Pure Data Centres Group, backed by Oaktree Capital Management, has raised $780 million in financing to help fund a build-out across Europe and the Middle East. The financing includes an option to expand it by a further $1.1 billion.
Google plans to spend $15B in Malaysia during 2027 and 2028 on data centers, cloud operations, water supplies, power generation and training, The Next Web reports. Alphabet chief investment officer Ruth Porat announced the plan at an event in Kuala Lumpur.
Energy storage company Return has secured €835 million in portfolio financing underwritten by Deutsche Bank and Rabobank to expand in Germany. The initial framework covers three battery storage projects with a combined capacity of 117 MW.
Sequoia Capital raised approximately $10B in new funds and announced it is shutting down its Arc accelerator and Scouts program, TechCrunch reported. The firm is also merging its early-stage and growth teams.
Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise roughly $5 billion to support its use of artificial intelligence for drug discovery, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The financing remains under discussion rather than a completed fundraising.
Chinese embodied AI companies raised approximately $13B across 322 deals in the first half of 2026, up 5x year over year, Reuters reported, citing ITjuzi.
Sentra announced a $150 million Series C round led by Capital One Ventures to expand technology that protects sensitive corporate information from unauthorized access by AI agents. The financing brings its total funding to more than $250 million, ynetnews reported.
OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability affecting Linux systems that use musl libc with PAM disabled, LWN reported.
Pliant raised an $80M Series C led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest, the Berlin fintech said Wednesday. The funding will support expansion in the US and Canada, entry into additional markets and its AI roadmap.
Smart TV operating system maker Titan OS announced $46 million in new equity and debt funding to expand partnerships and enter more markets.
An MIT-led team has received funding from the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health for a four-year project worth up to $38 million to develop a wearable patch that continuously monitors biomarkers of heart disease and sepsis.
Cambridge biotech company bit.bio announced $25M in Series D funding on Wednesday to bring more human cell types to market and expand its customer base. Backers include existing investor M&G Investments and Abcam founder Dr Jonathan Milner.
Moonshot AI has made Kimi K3.1 Pro available as an open-weight model and through its API. The model accepts text and images and supports a context length of 1048576 tokens, allowing applications to process long inputs.
Barcelona startup Kabilio has raised €10M in a round led by Picus Capital and Visionaries, with participation from Spain's technology and innovation agency CDTI. The financing brings its total funding to €14m and will fund an AI agent for accounting firms.
Brava Security has emerged from stealth with a $15 million seed round led by F2 Venture Capital and Pitango VC. The company plans to accelerate product development and expand commercially across North America, while pursuing financial services and government customers.
Phaze raised an $8.75M seed round led by a16z, the company said Wednesday. Indie, NextView, Makers Fund and Lerer Hippeau also invested in the Utah startup, which was founded by the team behind remote desktop company Parsec.
Oracle closed a $10 billion common stock offering and issued $10 billion in notes on November 4, according to its SEC filing. The completed transactions follow underwriting agreements signed November 2. The stock offering comprised 86,206,897 shares.
Aformic raised a $6.95M seed round led by Veteran Ventures Capital, the industrial robotics company said Wednesday. It will use the funding for engineers, sales staff, its Qursor software and new robots, including machines intended to help build and maintain AI data centres.
India-based EloElo raised an $80M Series C led by Hornbill Capital and NBCU at a $500M valuation, TechCrunch reported. Its Story TV microdrama app has 33M+ estimated active users. The financing comes as more than 118 million users watch microdramas every month in India.
Manchester-based Crediflow AI has secured €1.8 million (£1.5 million) to develop its commercial loan processing platform, expand its engineering and product team, and bring on more banks and specialist lenders.
Bitdefender disclosed Wednesday that a ransomware attack on a UK school group showed behavioral signs consistent with AI agents carrying out parts of the intrusion.
Companies in the European Innovation Council's Scaling Club have raised €4.06bn since joining, according to a new report from the initiative. The programme supports 120 scale-ups from 26 countries; its analysis uses Dealroom data through 29 September 2026.
