← Calm Web AI Frontier Models, Research Labs, Applied Engineering, Policy & Alignment In This Issue Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’ — TechCrunch AI The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest. AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says — TechCrunch AI Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about — TechCrunch AI We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more. Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising — Ars Technica AI Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting. Why Engineers Should Brave Capitol Hill — IEEE Spectrum AI How Wikipedia’s Editors Keep the Online Encyclopedia Human-Written — IEEE Spectrum AI Could Treating AI as Conscious Make It More Dangerous? — IEEE Spectrum AI AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? — Quanta Magazine (AI) Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” Podcast: Kimi K3.1 Pro, the new cyber reality, and Muse musings — Interconnects (Nathan Lambert) AINews Kimi 3.1 Pro 104BA-2.8T: Fable-5.1-Class Open Weights narrows Closed-AI lead to 1 month... and Pro Highspeed API with 2-3× speed — Latent Space We have Fable at home... or so we are being told by paid shills Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro — Simon Willison AI Is Getting Good at Math. Here’s Why. — Latent Space AI models are solving more mathematical problems. A pattern is emerging in their successes that could help us predict which problems they’ll solve next. AINews Black October — Latent Space the Cyber onslaught continues. What will computer chips look like in 2045? — Dwarkesh Podcast What I learned from touring Intel’s most advanced fab and talking to its leadership. Latest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China — Interconnects (Nathan Lambert) Western open models strike back 30 Months on the Exponential (in Charts) — One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) My new book is out today... what happened since the last one How To Use Decision Models for Evals — Hamel Husain Setting the Scene (Public v1; October 25) — AI Alignment Forum The Hackening — Don't Worry About the Vase The Epoch Brief - October 23, 2026 — Epoch AI Whether AI can do our jobs, how far behind open-weight models are in cybersecurity, and Gemini closing in on the frontier AI #191: The Hackening Begins — Don't Worry About the Vase Monitorability evaluations and policy proposals — AI Alignment Forum New paper: Emerging trends in AI agent evaluation — AI as Normal Technology Understanding the methods, questions, and ecosystem for evaluation Bringing foundational models to the front lines of TB screening — Google Research Blog Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II) — OpenAI News Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT. LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape — Hugging Face Blog A Blog post by Ai2 on Hugging Face Securing our frontier model training environment — OpenAI News OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming. LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape — Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) LitPivot helps researchers refine early research ideas through literature-supported critiques and revisions as their proposals evolve. OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security — OpenAI News OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem. Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up — Hugging Face Blog We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.