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1. OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled
OpenAI’s annualised revenue is roughly $20 billion below what the company had previously signalled, CNBC reports. The shortfall raises questions about the scale of AI compute spending and related deals.
Source: Hacker News Best
2. OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers
OpenAI has withdrawn three mathematics papers, as shown in the version history of its public GitHub math repository. The removal has drawn attention from the research community.
Source: Hacker News Best
3. Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan and execute tasks across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and gets its own workplace identity, including an email address.
Source: TechCrunch AI
AI news
1. Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers deny allegations of mishandling sensitive information. In an open letter, they warn their dismissals are chilling the company’s AI safety culture and could suppress internal safety discussions.
Source: TechCrunch AI
2. Why isn’t the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
A blog post asks why the industry isn’t panicking over DeepSeek 4.1 Flash. The piece sparked debate on Hacker News, drawing 397 points and 333 comments.
Source: Hacker News Frontpage
3. USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI
USA Today and several local newspapers it owns are suing OpenAI, alleging the company copied hundreds of thousands of articles to train its AI models without authorization. The publisher seeks more than $250 million in damages, according to Reuters.
Source: The Verge AI
4. Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months
The company behind LMArena has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, reaching a $3.1 billion valuation in 10 months. It is also expanding its model evaluations to alignment issues such as lying.
Source: TechCrunch AI
5. Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects
Anthropic has launched OSS Scanner, a free service to help open-source projects find security vulnerabilities. Opt-in projects receive periodic, thorough scans from its strongest AI models. It could bring earlier alerts, though the report notes a trade-off.
Source: The Verge AI
6. ChatGPT’s ‘Intelligent UI’ update fills its responses with pictures, charts, and buttons
OpenAI is rolling out a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that lets the chatbot answer with interactive visuals, including diagrams, charts, forms, and tappable buttons. The update is launching for all users alongside GPT-6.
Source: The Verge AI
7. Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter
StepFun’s Step 5 Preview, a mixture-of-experts model with a 1 million token context window, has appeared on OpenRouter. The listing drew 88 points and 23 comments on Hacker News.
Source: Hacker News Frontpage
Community picks
1. Last week some of South Korea’s biggest banks were hit by a cyberattack. We now know the entire hack may have been done by a single person
A CrowdStrike report says several of South Korea’s largest banks were hit by a cyberattack last week, and the entire intrusion may have been carried out by one person. The attacker reportedly combined the open-source AI penetration tool ARTEX with DeepSeek v4.1-Flash, GLM-5.3, Grok 4.6 and Claude Code.
Source: Reddit r/LocalLLaMA Top
2. After AI models started knocking down longstanding math problems, insider Scott Aaronson says labs are now quietly testing whether their latest internal models can break major cryptographic protocols
As AI models begin solving long-standing math problems, insider Scott Aaronson says labs are quietly testing whether their latest internal models can break major cryptographic protocols. The claim raises concerns about encryption security and AI capabilities, though no actual cryptographic break has been confirmed.
Source: Reddit r/singularity Top
3. The Mathocalypse
Scott Aaronson’s new blog post, “The Mathocalypse,” drew intense discussion on Hacker News with 379 points and 390 comments. The title points to a coming upheaval in mathematics.
Source: Hacker News Best
4. Starting November 12th, 2026, abusive or cruel behavior towards Claude will be a violation of Anthropic’s Usage Policy
Anthropic is updating its usage policy for the first time in over a year. Effective November 12, 2026, the rules prohibit sustained abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude and add restrictions on propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.
Source: Reddit r/singularity Top
5. Introducing Humanity’s Sixth Sense, a new benchmark testing intuitive visual reasoning from spatial and causal reasoning to social understanding.
A new benchmark called Humanity’s Sixth Sense tests intuitive visual reasoning, spanning spatial and causal reasoning to social understanding. The gap is stark: humans score 93.1%, the strongest model GPT-6-astra reaches 53.6%, and the median model just 30.9%.
Source: Reddit r/singularity Top