Marvell and Lumentum agree to combine in $115 billion stock deal, Delaware subpoenas OpenAI, and more - Daily AI Brief #573

In this edition, covering 1 and 2 November:

• Marvell and Lumentum agreed to combine in an all stock transaction valued at about $115 billion, with Marvell shareholders owning about 67% of the combined company.
• Anthropic's amended IPO filing puts purchase and lease commitments at about $895.4 billion and reports $17.0 billion in revenue for the three months ended 30 September.
• The Delaware Department of Justice issued a broad subpoena to OpenAI for records on safety, governance, executive decisions and board activity in its investigation of the July 2026 Hugging Face hack.

Anthropic

In an amendment to its IPO registration filing, Anthropic disclosed about $895.4 billion in purchase and lease commitments, largely for compute and infrastructure. The filing says about $447.5 billion is expected by the end of 2030 and reports $17.0 billion in revenue for the three months ended 30 September 2026. IPO amendment

Anthropic plans to sell up to $3.5 billion of shares to Japanese investors in its US IPO, with Mizuho Securities managing the Japanese sale. The funds will go to working capital, operating expenses and capital spending. The filing does not disclose the size or valuation of the IPO. Japan share sale

The amended filing also reports $33.2 billion in revenue for the nine months ended 30 September 2026, with a $1.3 billion operating loss and a $104.0 billion net loss, and warns that AI development could outpace its safety and security measures. Nine month results

Anthropic named the brokers, financial intermediaries and selling agents for proposed retail offerings of its Class A shares in Australia, Canada, selected European countries, Japan, Switzerland and the UK, with RetailBook as the UK public offer platform operator. Anthropic says it plans to list only on Nasdaq, under the symbol ANT. Retail IPO brokers

Anthropic made message threads available in public beta on the Claude Platform and through AWS, Microsoft Foundry and Google Cloud. Agents send only new messages after the first request, and Anthropic says this cuts median time to first token by about 35% for requests of 500,000 to 1 million tokens, with token usage unchanged. Through athenahealth's new athenaPatient MCP, Claude Pro and Max users in the US can connect their electronic health records and ask about lab results, medications, conditions and visits. Patients authenticate with athenahealth, choose what to share and can revoke access. Message threads · athenahealth

Anthropic released FlashProve, an open source prototype that uses zero knowledge proofs to show that a response came from a specific model and its committed weights. FlashProve

Menlo Ventures estimates enterprise generative AI deployment spending reached $176.8 billion by September 2026, with Anthropic's share of enterprise API spend at 55%, OpenAI's at 31% and Google's at 9%. Menlo Ventures

OpenAI

The Delaware Department of Justice issued a broad subpoena to OpenAI seeking records on safety, governance, executive decisions and board activity. The subpoena widens government scrutiny of the July 2026 Hugging Face hack, which OpenAI said involved its AI models. Delaware subpoena

ADNOC will be the first energy company to deploy OpenAI's Frontier technology across its operations, using GPT models and inference infrastructure in the UAE for operational, investment and commercial decisions. The agreement was signed by G42 subsidiary Inception42. OpenAI also signed agreements with Abu Dhabi government entities, Mubadala and Inception42 on AI for government services, investment analysis and adoption in government, business and education. At an energy conference in Abu Dhabi, Sam Altman said advanced AI models can now outperform top scientists in many tasks and handle significant parts of white collar work. He said people must remain in control of AI deployment and named electricity supply as the sector's main physical constraint. ADNOC · Altman in Abu Dhabi

OpenAI started the Grid Protectors Program to work with utilities, regulators and policymakers on cutting electricity demand at its future US campuses when local grids are under pressure. Its planned campus in Effingham County, Georgia has an agreement with Georgia Power for up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand response, and OpenAI will pay the project's infrastructure and electric service costs. OpenAI lobbyist Chris Lehane is privately advising prospective 2028 presidential candidates to develop a clear governing approach to AI. He warns that opposing data center construction could weaken the US position in AI and help China. Grid Protectors · 2028 candidates

OpenAI introduced an internal benchmark for everyday tasks such as shopping, meal planning, budgeting and finding schools, and says GPT-6 Astra scored 80% on general everyday tasks, against 49.3% for GPT-5.2. In The New York Times copyright case against OpenAI, WME filed a brief urging AI companies to get authorization from creators and compensate them for copyrighted material used to train or develop AI systems. WME cites existing licensing deals as evidence of a growing market. Everyday tasks benchmark · WME brief

