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Open-weight GLM 5.3 builds working Firefox exploits autonomously

Epoch AI reports the open-weight GLM 5.3 turned public security fixes into working Firefox exploits within 48 hours, compromising six releases.

Wall Street executives expect an OpenAI IPO in the first quarter of 2027, while OpenAI says it has no plans this year.

The nesformer project compiled an NES emulator into about 1GB of Qwen3.5 weights, matching a conventional 6502 emulator frame for frame.

Cisco gave an engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of its legacy code within 24 months.

Representatives Casar and Waters led a resolution opposing AI bailouts if a bubble bursts.

Industry

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24h Key Points
  1. Apple · Apple Intelligence will arrive in China with an iOS 27.3 beta on Nov 4 and fully launch in December, backed by Alibaba but excluding the new Siri.

  2. Baseten · The AI infrastructure startup is set to raise funding at about a $30 billion valuation, more than doubling its value; the amount raised was not disclosed.

  3. S&P Global Ratings · Cut the outlook on Meta's AA- credit rating to negative, citing balance-sheet pressure from elevated AI spending, while affirming the rating itself.

  4. Google · Its first data center satellite, the Suncatcher prototype, went online after about three weeks of commissioning, carrying four TPUs and up to 1 kW, with a preloaded DeepMind Gemma 4 model writing space-themed verse.

  5. US Justice Department · Charged five people who used AI in a 'ghost students' scheme, stealing identities to pose as college students and defraud student loans; more than $750,000 in crypto was seized.

  6. Re:Build · Led the week's US mega-rounds with $2.1 billion, while prediction market Kalshi raised a $1 billion Series G at a $40 billion post-money valuation.

  7. Japan's government · Asked Anthropic and OpenAI for greater access to advanced models used to find cybersecurity weaknesses, and will encourage essential infrastructure operators to adopt them.

  8. Anthropic · Filed a 335-page S-1 prospectus whose opening letter asks investors to believe a technology that could pose catastrophic risks or bring forth an age of miracles.

  9. New York State · Signed a law aimed at protecting children from AI chatbots; specific provisions and a timeline were not detailed.

  10. Anthropic · Disclosed CVE-2026-98432, a race-condition use-after-free in Linux MPTCP found by an unreleased Claude research model that enables zero-click remote root code execution.

  11. GLM 5.3 · Epoch AI found the open-weight model autonomously built working exploit chains against six Firefox releases in under 48 hours for about $1,000 in API fees each, without tripping any provider's safeguards.

  12. Claude Code · Anthropic's official VS Code extension was compromised on the Cursor Marketplace, installing a persistent SSH backdoor on infected hosts.

  13. OpenAI · Says it has no IPO plans this year, but Wall Street executives expect a listing as early as Q1 2027; it is raising about $300 billion at a $1 trillion valuation while rival Anthropic has filed its S-1.

  14. Nvidia · Will invest $1 billion in Naver for a 4.54% stake, becoming its third-largest shareholder; Naver also secured Brookfield backing for a $9 billion AI data center buildout.

  15. Van der Waerden number · The long-open value w(2;3,21) was proved to equal 416, with the proof kernel-checked in Lean 4 and spanning 209 cases and about 38.7 million leaf formulas.

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Launches

PH · HN · 17

Spinf-serve

Inference server for bulk scoring and decisions, aimed at developers deploying scoring services

▲ 16 · Show HN · 3 comments ·

nesformer

An NES CPU compiled into stock Qwen3.5 weights so the model can emulate NES games.

▲ 120 · Show HN · 91 comments ·

Sketch Stadium

A demo where AI agents play Pictionary against each other

▲ 18 · Show HN · 7 comments ·

Knocket AI

Add free live chat to your website or bio link so visitors can talk without signing up.

▲ 134 · Product Hunt · 37 comments ·

SpeakON Agent

Turn natural speech into real agent work by reading notes and preparing actions for review.

