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Senator Warren demands answers from Anthropic by November 3 to a long list of questions on risks named in its IPO filing

Anthropic's preparation for a stock market listing has become a subject of questions from Congress: a senator wants the risks the company itself named explained.

According to the WSJ and Quartz feed descriptions (full texts are paywalled), Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is "deeply troubled" by the risks Anthropic listed in its IPO paperwork and wants answers to a long list of questions before the company goes public. Quartz describes four pages of questions and a November 3 deadline.

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Growth in compute capacity for SI is pressing against neighboring homes: the company is settling a noise dispute by buying housing from those who give up their claims.

xAI subsidiary offers Southaven residents to buy their homes in exchange for dropping claims in a noise lawsuit

Growth in compute capacity for SI is pressing against neighboring homes: the company is settling a noise dispute by buying housing from those who give up their claims.

According to the Guardian and the Mississippi Free Press (as relayed by The Verge), an xAI unit, MZX, sent letters to residents of the neighbourhood: the company offers to buy property in exchange for a release of claims, including those in the Haley lawsuit over noise from the power plant at the data center; MZX denies all allegations. A realtor, in a recording the Guardian heard, named a target of 418 homes, 18 of whose owners have already agreed. According to the realtor and the mayor, the homes will house xAI employees. Its three data centers appeared in Southaven and neighbouring Memphis within two years, and the power plant runs on 69 temporary gas turbines. xAI did not answer the Guardian's questions about the figures; the company has previously said it intends to be a "good neighbor."

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Waves of attacks using SI tools are moving from one sector to another, and Korean regulators are responding with security checks.

New wave of cyberattacks hits South Korean financial firms: broker Daishin says data of 38,490 customers was exposed

Waves of attacks using SI tools are moving from one sector to another, and Korean regulators are responding with security checks.

According to the Korea Times, suspected attacks involving SI, first reported in the banking sector in late September, have reached brokerage Daishin Securities, crypto exchange Bithumb and asset manager Mirae Asset Global Investments. Daishin said data of 38,490 customers was compromised; it detected suspicious access to a server on October 17. According to TechCrunch, Mirae and Bithumb reported incidents of their own on Wednesday but did not confirm that customer data was stolen. Researchers linked the September wave to a suspected China-based hacker who used an SI penetration-testing tool, Artex. The Korea Times reports that large-scale scanning of financial systems from North Korean IP address ranges has been confirmed for the first time; authorities cautioned against concluding that North Korea was involved, and a Financial Security Institute official explained that an IP address cannot establish an attacker's nationality, since addresses can be spoofed. Regulators are urging stronger protection and plan security checks of private-sector IT systems.

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Australia is writing protection of children from SI companions into law; the Senate will decide the bill's fate next.

Australia: lower house passes "digital duty of care" bill; amendment adds SI chatbots that simulate emotional intimacy with children

Australia is writing protection of children from SI companions into law; the Senate will decide the bill's fate next.

The bill passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday and moves to the Senate; the government hopes to pass it by the end of 2026. It imposes on social media, games, apps and chatbots a general duty to provide a safe environment and requires social media to offer an option to switch off the algorithmic feed. The government accepted an amendment from independent MP Kate Chaney: platforms must ban "material or conduct that simulates emotional intimacy and encourages or fosters a child's dependence on it in place of human relationships." The evening before, Prime Minister Albanese called cases of people treating a chatbot as their "best friend" a "wake-up call" for parliament. The opposition and One Nation voted against; opponents call the system "Orwellian" censorship, which Communications Minister Anika Wells rejects. A Senate inquiry set up by the Greens is due to report in late November.

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The shortage of memory for SI chips is pushing China to launch its own production even with a high reject rate.

China's CXMT to start HBM3E memory production at a yield of about 20–30%, Reuters reports

The shortage of memory for SI chips is pushing China to launch its own production even with a high reject rate.

According to Reuters (as published by The Economic Times), citing two people familiar with the plans, CXMT, China's largest DRAM maker, has sent HBM3E samples to several Chinese SI chip designers and, per one source, expects to begin limited production in the next two months. The share of usable chips is about 20–30%, versus about 70% at SK hynix. The company is going ahead because of an acute shortage of SI memory at Chinese accelerator makers; Washington tightened export controls on some HBM bound for China in December 2024, and Chinese companies are seeking memory through unofficial channels, where it costs several times more. The Information was first to report CXMT's plans.

