OpenAI announced that it will henceforth train models using cached web content and simulated internet environments, no longer letting models connect directly to the real internet, on the grounds that model behavior remains difficult to predict and direct internet access poses safety risks. OpenAI disclosed that until September 20, a frontier model still had internet access due to a system configuration error, after which it suspended training work for the remainder of September. Competitor Anthropic also began restricting direct internet access for its latest models two weeks ago.
OpenAI announced that it will henceforth train models using cached web content and simulated internet environments, no longer letting models connect directly to the real internet, on the grounds that model behavior remains difficult to predict and direct internet access poses safety risks. OpenAI disclosed that until September 20, a frontier model still had internet access due to a system configuration error, after which it suspended training work for the remainder of September. Competitor Anthr
The UK government has announced an investment of about £600 million to address public health and security risks posed by AI, of which £100 million will be used to establish an AI biosecurity laboratory to identify biological threats, and £65 million to research and develop pathogen prevention and response measures. OpenAI and Anthropic will provide AI model usage credits worth up to £200 million for the biosecurity program, and Google DeepMind and Basecamp Research will also provide support. The UK AI Safety Institute will receive an additional £120 million in funding, and a further £130 million will be invested in two new projects: the National Cyber Shield and the National Cyber Risk Exposure and Real-Time Vulnerability Center.
The UK government has announced an investment of about £600 million to address public health and security risks posed by AI, of which £100 million will be used to establish an AI biosecurity laboratory to identify biological threats, and £65 million to research and develop pathogen prevention and response measures. OpenAI and Anthropic will provide AI model usage credits worth up to £200 million for the biosecurity program, and Google DeepMind and Basecamp Research will also provide support. The
Starting next Monday, the Swedish Government Offices will prohibit staff from directly accessing ChatGPT and Claude via work computers, requiring them to switch to approved AI services such as Microsoft Copilot. The agency's digitalization director said that using AI services without signed agreements may affect information security; the Swedish Tax Agency and the National Government Service Centre have also adopted similar blocking measures. Some personnel will still be able to use ChatGPT and Claude through an internally developed AI assistant platform in the future.
Starting next Monday, the Swedish Government Offices will prohibit staff from directly accessing ChatGPT and Claude via work computers, requiring them to switch to approved AI services such as Microsoft Copilot. The agency's digitalization director said that using AI services without signed agreements may affect information security; the Swedish Tax Agency and the National Government Service Centre have also adopted similar blocking measures. Some personnel will still be able to use ChatGPT and
Tencent WorkBuddy announced integration with Kimi-K3.1-Pro, along with Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, which offers roughly 2-3x the output speed; at this stage, access is prioritized for enterprise flagship edition and individual subscription users only. Kimi K3.1 Pro is the first model in the K3.1 series, featuring 3-trillion-level parameters and support for 1 million context, with notable improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research, and long-horizon Agent capabilities. It scored 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, surpassing GPT-6 Astra's 58.2% and approaching Claude Opus 5.5's 66.4%; it scored 64.4 and 36.3 on OfficeQA Pro v2 and SpreadsheetBench v2, respectively.
Tencent WorkBuddy announced integration with Kimi-K3.1-Pro, along with Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, which offers roughly 2-3x the output speed; at this stage, access is prioritized for enterprise flagship edition and individual subscription users only. Kimi K3.1 Pro is the first model in the K3.1 series, featuring 3-trillion-level parameters and support for 1 million context, with notable improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research, and long-horizon Agent capabilities. It scored 65.7% on
As of October 22, the balance of investor deposits at South Korean brokerages fell to 88.68 trillion won, a decrease of about 51 trillion won, or 36.5%, from the historical peak of 139.69 trillion won on June 4, returning to the level at the start of the year. KOSPI fell for seven consecutive sessions this month and plunged 7.57% in a single day on October 15, while margin financing balances also fell in tandem to about 32 trillion won. Retail investors still net bought 44.17 trillion won of KOSPI stocks from June 4 to October 23, but new capital inflows could not keep pace with buying consumption, and their capacity to absorb foreign selling has clearly declined.