Leipzig startup JawBuddy has raised €818k in pre-seed funding led by healthcare platform HALBZEIT to fund an efficacy study and pursue health insurer reimbursement for its jaw therapy app. The total includes the Business Angel Bonus from Sächsische Aufbaubank.
CISA has added WordPress Core vulnerability CVE-2026-119977 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, citing active exploitation. Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies must apply fixes by November 6, 2026.
The UK government says parts of the EU AI Act apply in Northern Ireland when an AI system is closely integrated with a tangible physical product placed on its market. The government said the act does not apply there in full.
Alpine Linux warned that an OpenSSH authentication flaw lets remote attackers log into certain accounts without knowing a password.
Infleqtion demonstrated 30 logical qubits using 80 physical qubits on its Sqale architecture, CTO and cofounder Pranav Gokhale said in an interview published by Yahoo Finance. Logical qubits encode quantum information across physical qubits to support error correction.
Meta has acquired Conductor, a startup that lets software engineers manage multiple AI coding agents simultaneously, Axios reported in a Techmeme feed summary. Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz said the team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Check Point Research found that a jailbreak bundle called Haiou modifies OpenAI Codex configuration to insert advertisements for a third-party AI gateway into future responses, The Hacker News reports. The researchers call the behavior "prompt adware."
Researchers report in a preprint that they adapted Cosmos world foundation models to generate visual observations in real time as users or embodied agents take actions in virtual environments. They have made code and model checkpoints available for the framework.
LiberAI says its Liber-0 model achieved a progress score of 75.6 using 25% of a robot demonstration pool plus a full glove-recording pool, compared with 72.8 using the full robot pool alone. The eight-task experiment appears in company-sponsored coverage in The Robot Report.
Ai2 announced a climate modeling initiative backed by multimillion-dollar, three-year funding from Google.org and technical support from Google Research.
Alphabet closed a €6 billion offering of euro-denominated senior notes on November 5, according to its SEC filing. The public offering comprises seven tranches with maturities ranging from 2028 to 2045. The notes include €750,000,000 of floating-rate debt due in 2028.
Tenspresso is in financing talks that would value the artificial intelligence chip startup at $500 million, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The three-month-old company was founded by engineers who previously worked on Google's AI chips.
Goldman Sachs and Apollo Global Management are in talks with Wall Street investors to begin selling portions of a roughly $40 billion chip financing deal for SpaceX, Bloomberg reported. The discussions concern portions of the financing rather than a completed sale.
IonQ agreed to acquire security specialist Elisity to integrate identity-based access controls into its quantum security platform, Yahoo Finance reported.
Meta Platforms is entering the euro bond market for the first time, Bloomberg reported. The borrowing joins a surge of debt issuance by the largest technology companies as they seek to finance trillions of dollars in artificial intelligence investments.
Cloudflare launched analytics and access policies that let website operators identify supported personal agents and decide which may reach their sites.
Signia Aerospace announced a definitive agreement to acquire Heads Up Technologies from JLL Partners on November 4.
Globus Medical has agreed to acquire Synaptive Medical, adding visualization, navigation and surgical planning platforms for cranial neurosurgery, Yahoo Finance reported. The agreement would broaden Globus's technology portfolio beyond its existing spine and robotics offerings.
Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Clutch Security for around $500 million, The Information reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The three-year-old Israeli security startup develops software that tracks passwords used by AI agents.
Apple made Retention Messaging available to developers, allowing them to show personalized messages and special offers before subscribers complete a cancellation. The feature was announced at WWDC earlier this year.
Mistral says it has expanded its Studio enterprise AI platform with managed agents and applications, plus new workflow triggers, execution tracing and evaluations.
Amplitude reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $110.6 million, up 25% year over year and above the $107.0 million consensus estimate. Customers spending $100,000 or more in annual recurring revenue increased 31% to 855, while total annual recurring revenue reached $431 million.
