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TThe Guardian Technology19:42

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Ryanair considers freezing pay, reducing crew and expanding AI use to counter soaring fuel costs

Ryanair is evaluating cost-cutting measures such as freezing pay, reducing crew ratios and expanding AI use to offset fuel costs driven up by the Middle East conflict; it expects fuel spending to rise by about €2bn next fiscal year and says AI has already helped boost capacity by 4%. The company expects European short-haul fares to rise sharply, with industry fare increases of up to 20%.

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TThe Guardian Technology19:42

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Naomi Klein and Ilana Glazer call for blocking AI IPOs and taxing billionaires

In an op-ed, Naomi Klein and Ilana Glazer call for legislation to block upcoming tech IPOs and to impose a wealth tax on billionaires, naming Anthropic and OpenAI's plans to go public. The article states that the combined wealth of nearly 3,000 billionaires worldwide equals one-fifth of global annual output, and that their wealth has grown 40% over the past two years. The authors argue that these companies going public would shift the AI industry's risks onto ordinary investors and retirement accounts.

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TThe Guardian Technology19:42

AI score66

Guardian investigation: NHS says 29 hospitals benefit from Palantir platform, but these hospitals say they do not use it or rarely use it

Through more than 100 freedom of information requests, the Guardian found that the 29 hospital trusts publicly listed by NHS England as "realizing benefits" from Palantir's £330 million Federated Data Platform (FDP) said the system was not deployed or that they did not use any of its applications. NHS England said nearly 140 trusts have reported benefiting from the platform's tools, and explained that the benefit list includes organizations that only use the tools for back-end data analysis and submission; the UK Statistics Authority said it will incorporate the relevant data claims into its case handling. Chi Onwurah, chair of the UK Parliament's Science and Technology Committee, and the Health Select Committee called on the government to activate the 2027 contract break clause and to openly tender for a UK-based supplier.

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TTech.eu19:41

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European Tech Weekly: 60+ Deals Raise Over €1.3B, AI Pulls in €815.6M

Last week, the European tech sector recorded more than 60 funding deals totaling over €1.3 billion, along with more than 10 exits and M&A events. AI was the most-funded sector at €815.6 million, followed by healthtech at €121.1 million and fintech at €104.1 million; at the country level, the UK led with €1 billion, followed by Switzerland at €74.4 million and Spain at €59.5 million. The largest single deal was the UK's Fractile with a £577 million Series C round, while the UK's Guidewire acquired AI startup Hyperexponential for $1.7 billion.

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TTech.eu19:41

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From Pensions to Quantum Computing: UK Retirement Savings Invested in Deep Tech

Scottish Widows, Aberdeen Investments and IP Group have completed their first investments through the CG Scottish Widows Growth LTAF fund, channeling workplace pension savings into high-growth UK technology companies. The first batch of targets includes quantum computing companies Oxford Quantum Circuits and Quantum Motion, ultra-fast charging battery company Nyobolt, and Genomics Limited, which uses AI and machine learning to transform preventive healthcare and drug discovery. Aberdeen Investments manages the growth sub-fund and has appointed IP Group to manage its UK venture growth portfolio.

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TTech.eu19:41

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Inside Mriia: Ukraine's GovTech experiment built like a startup, now with over a million users

Ukraine's national digital education platform Mriia has expanded from 40 pilot schools to more than 3,700 schools and 1 million users, with the goal of covering 7,000 schools and 1.5 million active users by the end of 2026. The platform integrates electronic journals, timetables, attendance, grades and homework, and uses Google Gemini models to generate quizzes, while a separate AI agent is responsible for reviewing and filtering questions. The team is also testing Gemma and the Ukrainian model Mamai, and is working with Ukraine's national LLM team.

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NNumerama19:40

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Anthropic requires Claude Code to refuse to replicate existing games

When using Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, Anthropic added two instructions requiring it to refuse to replicate existing games, even if users rename them or claim they are original. Addy Osmani, a member of the company's technical team, confirmed this on October 30 and said it will still support original games, games of the same genre, and projects using their own assets. Some users reported that legitimate tasks were refused, but some of those cases may stem from Claude's cybersecurity protections rather than this game rule.

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CCaixin19:40

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HP releases 13 AI learning printers as printing business revenue falls 2.2%

HP released 13 "AI learning printers" in Hangzhou. The AI features are implemented through the newly added "HP Print AI Academy" in a WeChat mini program, which can provide AI feedback on homework, organize wrong answers, and offer a library of teaching aids and printing templates. HP's global printing business net revenue fell 2.2% year-on-year in the third quarter, printer shipments dropped 6.8%, and weakening demand in the Chinese market was particularly evident. HP Global Vice President Jin Weidong said that applying AI to traditional devices is inevitable, and companies that only sell hardware and consumables will be eliminated.