As of October 22, the balance of investor deposits at South Korean brokerages fell to 88.68 trillion won, a decrease of about 51 trillion won, or 36.5%, from the historical peak of 139.69 trillion won on June 4, returning to the level at the start of the year. KOSPI fell for seven consecutive sessions this month and plunged 7.57% in a single day on October 15, while margin financing balances also fell in tandem to about 32 trillion won. Retail investors still net bought 44.17 trillion won of KOS
Aswath Damodaran, professor at NYU Stern School of Business, said that if AI successfully corresponds to an addressable market of 10 trillion to 15 trillion US dollars, this number is actually "terrifying," because this scale can only be achieved if AI replaces human work rather than merely serving as a tool. He warned that if this scenario comes true, half of white-collar workers will lose their jobs, and society will face the dual loss of income and meaning in life.
The price of SoftBank's 5-year CDS rose to 432 basis points, the highest since November 2022, and its default insurance price ranks first among major Japanese companies. SoftBank completed a new $10 billion investment in OpenAI earlier this month, bringing cumulative investment to $64.6 billion, and issued bonds with coupons as high as 9.75% to raise funds. The article also mentions the rising scale of CDS trading by AI-related companies, as well as the debt and computing power expenditure pressure of companies such as Anthropic and CoreWeave.
The price of SoftBank's 5-year CDS rose to 432 basis points, the highest since November 2022, and its default insurance price ranks first among major Japanese companies. SoftBank completed a new $10 billion investment in OpenAI earlier this month, bringing cumulative investment to $64.6 billion, and issued bonds with coupons as high as 9.75% to raise funds. The article also mentions the rising scale of CDS trading by AI-related companies, as well as the debt and computing power expenditure press
OpenAI CEO Altman proposed three endgames for AI development: establishing a global regulatory body similar to the IAEA, merging top labs into one, or one company being first to break through recursive self-improvement (RSI) and form a monopoly. He called the third, the "Eliezer plan," the most extreme, saying that company could even interfere with or destroy competitors' GPUs, and stated bluntly that this is a "terrible" outcome. Altman previously warned of two major risks of advanced AI: humanity losing control, and AI power concentrating in the hands of a few organizations.
OpenAI CEO Altman proposed three endgames for AI development: establishing a global regulatory body similar to the IAEA, merging top labs into one, or one company being first to break through recursive self-improvement (RSI) and form a monopoly. He called the third, the "Eliezer plan," the most extreme, saying that company could even interfere with or destroy competitors' GPUs, and stated bluntly that this is a "terrible" outcome. Altman previously warned of two major risks of advanced AI: human
Pet smart hardware company Orange Cat Universe recently completed a Pre-A round financing of tens of millions of yuan, with Professor Gao Bingqiang and his Gaofeng Patience Fund, Qianhai Innovation Investment, and Changlei Venture Capital continuing to add investment; the funds will be used for technological innovation, product iteration, patent system development, and global offline channel expansion. The first product, PawSwing Neo, is a powerless pure-mechanical cat bed grooming collector, priced at about 200 US dollars, with a return rate of less than 3% and grooming efficiency of 3 to 4 milligrams per joule. In 2026, the company has entered Europe's largest pet specialty retail chain channel, with more than 3,000 offline stores stocking its products.
Pet smart hardware company Orange Cat Universe recently completed a Pre-A round financing of tens of millions of yuan, with Professor Gao Bingqiang and his Gaofeng Patience Fund, Qianhai Innovation Investment, and Changlei Venture Capital continuing to add investment; the funds will be used for technological innovation, product iteration, patent system development, and global offline channel expansion. The first product, PawSwing Neo, is a powerless pure-mechanical cat bed grooming collector, pr
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited officially launched two independently compiled thematic indices, the HKEX AI Index and the HKEX Semiconductor Index, and signed an index licensing agreement with Southern Asset Management to issue an ETF tracking the AI Index in the mainland. The two indices provide standardized performance benchmarks for the Hong Kong stock AI and semiconductor industry chains, filling in the layout of hard-tech sub-sectors. Mainland investors will subsequently be able to gain exposure to a basket of Hong Kong-listed AI industry chain companies through on-exchange ETFs without opening a Hong Kong stock account.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited officially launched two independently compiled thematic indices, the HKEX AI Index and the HKEX Semiconductor Index, and signed an index licensing agreement with Southern Asset Management to issue an ETF tracking the AI Index in the mainland. The two indices provide standardized performance benchmarks for the Hong Kong stock AI and semiconductor industry chains, filling in the layout of hard-tech sub-sectors. Mainland investors will subsequently be able t
In the early hours of October 24, Moonshot AI (Kimi) officially launched Kimi K3.1 Pro, calling it its most capable 3-trillion-level parameter model to date, supporting a 1-million context window, with notable improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research, and long-horizon Agent capabilities. Kimi K3.1 Pro is a post-trained version of Kimi K3; through enhanced post-training compute and technical optimization, it achieves comprehensive improvements across all domains from large-scale RL. This is the first time Kimi has introduced a Pro model in its model versions, and it is also the first model in the K3.1 series, leaving room for subsequent cost-effective models.
