This week in AI: $160B across 12 deals
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All news →OpenAI is hiring outside hackers to test its security
On November 2, OpenAI said it is planning its next internal security sprint with Cathedral Systems, whose researchers will use OpenAI's models alongside its own teams to challenge its defenses.
- Google DeepMind says its AI agents found weaknesses in old RSA encryption
- Nvidia's board is probing Jensen Huang's ties to a customer
- Apple lets any developer plug apps into Siri AI
- OpenAI is buying a startup that manages code
- The US AI safety center's staff were asked to report informally to the White House
- Perplexity launched AI agents that work nonstop for you
- A free site tracks which meaning of tech words wins
- One engineer argues the AI bubble talk is overblown
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😺 Anthropic's AI cracks a puzzle
PLUS: Nvidia probes its CEO, Perplexity launches AI teammates
😸 Voters reject data centers. OpenAI offers concessions.
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Sunday Special: A cosmic milestone after NASA’s 48-hour scare
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Computer-Use AI Agents: The Best Open-Source & Closed-Source Tools in 2026
Compare open-source and commercial computer-use agents by price, execution location, and OS, plus the models and APIs behind them.
How Looped Transformers Work and When They Save Memory
Looped Transformers reuse the same layers to update a hidden state. Learn how adaptive depth works and what each pass costs in compute, memory, and latency.
Robotics Special: Xiaomi’s humanoid robots clock in for a full 8-hour factory shift
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Big Tech sues to save the feed
Meta, Google, and TikTok have found a rare point of agreement: California shouldn’t get to mess with the machinery that keeps young users scrolling. All three…
Gemini 4 Carbon Heads Toward Wider Availability, What Anthropic's IPO Means for Developers, Genie 4 Combines with Gemini to Train Robots
The Batch News & Insights: LinkedIn data shows that AI has helped create 2 million jobs.
Claude gets personal finance skills
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Anthropic R&D accelerates, GPT-6 Cyber, Inkling 2 Small | TLDR AI. TLDR AI 11/06
OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Cyber, a cybersecurity model designed to identify and validate exploitable vulnerabilities while staying within…
[One Million AI Engineer Special] How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eric, Monaco
What do you assign when a coding agent can finish last year’s homework in one prompt? In the second run of Stanford’s CS146S, Mihail Eric brought open-source maintain
Agentic Video Is Real and Here’s What You Should Try
AI agents are making it possible to edit, animate, and produce videos simply by describing what you want. NLW explores what changed and how to put it to work—from meeting highlight
AI:AM: Is THIS the AI We Want? Alarming Acceleration, AI Election Bets, GPU Trading & AI-Native VC
Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan examine mounting evidence of rapid AI acceleration alongside guests Brian Zhou of Thoughtful, Mike San Miguel of Luxor Technology, and Bryan Bis
Deep Dive: Anthropic S-1 Myths and Mythos — Jamin Ball, Altimeter
Watch the full show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P735f1xlpL0
Companies Are Spending 5x More on AI Now
Companies are spending nearly five times more on AI than last year, and agents are driving the surge. NLW breaks down Menlo Ventures’ latest enterprise AI report, exploring why spe
Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich
Fabian Theis has been one of the key players in the various iterations of the Virtual Cell concept and initiatives. It is not hyperbole at all to say that his lab has been pushing
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Together AI · Together AI startup credits: $15,000–$50,000 for open-model inference and fine-tuning ($15,000 value)
Together AI's startup accelerator gives AI-native startups inference and fine-tuning credits on open models (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, FLUX) plus engineering suppo
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