Truncated: latest AI news

Thursday 5 November

20VC x SaaStr: OpenAI Cuts to $1.25 Trillion, Anthropic’s Growth Goes From 12x to 2x, and Why Agents Are an Existential Risk to DoorDash

AI-generated summary Alphabet shares experienced significant market pressure after financial results showed a drop in free cash flow and slower growth for Google Search. Anthropic reported quarter-over-quarter growth slowing from roughly 100 percent to about 50 percent according to its quarterly S-1 amendment.

Also covered by AI Stock Wire

Google shouldn’t be pressuring schools to use its AI

AI-generated summary Google has incorporated its Gemini chatbot into Classroom and integrated search with AI, presenting schools with an all-or-nothing choice. Google says its Guided Learning product provides more than a year of typical learning progress in just eight weeks in tests.

Also covered by Ars Technica
Earlier: Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search

Go deeper into Intelligence Index v5 with the full presentation from last week's launch event in San Francisco We intro…

AI-generated summary The publisher shared the full presentation from last week's launch event in San Francisco detailing Intelligence Index v5. The event introduced the Progress Index and outlined upcoming evaluations spanning 3D reasoning and robotics.

Earlier: Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model

AI-generated summary Baidu has released the ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base open-source foundation model featuring a mixture-of-experts architecture with 280 billion parameters. According to Baidu, the model competes with similarly sized open foundation models in reasoning, code, and long-context tasks.

Justice Department Forms AI Task Force, Fox News Reports

AI-generated summary The Justice Department is creating an artificial intelligence task force, according to Fox News reports. Fox News reports that the new task force aims to prevent foreign adversaries and criminal organizations from exploiting advanced technology.

Also covered by coindesk.com Decrypt Interesting Engineering
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OpenAI debuts new cybersecurity-focused AI model amid growing alarm about AI-driven cyber attacks

OpenAI chief revenue officer Dali Rajic.

AI-generated summary OpenAI has debuted a new artificial intelligence model called GPT-6 Cyber that is designed to help cybersecurity professionals with tasks such as vulnerability research. OpenAI says the model helped find 81 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities and develop working exploits for hundreds of Linux kernel vulnerabilities.

Also covered by TechCrunch

Nasdaq heading for worst day in 18 months as Wall Street sustains widespread losses

AI-generated summary The US Nasdaq share index headed for its worst day in 18 months after slumping by up to 5% on Thursday as Wall Street sustained widespread losses. Nvidia fell 6.7% while SanDisk tumbled 19% and Western Digital dropped 16.5% amid growing signs that the artificial intelligence industry will face tougher regulation.

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