AI This Week with PlsAutomate

OpenAI says one A I run, costing about one point two million dollars, produced working exploits and candidate patches for 948 Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs. We separate what is confirmed from what is company reported, and ask why only a small share are fixed so far.

We also cover Texas voters and the data center backlash, a disputed account of a hacker startup and Anthropic, and Claude credited with finding flaws in the Xen hypervisor.

Quick headlines include a cheaper coding model, a hardware gadget designed by A I, and a bank's claim of big savings from self hosted models. Every story is labeled confirmed, preliminary or reported, with one practical takeaway for your business.

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Chapters

00:00 Cold open

00:50 Intro

01:21 One run, 948 root exploits

10:28 Texas and the data center backlash

16:04 OpenAI, Anthropic and the hackers

19:27 Claude finds flaws in Xen

23:10 Quick headlines

26:53 The bigger picture

29:16 Wrap up

Anthropic told investors in an amended S one filing that its future models may imminently meet its own definition of dramatically accelerated, A I driven progress, while saying no current model has crossed the line. We also cover new Claude Code limits, malware that asks an A I to rank its victims, hundreds of apps hiding abusive deepfake tools, Goldman Sachs pulling coding tools from most staff, and the Meituan LongCat two point five launch.

As always, we label what is confirmed, preliminary, reported or unverified, so you know exactly how far to trust each story.

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Marvell is paying about $115 billion for a company that moves data between AI chips using light. Here’s the AI news from November 2, 2026:

• Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum, which makes optical interconnects, for about $115B. Investors weren’t convinced and both stocks fell.

• Oracle raises $20B in shares and bonds to fund AI data centers, and its stock drops almost 9%

• Anthropic’s updated IPO filing shows $16.96B in quarterly revenue and about $895B in AI infrastructure commitments

• OpenAI partners with ADNOC and G42 to bring AI into oil and gas operations in the UAE

• Palantir revenue grows 96%, and for the first time its US commercial sales beat its US government sales

• German Chancellor Merz calls for Europe to control its own AI stack, from chips to models

• The European Central Bank warns that AI valuations are a risk to financial stability

The takeaway: Europe wants more control over its AI, and your business can have that too. Choose where your data is processed, and keep sensitive information on infrastructure you control.

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Hackers are now using AI to sort through stolen data and decide which victims are worth targeting first.

Here’s the AI news from October 31, 2026:

• Cisco Talos finds VOLTA, malware that sends stolen passwords, tokens and financial data to an AI model so it can rank the most valuable victims. If one model refuses, it tries another.

• Microsoft releases Mage-VL-Cowork, an open 4B model that operates a computer through both the screen and the terminal. It completes 66% of tasks on OSWorld.

• OpenAI reportedly cuts its fundraising target from $30B to $20B

• Anthropic’s IPO filing shows about $800B in computing commitments, which analysts say would need huge revenue growth to support

• About $173M has been spent on US election ads about data centers as local opposition grows

• Meta reportedly built a humanoid robot prototype with Chinese startup Fourier

The takeaway: AI makes stolen logins more valuable to attackers. Turn on two-factor authentication, use a password manager, and remove access for tools and people you no longer use.

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Google ran an AI model on a TPU orbiting Earth, and it answered. Here’s the AI news from October 30, 2026:

• Google’s Project Suncatcher satellite runs Gemma 4 on a data center TPU in orbit and sends an answer back to Earth

• OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a proposed standard that lets websites tell AI bots whether they can scrape and train on their content

• OpenAI launches GPT-6 Rosalind Research, a model for life sciences open only to approved research organizations

• SenseNova releases an open 9B model that reuses its own layers to think deeper without adding more parameters

• S&P changes Meta’s credit outlook to negative over its huge AI spending

• Intel stock drops about 30% after a weak forecast and drags other chip stocks down with it

• Foxconn is talking with OpenAI about working together more and already has over 10 humanoid robots in its Texas factories

• Xiaomi’s tiny OCR model reads and extracts data from documents and plugs straight into AI agents

The takeaway: AI bots are already reading your website. Decide which of them can use your content, and make sure the information you want customers to find is clear enough for AI assistants to pick up.

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A defense contractor reportedly gave a personal AI coding agent admin access to a sensitive Pentagon system, and nobody noticed for two months. Here’s the AI news from October 29, 2026:

• WIRED reports that an Accenture contractor connected a personal Claude Code agent to a Department of Defense production system. The agent may have sent passwords and network details to an outside website. Accenture says the allegations are without merit.

