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GLM 5.3 autonomously built working Firefox exploits in under 48 hours for about $1,000 each: Epoch AI researchers reported that the open-weight model GLM 5.3 turned public security fixes into working Firefox exploits in under 48 hours. It autonomously compromised six Firefox releases for about $1,000 in API fees each without triggering safeguards from any provider tested.

Artificial Intelligence • The Decoder

Google DeepMind and WRI launch ForTy, a six-category global forest map: Google DeepMind and the World Resources Institute released ForTy, a global map that classifies forests and other land into six categories, including primary forest, plantations and tree crops. It identifies only about half of planted forests and tree-crop areas, and 60% of plantations.

Environmental AI • The Decoder

Apple Intelligence to reach China with iOS 27.3, beta starts November 4: Apple announced on its Chinese newsroom website that Apple Intelligence will come to China with iOS 27.3, MacRumors reported. Features will first be available in an iOS 27.3 beta launching November 4, with the full release scheduled for December.

Consumer AI • The Verge AI

3,000 Tokens/Sec Locally: Testing the ZGX Fury: A video tests HP's ZGX Fury, a larger version of the ZGX Nano (DGX Spark). The workstation has 748 GB of memory and NVIDIA's GB300 chipset, with local speeds claimed up to 3,000 tokens per second.

Technology • Sam Witteveen

Tampered Claude Code extension on Cursor marketplace exposed up to 5,000 users over 11 hours: A tampered Claude Code extension was available on Cursor's marketplace for about 11 hours, affecting up to 5,000 users. It attempted to steal user data and set up remote access, prompting Cursor to take the marketplace offline; it was reinstated after no further risk was confirmed.

Security • The Decoder

Tsinghua and Zhipu's HarnessPro lets agents rewrite their own harness, cutting task cost 26.1%: HarnessPro, from Tsinghua, Zhipu and partners, lets agents study their own runs and rewrite their harness without reference answers. It raised pass rates by 2 points and cut cost per task by 26.1%.

AI Agents • Pandaily

Xiaomi open-sources 0.8B Xiaomi-OCR-0, scoring 96.83 on OmniDocBench to lead sub-1B models: Xiaomi has open-sourced Xiaomi-OCR-0, a 0.8B model for document parsing, key-field extraction and OCR question answering. It scored 96.83 on OmniDocBench v1.6, ranking first among models under 1B.

AI Models • Pandaily

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic to adopt a shared AI-scraping opt-out token: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic said they will adopt a new standard that lets publishers opt out of AI scraping, as Search Engine Roundtable reported. A shared "policy token" lets publishers apply AI training preferences across multiple AI companies instead of setting them individually.

AI Policy • The Verge AI

OpenAI • OpenAI

OpenAI reportedly secures $11B in commitments at $1.25T valuation, below $1.4T target: Sources say OpenAI has secured about $11 billion in commitments for its latest funding round, less than half its initial $30 billion target. The round values the ChatGPT maker at $1.25 trillion, below its $1.4 trillion target, and OpenAI expects to raise more in coming weeks.

Reddit • Reddit

Reddit lost 1M+ Google referrals a week in October, CEO blames AI Mode: Reddit lost over 1 million Google search referrals per week in October and its stock dropped over 25% despite strong earnings, CEO Steve Huffman said. He blamed Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode for zero traffic to external sites; Reddit is testing login barriers to become a direct destination.