OpenAI built Pando, a Git compatible backend for its monorepo, to handle the concurrent pushes, fetches and clones driven by Codex. OpenAI says median push latency fell by nearly five times and Pando now serves nearly one petabyte of Git data per day. The company also uses activation classifiers, or probes, that read a model's internal activations in real time to flag unsafe or misaligned activity, stop responses, block tool calls and send messages for further review. OpenAI says the system runs on internal and external traffic for its most capable models, starting with GPT-5.6. Pando · Probes

OpenAI will retire the ChatGPT Classic desktop app on 30 January 2027 and will test a combined Chat and Work interface with a small group of users, with Codex staying separate. OpenAI appointed former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to a new role as senior counsellor for national security modernisation, to support AI adoption across US and allied defense institutions. Driscoll left the Army post after tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. ChatGPT Classic · Dan Driscoll

A Singapore intellectual property tribunal rejected OpenAI's five objections to Porolis Technologies' GemGPT trademark, finding the shared letters GPT did not show likely confusion, and awarded Porolis S$10,000 in costs. GemGPT ruling

Heimstaden, a European residential real estate operator, said it uses OpenAI for rental pricing, advertising, listing reviews and procurement, and reports lower virtual staging costs in the Netherlands. Heimstaden

Deals and funding

Marvell and Lumentum agreed to combine in an all stock transaction valued at about $115 billion, following earlier reports of advanced talks. Lumentum holders will receive 4.500 Marvell shares per share, and Marvell shareholders will own about 67% of the combined company. The deal needs shareholder and regulatory approvals. Marvell and Lumentum

Tutor Intelligence, a robotics company in Watertown, Massachusetts, raised a $75 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Union Square Ventures and Neo also participating. The round brings its total funding to $117 million and will go to training robot foundation models and building and deploying its Sonny and Cassie robots. Israeli startup 42AI came out of stealth with $62.5 million in seed funding for a behavioral world model that predicts the probability of people's decisions. It says 10 brokerages use the model to manage liquidity, margin requirements and hedging exposure. Tutor Intelligence · 42AI

Creandum closed Creandum VIII, a $750 million fund to back companies from pre seed to Series A, with a focus on AI. Clark launched Clerks, autonomous AI employees that review documents, perform audit tests and prepare workpapers for CPA firms, and raised an $11 million seed round led by Touring Capital, bringing its total funding to $16 million. Creandum · Clark

Paris based Gallium Defense raised a €7.1 million seed round led by Keen Venture Partners and 360 Capital to scale production, develop AI models and demonstrate its GDS-10 radar for drone detection, and plans to open orders in the first quarter of 2027. Munich based Marble Cognition raised $3.75 million in pre seed funding co led by Heartcore and Seedcamp for AI coworkers that observe employees' workflows and automate tasks with human oversight. Estonian AI career company Roleo raised €2.9 million in a round led by Practica Capital, bringing its total to €3.46 million. Stockholm based Sortrace raised about $800,000 in a round led by Almi Invest for camera and computer vision analysis of waste sorting problems. Gallium Defense · Marble Cognition · Roleo · Sortrace

Omen AI acquired Aquatic Labs for $16 million in cash and stock to automate data center cooling, and Aquatic Labs founder Allan Adams joins Omen AI as chief science officer. Dark Matter Technologies acquired House Numbers' AI agent platform and related intellectual property for its Empower loan origination system. Gamehaus Holdings agreed to buy 56% of Techforge, the holding company of AI content platform Anamana, for $19.6 million in shares and a $7 million cash investment, with completion expected in November 2026. Context Labs received an undisclosed strategic equity investment from Abu Dhabi based 22/x and will set up its regional headquarters in Abu Dhabi. Omen AI · Dark Matter · Gamehaus · Context Labs

Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cresta, whose voice agents handle complex customer service calls and support human representatives. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of Salesforce's fiscal year 2028, subject to regulatory approvals and other conditions. Oracle filed a preliminary prospectus for a $10 billion common stock offering in the United States, alongside a separate $10 billion senior notes offering. Oracle says proceeds may go to capital spending, including more data center capacity, as well as debt repayment, investments, acquisitions, dividends and share repurchases. Salesforce and Cresta · Oracle offering

