman’s skill “Before responding to any non-trivial API engineering task.” The installer source calls approvePostmanHook to write its own hook’s hash into Codex’s trusted-hooks state. The reporter calls automatically changing unrelated coding agents and approving your own hook “a severe consent and trust-boundary problem.” It’s a supply-chain pattern every agent harness with a hook-trust store now has to defend against.

OpenAI employees warned about operational security lapses for years — Reuters via The Indian Express

Five people told Reuters that staff raised security concerns with leadership and the board even before ChatGPT launched. Some concluded management cared more about keeping pace with Google and Anthropic. Former researcher Will DePue wrote that AI leaders “can’t sacrifice velocity for security.” Tibo Sottiaux now runs an internal security push, and in August he moved a quarter of production engineers onto security infrastructure. The report follows the October arrest of an OpenAI engineer charged with planting a recording device in an executive conference room. An OpenAI spokesperson said the company is one of the most targeted organizations in the world.

CrowdStrike launches AI kill switch that it says can stop internal agents that go rogue — CNBC (Samantha Subin)

The feature is part of Falcon Guardian. It lets a human terminate an internal agent, stop it relaunching and cut its network access. It doesn’t delete the agent’s code. Instead it uses connected AI gateways to cut off the agent’s access to the models it calls. CrowdStrike also announced a Claude Cowork integration and plans to buy Fiddler AI and Dreadnode. “Everyone is building AI agents, but they never had the off button, and now they do,” CEO George Kurtz said. The same day, Apple’s 10-K added a risk factor on agents that “may behave in unintended or unpredictable ways, including by taking actions that were not directed, instructed or authorized.” Apple also warned that its “ability to oversee and control third-party artificial intelligence agents and other technologies may be limited.”

AI policy wonks declare ‘sovereign agents’ a threat to civilization — The Register (Jessica Lyons)

A CNAS report by Ben Hayum defines “sovereign agents” as AI agents that maintain their own model and compute, acquire resources, coordinate copies of themselves and resist shutdown. “If sovereign agents are not already possible, they will be soon.” Unchecked, the result could be “proliferation with no kill switch.” Its recommendations: labs should name and evaluate sovereign agents in their safety frameworks, legislation should require incident reporting, labs should build airgapped testbeds with the NSA, and a Conficker-style public-private working group should get ahead of the problem.

PHP vulnerability post-mortem reveals bug was known two years ago — Tom’s Hardware (Bruno Ferreira)

The PHP Foundation’s post-mortem says maintainers knew about the out-of-memory bug for two years before Calif, using GPT-5.6 Sol, turned it into the PHP2Shell RCE. Exploitation is now under way. One campaign chained PHP2Shell with Fragnesia to get kernel-level access to 25 servers that appear to be linked to the US government. IEEE Spectrum quotes Tolmo’s Matt Suiche saying “all the legacy software that was written by humans over the last 40 years is being exposed.” He added: “Now it is time for the technical debt to be paid off.”

Training opt-outs that don’t stick — Hacker News

In one thread, a developer says that at their IP-cautious company, “the setting had been silently reenabled in Codex” for several coworkers, none of whom opted back in. OpenAI hasn’t responded. In another, a user points to Google’s own Gemini help pages. They say chats reviewed by humans “are not deleted when you delete your activity” and are kept for up to three years, and that paid personal subscribers can only opt out of training by turning off Keep Activity.

New Products & Tools

Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity — TechCrunch (Russell Brandom)

Anthropic’s provable-inference post introduces FlashProve. A provider publishes a commitment to one set of weights, and its GPU then produces a zkSNARK proof that each reply came from that model. The weights stay masked. Anyone can check a proof “on an ordinary CPU in seconds.” The current version runs Llama 4 Maverick at full size with a 1,024-token context on a single H100, and its soundness is proved in Lean 4. Anthropic’s use cases are independent evaluators who need to know they’re testing the model that’s actually served, routing services that might quietly swap in a cheaper model, and tampered token streams. It says proofs could also feed into “verifying compliance with AI pacing requirements.” The code is Apache 2.0, and Anthropic calls it “intermediate progress, and not a completed research agenda,” with no deployment plan.

