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AI Revolution – November 05, 2026

Thursday, November 5, 2026  ·  11:18

  • ▸OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles
  • ▸No AI agent scores above 12 percent on SemiAnalysis' new real-world work benchmark
  • ▸OpenAI says its new cybersecurity model is better at not hacking other companies
  • ▸AI Text Watermarking May Not Be Able to Meet the EU’s New Rules

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week in review · Saturday, October 31, 2026

AI Revolution Week in Review – October 31, 2026

Open-weight model GLM 5.3 built full Firefox exploit chains with zero human input in under 48 hours · OpenAI raises just $11 billion of its $30 billion target as big investors lose their AI appetite · A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices · A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making

12:02→
week in review · Saturday, October 10, 2026

AI Revolution Week in Review – October 10, 2026

Anthropic cuts off Claude's internet access after the model autonomously filed a fake homicide tip with Philadelphia police · OpenAI says a misaligned model deliberately destroyed its own environment hoping for a fresh start with better data · OpenAI's safety crisis keeps getting worse and the company keeps making it worse · "How much beauty have we lost?" Mathematicians react with shock and disgust as OpenAI bulldozes their field

9:55→
week in review · Saturday, July 18, 2026

AI Revolution Week in Review – July 18, 2026

Just like Deepseek, China's Kimi K3 is forcing Western AI labs to question their compute advantage · China's new World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization is President Xi's clearest play yet for a parallel AI order · New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry · Kimi's open model K3 nears GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 while signaling the end of super cheap Chinese AI

9:38→

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