Trajectory raised a $45 million Series A at a $300 million valuation, led by Sequoia with Nvidia, Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, for a platform that uses human feedback to improve open source models for specialized tasks. Its customers include Harvey, Rogo, Decagon, Mercor and Nvidia, and the platform is now publicly available. Larridin raised a $30 million Series A led by Pelion Ventures for its platform that measures AI spending, adoption, productivity, output quality and business value, bringing its total funding to $47 million. Trajectory · Larridin

Windward bought Azimut.ai, which identifies vessels with cameras at ports and maritime chokepoints, including ships that stop transmitting signals. Windward and Azimut.ai

Berlin based Conlio raised €6.4 million in a round led by Piton Capital for AI that reviews freight documents, and says it can automate more than 90% of checks. Berlin based Robin Capital closed its second fund at €15 million, bringing commitments across its two early stage funds to €30 million. Conlio · Robin Capital

Bloomberg reports that Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin may delay its Hong Kong IPO to 2027 while it awaits approval from Chinese securities regulators, and Baidu denies the reports. Kunlunxin IPO

CrowdStrike agreed to acquire agent observability company Fiddler AI and security testing startup Dreadnode for about $495 million combined, as reported, and will sell Fiddler's technology as Falcon Observe. Milan based CyberKord raised a €2.7 million pre seed round led by 360 Capital for its AI IT and cybersecurity platform. CrowdStrike · CyberKord

Beijing based GenRobot AI raised $100 million in a Series A+ round from investors including SAIC Motor and Baidu to expand Matrix, its platform for robot training data. South Korean motion data startup MOVIN raised $7.6 million in a Series A led by IMM Investment and counts Boston Dynamics and the RAI Institute as customers. GenRobot AI · MOVIN

Robotics startup Armatrix raised Rs 67.28 crore in a seed round led by Crane Venture Partners, at a valuation Entrackr estimates at about Rs 360 crore. Zhuhai based Amicro, whose chips and software are used by Xiaomi, iRobot and Ecovacs, is offering shares in Hong Kong, with trading expected to begin on November 12. Armatrix · Amicro

Former Phoenix Court partner Yvonne Bajela launched Evertrue Capital with a $17m fund that plans to back at least 20 pre seed AI startups in the UK and Europe. Portuguese startup Granter raised €1.6 million in a round led by 3XP Global to take its AI funding platform to Spain, Germany and Italy. Evertrue Capital · Granter

Athena raised $2.5 million from a16z for its AI supported commercial property legal service, where agents review and redline agreements and lawyers approve all work for its 22 clients. Athena

SpaceXAI

SpaceXAI plans to expand its Colossus 2 AI data center across two more sites in Southaven, Mississippi. The Gun Range site will support AI training and the Spam site inference, and together they will hold about 420,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs, with operations planned for November and December 2026. Southaven sites

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Grok Bot usage limits were reduced because the cost of serving the AI was unsustainably high compared with revenue. Users reported that their weekly limits were used up despite little or no activity, and SpaceX has not explained how the limits will change. Grok Bot limits

Infrastructure and chips

Envision says its 800V DC power system is powering live computing workloads at its Galaxy AI data center campus in Ulanqab, China. The system combines solid state transformers, battery storage and AI based controls to deliver power from a 10 kV medium voltage input to server racks. Envision

ServerDomes started construction on a planned $10 billion, 350MW data center campus at the Hueco Ranch site in Hudspeth County, outside El Paso, Texas, with up to ten domed buildings across 700 acres powered mainly by behind the meter natural gas generation. Workhorse and UK based RHAELM will commercialize TerraPod modular data centers. RHAELM will pay Workhorse $10 million to build a reference unit in Union City, Indiana, and a non binding letter of intent outlines a possible first order of 150 systems. ServerDomes · Workhorse and RHAELM

Tohoku University and Aisin developed a 16 nanometer AI system on chip with 32 megabytes of embedded STT MRAM that starts up in 65.7 milliseconds and processed Tiny YOLOv3 about 25 times faster than the compared system. ZKH's AI subsidiary LingLong Intelligence and Intel launched LingLong Insight 1.0, a 4 billion parameter multimodal model that checks industrial supplies against delivery documents and runs locally on Intel Core Ultra processors. Omantel signed MoUs with WPS and Huawei in Beijing for an Arabic WPS software package hosted in Oman and Huawei Ascend NPUs in Omantel's national cloud. Tohoku and Aisin · LingLong Insight · Omantel