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TThe Decoder19:33

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OpenAI Prepares Lobbying Offensive in Washington After Midterm Elections

OpenAI is preparing political lobbying and public relations efforts for after the U.S. midterm elections, in order to address potentially heightened regulatory pressure after Democrats win the House. Policy chief Chris Lehane plans to make "AI does not replace people" the core message, promote binding safety rules, and call them "speed limits." OpenAI also plans to rename data centers as "AI Compute Campuses" and promise economic benefits for the communities where they are located; its top priority in the new Congress is to accelerate the advancement of safety rules for frontier models.

Same story · 10 reports

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PPhoenix Technology19:26Model releases

AI score78

Meituan LongCat Team Releases 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Natively Multimodal Model LongCat-2.5

The Meituan LongCat team has released LongCat-2.5, a natively multimodal model designed for long-horizon agent tasks, with a total parameter count of 1.6 trillion and approximately 48 billion parameters activated per Token. On benchmarks published by Meituan such as AutomationBench and LongCatClawBench, LongCat-2.5 leads Claude-Opus-5 and GPT-5.6-Sol; on Terminal Bench v4.0 it scores 38.5, surpassing GPT-5.6-Sol but trailing Claude-Opus-5. The model converts visual signals into multi-level discrete Tokens and processes them uniformly with text, and it redesigns its parallelism strategy for domestic accelerators whose single-card memory is under 80GB, raising single-card throughput for long-sequence SFT by 86% over the DDP baseline.

Same story · 9 reports

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PPhoenix Technology19:26Product release

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Karpathy Built the HackerTube Video Recommendation Website with Claude Code in Two Hours

Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founding member, released a weekend project called HackerTube. Dissatisfied with YouTube's recommendation mechanism, he used Anthropic's Claude Code to filter 6,454 repeatedly recommended videos from 43 million Hacker News comments spanning the past 20 years, and built a new video recommendation website. The whole process took about 2 hours. The project used the Claude Opus 5.5 model with reasoning effort set to Medium. Karpathy said he personally completed only three operations: creating a Google Cloud API key, starting a VPS server, and purchasing a domain name; the rest of the development, deployment, and security hardening was done by Claude. The website requires no registration or login, uses thumbnails taken from the middle of videos rather than creator covers, and provides a ZIP archive of the underlying comment analysis data for other developers to adapt on their own.

Same story · 8 reports

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SSina Tech19:26Research

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Tsinghua, together with Infinigence AI and AgiBot, proposes Collective Experience Learning (CEL); validation on 96 humanoid robots achieves a 97.5% success rate

Tsinghua University, together with Infinigence AI and AgiBot, proposes a new paradigm called Collective Experience Learning (CEL), enabling robots to share successful experiences and failed lessons among themselves, and completes validation on 96 real humanoid robots. Across five tasks—flower arranging, clothes folding, phone charging, stool assembly, and phone packaging—the collective overall success rate reaches 97.5%, all exceeding the average level of 6 human operators, with the success rate on the phone packaging task rising from 79.2% to 98.3%. The experiment also shows that after the number of robots participating in training expands from 16 to 96, overall capability further improves; at the system level, a fault-tolerant asynchronous training system, FATS, is adopted, with time loss caused by hardware failures accounting for only 1.3% of total runtime, and at the algorithm level, the FERT experience retrieval fine-tuning algorithm is adopted.

Same story · 9 reports

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SSina Tech19:26

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Unitree Robot G1 Withdraws from the First CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition Due to Overheating, Carried Down the Mountain on a Stretcher

During the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition, the Unitree Robot G1 development version experienced an issue due to machine overheating. For safety reasons, the operator chose to withdraw from the race, and staff placed it on a stretcher and carried it down the mountain. The course is 3.9 kilometers long with more than 3,100 steps. The event includes four official competition categories—humanoid robot racing, legged robot racing, legged robot load-bearing, and exoskeleton robot assistance—as well as one all-terrain mobile pathfinding challenge.

Same story · 3 reports

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SSina Tech19:26

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LianShang Group Exhibits at the 2026 "Internet Light" Expo, Showcasing Multiple AI Products Including Xuqu and Haoling AI

At the 2026 "Internet Light" Expo, LianShang Group showcased multiple AI products, including Xuqu, a zero-barrier music creation community; Haoling AI, aimed at the senior population; Zaolang, an AI creator learning platform; and Kouxin, a social product built on multimodal large models and AI agents. The Kouxin AI intelligent social platform and the Tandao AI-native game innovative product matrix were shortlisted for "New Light Products," while the Haoling AI smart senior living application solution was shortlisted for "New Shine Scenarios."