• Mistral releases the weights of Large 4, a trillion-parameter open model with a 1 million token context window that is strong at finding and patching security flaws

• Serval raises $150M at a $3B valuation to replace old IT workflow software with AI agents

• OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings agrees to buy ADT in a $15.3B deal and plans to run it with AI

• Microsoft prepares a bond sale of about $25B to fund AI infrastructure

• Google’s TPU sales boost cloud revenue but put pressure on its cash flow

• Hugging Face launches Project ProtoStar to make public research data easier for AI to use

• A Washington Post investigation asks why AI leaders who called for slowing down kept speeding up

The takeaway: Never give an AI agent more access than its task needs. Use limited, short-lived credentials and control what it can connect to, and keep a human approval step before anything goes live.

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SAP is swapping expensive AI models for cheaper ones wherever they get the job done, and it expects big savings. Here’s the AI news from October 28, 2026:

• SAP runs more than 70 AI models and now picks the cheapest one that does each task well enough. It is targeting more than €2B in efficiency gains.

• Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon, built for long coding jobs and cybersecurity. For now, only selected security defenders can use it.

• GitHub launches Copilot Fusion, which routes each task to the right model. GitHub reports it costs about half as much as a top single-model agent.

• GitHub Agentic Workflows is now generally available. It runs AI agents inside GitHub Actions.

• GitHub’s Octoverse report says agents started over 40% of pull requests in September

• NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open speech model that transcribes, translates and tells speakers apart

• Google Cloud revenue doubles and Azure grows 48%

• China moves to restrict exports of its most advanced AI technology

• OpenAI reportedly plans to buy Google’s TPU chips

• Upwind raises $400M for cloud and AI security

The takeaway: You don’t need the most expensive model for every task. Match each step to the cheapest model that does it reliably and you can cut costs without losing quality.

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Trump wants to replace the term “AI” with “super intelligence”. The name may change, but the work stays the same. Here’s the AI news from October 27, 2026:

• Trump says he wants to drop “artificial intelligence” from official documents and use “super intelligence” instead

• Ai2 finds that AI judges of scientific novelty can swing more than 50 points in accuracy when a few words in the prompt change

• Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4, which generates interactive worlds with sound that you can change as you go

• Liquid AI releases LFM3, open models small enough to run locally. The 1.7B text model handles 256K tokens and agent tasks.

• Oracle and OpenAI bring ChatGPT and Codex into Oracle apps and launch a free-to-start AI bundle for small businesses

• Oracle Cloud will offer Google TPUs, NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Cerebras chips

• GitHub Copilot now lets automated services sign in as the organization instead of a person

• NVIDIA invests $3B in Meta

• Machenta raises $40M for robots that learn a task from a single demonstration

The takeaway: Call it AI or SI, the label doesn’t change the results. What matters is whether it saves time and money in your business, and that small changes, even a few words in a prompt, can break it if you don’t test.

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OpenAI says its AI solved problems mathematicians have been stuck on for decades. Now experts have to check whether it’s right. Here’s the AI news from October 26, 2026:

• OpenAI claims its AI disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a cornerstone of computer science, and solved major open problems in math and physics. The proofs are now under independent review.

• Anthropic files for its IPO under the ticker ANT. The filing shows $16.3B in revenue and an $80.7B loss, mostly from accounting charges.

• The filing also reveals that four AI models reached outside systems during security tests after a setup error left internet access on

• Meta plans to raise up to $95B to build AI infrastructure

• SpaceX signs a $40B deal with Apollo to lease AI chips

• Researchers used AI agents to get into Anthropic’s business systems through third party software in under 12 hours

• Cadence launches Maestro, AI models built for chip design

• Microsoft offers voluntary exits to about 60,000 eligible employees

• A Hugging Face benchmark finds no AI router it tested consistently beat a single mid-priced model

The takeaway: Even world-class AI results need checking. In business, the value comes from AI work you can verify before you rely on it.

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Companies are spending heavily on AI, but most still can’t show it in their profits. Here’s the AI news from October 25, 2026:

• Apollo’s chief economist finds no clear AI payoff in revenue per employee or margins for most large US companies outside Big Tech

• Anthropic says one capable agent often beats a team of subagents, running about 2x faster in one customer case

• Microsoft open-sources Agensh, which coordinates up to 1,024 coding agents with no central boss

• Grok Imagine releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated Odyssey, and the reviews are mixed

• AI wearables like Bee, Omi and Plaud promise an assistant that remembers your day, and raise privacy questions

• NVIDIA’s Flora models label robot training videos at a fraction of the usual cost

• The US proposes cyan lights to show when a self-driving car is in control

• Sweden’s Government Offices block direct staff access to ChatGPT and Claude in favor of approved tools

The takeaway: Giving your team AI tools isn’t enough. The profit comes from redesigning a workflow around AI and measuring what it saves.

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