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Nvidia is reportedly considering guaranteeing construction debt for Nscale's planned West Virginia AI data center serving Anthropic, TechCrunch reported. Separately, a federal court denied xAI's motion to dismiss an NAACP Clean Air Act lawsuit over gas turbines in Mississippi.
Images 2.6 lets ChatGPT users turn prompts or photos into editable animated GIFs, while developers get two new API models, Flare and Sunburst.
In his final executive orders as governor, Gavin Newsom asked for independent verification of AI models and an expert committee to examine kill switches for AI agents.
OpenAI said an autonomous pipeline using an upcoming cyber model validated 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities and drafted patches for each, at a cost of about $1.2 million.
AI demand is absorbing a growing share of global memory supply, and Jefferies says memory cost per phone has roughly tripled, to $60-$65.
The FBI has formally attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets from Binance, on or about October 29, to North Korean operators it identifies as TraderTraitor. Officials say the stolen funds are being converted primarily into ether.
Google said Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search will be off by default for K-12 student accounts until administrators turn them on — and schools that decline AI altogether would also lose Search.
Conductor lets developers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel workspaces. Meta confirmed the deal on November 4 but did not disclose financial terms.
Design software maker Canva said 1,271 people, or 22% of its staff, will be affected by layoffs, role changes or relocations.
DreamHost said an attack that began in August exploited a vulnerability in its File Manager and stole session tokens, FTP credentials and webmail logins.
Researchers used Claude to search about 15 billion predicted proteins and reconstruct a 96-copy vault particle from a bacteriophage protein called L05.
U.S. officials have held back export permits for chipmaking equipment needed at SK Hynix's Dalian plant in China, complicating its planned NAND plants in Marcy, New York.
The Gemini API tool that reads screenshots and proposes clicks, scrolls and keystrokes is now generally available across two APIs, with no breaking changes from preview.
Announced at Fal.Con Europe in Barcelona, the Falcon capability uses SafeMind's Red Tempest model to chain weaknesses into exploitable attack paths and validate fixes.
The November 2026 Android bulletin fixes 216 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-58868, a critical Framework flaw affecting Android 14 through 17.
Moonshot AI published the 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3.1 Pro's weights on Hugging Face on November 4, on the date it promised at launch, under a license that requires large commercial hosts to strike a separate deal.
The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI secured roughly $11 billion in investor commitments — short of a previously reported $30 billion ambition — and is now seeking as much as $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation.
Hackers breached Florida's student financial aid website, potentially exposing Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and other personal data.
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement on November 2 to acquire Cresta, whose voice agents resolve customer calls end to end. Terms were not disclosed.
The CRS-25 mission will fly a Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying science experiments and supplies.