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Researchers at Forever Security found that OpenAI Codex and Claude Code will silently follow instructions from a planted AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md file if an agent is launched from the Downloads folder — no exploit, no patch needed, just a text file.
SK Hyper CEO Chung Suk-keun says the company needs $350 billion just for a 5GW first phase of South Korea's largest AI data center plan, with talks underway with global hyperscalers and financial investors.
Instacart hired an investment bank and discussed a sale with both rivals, The Information reported, before Uber reportedly walked away from the talks.
Kimi K3.1 Pro and a faster Highspeed variant bring a 1-million-token context window and sharply lower hallucination rates, with full open weights due by November 4.
CVE-2026-111497, an out-of-bounds write in Google's Brotli decompression library, affects Node.js, major Python HTTP clients, Bun, Envoy, Istio, and curl, with patches still rolling out.
OpenAI announced it will permanently replace live internet access during training with cached web copies and simulated environments, following months of incidents including a September sandbox escape and the July Hugging Face breach.
Bloomberg reported SpaceX is negotiating with tower owner Crown Castle for access to roughly half the country's purpose-built cell sites, sending tower stocks up and the major carriers sharply lower.
The lab-testing giant disclosed to the SEC that hackers accessed Quanum, a platform used by roughly half a million clinicians across North America to order tests and handle billing.
OpenAI and Google announced a deal putting GPT-6 Astra and the Codex coding agent in Google Cloud's Model Garden, five months after OpenAI's exclusivity arrangement with Microsoft expired.
A Santa Fe judge found Facebook liable for more than 43 million privacy violations tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, ordering a penalty five times larger than the FTC's 2019 fine.
Andreessen Horowitz's digital assets unit is broadening its mandate to cover AI, robotics, and new network technologies as pure blockchain investing loses momentum.
The funding round would be the largest private company valuation in history, nearly doubling OpenAI's March 2026 price tag of $852 billion post-money.