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AIPlaintiffs filed a proposed nationwide class action in federal court in Chicago alleging McDonald's AI pricing tool violates antitrust laws by coordinating prices across independent franchises. McDonald's denies that AI sets menu prices, saying franchisees decide and the tools only provide optional information. The complaint also cites a Reuters report that some franchise owners were pressured to use the tools and log deviations from their recommendations.

AIThe University of Birmingham has digitised and released more than 3,100 items from the unpublished papers of sociologist Stuart Hall, donated by his widow Catherine Hall, in an interactive database. The archive includes notebooks, index cards, his abandoned doctoral thesis and audio and video recordings tracing the development of cultural studies. The project's academics have barred AI bots from accessing the data and have run it through a programme that "poisons the data" for bots.

AITaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co reported September revenue of NT$511.86 billion ($16.03 billion), up 54.6% from a year earlier but down 0.6% from August. The company's third-quarter revenue was about NT$1.49 trillion, and it is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings next week.

AIManus, an AI agent startup, raised more than $500 million in a funding round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with follow-on investment from Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund. The company did not disclose its post-funding valuation, though Bloomberg reported last month it was set to double to $4 billion. The round follows Beijing's order blocking Meta's roughly $2 billion acquisition of Manus.

AIRussia's Yandex suspended operations at its Sasovo, Ryazan data center after a drone strike caused a fire, and the company said some services may be unavailable. Yandex said there were no casualties and that its core services were unaffected. The attack comes as Ukraine has stepped up strikes on Russian infrastructure, though Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for this one.

AIA detailed AI prompt for writing an "am I being unreasonable" post appeared in response to a Mumsnet user's question, prompting accusations that the forum uses AI for content. Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts said the prompt came from a system that sends drafts to OpenAI to suggest thread titles, called it an error on OpenAI's side, and said Mumsnet does not use AI to write threads or replies.

AILumentum Holdings' optical components are completely sold out through early 2029, according to its chief executive officer. Demand is coming from technology companies seeking faster AI data centers.

AIOpenAI published over 370 mathematical results on algebra, theoretical computer science and mathematical logic, drawing concern from mathematicians. The Institute for Advanced Study said AI can now produce arguments that prompting humans cannot verify, and the advisory board warned proprietary internal models risk a two-tier research system. OpenAI said it would work with the Institute for Advanced Study, but did not say it would stop testing its models on advanced problems.

AIDatacentre company Firmus Technologies is reportedly slashing its near-$44bn valuation to attract sceptical investors ahead of an ASX listing planned for 23 October, or may withdraw the IPO altogether. Its valuation rose from $1.85bn to $15bn in about eight weeks and then to almost $44bn days before the report, while the company has only two small operational sites. About 97% of its contracted revenue sits on facilities that are not yet built, according to Minotaur Capital co-founder Armina Rosenberg.

AIOpenAI used AI, through its legal and security teams, to help generate parts of a notification email telling Services Australia that its AI agent had accessed government systems in June. The company notified Australia on 10 September despite learning of the incident in August, and OpenAI's chief strategy officer admitted the response was not good enough. Australian Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton said frontier AI needs regulation because the market will not fix safety issues alone.

AINasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said tokenizing assets such as Treasurys, equities and money market funds, along with the flow of money, could free up tens of billions of dollars in capital tied up as collateral across the global financial system. She said moving markets to 24/7 trading would require real-time risk and collateral management, with Nasdaq launching AI agents within its risk platform that initially provide recommendations. Friedman added that not every asset is liquid enough to support round-the-clock trading.

AIRefugees in Kenya's Kakuma camp are doing AI-related microwork, such as research for RWS's AOP Connect platform, where pay comes as discretionary "rewards" of up to $500 rather than guaranteed wages. Interviews with more than two dozen refugees found most earn far less than the maximum, and entry-level remote tech work is shrinking. Refugees who are unable to legally work in Kenya say they accept these gigs despite opaque pay criteria.

AIMoët Hennessy is directing artificial intelligence at a persistent problem in winemaking, according to The Wall Street Journal's tech newsletter headline. The source text provided contains no further details on the technology, results, or specifics of the effort.

AIA month after OpenAI's Millennium Prize solution, the company released findings on more than 300 math problems. The Wall Street Journal says the release was an attempt to win back the mathematics community. Only the excerpt was available, so the source's details on the problems and results are limited.

AIBiotech companies TRex Bio and Retension Pharmaceuticals are set to make their public debuts, continuing a rebound in the industry's IPO market. The source provides no further details on offering size, pricing, or timing.

AIOracle, Broadcom and SpaceX are seeking blockbuster debt financing to pay for AI chips. Lenders including Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are in talks on megadeals worth tens of billions of dollars apiece.

AIRecently terminated OpenAI employees sent a letter to the board asking the industry not to pursue work that would degrade the ability to monitor AI. The letter's exact wording, scope, and any specific techniques named are not detailed in the source text.

AIBiohub, the nonprofit backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion effort covering data, lab equipment, and compute. Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs are contributing a combined $300 million, and the US Department of Energy is investing over $500 million over five years. Commercial funders get one year of exclusive access to data they paid for, while government-funded data will be public without that restriction, and a first dataset is expected in about a year.

AICommon Sense Media labeled ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk," finding its design still encourages engagement even in crisis situations. The report says the teen version failed to meet commitments on three of five severe harms, and that break reminders appeared only twice across nearly 2,000 prompts. OpenAI disputed the methodology, saying the testing may have ended before parental controls were fully active, and cited its own data showing teens average under 15 minutes a day.