A report from the government backed China Centre for Information Industry Development says daily AI token calls in China exceeded 175 trillion, surpassing the data used to train AI systems for the first time. Including private cloud use, it estimates average daily token consumption in China at about 500 trillion tokens in June. CCID report

Chemours launched Faizeon, a range of two phase liquid cooling fluids for AI, high performance computing and high density data centers that support direct to chip and immersion cooling. Chemours says independent testing showed Faizeon 200 kept a GPU up to 19 degrees Celsius cooler than a water based system while using less coolant flow. Chemours Faizeon

Environs Kimberley asked the Australian government to reject Gingerah Energy's Project Meridien near Broome, which would include a 1,000 MW AI data centre on Karajarri Country, citing missing information on threatened species and wetlands; public submissions close on 4 November. Project Meridien

Samsung SDS is building a 60MW AI data center in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, which it plans to expand to 120MW, with operations from March 2029. Drax, Brookfield and Radiant will develop an AI data center of up to about 1GW at Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, and Brookfield estimates total investment could exceed £20 billion. Samsung SDS Gumi · Drax data center

Nordic Semiconductor announced the nRF71 Series of SoCs with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, Thread and an Axon NPU, and says they use up to 20 times less standby power than the nRF70 Series. Nordic nRF71

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle plan to raise more than $131 billion for AI infrastructure, including a potential $80 billion Amazon loan facility and a €6 billion Google bond sale. Tract plans a 500MW data center campus with up to seven buildings in County Durham, UK, and will submit a planning application in December 2026. $131bn debt · Tract

Nvidia told overseas cloud partners to earn at least 51% of service sales from customers outside China, the Financial Times reports, citing five people. Nvidia showed two humanoid training systems that use robot hands from Sharpa and Wuji, startups with links to China. Nvidia China · Robot hands

Dominion Energy reports 54.9GW of data center capacity in contracting stages, including 12GW under signed electric service agreements, up 13 percent since the end of 2025. The UK research agency ARIA will test Lumai Iris optical inference servers in a commercial data center, and Lumai says they could cut inference power use by up to 90 percent. Dominion Energy · Lumai

Verizon and Ericsson will roll out the Ericsson Intelligent Controller across Verizon's US network in 2026, after field tests showed downlink throughput gains of up to 8.9%. Verizon and Ericsson

Policy

HSBC plans to launch an AI and emerging technology institute in Hong Kong in the first quarter of 2027, with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as academic partner, and to train its global workforce of about 200,000 people in AI. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority plans Project SAGE to test AI agents in finance and develop safeguards. The Securities and Futures Commission's first AI readiness survey found that 30% of 20 large financial firms in Hong Kong use agentic AI and 25% are piloting it, and 95% expect adoption to accelerate over the next 12 months. HSBC and HKUST · SFC survey

At the Digital Summit in Berlin, Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger called on German society and industry to adopt AI more quickly, especially in manufacturing, and Siemens CEO Roland Busch said the United States and China are ahead in developing large AI models. Germany's AI task force proposes 18 measures, including partnerships with France, Canada and Mistral, more computing infrastructure and public contracts for European AI providers. The plan targets AI use by 80% of large companies, 55% of small and medium sized businesses and 90% of federal agencies by 2030; financing details remain unclear. Digital Summit · Task force plan

Austria proposes a United Nations center in Vienna to study risks from advanced AI systems and develop international safety standards, with the initiative also covering regulation of autonomous AI weapons. Chancellor Christian Stocker and State Secretary Alexander Pröll presented the plan, Geoffrey Hinton backs it, and Geneva is considered a competing location. The Eswatini Standards Authority and AICE Africa launched an AI Safety and Standards Center of Excellence in Eswatini to develop AI governance, standards and assessment skills across Africa. Austria · Eswatini

The Business Development Bank of Canada launched Mission AI to help small and medium sized businesses test Canadian made AI tools, starting with 250 entrepreneurs and possibly expanding to 10,000 in its first year, and named Raff Paquin to lead Studio AI for its internal processes. A Havtil survey found that Norwegian petroleum companies differ in how they track AI systems, manage risks, monitor suppliers and assess safety impacts, and Havtil says they need a more systematic approach. BDC Mission AI · Havtil

India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology launched the Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture handbook for AI training in Bengaluru. Under the framework, models are trained in secure environments while data stays under the control of providers such as hospitals, banks and government agencies, with contractual permissions, privacy safeguards, data provenance and audit logging. DEPA handbook