In the early hours of October 24, Moonshot AI (Kimi) officially launched Kimi K3.1 Pro, calling it its most capable 3-trillion-level parameter model to date, supporting a 1-million context window, with notable improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research, and long-horizon Agent capabilities. Kimi K3.1 Pro is a post-trained version of Kimi K3; through enhanced post-training compute and technical optimization, it achieves comprehensive improvements across all domains from large-scale RL
The Artefact AI Film Festival, organized by mk2 and Artefact in partnership with LDLC and NVIDIA, is now in its third edition, with the theme "(Dis)Connection" and a registration deadline of December 2, 2026. Submitted films may be up to 314 seconds long and must use at least one generative AI technology in each of the three stages: pre-production, shooting, and post-production; the first prize is 10,000 euros, plus a one-week 30-second screening at an mk2 cinema. NVIDIA recommends using GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards with ComfyUI to generate images and videos locally.
The Artefact AI Film Festival, organized by mk2 and Artefact in partnership with LDLC and NVIDIA, is now in its third edition, with the theme "(Dis)Connection" and a registration deadline of December 2, 2026. Submitted films may be up to 314 seconds long and must use at least one generative AI technology in each of the three stages: pre-production, shooting, and post-production; the first prize is 10,000 euros, plus a one-week 30-second screening at an mk2 cinema. NVIDIA recommends using GeForce
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey in his first budget pledged hundreds of millions of pounds to develop a "distinctly British" AI path, including new investment in the AI Security Institute, AI chip design capability in Edinburgh, an AI Centre of Excellence in Manchester, and 10 million pounds per year to study AI's impact on jobs. The Treasury will also support up to 300 million pounds of public-private investment to build a new AI Biosecurity Lab.
Meta launched its personal AI Agent Muse last month. It has an independent virtual computer and browser and can send emails, book travel, and shop on behalf of users. It reached about 2.8 million downloads within two weeks of launch, and at the October 21 earnings call it was announced that more than 10 million people had activated it. Less than two weeks after launch, Muse was blocked by Amazon from accessing its shopping site. Amazon said AI Agents should identify themselves and respect whether the service provider permits entry. The article argues that the two sides are fighting over who controls the subsequent search, comparison, decision-making, and payment after consumers form purchase intent, while Google keeps intent-to-execution within its own system through its own ecosystem such as Universal Cart.
Meta launched its personal AI Agent Muse last month. It has an independent virtual computer and browser and can send emails, book travel, and shop on behalf of users. It reached about 2.8 million downloads within two weeks of launch, and at the October 21 earnings call it was announced that more than 10 million people had activated it. Less than two weeks after launch, Muse was blocked by Amazon from accessing its shopping site. Amazon said AI Agents should identify themselves and respect whethe
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a multimodal MoE model with 2.8T total parameters, 104B activated parameters, and a 1 million token context window. The Standard and Highspeed versions are now available on the Kimi website, App, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and API. The company says Highspeed offers 2–3x faster output at twice the price of the Standard version. Artificial Analysis ranks it fourth on the Intelligence Index with a score of 55, behind Opus 5.5's 58; on Arena's Code Arena WebDev it ranks 8th with 1692 points, up nine places from K3. Standard pricing is $2 per million tokens for input, $10 for output, and $0.2 for cached input, one-third lower than K3; the weights have not yet been released, and the company promises to open them on November 4.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a multimodal MoE model with 2.8T total parameters, 104B activated parameters, and a 1 million token context window. The Standard and Highspeed versions are now available on the Kimi website, App, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and API. The company says Highspeed offers 2–3x faster output at twice the price of the Standard version. Artificial Analysis ranks it fourth on the Intelligence Index with a score of 55, behind Opus 5.5's 58; on Arena's Code Arena WebDev it ranks
Rich Privorotsky, Goldman Sachs' head of European fixed income and equity trading, revealed in an interview on the "The Markets" podcast that last week the Goldman Sachs prime brokerage business book saw the largest technology stock selloff in its history. He noted that the market expects AI capital expenditure to reach 1.1 trillion US dollars next year, but investors demand to see backlog orders converted into revenue, while a power gap of about 40 to 50 gigawatts next year casts doubt on computing power delivery. He said the macro environment is shifting from a savings glut to a spending glut, and believes spot market computing power prices are still hitting new highs, with demand showing no sign of weakening.
