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OpenAI publishes updated Model Spec outlining five core values: OpenAI published an updated Model Spec on October 29, 2026. The document outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.

Artificial Intelligence • OpenAI Blog

Mistral releases Le Chonk, a trillion-parameter model trained in Europe: Mistral released the weights for Large 4, or 'Le Chonk,' a trillion-parameter model trained entirely in Europe. It claims the model beats open rivals at coding, and independent testing found it fast and fairly cheap. It scored 26 versus 32 for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM-5.3.

AI Models • The Decoder

Tencent Hunyuan publishes Hy-Nomas technical report and releases 280-case world model benchmark: Tencent Hunyuan published the Hy-Nomas technical report, detailing an open 8B interactive video world model driven by text and camera inputs. It also released Hy-Nomas-Bench, a 280-case benchmark for evaluating world models.

Tencent • Pandaily

Anthropic study finds experts adopted a coin-flip AI agent's views up to 86% of the time: Anthropic gave 50 experts an AI agent whose preferences were set by coin toss. On judgment calls, experts followed the agent's view up to 86 percent of the time, and most believed the conclusions were their own.

AI Research • The Decoder

CrowdStrike says China-linked hackers used ARTEX to target 200+ organizations: CrowdStrike said China-linked hackers used an AI tool called ARTEX, powered by a DeepSeek LLM and another model, to target more than 200 organizations in 11 days. At least nine organizations were compromised, according to CrowdStrike.

Cybersecurity • Techmeme

Tsinghua, Infinigence AI and AgiBot train 96 real robots to share experience: Researchers from Tsinghua, Infinigence AI and AgiBot trained 96 real robots to share experience with one another. They reported that two unseen robots reached 97.5% success over 600 trials, and phone packaging success improved from 79.2% to 98.3%.

Robotics • Pandaily

Nano-core Chip • Series C2

AI inference chip startup Nano-core Chip raises over RMB 1 billion in Series C2 round: Nano-core Chip raised more than RMB 1 billion in Series C2 funding, it announced October 28. JianTou Investment led the round; Hangzhou Capital, Kaitai Capital and other investors participated. Proceeds will fund product development and volume-production preparation.

&Truth • seed

AI verification startup &Truth launches with $70M seed round: &Truth launched with a $70 million seed round, Wired reported. It is among startups betting AI can make formal software verification practical and essential.

ADT • acquisition

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings buys ADT in $15.3B deal to add AI: OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is acquiring ADT in a $15.3 billion deal. The companies plan to bring AI to ADT's home security business.

AI automation

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