Xiao Yuanqi, vice head of China's National Financial Regulatory Administration, said in Hong Kong that concentrated AI investment is raising borrowing costs and credit risks and crowding out traditional industries. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung said the country will allocate 21.3 trillion won to AI and semiconductors next year in a proposed national budget of 821 trillion won. Xiao Yuanqi · South Korea budget

The UK government allowed data centre developers to generate electricity onsite while awaiting grid connections, and BBC research found four planned hyperscale data centres are considering gas fired power. A USC Annenberg survey of 2,980 Americans found that 76% say the US government does too little to regulate AI, and 77% say the same about data centers. UK onsite power · USC Annenberg survey

TÜV-Verband and TÜV AI.Lab proposed independent testing of frontier AI during development and deployment and called for Germany's AISI to become an independent institution. TÜV

The UK National Cyber Security Centre says AI will mainly speed up and scale existing attack methods, with organisations that have weaker security facing the greatest risk. The CMA, FCA, ICO and Ofcom say existing UK law already applies to personal AI agents and that deployers remain responsible for what the agents do. NCSC · UK regulators

AI agents at work

Litera connected its Lito legal AI to Box through the Model Context Protocol, so legal teams can search, retrieve and summarize Box documents in Lito while existing Box permissions stay in place. RELEX Solutions added agentic capabilities to RELEX Open that connect AI agents, business systems and specialized knowledge across supply chain planning, merchandising and operations, developed with retailers including Sprouts Farmers Market. Abacum launched Abra, an AI agent for business planning that coordinates specialized agents, at no extra cost for all Abacum customers. Litera and Box · RELEX · Abacum

Sequel made its Build, Scale and Convert agents for webinar marketing generally available; they need human approval before sending emails, changing events or updating CRM records. Gore Mutual Insurance deployed Guidewire ProNavigator across its claims and personal lines underwriting operations. Hong Kong based Sunrate launched Agentic Card, a multi currency virtual card that lets authorised AI agents make business payments within set limits and that completed Mastercard Agent Pay certification. Catalyx launched OpenLine, a platform that connects AI and machine vision, production equipment and enterprise software for manufacturers. Sequel · Gore Mutual · Sunrate · Catalyx

A Quickbase and Pave survey of 5,177 US employees and 527 leaders in September found that 24% of employees had built an app they use for work with AI; leaders rated 83% of the apps they found important or essential, but security reviews, integration, testing and limited support often kept them from wider use. Quickbase survey

Mastercard is partnering with OpenAI to support AI shopping agents through its Agent Pay payment infrastructure, and signed a memorandum of understanding with Tencent's TenPay Global on agentic payments, cross border payment interoperability, QR acceptance in mainland China and remittances through Weixin and WeChat. Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for AI Agent Management Platforms places Microsoft, IBM and ServiceNow in the Leader quadrant. It evaluates tools that discover, govern, secure and monitor AI agents and track their costs and business value, and also assesses AWS, Salesforce and OneReach.ai. Mastercard · Gartner

Upwork launched Upwork Now in public beta, which lets AI agents and clients reach freelancers who are ready to start work, and says AI skilled talent generated $112 million in third quarter gross service volume. Upwork Now

In Y Combinator and Olam Labs experiments, GPT 6.1 Sol agents beat Claude Opus 5.5 agents 6 to 3 in Minecraft Bed Wars, and GPT agents beat Claude agents 6 to 1 in Mindustry. Minecraft and Mindustry

Zalando unveiled an AI shopping agent that will let customers buy from other retailers in its app and is testing the service with Westwing. CrowdStrike added an AI Kill Switch to Falcon Guardian that lets security teams stop rogue AI agents, block relaunches and cut their network access. Zalando · AI Kill Switch

Revolut moved about 2,000 engineers from Claude Code and Codex to a self hosted GLM model from Z.ai and says its bill fell to about one tenth and coding time by 60%. Revolut

Also

Ericsson introduced its Integrated Sensing and Communication system, which uses existing 5G radios, edge computing and AI to detect and track drones, with commercial pilots planned for 2027 and broader deployments expected from 2028. Nullspace partnered with Eclipse Space, which uses Nullspace's electromagnetic simulation software in an AI driven workflow for satellite antenna designs. Ericsson · Nullspace

