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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

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.

Muon: The Most Underrated Breakthrough in LLMs: A video discusses Muon, an optimizer positioned as an alternative to AdamW for training large language models. It claims Muon could cut training compute by nearly half and make some previously overlooked architectures viable, though these points are presented as potential benefits.

AI Research • bycloud

Flint - The First RSI Coding Model?: Recursive AI released Flint, described as its first public attempt at a fast mixture-of-experts model for coding tasks. It targets Qwen3.8 and similar coding models, and the company says it was built using an RSI system; no independent benchmarks are cited.

AI Models • Sam Witteveen

Moonshot unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro, 3T-class open-weight model with 1M-token context: Moonshot unveiled Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, and K3.1 Pro Highspeed. The company says full weights will be released by Nov. 4.

AI Models • Techmeme

OpenAI built an offline web world to train isolated models to browse and use apps: OpenAI said it built an “offline world” from cached web content to train isolated frontier models to browse, search for information, and use web apps. It described computing environments where models can write and run code.

AI Research • Techmeme

Meta delays business terms enforcement to Nov. 20 after publisher pushback: Meta is delaying enforcement of new business terms until November 20 after publishers raised concerns the terms could let it scrape news sites for AI training, Fast Company reported. Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts told The Verge the terms will take effect on that date.

AI Policy • The Verge AI