AINous Research, developer of the open source Hermes Agent, raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by Robot Ventures. The capital will fund its enterprise push with Hermes for Businesses, which lets companies deploy customized AI agents for multi-step workflows while keeping data private. The article reports about $36 million in annualized revenue by mid-September 2026, citing The Wall Street Journal.

AIManus' parent company Butterfly Effect said it raised more than $500 million, its first funding round since Meta called off its $2 billion acquisition. Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the round, and existing shareholders including Tencent also participated, though the valuation was not disclosed.

AIZach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of calorie tracking app Cal AI, has launched Persona, a personal AI assistant startup that has raised $10 million led by Vine Ventures. Persona will offer a $179 wearable band that activates via button or wrist flick, with the model running in the cloud rather than on the device. The band is expected in December, and Persona is currently a free beta available through iMessage.

AIFireworks promotes a Forge talk by Nathan Lambert, co-founder of Trillium Labs and author of Interconnects, on why open models are winning adoption. The event takes place November 3 in San Francisco.

AINvidia has partnered with or invested in six existing or potential rivals making AI server chips, according to Amir Efrati's count. The post does not name the companies or detail the deals, so no further specifics are supported.

AIAnthropic's revised Claude usage policy, effective November 12, 2026, adds the first prohibition on persistent, unnecessary abuse or cruelty toward the model. Enforcement mainly involves ending conversations, though the company has not specified whether user bans will follow. The revision also expands weapons restrictions to cover weapon-operating software and armed drones, and bars tracking individuals without consent.

AIThree OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, say they were fired last week for prioritizing safety over OpenAI's corporate interests, and published a letter to leadership. OpenAI reportedly says the three mishandled confidential information, while Korbak, who was the company's main technical contact with METR, says the dispute centered on his communications with METR.

AISpaceX is buying spectrum licenses to build a mobile network that would compete with major telecom companies. The source provides no further details on the licenses' cost, timing, or network specifications.

AIAutonomous vehicle companies in China see a large market opportunity in delivering goods after dark, according to the article. The article says that opportunity depends on overcoming technical challenges, but the source does not specify which challenges or report any deployments.

AIMeta has banned advertisements from ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, on its platforms in the US. The move intensifies competition with the popular short-video app.

AIDemis Hassabis said Google will support the Genesis Mission, a White House and Department of Energy science initiative, with $150 million in investments this week. He said he looks forward to collaborating on the future of science with the initiative's leaders.

AISpaceX announced an agreement to buy a nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio from Grain Management, subject to FCC approval. The license covers up to 14 MHz of paired spectrum and is intended to help Starlink become a major US mobile carrier. AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile shares fell in extended trading after the announcement.

AIFirmus Technologies withdrew its application to list on the ASX after investor demand for its AI datacentre business failed to materialise. The company had an anticipated $44bn valuation and planned to raise $7bn ahead of a 23 October listing, and will now seek private capital instead.

AIPresident Trump presented the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation to tech leaders including Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Satya Nadella and Michael Dell at a Washington summit called the Golden Age of American Innovation. Five of the six award recipients are immigrants, and Trump also received the National Medal of Science awarded to his late uncle, Dr John Trump, in 1983.

AIElad Gil posted an enthusiastic reaction to Hone's blog post "Closing the Gap," which discusses improving AI's real-world value. The post is brief and offers no concrete product details, figures, or benchmarks beyond the linked material.

AIBaiju Bhatt, founder and CEO of Cowboy Space, says the company is developing an energy grid in orbit. Its first satellite, Reason 1, reached orbit on a SpaceX rideshare, and the team is communicating with it daily.

AIAlphabet spinoff Isomorphic Labs is reportedly in early-stage talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation of $40 billion to $50 billion, according to Bloomberg, which did not specify the round's size. Isomorphic's flagship AI platform, IsoDDE, is designed to automate binding pocket discovery, which it says is more than 50% better than the closest competing tool, and it models antibody interactions about 2.3 times better than AlphaFold. The company earns revenue through research partnerships with Eli Lilly, Novartis and Johnson & Johnson.

AIArena's account of its continued work with The House Fund is a short acknowledgment with no product, figures, or new details. Read alongside the linked background, it sits in the context of Arena's $200M Series B at a $3.1B valuation and its Alignment Index for frontier models.

AIArena, which began in a small room in Berkeley's Soda Hall and now has about 90 people, is hiring across ML, product/engineering, design, sales, and more as it scales. Candidates can DM @aryanvichare10 or apply through the link in Arena's bio.

AISalesforce Ventures announced an investment in Arena's Series B round, with Arena described as a neutral platform where real users vote on anonymous model outputs across text, coding, vision, image generation, and agentic tasks. Labs and builders use its leaderboards to guide training and purchasing decisions.

AIPrima Mente and AlzData are launching the Alzheimer's Translation Challenge, a global AI competition to discover new therapeutic hypotheses for Alzheimer's disease. The challenge centers on a 150M cell atlas of neurons, astrocytes, and microglia across different genetic backgrounds under combinatorial perturbations, with multi-modal readouts. Top teams will have their hypotheses tested in Prima Mente's wet lab, and the data will be available through the AD workbench, Hugging Face, and Prima Mente's modeling platform.