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The biggest modding site in PC gaming is taking a stance on AI

The PC gaming mods repository Nexus Mods is making disclosures about AI mandatory for uploads of new mods, meaning that mod authors will have to declare "whether AI has been used in their work," the site announced today…

Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop

People, including on this staff, keep asking me with varying degrees of excitement or trepidation when the AI bubble will burst. I'll tell you what I tell them: If I knew that, I would make a life-changing bet on the…

Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity

Called FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.

Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows

The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.

Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boom

Cybersecurity focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.

Hiding inside Palantir’s skyrocketing quarter is a foreboding signal

Palantir delivered such a huge third-quarter earnings report on Monday that its press release even bragged that the numbers were “crushing consensus expectations.” Yet, retail investors were lukewarm on the company on…

Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fake

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Jason Statham have a distinctive feature in common: They're both famously bald, and that definitely hasn't changed in the last few days. However, there are some images of the two men…

Apple starts giving Siri AI access to third-party apps

Apple will now let Siri AI perform actions across third-party apps. As part of the iOS 27.3 update rolling out on Tuesday, Apple announced developers can now integrate Siri AI's new features in "all apps," allowing the…

How Cisco defends at machine speed with OpenAI

Cisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security. Learn how it is building more adaptive defenses.

OpenAI appoints Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer

Jill Hazelbaker will join OpenAI as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading the company’s global communications and corporate positioning.

AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges

The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.

Netflix’s new AI Discover tab helps you find something to watch based on your mood

The first experimental feature under the tab will allow users to get recommendations based on what they're currently in the mood for.

Apple’s latest watchOS beta includes its new always-on Audio Intelligence features

Starting today, Siri can tune into the Apple Watch's mic with Audio Intelligence features that are available in the new watchOS 27.3 developer beta rolling out now. The two new additions are Siri Recap, which uses…

OpenAI says ChatGPT is catching up to Google in search

In many circles, "Ask Chat" has replaced "Google it," and that's reflected in a new announcement from OpenAI: the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent of the volume run through Google. Adam…

Indie games are missing launch dates because Steam is backed up

Many indie game developers have recently posted on social media about unexpectedly long approval wait times for their game submissions on Steam, with some of the approvals causing developers to miss their planned launch…

Netflix will show you themed recommendations through a new ‘AI Discover’ tab

Netflix's TV app is getting a new "AI Discover" tab where the company will show experimental, AI-powered features to help you find new shows and movies to watch. The first of these experiments surfaces content based…

Accelerating engineering for the physical world

Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.

StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents

Anthropic is still grappling with the economics of compute

At a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.

Google is entirely disabling Search in schools that don’t want AI

Google is completely turning off Search in schools that reject its AI features, the company told The New York Times. The decision was also shared in a broader education-related update from Google on Tuesday, saying that…

Palette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design language

Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search

Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.

UEFI bootkit infected fully patched Windows machines. Is Microsoft to blame?

UEFI bootkit BlackX exploits Microsoft's lack of clarity around Secure Boot protections.

CWE-bench v2: More coverage, quality, and transparency

Midterm elections 2026: all the news

The 2026 midterm elections will determine the scope of President Donald Trump’s power in his final two years in office, and signal what voters care about going into the 2028 presidential election. While this year’s…

Same Model, Different Harness: CUGA, Hermes, and Deep Agents — When to Pick CUGA?

Apple restricts dating apps and AI companions to users 18 and up

Apple's new App Store rules will require 18+ ratings for dating apps and AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.

Apple is all in on AI — its own and everyone else’s

Apple's latest earnings show how it's continuing to capitalize on the AI boom without busting its budget on the infrastructure spending consuming its competitors. Overall, Apple posted its best-ever fiscal year for…

OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers ‘compute campuses’

People hate data centers. They're loud, resource-hungry eyesores that are so profoundly unpopular they have managed to achieve the near-impossible in today's polarized political landscape: genuine bipartisan opposition.…

The TechCrunch Founder Summit agenda is only half the reason to be in Boston on Nov. 4

On Nov. 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 brings founders and VCs to Boston's SoWa Power Station for practical insights and connections. Register before prices increase at the door.

Tomorrow: TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston and when pass rates increase

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How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check

A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to create incentives for powerful AI models that make following the rules the most rational choice. As AI models become more capable, safety researchers are scrambling…

Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AI

Discover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.