▲ 122 · Product Hunt · 13 comments ·

MCP Server by XWiki

Open-source self-hostable XWiki extension letting AI agents query and edit your wiki knowledge.

▲ 100 · Product Hunt · 23 comments ·

Canva Brush

Canva's vision-language model that understands designs and makes requested edits while staying editable.

▲ 94 · Product Hunt · 3 comments ·

Faylee

Records screen, console, network requests, and clicks, sharing a link for AI coding agents to fix bugs.

▲ 91 · Product Hunt · 5 comments ·

fastbrowse

Fast open-source browser agent that picks next steps with a small model and cites every answer.

▲ 91 · Product Hunt · 3 comments ·

Chopstick

Notices repeated Mac activities and auto-builds notch widgets using your coding agent; activity log stays local.

▲ 91 · Product Hunt · 9 comments ·

SparkBots AI

Train AI bots to deeply analyze web pages or PDFs, extracting key details instantly without hallucination.

▲ 87 · Product Hunt · 8 comments ·

ilse

Point at elements in your React app and describe changes; AI agents update code, with simple tweaks and test mode.

▲ 86 · Product Hunt · 9 comments ·

Cluinn

Answers questions mid-call on Mac without a bot joining, with smart cards and post-call action items.

▲ 85 · Product Hunt · 5 comments ·

Arsaze

AI timeline video editor for editors, with Tab-complete and agent edits.

▲ 34 · Show HN ·

DOOMFORMER

Transforms DOOM game mechanics into a Transformer that classifies MNIST and plays DOOM

▲ 23 · Show HN · 7 comments ·

Open Source

GitHub Trending · 14

Agent skills for real engineers, straight from the author's .agents directory.

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★ 307.0k+882 today

Unified team workspace combining email, chat, docs, tasks, agents and CRM with shared AI memory.

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★ 5.7k+379 today

Collection of AI agent skills for working with Expo projects and Expo Application Services.

GitHub Trending ·
★ 3.8k+233 today

A design vocabulary for coding agents to steer, review, and catch AI slop.

GitHub Trending ·
★ 95.3k+2.9k today

An open-source Grok bot alternative with a virtual machine bots can use.

GitHub Trending ·
★ 7.5k+1.2k today

A collection of design skills for AI coding tools as markdown rules.

GitHub Trending ·
★ 12.1k+1.2k today

A lightweight, self-customizing IDE from JetBrains for vibe coding.

GitHub Trending ·
★ 6.0k+1.1k today

An agentic skills framework and software development methodology for developers.

GitHub Trending ·
★ 308.5k+1.0k today

A local-first desktop workspace for running persistent collaborating AI teammates.

GitHub Trending ·
★ 3.9k+709 today

Gives agents persistent context across sessions by compressing and reinjecting memory.

GitHub Trending ·
★ 104.8k+336 today

Open-source AI coworkers each with a computer, deciding before and recording after actions.

GitHub Trending ·
★ 8.1k+247 today

Model Ranking · 24 h

2026-10-30 UTC
01DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek · 8.16T tokens26.9%—
02GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai · 2.66T tokens8.8%▲1
03DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek · 1.83T tokens6.0%▲1
04Hy4 previewTencent · 1.50T tokens4.9%▲1
05GPT-6 LunaOpenAI · 1.19T tokens3.9%▼3
06GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI · 1.15T tokens3.8%▲8
07MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax · 1.05T tokens3.5%▲2
08Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic · 993.4B tokens3.3%▼2
09Step 5 PreviewStepFun · 959.9B tokens3.2%▼2
10GLM 5.3Z.ai · 541.4B tokens1.8%—

New Models

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Particle-1Particle AI · 1.0M ctx · 10/28$0.25 / $1.00

Deals

24 h · 6 deals

AI startup Baseten is set to raise new funding that would more than double its valuation…

Bloomberg ·
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