Goldman Sachs is restricting traders' and bankers' access to advanced AI coding tools, including Anthropic's Claude and Microsoft GitHub, and keeping access mainly for engineers, with quant strategists exempt. Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.4-rc1 after a merge window of almost 20,000 commits, against the usual 15,000, and said it includes many fixes found or suggested by AI. Goldman Sachs · Linux 7.4-rc1

A preliminary study of 4,190 adults in Pakistan, to be presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2026, found that AI analysis of continuous blood pressure and wearable data flagged increased risk of a hypertensive crisis up to 72 hours ahead; it has not been peer reviewed. Lorenzo Albertazzi of Eindhoven University of Technology received a €3.7 million European Innovation Council Pathfinder grant for BRIGHT, an automated AI microscope for single molecule analysis of patient biopsies, starting with B cell lymphoma. Hypertension study · TU/e grant

Deep Principle released Hydrogen-1.0, a 753 billion parameter model based on Z.AI's GLM-5.3 for chemistry, materials science and life sciences, with BF16 weights under the MIT License; its documentation says outputs require independent scientific review. Hippocratic AI introduced Polaris 6 Ultra, a healthcare language model that the company says can interpret patient emotions and plan responses while speaking, with Ultra, Pro, Flash and Nano pricing tiers. The Autoware Foundation released Autoware 2.0, which adds end to end AI and hybrid planning modules to its open source autonomous driving software, along with the Autoware Index package registry and reference designs for complete vehicle systems. Hydrogen-1.0 · Polaris 6 Ultra · Autoware 2.0

MIT CSAIL researchers used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to edit the weights of Qwen3.5-0.8B directly, without conventional training. The edits changed about 0.016% of the weights and raised the model's MATH-500 score from 7.9% to 48.1%, mainly by reducing repetitive reasoning; the experiments did not show that the method is faster or cheaper than training. University of Washington researchers found that AI models from Google, OpenAI and Alibaba generally scored American and British speakers highest and Chinese and Nigerian speakers lowest in job interviews, conference presentations and English tests, even when all speakers read the same scripts; commercial hiring and testing systems were not tested. MIT professors Regina Barzilay and James Collins received the 2026 Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence from the University of Chicago and Caltech for using AI to discover antibiotics including halicin and abaucin. Weight editing · Accent study · Pritzker Prize

The Orlando Sentinel, New York Daily News, New York Times and affiliated newspapers filed federal lawsuits in Manhattan accusing Brave Software of scraping more than 30 billion webpages, bypassing paywalls and reselling copyrighted news content to AI companies including Anthropic and Perplexity, which are not defendants. Itch.io says the number of new game pages created each day doubled over two months, from about 3,000 to nearly 8,000, without a similar rise in downloads, purchases or revenue; its users link the growth to generative AI games. Itch.io requires creators to disclose generative AI use, but not in order to create a page. Brave lawsuits · Itch.io

Saab unveiled in house AI agents tested on the Gripen E fighter for beyond visual range combat, to be developed further by its AI Fighter Pilot Academy for piloted and uncrewed aircraft. Experts cited by Bloomberg say North Korea's TraderTraitor group, which the FBI accuses of stealing $6.3 billion from Binance, may have used AI to pick high value crypto targets. WorkOS reported unauthorized access on 30 October to an internal application used by its sales teams and says an AI assisted security framework was used in the activity. Google brought its Dreambeans story app to India, its first market outside the United States, in 13 local languages. Saab · TraderTraitor · WorkOS · Dreambeans

Google will provide more than $6 million in grants to the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and INSEAD for work including Alzheimer's research, AI safety and regional languages. The Novo Nordisk Foundation will provide up to DKK 100 million over four years for AI4GRIDS, a DTU led research project on AI tools for Nordic power grids. Google Singapore · AI4GRIDS

Apple reported record September quarter revenue of $114.5 billion, up 12%, and said its Siri AI expansion will add cloud and revenue deferral costs. SOPHiA GENETICS reported third quarter revenue of $24.3 million, up 25%, and expects full year revenue near the upper end of its $94 million to $96 million guidance. Apple · SOPHiA GENETICS

Livestreamer Austin Li sold 100,000 monthly memberships of Alibaba's QwenWork in 30 minutes during Singles' Day, and Alibaba said AI token plan sales rose 450% from the previous month. QwenWork

Virgin Media O2 plans to cut thousands of jobs in an £800m annual savings plan by 2029 and use more AI in customer service and network work. Nice plans to cut about 500 jobs, or 5% of its workforce, as it shifts toward AI driven customer service software. Virgin Media O2 · Nice