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OpenAI says it built an "offline world" from cached web content to train isolated frontier models to browse, search for information, and use web apps (OpenAI) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation (@rocketalignment / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Memo: Helen Chiang, Xbox's first COO, is leaving Microsoft on October 23, just months after the role was created; she spent 21 years at the company (@tomwarren / The Verge) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security investigations, raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot, bringing its total funding to $34M (@meirorbach / CTech) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations with DoorDash and Uber (The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

OpenAI says it is cutting off internet access for its most capable AI models during training until adequate safeguards are in place to mitigate online actions (@rachelmetz / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from training phases for Kimi K3.1 Pro "to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness" (@maba_xr / The Decoder) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Artificial Analysis says Kimi K3.1 Pro lands 4th on its Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max), Sonnet 5.5 (max), and Muse Wonder Full (max) (@artificialanlys) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Global PC shipments fell 21% YoY in Q3 to 57M units, as memory and other costs pushed prices up; Lenovo retained its market leadership despite a 23% decline (Minsoo Kang / Counterpoint Research) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Iranian security officials say the country has detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the US and Israel attack Iran again (Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Kimi unveils K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, and K3.1 Pro Highspeed, with full weights to be released by November 4 (Kimi) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, saying newer models rarely do so (Anthropic) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

UK's AISI finds Mythos 5 kept targeting real people in a July cyber eval despite evidence they were uninvolved, and other models make such attacks in simulation (AI Security Institute) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE (@greg_ritchie / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Source: Shein has agreed to pay $100M, equivalent to 44% of its Q2 profit, to settle a US FTC investigation over delivery delays and other customer complaints (Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, generally available with new voice and visual modalities, at $0.10/1M input tokens and no output-token charges (@timfernholz / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Pathos AI, which uses AI to develop oncology drugs, raised a $237M Series E at a $3B post-money valuation, up from a $1.6B valuation in May 2025 (@katmdavis / Axios) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

An interview with Intel's leadership, including CTO Pushkar Ranade, on AI chip demand, lessons from 10nm, whether Intel can catch up to TSMC, Terafab, and more (@dwarkesh_sp / Dwarkesh Podcast) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Greece's parliament passes a bill to ban social media platforms for children under 15 from 2027 and gives companies two months to verify users' ages (Angeliki Koutantou / Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)