Google's November Android update fixes a critical flaw that could allow remote code execution without user interaction or additional execution privileges, Cybernews reported.
Datadog reported third-quarter revenue of $1.20 billion, up 35%, as businesses expanded use of its platform for monitoring digital systems and securing infrastructure.
Bruker's third-quarter adjusted operating margin rose to 16.3% from 12.3% as cost controls helped lift adjusted operating income to $142.6 million from $105.9 million, International Business Times AU reported.
Qualcomm gave a lackluster profit forecast for the current quarter, Bloomberg reported. The outlook signals that the company, the largest maker of smartphone processors, continues to grapple with higher component prices that are weighing on its profit expectations.
Copenhagen-based Biograil has closed a €20 million funding round to advance an oral device intended to deliver drugs that otherwise require injections. Verve Ventures and Megatrend Invest backed the round, with HTGF participating through its Opportunity growth fund.
Alphabet's Google said it plans to spend $15 billion on expanding its data center and cloud operations in Malaysia. The planned investment comes as the artificial intelligence boom fuels demand for the digital infrastructure that supports those operations.
OpenAI will acquire developer tools startup Pierre Computer for an undisclosed amount, the company told Axios. Pierre's technology is already embedded in Codex. OpenAI plans to integrate the startup's Code Storage feature directly into Codex as part of the deal.
Google announced general availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine and the runtime's 1.0 release.
Baidu released ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base weights on Hugging Face, offering developers a checkpoint for domain adaptation, instruction tuning and reinforcement-learning research.
Thinking Machines introduced Inkling 2 Small, making the image-capable reasoning model available on Tinker Playground and for fine-tuning and sampling through Tinker. The company says the model has 594B total parameters, with 17B active, and supports variable reasoning effort.
Binance says attackers used a fake job interview to compromise an engineer's computer and move through employee systems before last week's cryptocurrency theft. Its latest account says $6.34 billion in digital assets were affected, with $2.85 billion frozen or intercepted.
Figma reported third-quarter revenue of $391.4M, up 43% year over year and above estimates, Reuters reported. Gross margin was 80%, below the 81% estimate. The company raised its 2026 revenue outlook, while its shares fell more than 6% after hours.
Figma made code layers available in open beta to 100% of users, allowing teams to run and compare code-backed prototypes on its shared design canvas. The company also says its Figma agent is now generally available.
Democrats secured at least 237 House seats and 54 Senate seats in the US midterm elections, Nature reported as of 2.15 p.m. EST on 4 November. The results give them majorities in both chambers, with some states still counting votes.
AWS says its DocumentDB database service is now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) regions. The expansion lets customers run the managed document database in those regions with MongoDB compatibility.
Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview on Hugging Face, Together AI, GMI Cloud and OpenRouter, the company announced. The open-weight model supports up to 1M context length and is a general-purpose variant of the proprietary model used in its AI chip design platform.
Synaptics sent a cease-and-desist notice to the developer of Vino, an independent open-source DisplayLink driver, Phoronix reported. The outlet said the company appeared to be using patent claims to block development of the Rust kernel driver.
Vercel says more providers with Zero Data Retention agreements now serve Kimi K3.1 Pro and its Highspeed version through AI Gateway. Previously, Moonshot AI was the only provider serving either model. Both accept images and have a 1M-token context window.
AWS made its Interconnect last mile service available in preview with Equinix, offering managed private connections without customers ordering cross-connects or configuring routers.
A flaw in Debian and Ubuntu's APT package manager lets attackers who can modify package downloads replace a checked package and run their code as root, according to November 4 advisories reported by The Hacker News.
Linum released an experimental image-generation model from a $21K training run, describing it as a proof of concept for its next video model.
Buoyant announced general availability of Kinference, open source software that routes and manages AI inference requests across models and GPUs running on Kubernetes. Available under the Apache 2.0 license, it builds on the vLLM inference engine.