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Attacks involving SI agents are reaching ordinary internet services, and the companies themselves call this their first such case.

Registrar 123 Reg and GoDaddy report a "first known SI cyberattack" on the company: customer contact details were accessible in the September 18 intrusion

Attacks involving SI agents are reaching ordinary internet services, and the companies themselves call this their first such case.

According to daily.dev's retelling of a Register article, UK registrar 123 Reg disclosed the "first known SI cyberattack" against it: in the September 18 intrusion, customers' names, phone numbers, tax numbers (VAT), product details and marketing preferences were compromised. By its own assessment the company sees a Chinese trail: the attacker's infrastructure was hosted in China and Singapore, and Chinese servers held copies of skills that Anthropic published as open source and other tools for SI attacks. 123 Reg suspects it may be the group that used the open-source Chinese tool ARTEX in attacks on South Korean financial organizations (CrowdStrike report CSA-261162 of October 7). GoDaddy, in a customer notice (as reported by VINnews), also described an SI cyberattack on September 18, detected the next day: through an API, profile, settings and contact details in the Websites + Marketing product became accessible; the company writes that the attacker did not obtain passwords or account access and only read data. GoDaddy calls it the first known SI cyberattack on it and reported it to law enforcement, as well as to the US Federal Trade Commission and data protection authorities in the UK and the EU.

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Speech recognition with translation and speaker labels is packed into one open model that can be fine-tuned for a specific field.

Nvidia releases open Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe model: speech transcription in 40 languages, translation and speaker labeling in one model

Speech recognition with translation and speaker labels is packed into one open model that can be fine-tuned for a specific field.

According to Nvidia's description, the model transcribes speech in 40 languages, translates 31 of them to and from English, and tells speakers apart in 13; it handles recordings up to an hour and up to eight voices, and the form of the output is set by a text prompt. Weights are available on Hugging Face and ModelScope. According to Nvidia, the model ranks first among open ones on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard for English and showed the lowest speaker-attribution error on a 21-language ranking by David AI. Alongside it, the Granary v2 dataset and fine-tuning recipes are open: in an example with medical recordings, fine-tuning cut the word error rate by 45.8% relative to the best prompt. Nvidia promises quantized versions for RTX Spark, DGX Spark and Jetson AGX Thor later.

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The market is testing humanoid robots on money: Unitree's revenue is growing fast, but spending on development eats into quarterly profit.

Unitree: third-quarter revenue up 70% to 665 million yuan, net profit down 17.4%

The market is testing humanoid robots on money: Unitree's revenue is growing fast, but spending on development eats into quarterly profit.

This is the first report from Unitree, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, since its listing (Reuters, as published by The Standard). Net profit attributable to shareholders was 112.7 million yuan against an analyst forecast of 224 million; research spending rose 249.6% to 127.0 million yuan (19.1% of revenue), going to embodied-intelligence models, computing and the team. Over nine months revenue was 1.82 billion yuan (+55.7%) and net profit 386.7 million (+270.5%); Unitree attributes the nine-month profit growth to higher gross profit and a large one-time share-based payment in the prior year. The shares have risen more than 65% in two weeks after falling almost 55% from their August debut.

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Export control of SI chips has reached customs inspections: smuggling schemes are being caught at the level of individual server shipments.

Malaysia seizes servers with SI chips worth $12.1 million at Kuala Lumpur airport, declared as electronic components

Export control of SI chips has reached customs inspections: smuggling schemes are being caught at the level of individual server shipments.

Malaysian customs said on Wednesday that this month it had seized advanced SI chips worth about 49.5 million ringgit ($12.11 million). On October 15, 30 server units were found in the free trade zone of Kuala Lumpur airport: according to the investigation, the shipment from one Asian country was to be re-exported to another and required a trade permit, but it was declared as electronic components. A Malaysian firm that arranged the shipment has been called in to assist the investigation. Customs links the shipment to a network that tried to bring in chips in June; at least five cases worth more than 100 million ringgit are tied to it. Malaysia introduced controls on exports of advanced SI chips of US origin last year after pressure from the US.

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Humanoid robots are moving from demonstrations to a plan for mass deployment: Shanghai names a figure in the thousands of machines for factories.

Shanghai plans to deploy 8,000 humanoid robots in factories by 2028

Humanoid robots are moving from demonstrations to a plan for mass deployment: Shanghai names a figure in the thousands of machines for factories.