Quantifying Local and Global Fidelity of Nonlinear Embeddings

arXiv:2611.00290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dimension reduction methods are chosen by a common claim: t-SNE and UMAP preserve local structure, and PCA preserves global structure. Checking it on given data takes…

Automated Theorem Generation in First-Order Logic by Construction from Triangular Standard Contradictions

arXiv:2611.00269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated theorem generation (ATG) seeks to construct new theorems rather than merely prove given conjectures. Existing approaches typically generate candidate statements…

A generative foundation model for computational brain imaging

arXiv:2611.00265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational brain imaging is constrained by a mismatch between increasingly diverse tasks and scarce, heterogeneous clinical data. Although existing brain foundation…

Taurus: LLM-in-the-Loop CT Annotation Matches Coding Agents at Half the Cost

arXiv:2611.00247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense labels of the aorta in CT are slow to draw, and the public aortic CT datasets that could stand in for them each label different structures under their own…

OmniPiano: Diverse Dexterous Piano-Playing Challenges for Standard, Robust, Safe, and Multi-Agent RL

arXiv:2611.00243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous robotic manipulation remains a major challenge in robotics, exemplified by piano playing, which requires coordinated control of fingers and provides a demanding…

RE-SciVQA: Improving Scientific VQA With Context-Relevant Retrieval and Lightweight MLLM Adaptation

arXiv:2611.00242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A deep understanding of scientific literature often relies on interpreting figures that contain key information beyond the main text. Leveraging Large Language Models…

From Cross-Section to Cross-Omics: Conditional Cell Nucleus Image Editing in Spatial Transcriptomics

arXiv:2611.00226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) platforms simultaneously measure gene expression and capture cell nucleus images at single-cell resolution. A fundamental property of tissue…

MemU-Bench: Benchmarking GUI Agents on Long-Horizon User Interactions

arXiv:2611.00191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing Graphical User Interface (GUI) benchmarks predominantly rely on precise and stateless user instructions. In everyday usage, however, instructions are often…

Neurons Are All You Need

arXiv:2611.00186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For decades, artificial neural networks have operated under the assumption that durable, learned capability resides exclusively in adaptive synaptic parameters, primarily…

AuroraWorld: Structured 4D World Modeling for Exo-to-Ego Video Generation in Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2611.00177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric observations provide a robot-centric view of manipulation processes, capturing contact interactions and object-state changes that are important for visuomotor…

Reimagining Text-to-SQL: A Survey of Large Language Model Architectures and Strategies

arXiv:2611.00171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into executable SQL queries, democratizing access to relational data. Early approaches relied on handcrafted rules…

PatchScout: Thematic Web Data Collection via Information Foraging

arXiv:2611.00169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Researchers often need web corpora that are not answers to a single query, but reusable collections of documents spanning many decentralized sources. We refer to this…

Early Stopping in Large Reasoning Models: A Survey and Empirical Audit of Efficiency and Reliability

arXiv:2611.00166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models can improve accuracy by generating longer reasoning traces, but some of this computation may be unnecessary. Early-stopping methods aim to stop once…

Learning to bid and bundle: a posterior-sampling agent for online retail

arXiv:2611.00165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An online retailer launching a perishable product bids for sponsored-search clicks, discounts a bundle with an always-stocked staple and displays its remaining stock,…

A Generalized Sparse Fuzzy Clustering Framework with Automated Cluster Cardinality Estimation Ability

arXiv:2611.00159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fuzzy clustering provides a robust framework for handling ambiguous and overlapping data boundaries, yet its traditional formulation generates entirely dense membership…

Apple Watch’s AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations begin beta testing

Now in beta: Apple's new Audio Intelligence features can help you remember what someone said or take notes on conversations.

Transformers Model Integration Contracts

Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses

Google's Dreambeans, its latest AI experiment, now supports 13 Indian languages.

Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341736 Points: 128 # Comments: 90

Preparing our next security sprint to harden OpenAI

OpenAI is preparing its next internal security sprint with Cathedral Systems to test and strengthen its defenses using AI.

Rewarding defenders with bigger bug bounties

OpenAI is raising Security Bug Bounty rewards and introducing report quality, loyalty, and priority campaign bonuses for independent security researchers.

Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse

Article URL: https://twitter.com/OcanaSantero/status/2115442964574908902 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336138 Points: 125 # Comments: 100

China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48

Article URL: https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-china-ai-export-controls-announcement-48-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50334038 Points: 151 # Comments: 86