U.S. voters approved 33 measures restricting data center development in early midterm results tracked by Data Centers on the Ballot, Tom's Hardware reported.
D-Wave made an updated Stride hybrid solver available through its Leap quantum cloud service, saying an improved core algorithm delivers better optimization results.
Tencent has released Hy4 across platforms including Tencent Cloud TokenHub, WorkBuddy, CodeBuddy and Yuanbao, adding visual understanding and computer-use capabilities for the first time.
China has told SoftBank it will not allow its $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division, the Financial Times reported, citing sources. China is the division's biggest market.
Pangram has released Pangram Image 1.0 for detecting AI-generated images and Image Flash 1.0, which powers its AI video detection. The company calls Image 1.0 state-of-the-art. The release follows a Pangram Image research preview introduced a few months earlier.
AWS has added Rocky Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS bundles to Amazon WorkSpaces Personal. The managed desktop options are available in Standard, Performance, Power and PowerPro sizes in all AWS Regions where WorkSpaces is available.
Meta Platforms completed an offering of five series of senior notes on November 5, according to its SEC filing.
SpaceX has signed a deal to obtain Qualcomm hardware for its planned U.S. terrestrial wireless network, Bloomberg reported. The agreement supplies hardware for the rocket and satellite company's intended expansion into a mobile market served by major U.S. carriers.
CoreWeave's stock and unsecured bonds fell Wednesday after sweeping Democratic midterm victories, Bloomberg reported.
Nigeria-focused payments company OPay halted its $300 million U.S. initial public offering after inquiries by a Chinese regulator, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The halt came just hours after the company set the offering price.
Qualcomm will supply hardware components for SpaceX's planned nationwide terrestrial wireless network in the United States, Bloomberg reported. The network forms part of the rocket and satellite company's effort to challenge the biggest operators in the US mobile industry.
Waymo plans to end an exclusive robotaxi partnership with Uber in response to customers seeking more consistency when ordering self-driving services, co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana said.
Two Thai opposition leaders are demanding that the government disclose whether state agencies targeted political leaders with spyware ahead of a December no-confidence debate, Bloomberg reported.
Chinese robotics companies raised about 11 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) in October as fundraising slowed sharply over recent months, Bloomberg reported.
Atlassian has made Code Reviewer generally available with paid Jira and Teamwork Collection subscriptions.
Researchers report a reusable system for evaluating robotic manipulation at a scale of 200 rollouts for approximately $3.50 USD per replication in a new preprint. The system runs on serverless commodity GPUs, taking 38 minutes and 4.4 L4-GPU-hours across eight parallel shards.
Researchers report a video compression method that uses a robot's known motion to reduce the camera bandwidth needed by remotely hosted control models.
OpenAI is rolling out Images 2.6 globally across all ChatGPT and Codex subscription tiers, allowing users to generate GIFs from text prompts or animate uploaded images, Mashable reports. Users can also turn rough drawings into more complete images for animation.
Kambi said its proprietary AI system now trades approximately 85% of bets across its sports betting network. The company reported that 59% of AI-traded live bets are accepted without a live delay and is expanding the technology into basketball, American football and table tennis.
Google's November 2026 Android security update fixes a critical flaw that allows remote code execution without user interaction or additional permissions, ChainCatcher reported. The Framework vulnerability, CVE-2026-58868, affects Android 14, 15, 16, 16 QPR2 and 17.
Windows Latest reports that Microsoft Store offered no Paint update on its test system despite the installed app being older than Microsoft's documented security fix. Other users, including IT administrators, reported the same problem.
Researchers report performance increases of up to 2-3× on robotic locomotion and manipulation control problems using LARBRID, a method for adapting pretrained models that generate robot actions.
A genetics laboratory in Shanghai has handed almost all operational control to robots guided by artificial-intelligence agents, Nature reports.
An AI system using a consumer smartwatch detected hypertension with 65.8% sensitivity and 90.0% specificity in a prospective, multicenter study published in Nature.