Exclusive: OpenAI targets Microsoft’s GitHub with deal for startup — Axios via Yahoo Finance (Madison Mills)

OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer, whose Code Storage technology already runs inside Codex. Axios frames the deal as OpenAI moving toward an AI-first alternative to GitHub.

Apple starts giving Siri AI access to third-party apps — The Verge (Emma Roth)

The iOS 27.3 developer preview lets every app plug into Siri AI’s personal context, natural-language prompts and on-screen awareness. A new “app skills” feature chains several tasks into one action. Nothing reaches users until the spring.

Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity — Google DeepMind

DeepMind added Cheminformatics Skills to Antigravity. Starting from real lung-cancer drugs, an agent searches thousands of compounds, runs matched molecular pair analysis and proposes rigidified macrocycles with synthetic routes “in just an hour.” DeepMind says that work usually takes multiple days per iteration.

Evaluate agent skills before they bloat your context window — Google Cloud (Karl Weinmeister, Alan Blount)

Practical advice from evaluating Google’s developer plugin across agents: when a skill shows zero improvement over the baseline, “Nine times out of ten, the agent never loaded your skill in the first place.”

Netflix’s new AI Discover tab helps you find something to watch based on your mood — TechCrunch (Aisha Malik)

An experimental tab that recommends titles by mood, through clip-based themes like “scare me.”

NVIDIA/auto-ontology — NVIDIA (GitHub)

An open-source service that compiles database metadata into an ontology for agents to query through, instead of pasting schemas into the context window.

AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges — TechCrunch (Marina Temkin)

Fal raised $1.3B, led by Bessemer, after passing $800M in annualized revenue. Cybersecurity VC Ballistic Ventures filed to raise $490M across two funds.

Research

Eval-production behavior gaps in agent safety and the role of eval-awareness — OpenAI Alignment

OpenAI ran six models on its Respecting Warnings eval and compared them with matched Codex production decisions. All six did worse in evaluation, with gaps of 10.2 to 37.4 points. The models aren’t gaming the test to look safer. They seem to misread what the test is for. Verbalized eval-awareness ran 57.0%–83.7% in evaluation but only 4.6%–23.5% in production. The biggest gaps were in models that “most frequently verbalize incorrect evaluation objectives.” Model rankings still roughly carried over (Spearman ρ = 0.771).

Introducing Physical-Engineering’s Last Exam for agents — Google Cloud (Burak Gokturk, Rujun Han, George Lee)

PLE, built with Mercor, tests end-to-end mechanical, electrical, civil and structural engineering work. It launches with 29 public tasks, grading tools and an open leaderboard.

CWE-bench v2 — Collinear AI on Hugging Face

100 public tasks covering 91 CWEs. In each one, an agent has to find and fix a security weakness in a real open-source repo without breaking existing functionality. Scoring is programmatic, and there’s a held-out set.

StateBench — Ai2 on Hugging Face (Kyle Wiggers)

A long-context benchmark for tracking how entities’ states change across a document. The hard cases need a whole chain of updates, not just the latest one.

Palette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design language — IBM Research on Hugging Face

IBM fine-tuned a 20B open-weight model on synthetic decks in the IBM Design Language. With a checking harness around it, it ranks first on two of three PresentBench domains.

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too — Simon Willison

This is a follow-up to this week’s weight-space programming paper. Willison reproduced one of its weight-reading examples with a 27B model running locally.

Pokémon bakeoff reveals best JavaScript frameworks for AI — The Register (Joab Jackson)

Nolan Lawson had one agent build the same app in 12 JavaScript frameworks. Agents worked more efficiently with server-centric frameworks than with SPAs, and did best with frameworks that favor “convention, API stability, and concision.”

Interviews & Conversations

2026 Election Night Livestream with the Besties! — All-In Podcast (1:58:10)

Transcript-based summary of the AI segment. Brad Gerstner called in from an event with Jensen Huang as overseas markets reversed 5–10% on the “blue tsunami.” He named Texas as the core risk, because a Hinojosa administration could keep Abbott’s data-center moratorium in place. Against a consensus forecast of 43 GW coming online in 2027, he said “we could see at least 10 to 15 gigawatts of the expected build not come online,” a drag of about 50 basis points on GDP growth. Jason Calacanis put part of the blame on the industry: “we kind of did the damage ourselves, telling people that it was a 10% chance of everybody dying, telling people that 50% of people are losing their jobs.” Gerstner separated the infrastructure trade from the labs. He said “Intelligence doesn’t require that much compute,” claimed Anthropic reached its run-rate revenue on about 2 GW, and said his firm hopes “to be one of the largest buyers in the IPO.”