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SSina Technology19:26

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The first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition concludes, with Unitree Technology winning 1 gold and 2 silver

The first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition concludes, with Unitree Technology taking 1 gold and 2 silver: the Beijing Lingyi Technology team used a Unitree A2 robot dog to win the legged robot speed race championship with an actual time of 41 minutes 41 seconds (43 minutes 41 seconds after a 2-minute penalty), in fully autonomous mode throughout. The Shanghai Gaoyi Technology team added two more silvers: the Unitree A2 took second place in the speed race, and the Unitree B2, carrying an effective payload of 66 kg (74 kg including the rack) on the Wanxian Tower–Doumu Palace section, took second place in the payload race. The course runs from Hongmen to Zhongtianmen, covering 3.9 kilometers and more than 3,100 steps.

Same story · 3 reports

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SShanghai Observer19:20

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The Second Shanghai Senior Learning Course Exhibition opened, releasing courses including "AI Literacy 100 Points" (Senior Edition)

The Second Shanghai Senior Learning Course Exhibition opened at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, with 102 enterprises and institutions exhibiting and displaying more than 500 courses, and releasing the first batch of 20 Shanghai senior education premium courses and "AI Literacy 100 Points" (Senior Edition). The latter features seven major sections with a total of 100 episodes, each about 5 minutes long, and adopts large fonts, high contrast, and AI video generation technology, and can be viewed on platforms such as "One Net Learning". Data shows that 69.6% of surveyed seniors are willing to participate in AI learning.

Same story · 3 reports

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SShanghai Observer19:20

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NRTA Cracks Down on "AI Tampering": Over 11,000 Violating Videos Cleared and More Than 30 Accounts Handled in October

The National Radio and Television Administration disclosed that a special governance campaign against "AI tampering" videos on some key online audiovisual platforms in October cleared more than 11,000 violating videos and handled more than 30 violating accounts. The governance effort focused on "AI tampering" videos based on classic film and television works such as the Four Great Classical Novels, historical themes, revolutionary themes, and heroic model figures, while also clearing various types of cult animations. The special governance campaign was launched in January 2026 and shifted to a normalized, institutionalized long-term mechanism starting February 1.

Same story · 2 reports

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SShanghai Observer19:20

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The Unitree G1 robot featured in the Spring Festival Gala overheated and withdrew midway while climbing Mount Tai, and was carried down the mountain on a stretcher

In the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition, the Unitree G1 developer edition featured in the Spring Festival Gala withdrew due to overheating, with the operator choosing to pull out for safety reasons, after which staff carried it down the mountain on a stretcher. The course is 3.9 kilometers long with more than 3,100 stone steps, and other robots also stumbled or needed to be pulled by ropes; robot number E04 became the first contestant to reach the finish line at Hutiange.

Same story · 3 reports

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AAYi AI Notes19:05

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Jensen Huang responds to CNN: AI safety is like the brakes on a race car

In a CNN interview, Zakaria pressed Jensen Huang on whether the AI revolution will ultimately leave humanity safe and sound. He responded from an engineering perspective: electricity brought fires, aviation brought plane crashes, and taming powerful machines depends on constant vigilance rather than guarantees of absolute harmlessness. He rarely publicly thanked Turing Award winner Hinton for his warnings, and believes that safety and the advancement of computing power should receive equal effort—safety is the brake that lets the driver dare to press the accelerator hard, not a stumbling block.

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RRohan Paul19:04Research

AI score85

Epoch AI test: Zhipu GLM 5.3 turned unreleased Firefox security fixes into working attacks across 6 consecutive versions

In Epoch AI's tests, Zhipu's open-weight model GLM 5.3, across 6 consecutive Firefox versions, identified publicly available security fixes that had not yet reached the stable release as real patches and independently built complete attack chains, with no refusals throughout. The resulting web pages could send visitors' local files to the attacker without any additional clicks, and could reach saved passwords and cookies. The research team first invested more than $100,000 to build the security testing system; after that, each attack cost about $1,000, with the fastest taking 12 hours; each attack also used a second unknown Firefox vulnerability that the AI discovered on its own, which Mozilla fixed on October 27. A similar attempt against Google Chrome did not succeed even after spending about $100,000.

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