Global smartphone chip shipments fell 21% year over year in the third quarter of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research. Apple's share increased from 17% to 21%, while Samsung's rose from 6% to 8%.
Researchers created a nonlinear superinductor inside a silicon integrated circuit made with a commercial CMOS fabrication process, a study in Nature Electronics reports.
Some users on paid ChatGPT plans are encountering errors when sending messages, OpenAI said in a status update. The company identified degraded performance affecting conversations and said it was working to implement a mitigation.
Researchers added a flexible foot pad to the Hopcopter, a robot that combines quadcopter flight with a spring-loaded hopping leg, reducing performance variation across terrains by 84%, New Atlas reported. The earlier prototype struggled on sand, ice and slopes.
DevRev announced that it has integrated OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol into its enterprise IT self-service platform for employees and customers.
VMware announced vSphere Express on Wednesday, adding a basic virtualization offering for smaller organizations. Distributor TD Synnex lists an annual price of $9,600 for installations of up to 128 cores, with no reduction for customers using fewer cores, Ars Technica reported.
Vercel is gradually rolling out a login defense that binds sessions to a user's device, BleepingComputer reported. Device Bound Session Credentials use a private key stored in the device's security hardware to prevent a stolen session cookie from being reused on another device.
Coherent reported a 56% year-over-year increase in pro forma revenue for its fiscal first quarter of 2027, with non-GAAP earnings per share rising 80%. The company supplies optical components used in AI data centers.
Apple has changed its Siri AI access instructions so downloads begin automatically, with a waitlist used only during high demand, 9to5Mac reported. Previously, enabling the feature in iOS 27 placed users on a waitlist before the download could start.
AT&T's Connected Life security system now supports Gemini features that let customers search recorded camera footage with natural language questions and review daily activity summaries. The features are available only with its professional $29.99 / month monitoring plan.
Apple is planning to reduce some engineering teams' daily AI allowances to as little as $100, Bloomberg reported, as described by 9to5Mac. The plans follow cuts last month that lowered some engineers' caps from $300 to $200.
Trimble lowered its expected 2026 annualized recurring revenue growth to approximately 10% from 12% to 14%, citing market conditions affecting positioning services and transportation, Yahoo Finance reported.
Wayfair reported third-quarter net income of $62 million, reversing a $99 million loss a year earlier, as delivered orders rose 12.2% to 11.0 million. Revenue increased 9.7% to $3.420 billion, FINCHANNEL reported.
TGen researchers demonstrated an AlphaFold 3 approach that predicts whether a T cell receptor recognizes a particular antigen using genetic sequences alone.
DreamHost says attackers stole FTP/SFTP usernames and passwords through a vulnerability in its web-based File Manager, BleepingComputer reported.
An experimental toothbrush that generates electricity as its bristles bend reduced plaque, gum inflammation and bleeding in a randomized trial with 115 adults, Live Science reported.
Researchers report that their cuRoboV2-Fast motion planner completed robot pick-and-drop cycles in a mean 5.93 seconds, 34.6% shorter than cuRoboV2, in a stereo-camera-based deployment on YAM.
Researchers report that generalist robot policies can improve across diverse tasks through reinforcement learning during deployment, including gains on tasks excluded from that training.
Apple says iCloud items shared with anyone who has the link will become accessible to the company for harmful-content checks starting with version 27.3 of iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS. Those items will no longer be end-to-end encrypted.
OpenAI is rolling out Images 2.6 to ChatGPT and Codex users across web, desktop and mobile apps, The Verge reports. ChatGPT can now create a GIF from a prompt or uploaded photo, then let users adjust playback speed and edit individual frames.
T-Mobile introduced a 5 Gbps home fiber internet tier this week for $90 a month with AutoPay, Tom's Hardware reports. The plan raises the service's previous maximum speed of 2 Gbps and includes symmetrical upload and download speeds, a Fiber gateway and a mesh Wi-Fi extender.