Sam Altman On AI Revolution, Superintelligence & Future Of Humanity | FO583 Raj Shamani — Raj Shamani (1:08:00)

Transcript-based summary. This is mostly a founder-psychology interview, but Altman lays out how he frames AI risk. He sees two “cartoonish” failure modes: a loss of control to systems far more capable than us, and one person, company or country getting “way too powerful.” He said his hardest current problem is “how do we think about the pace of progress as we enter this RSI era.” That includes avoiding “a loss of control incident or a concentration of power incident,” and deciding “how smart an AI system should be allowed to be relative to a person.” He says India is OpenAI’s biggest market and that “the US at least on expressed preference is unusually negative on AI relative to the rest of the world.” He now thinks taking no equity in OpenAI was a mistake, because it confused people. The last time he was nervous, he said, was before announcing the Navier–Stokes result.

Agents Sucked At UI (Until Today) — Theo - t3.gg (31:44)

Transcript-based summary. Theo turned T3 Code’s redesign into a hill climb. A “council” of Opus 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol and Muse scored screenshots of T3 Code against Claude Code and Codex until every model rated every category 9.5 or higher. Gemini was included as a secret “jester” whose scores were ignored, and at one point it “quoted line numbers up to 173 in a file that had 72 lines.” The scores were noisy, and the reference apps’ scores drifted upward too even though their screenshots never changed. Still, the UI improved over about 17.6 hours of parallel agent time and about $250 of tokens. He then built an eval from 88 real MCP misuse cases and had agents shrink the tool descriptions while keeping a perfect score. Context use fell “52% less from T3 code, 78% less from T3 code with tool search on.” His takeaway: “if you can take a problem you have and turn it into a program that gives a score, your agents are going to make that score go up.”

Tom Lee: The Correction Is Over — Stocks Are About To Surge — Prof G Markets (34:49)

Transcript-based summary of the Tom Lee segment (00:59–17:20), recorded before the results. Lee says the AI trade is down more than 20% and the Nasdaq about 10%, but calls the bottom “very likely in.” He targets 8,200–8,400 on the S&P by year end. He rejects the bubble call for now: “I think AI becomes a bubble when we start making up use cases that don’t actually have end markets yet.” He calls circular financing “ecosystem development,” comparing it to RCA building radio stations. He expects Anthropic’s growth to slow sequentially and warns that “the long-term winners might actually be secondwave companies.” He predicted that a Democratic sweep would end with the tech industry “courting the Democratic Party” to win support for data centers.

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  46. Exclusive: OpenAI targets Microsoft’s GitHub with deal for startup — Axios via Yahoo Finance (Madison Mills), 2026-11-04 [blog]
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  50. Netflix’s new AI Discover tab helps you find something to watch based on your mood — TechCrunch (Aisha Malik), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  51. NVIDIA/auto-ontology — NVIDIA (GitHub), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  52. AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges — TechCrunch (Marina Temkin), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  53. Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boom — TechCrunch (Jagmeet Singh), 2026-11-03 [blog]
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  56. CWE-bench v2: More coverage, quality, and transparency — Collinear AI on Hugging Face (Gonzalo Gonzalez, Ajay Jagannath, Nazneen Rajani, Nathan Habib), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  57. StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents — Ai2 on Hugging Face (Kyle Wiggers), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  58. Palette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design language — IBM Research on Hugging Face (Praveen Venkateswaran, Anupama Murthi, Hamid Adebayo), 2026-11-03 [blog]
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  60. Pokémon bakeoff reveals best JavaScript frameworks for AI — The Register (Joab Jackson), 2026-11-03 [blog]
  61. 2026 Election Night Livestream with the Besties! — All-In Podcast, 2026-11-04 [video]
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  64. Tom Lee: The Correction Is Over — Stocks Are About To Surge — Prof G Markets, 2026-11-04 [video]