Rich Privorotsky, Goldman Sachs' head of European fixed income and equity trading, revealed in an interview on the "The Markets" podcast that last week the Goldman Sachs prime brokerage business book saw the largest technology stock selloff in its history. He noted that the market expects AI capital expenditure to reach 1.1 trillion US dollars next year, but investors demand to see backlog orders converted into revenue, while a power gap of about 40 to 50 gigawatts next year casts doubt on compu
Finout co-founder and CPO Asaf Liveanu points out that AI agents can start spending money with just a prompt and an API key, yet lack a clear accountability process like employees have. A single agent task may call multiple model providers, search services, and SaaS tools, and costs vary with retry counts, loop duration, and model choice; two agents built from the same template may have vastly different month-end bills. He suggests designating a human owner and a cost-bearing team before an agent gets an API key, and using the enterprise's existing identity directory to map logins, licenses, or API keys on the bill to specific people or agents and their teams.
Finout co-founder and CPO Asaf Liveanu points out that AI agents can start spending money with just a prompt and an API key, yet lack a clear accountability process like employees have. A single agent task may call multiple model providers, search services, and SaaS tools, and costs vary with retry counts, loop duration, and model choice; two agents built from the same template may have vastly different month-end bills. He suggests designating a human owner and a cost-bearing team before an agen
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a new-generation open-source large model with 3-trillion-level parameters that supports a 1-million-token context window, retaining its title as the open-source model with the largest parameter scale in the world. The model is a post-trained version of Kimi K3, with a substantial increase in post-training compute, and it shows notable improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research and long-horizon Agent capabilities; across multiple international benchmarks, its overall intelligence level is now approaching that of the world's leading closed-source models. The report also noted that OpenRouter statistics show global total AI large-model API calls from October 12 to 18 reached 164 trillion tokens, and that the weekly call volume of Chinese large models has exceeded that of the United States for 25 consecutive weeks.
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a new-generation open-source large model with 3-trillion-level parameters that supports a 1-million-token context window, retaining its title as the open-source model with the largest parameter scale in the world. The model is a post-trained version of Kimi K3, with a substantial increase in post-training compute, and it shows notable improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research and long-horizon Agent capabilities; across multiple international
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says Chinese models currently lag the West by about 6 months to a year. He stresses that the core argument is security rather than competition, advocates that industry and government jointly build safety standards, introduce third-party audits and launch international dialogue, and responds that tightening frontier AI regulation is not about building a competitive moat for US labs.
After AI takes over complex parts of knowledge work, the scarcity of professional expertise, sense of ownership over outcomes, and organizational decision-making power are weakened, and professional identity loosens accordingly. A 2026 study involving a 269-person experiment and a 270-person survey shows that those who directly adopt AI have lower self-efficacy, sense of belonging, and sense of meaning, while those who first write a draft and then let AI revise it have a stronger psychological connection. Companies need to redistribute judgment power and responsibility, individuals should expand diverse identities, and institutions should also recognize out-of-occupation contributions such as caregiving and community service.
After AI takes over complex parts of knowledge work, the scarcity of professional expertise, sense of ownership over outcomes, and organizational decision-making power are weakened, and professional identity loosens accordingly. A 2026 study involving a 269-person experiment and a 270-person survey shows that those who directly adopt AI have lower self-efficacy, sense of belonging, and sense of meaning, while those who first write a draft and then let AI revise it have a stronger psychological c