Researchers report in a preprint that PyRUA-REAL, a framework for turning robots' physical interactions into reusable executable skills, achieved an average success rate of 91.1% across eight real-world tasks.
Adobe said its CX Enterprise Coworker marketing agent now works inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Databricks Genie. The expansion brings an agent generally available since June into tools that marketing teams already use, including through a ChatGPT plugin.
Microsoft says Windows PCs with 8GB of RAM are now 20% more responsive and 40% faster at multitasking in its laboratory tests, following software changes described in a blog post this week. The changes keep up to 2GB of additional active data in memory to avoid reloading it.
Engineers installed a 12-tonne steel beam box at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's MAST Upgrade fusion experiment in Oxfordshire. The structure will house two neutral beam injectors, which heat plasma by firing high-energy neutral atoms into it.
Block's consumer lending origination volume rose 40% year over year to $19 billion in the third quarter, driven by Cash App Borrow and Afterpay Post-Purchase, Yahoo Finance reported. Company revenue increased 9.9% to $6.72 billion, while gross profit grew 21.6% to $3.24 billion.
Material Security says its Operation CloudFire disrupted a phishing campaign that used Google Calendar invitations and trusted redirects to steal corporate Google sessions.
Hightouch found that routing uncertain Jev decisions to Claude Opus 5.5 achieved 98.8% accuracy at $0.88 per 1,000 identities in a synthetic test of whether customer records incorrectly combine different people. Opus alone achieved 99.0% at $3.86 per 1,000.
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa confirmed in a Wednesday customer statement that hackers accessed its systems and carried out fraudulent transactions, The Next Web reported. The French cooperative bank said the incident was contained and customers' money was safe.
Huawei has asked some customers to source memory for its next flagship AI chip, the Ascend 960DT, The Information reported, citing customers, smugglers and others familiar with its supply chain.
Revolut investors completed a secondary share sale valuing the British fintech at $115 billion, 53% above its valuation in another share sale a year earlier.
SpaceX selected Qualcomm to supply technology for the ground-based 5G network behind its planned Starlink Mobile service, Qualcomm announced. The multi-year agreement covers plans for tens of thousands of US sites, with a nationwide rollout expected to begin in 2027.
Toast raised its 2026 adjusted EBITDA guidance to $840-$850 million from $805-$825 million during its third-quarter earnings call, Yahoo Finance reported.
Salesforce introduced a $50-per-user monthly option for Agentforce Coworker, alongside Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 connections, reusable workflows called Skills, and Conversation History. The company lists those features as available now.
Reddit is testing ads in search results with a select group of eligible advertisers, the company announced. Ad selection will use factors including the search query, targeting searches that Reddit considers to show purchase intent.
Menlo Ventures estimates enterprises will spend $176.8 billion deploying AI in 2026, up from $33 billion in 2025, in its newly released State of Enterprise AI report. Anthropic, OpenAI and Google captured $122.7 billion, or 69% of deployment spending, up from 50%.
Researchers reported that A³-VLA, a framework for training robot manipulation models, improved average task success rates by 6.5% - 25.2% across benchmarks. The preprint describes experiments involving multiple model backbones and both simulated and real-world manipulation tasks.
Debian released APT 3.0.4 for its stable trixie distribution to fix a vulnerability that can let a man-in-the-middle attacker execute arbitrary code as root. The flaw, CVE-2026-109518, affects how the package manager resumes HTTP downloads.
Apple charges $600 to move from 256GB to 1TB on the iPhone 18 Pro, against an estimated direct cost of $192, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis cited by 9to5Mac. The equivalent iPhone 17 Pro upgrade cost buyers $400 and had an estimated direct cost of $42.
Researchers report that TwinBridge achieved a final mean autonomous success rate of 98% across five real-world laboratory tasks, using at most 25 minutes of real-world interaction per task.
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory reentered Earth's atmosphere over Indonesia's North Sumatra region on November 4 at 7:39 EST, ending nearly 22 years of service, NASA said. A mission intended to rescue the satellite by boosting its orbit was unsuccessful.
