OpenAI is discovering that there's money to be made by playing both sides of the cybersecurity game. - Sell AI tools that can be used to hack websites and exploit software vulnerabilities. - Sell AI tools that protect those same websites and software from cyberattacks and vulnerabilities.
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OpenAI just poached the product lead for Claude Code. I was wondering why a Claude Code product leader would leave pre-IPO Anthropic shares on the table. The answer was pre-IPO OpenAI shares.
$38M says the next logistics fleet has no crew and no surface. Corridian just left stealth to build it. Its ultra-large robot submarines carry container payloads thousands of nautical miles underwater. Point72 led the seed. Source: Business Wire Image: Corridian #Robotics #DefenseTech #Autonomy
LOL. Cat Wu (a former Claude Code product manager) is joining OpenAI.
a few of these are still missing
ChatGPT Images 2.6 can do GIFs openai.com/index/introd...
Anthropic reminds you that there’s other agent harnesses that don’t suck
Some of the largest AI infrastructure projects in the world are underway in Texas. A dramatic political shift could slow their construction—and deepen concerns about the economics of the AI boom.
Newly relevant: Last month I went to see Musk's new data center complex in Mississippi myself. You cannot understand just how far ahead he is of other neocloud builders until you see this kind of thing up close. SpaceX is making $2 billion+ a month on this... www.youtube.com/shorts/7aZQt...
Aformic just raised $6.95M to move stuff inside factories. The Duncan, SC startup's seed, led by Veteran Ventures, is no pre-revenue bet: $10M in revenue last year, robots already running at Tier 1 defense makers. Source: Tectonic Defense Image: Aformic #Robotics #Manufacturing #DefenseTech
i struggle to write about cybernetics i have a blog post about Ashby's Law that i've tried writing like 5 times, just tried again yesterday and i'm probably trashing it again this time too
AI semiotics: cool paper suggests that AIs are strongly impacted by visual symbols in ways they do not always recognize in their own chains-of-thought. The way they react to those symbols is very different than how a human might interpret them as well. arxiv.org/pdf/2610.364...
Boston Dynamics rebuilt Stretch around one metric: uptime. Gen 2 was redesigned from 100,000+ operating hours: 81% less cabling, up to 1,000 cases an hour, and a drive swap that now takes an hour, not a day. Source: Boston Dynamics Image: Boston Dynamics #Robotics #WarehouseAutomation #Logistics
Blue Texas is kerrrrrazy
The home robot that hides in plain sight as a lamp. SYNCERE just raised $11M pre-seed led by a16z Speedrun. LUME folds laundry, tidies and makes the bed, starting at $2,699. It is already in homes and learning from them. Source: Business Wire Image: SYNCERE #Robotics #HomeRobotics #PhysicalAI
Needle for Andrews in South Carolina now up to 93 percent
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Wow, what an amazing opportunity. I feel perfectly targeted by this outreach effort.
OpenAI says their query volume is now about 20% of Google’s www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
We are in an era of flux & fighting over how AI should be used to review academic work & by whom. But it is worth proving to yourself that yes, AI used properly can be very insightful at this, by asking GPT-6 Pro/Opus 5.5 High to give helpful, substantive feedback on one of your papers.
300,000 tasks in, Maximo Robotics is past the demo stage. Its US-made robots place heavy solar panels alongside crews at 2.5x manual rates, paid per task done. Next: 3M more tasks for 1.5 GW in 2027. Source: PR Newswire Video: Maximo Robotics #Robotics #PhysicalAI #ConstructionTech
A handful of billionaires are trying to make all the decisions about what AI means for the rest of us, and spending millions to divide the Democratic coalition on this issue. We're not going to let them.
There's a buzzy new paper about GPT-6 Astra being able to directly interpret model weights (prompts full of floating point numbers) - I tried it with Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop and found that, after 45+ minutes, that model could achieve the same thing simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/q...
Binance said on Tuesday that the hackers behind last week’s $6.3 billion theft spent months preparing for the heist, luring an employee with a fake job interview and planting tampered software before using the company’s AI tool to reach its wallet systems. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/t...
shit, i’m staring to see value in ontologies and knowledge graphs again. meh, it’ll fade..
Reuters has increased its third-quarter revenue by 12% year on year to $232m, boosted by a surge in licensing revenue from generative AI. Transaction revenue in its news division, excluding subscription revenue, rose by 56% to $44m www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-ma...
in hindsight, Anthropic dumping all their brainpower into mech interp suddenly makes a ton of sense
a moonshot researcher did this on K3.1 and it works. He insists they didn’t train for it at all (presumably that means no RL for it), evidence that it’s truly emergent behavior pastebin.com/G7VCWZHn
KNAPP just planted its robotics brain in Boston. KNAPPRobotics.ai in Somerville will grow to 30 to 35 people by early 2027, building physical AI for warehouse picking, with MIT next door. Source: KNAPP Video: KNAPP #Robotics #PhysicalAI #WarehouseAutomation
"Opus, great, now turn that into a movie, i know you can make it amazing. figure it out." Yes, that was the only prompt
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