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ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan
ChatGPT Ads is expanding into Southeast Asia and Taiwan, giving eligible businesses new ways to reach users in more than 60 countries.
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Data-Center Bet Makes ESDS One of India's Best New Listings
India's hunt for listed data-center and AI plays has a new favorite: ESDS, whose data-center bet makes it one of the country's best new listings. Investors are already looking for what comes next.
Alibaba to Add Data Centers in Europe, Middle East in AI Push
Alibaba Group is accelerating data center expansion in Europe and the Middle East to propel its 20-gigawatt global infrastructure buildout, amid escalating competition between China and the US in AI chips and models.
Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models
Airbnb is expanding internal access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams debug, design systems and ship faster, signaling accelerating enterprise adoption of frontier models in engineering workflows.
Cisco Talos Finds First LLM-as-C2 Malware
Cisco Talos researchers identified CLOSEDQUORUM, malware using an LLM-as-C2 architecture in which a panel of large language models acts as judges to autonomously map and execute a credential-stealing attack chain without human involvement. It targets Microsoft's LSASS process, but deployment in the wild is not yet confirmed.
Colorado Springs Police launch AI for non-emergency calls
The Colorado Springs Police Department has launched Axon's AI system to help handle non-emergency calls. Named S.A.R.A.H., it transcribes, translates and routes calls; non-emergency calls are more than half of the center's volume, while 911 calls are still answered by people.
OpenAI and Grab launch AI skills programme in Southeast Asia
OpenAI and Grab launched "GO Forward with AI," a regional programme to train 30,000 Grab partners across Southeast Asia in practical AI skills. The initiative aims to broaden AI adoption and workforce capability.
Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Launch Spark Price War
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and about an hour later OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at roughly half the price of their GPT-5.6 equivalents. GPT-6 Luna costs just $0.10/M input and $0.50/M output, among OpenAI's cheapest models, intensifying the price war.
Google Labs launches CC, an AI agent for families
Google Labs has introduced CC, an experimental AI agent for families. CC has its own Google account and lets up to six members share information to manage schedules, tasks and household logistics. U.S. users can join a waitlist.
Russian AI resale gateways charge up to 3.6x official rates
After SWIFT sanctions cut Russian developers off from buying OpenAI and similar services, they turned to resale gateways using proxy accounts and foreign cards to reach frontier AI. The piece says AITUNNEL prices Claude Sonnet 5 at roughly 2.4-3.6x the official-exchange-rate equivalent, with similar markups on the pricier Claude Fable 5.1, an access premium rather than a simple token markup.
TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston on November 4
TechCrunch Founder Summit will be held on November 4 at Boston's SoWa Power Station as a one-day startup crash course. Sessions cover fundraising, hiring, and AI strategy, with investors and founders like Brian Devaney and Brian Halligan sharing lessons to help founders avoid common pitfalls.
Leaders split on AI risks and promise at UN General Assembly
At the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General Guterres cited a new science report warning of catastrophic and irreversible harm from AI, calling for more oversight and no place for killer robots. Trump rejected any globalist scheme to control AI, renaming it 'super intelligence.' The Security Council will address AI controls.
Experts Warn China's AI Playbook Threatens US
Experts told Fox News that China is copying US model capabilities via knowledge distillation, flooding global markets with free open-source alternatives, and weaponizing AI for cognitive warfare, posing a multi-front challenge as US firms spend billions on proprietary systems.
Norway PM, NYC Mayor Mamdani Discuss School AI Limits
Norway's prime minister and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani held an AI-and-education roundtable at P.S. 59, highlighting shared limits on young students' AI use. Norway bans AI for grades 1-7; NYC has a one-year moratorium on student-facing AI in grades 2K-8, with Mamdani calling the Norwegian model a possible roadmap.
EASA continues cautious approach to artificial intelligence
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) continues to take a cautious regulatory approach to artificial intelligence in aviation, though specific measures were not detailed in the summary.
BBC visits Inner Mongolia data centers powering China AI
BBC's Laura Bicker visited Inner Mongolia, where dozens of Chinese data centers are being built, reporting on China's aim to lead in AI and contrasting Chinese and US attitudes toward the data-center industry.
Balance of Power in Open Models: Chinese Firms Lead Open-Weight
A testimony prepared for U.S. Congress states that since around April 2025, Chinese AI companies have clearly led in open-weight models, while U.S. organizations lead in true open-source models.
AI 'creating, not cutting' jobs in Newport
BBC reports that AI is creating, not cutting, jobs in Newport, Wales. Semiconductor companies like IQE benefit from AI data center demand, with the South Wales compound semiconductor sector supporting 3,140 jobs in 2025, up 14% from 2,748 in 2024, with average salaries around £66,000. The UK AI minister says Wales must reindustrialise for an AI future.
Carnegie Expert Testifies on Military AI and Human Rights
Carnegie's Steve Feldstein testified to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission that powerful AI systems, rapid proliferation, and a norms vacuum create dangerous conditions, as militaries integrate AI targeting and test autonomous weapons, driven by battlefields in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran.
Snorkel AI raises $350M Series E at $3.5B valuation
Snorkel AI raised a $350M Series E at a $3.5B valuation, nearly triple its valuation from 17 months ago. The company shifted from data labeling to data-as-a-service and now has a $375M annualized revenue run-rate, an 18-fold increase over 12 months.
User shares local LLM editing vLLM service config
A local-LLM user posted on r/LocalLLaMA that they run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next as a driver for Hermes and Pi, asking it to add CUDA_DISABLE_PERF_BOOST=1 to their vLLM service to cut idle server power draw.
Anthropic, OpenEvidence partner to bring medical AI worldwide
Anthropic and OpenEvidence are partnering to provide free AI-powered clinical decision support in about 100 low- and middle-income countries, including Uganda and Angola. OpenEvidence was consulted 42 million times by US clinicians in August alone.
Trump Tells UN US Rejects Global AI Control Scheme
In his 2026 UN General Assembly address, Trump defended US military action in Iran and Venezuela and said the US "totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control artificial intelligence." He dismissed AI doom warnings as coming from the same people who predicted climate catastrophe. Cuban and Iranian delegates walked out.
DWS CEO urges diversification beyond US and AI trade
DWS Group global CEO Stefan Hoops told Bloomberg's "The Close" that US investors should diversify risk beyond the US and beyond the AI trade, saying Europe offers opportunities outside the AI stack.
Singaporeans Open to AI Shopping, Want Strict Guardrails
Research shows Singaporeans are among the most receptive to AI agents shopping for them, but also demand the strictest guardrails. This highlights balancing convenience with consumer protection as AI shopping apps spread.
OpenAI improves prompt caching for GPT-6
OpenAI upgrades prompt caching for GPT-6 with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls to cut latency and cost.
World Bank: AI's promise for developing economies
A World Bank blog highlights AI's potential to extend scarce expertise in developing countries, where it has reached lower-income nations 40 times faster than the internet. It draws on the World Development Report 2026, citing examples in healthcare and agriculture.
Hacker News discussion: LLM Ass Bench
A Hacker News discussion titled 'LLM Ass Bench' is available, though details are not provided in the summary.
Billings to screen council emails with AI
Billings will use AI to screen City Council emails while continuing to post them online. The policy, first implemented in April 2025, will be monitored and updated as the AI industry evolves.
Qualcomm launches two AI-focused smartphone chips, can run 30B model locally
At its Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme Gen 6, targeting on-device AI. The Extreme can run a 30B-parameter MoE model locally, supports up to 200M-parameter sensing models, 8K 60fps video and APV codec, with Motorola Signature 27 launching on it.