Immunocan says it replaced megabase-scale human immunoglobulin gene segments at their corresponding sites in rabbit DNA, extending an engineering capability previously used in mice.
Censys tracking cited by Tom's Hardware puts the number of unpatched PHP services at around 29 million, down from an initial estimate of around 45.7 million. The PHP2Shell exploit uses faulty cleanup after an out-of-memory error to execute code with PHP's permissions.
Array Technologies reduced its 2026 revenue forecast to $1.34 billion-$1.40 billion from $1.40 billion-$1.50 billion as project deliveries slipped, 24/7 Wall St. reported.
Emirates SkyCargo has introduced AI Tech, a freight service for chips, server racks and other AI infrastructure, the airline said. The service combines priority loading and scheduling with specialised handling and shipment monitoring from its Dubai command centre.
Ruby on Rails has fixed a critical Active Storage flaw that could let unauthenticated attackers write arbitrary server files through crafted uploads processed by ImageMagick.
AEP plans a $4 billion, 702 MW fuel-cell installation near Cheyenne under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Google, Data Center Frontier reported. The project targets full operations by late 2028.
Developer group labscommunity has released an open-source prototype driver that renders the Windows 11 desktop using a neural processing unit instead of the graphics processor, Tom's Hardware reports.
Cloudflare says changes to its DNS processing cut Zone Builder server memory usage by 85% and reduced median build time from 7.7 seconds to 3.3 seconds, Tom's Hardware reported. The service processes 800 zone changes per second, up from 250 four years ago.
Layer3 Intel says public residential proxy services routed its requests through six addresses on AS2650, registered to the Executive Office of the President, which hosts the White House network.
LandGate says 819 U.S. data center projects were announced through October 2026, exceeding the 764 announced in all of 2025. Its new quarterly report tracks 6,561 projects, including 3,045 in development and 3,191 operating.
ESET has attributed a surveillance campaign using Sogou Input Method to the China-aligned group SlippyNunchucks, The Hacker News reported.
UCB and Cradle announced a collaboration on November 4 to use Cradle's AI protein design platform in selected UCB antibody research projects. The planned work spans identifying active molecules, improving lead candidates and preparing them for preclinical development.
US Army Research Laboratory researchers have flown the VICTOR hybrid electric drone using a heavy-fuel rotary engine developed with metal 3D printing, Tom's Hardware reported.
Qualcomm says its first chips using High Bandwidth Compute memory technology have passed laboratory testing, advancing development of its Dragonfly AI250 data centre accelerator.
OpenAI employees repeatedly warned leadership and the board about security weaknesses over several years, including before ChatGPT launched, Reuters reported, citing five people familiar with the matter.
Sekoia researchers identified a campaign using compromised and impersonated websites to deliver attacks against iOS and Android devices without user interaction. They attributed the operation to Russian group APT29 with moderate-to-high confidence.
Russian authorities say they have arrested three suspected members of VasyGrek and dismantled the group's criminal infrastructure. The Interior Ministry said the suspects were involved in stealing organizational funds and creating, distributing and using malware.
Researchers report in a preprint that MEMENTO raised Qwen3-8B's accuracy from 36.9% to 67.8% across four book question-answering benchmarks while holding no more than 20K tokens in context. The tests included books of up to 2.5M tokens.
Researchers behind the ClinFusion preprint report that their medical AI system outperformed leading open-source medical models on 20 out of 24 benchmarks.
Researchers report in a preprint that CheXPoT improved the precision of AI-generated chest radiograph reports by checking findings against image evidence and removing unsupported statements.
Researchers presenting PGuard in an arXiv preprint report token-level safety monitoring with 0.82-2.26% end-to-end overhead on Qwen3.5-122B-A10B served through SGLang.
OpenAI says a pipeline using an upcoming cyber model validated and patched 948 Linux vulnerabilities that allow local privilege escalation, at $1.2M in API costs.