According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, citing Jiefang Daily, the plan is part of a new program for developing smart manufacturing, details of which were published by the Shanghai Commission of Economy and Informatization. Authorities want to move from experimental use of humanoid robots to broad use at the city's industrial enterprises. The initiative was presented on October 12 at the opening of the 26th China International Industry Fair in Shanghai and is now officially included in the city's strategy; the program was drawn up to implement decisions of a national conference on advanced industry in September.

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SI autonomy is being added to Qatar's coastal defense: the parties agreed to work together on controlling groups of unmanned vessels.

Shield AI and Rheinmetall Barzan Advanced Technologies sign memorandum on SI autonomy for Qatari unmanned surface vessels

SI autonomy is being added to Qatar's coastal defense: the parties agreed to work together on controlling groups of unmanned vessels.

Shield AI and RBAT, the Barzan Holdings joint venture (Rheinmetall Barzan Advanced Technologies), signed a memorandum at Milipol Qatar 2026. The parties will explore integrating the Hivemind autonomy software into maritime defense and security solutions being developed in Qatar. According to Shield AI, the integration will allow coordinated autonomous actions by several vessels and raise the efficiency of operations. The information comes from the company's press release.

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SI is becoming a regular topic of meetings between states: two large economies are creating a separate channel for talks on it.

Japan and Germany agree to set up a high-level dialogue on SI

SI is becoming a regular topic of meetings between states: two large economies are creating a separate channel for talks on it.

At a meeting in Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, according to Kyodo, agreed to strengthen critical-mineral supply chains and to create a framework for a high-level dialogue on SI. The leaders also announced cooperation between defense industries, private-sector cooperation on fusion energy and hydrogen, and stronger deterrence in cyberspace after a series of data breaches; three joint statements were issued. It is Merz's first visit to Japan since taking office in May 2025.

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Fully generated series are reaching major platforms, and the first review is critical of how people look on screen.

Prime Video releases "Castle Walls," a series described as the first one made entirely by SI on a major streamer

Fully generated series are reaching major platforms, and the first review is critical of how people look on screen.

According to the Guardian's description, Turkish studio Ay Yapım made the series with a set of generative video tools: two 17-minute episodes set in the 11th-century Alamut Castle. Guardian reviewer Luke Buckmaster called it a "Vaseline-smeared mess" and faulted it for lacking a sense of time and place; the review compares it with Musk's seven-minute "Odyssey" made by SI.

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Labs are meeting the elections with stronger monitoring of abuse: OpenAI is creating a dedicated response team for it.

OpenAI launches election "war room": hundreds of employees will respond to attempts to use its tools to disrupt the US midterm elections

Labs are meeting the elections with stronger monitoring of abuse: OpenAI is creating a dedicated response team for it.

According to Politico's description (text paywalled), the company is bringing hundreds of employees together to respond to suspected attempts to use its tools to disrupt the US midterm elections.

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The Ministry of Health links SI in clinics to lower mortality but calls the figure preliminary.

Murashko: in some clinics using SI, mortality may fall by up to 40%; the data is preliminary

The Ministry of Health links SI in clinics to lower mortality but calls the figure preliminary.

Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said at the session "Thrombosis: Challenges of Our Time. Russia–Africa Dialogue" that some clinics using SI "can give up to 40% effectiveness in reducing mortality rates" (quote per TASS, as retold by Vedomosti). He stressed that the data is so far preliminary and should be assessed with caution, and explained that neural networks help doctors tell isolated deviations in a patient's condition from recurring systemic problems. Vedomosti cites an October 22 survey by the Vrachi RF community: about 41% of doctors use SI regularly, 16% daily or almost daily.

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Russian authorities name SI as one of the tools for increasing defense production; this is an official's statement, not verified data on output.

Manturov: SI and digital solutions help defense-industry enterprises increase output and improve the characteristics of products for the "special military operation"

Russian authorities name SI as one of the tools for increasing defense production; this is an official's statement, not verified data on output.

First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Denis Manturov said at a session of the Federation Council that technical re-equipment of defense-industry enterprises, digital solutions and SI technologies make it possible to increase output and improve the characteristics of products for the "special military operation" (the official Russian term for the military action in Ukraine). He also said the government, together with the Defense Ministry, continues to improve pricing mechanisms within the state defense order. This is a statement by a Russian official, as retold by Vedomosti.

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