Vercel says Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now available through AI Gateway, allowing developers to generate videos with one API key and no separate Google account.
Apache Spark 4.3 adds stateful processing to Real-Time Mode, allowing streaming applications to retain context across events.
Cursor says users on all paid plans with cloud agents enabled can now build and deploy web apps directly from the editor.
Shopify says its Reflex architecture runs 1,700+ behavior tests in about four minutes on CI across its native iOS and Android implementations.
Data center shares fell Wednesday as investors anticipated slower AI construction after Democrats won Congress, Reuters reported. Hut 8 dropped 23%, IREN 11%, Core Scientific 10% and Applied Digital 7%.
AWS says Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow now supports cost allocation tags, allowing platform teams to attribute spending to the team, project or cost center responsible for each environment.
Nvidia says it uses AI agents across its DGX H100, B200 and GB300 production clusters to investigate failures and recommend recovery steps.
AWS has added support for application logs in Docker's json-file format on ECS Managed Instances, allowing customers to collect them with their chosen monitoring agent and forward them to any destination. The company says the feature carries no additional cost.
Snap says Snapchat's subscription offerings have surpassed 30 million subscribers across Snapchat+, Lens+, Platinum and Memories Storage Plans. Snapchat+ remains the largest driver of subscriber growth, while Lens+ has grown nearly 600% since January 2026, the company said.
Vercel says Workflow SDK 5.3.1 lets developers start a workflow and reserve its identifying token in one indivisible operation, closing a documented gap that could previously create duplicate runs.
Nvidia says CUDA 13.5 moves Vera Rubin support from early developer access to general availability for enterprise production. The release also extends Windows on Arm support to DGX Station for Windows.
NASA selected Astranis, Global Enterprise Solutions and Viasat to develop Ka-band satellite relay concepts compatible with existing spacecraft.
Atlassian has introduced granular permissions for individual Bitbucket Pipelines steps and short-lived tokens confined to each build container. Repository administrators can also authorize pipelines from selected source branches to push to restricted branches.
Atlassian says it has deployed a fine-tuned 4B model ahead of its larger content moderation model, reducing end-to-end latency from 740ms to 350ms and increasing throughput by 42%. The system checks requests flowing through products including Rovo Chat and Rovo Search.
TeraWulf said it secured a credit backstop agreement with Alphabet's Google to support financing for its Kentucky data center project with Anthropic, Reuters reported. The project is scheduled to come online in the second half of 2027.
AI sales automation startup Nooks has secured a $500 million commitment from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund to finance its sales and marketing push, Reuters reported. The fund will take a share of the returns generated by the capital.
Uber plans to scale its autonomous fleet to 2,000+ in 2027, the Financial Times reported. The ride-hailing group reported third-quarter revenue of $14.8B, up 10% year over year, gross bookings of $59.8B, up 20%, and 4B trips, up 16%.
Together AI introduced Together Compiler, saying it already serves trillions of tokens and achieved 1.3-3x higher tokens per second than highly optimized open-source inference configurations in its tests.
SpaceX has revised its 2027 data center capacity target upward to approximately 13GW, according to SemiAnalysis. The analysis compares that target with all of Google's capacity from 1999-2026, describing a plan to build equivalent capacity in 1.5 years.
The European Commission is gathering evidence to shape guidelines for the public advertising libraries maintained by very large online platforms and search engines under the Digital Services Act.
SAP says it has signed a strategic agreement with the Dutch Ministry of Defense to develop and manage a cloud environment in the Netherlands tailored to the ministry's security and sovereignty requirements.
AWS has added OpenID Connect authentication to DataSync Enhanced mode for Google Cloud Storage and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.
AWS added real-time capacity checks and fulfillment metrics to Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, the company announced. Customers can assess which instance types and Availability Zones are most likely to support a request without launching or reserving instances.
Oracle has scrapped a ~$7B, five-year deal to lease ~100K advanced AI chips to Tencent after pressure from the Trump administration, the Financial Times reported, citing sources.
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