Alphabet sheds $520B in a day, Claude does mouse brain surgery: AI daily recap
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-10-30
HuggingNews' Oct 29 daily AI briefing (with a tweaked ranking format) tops with Alphabet plunging 13.7% and erasing $520B on slowing Search/AI Mode monetization. Also: OpenAI doubled Pro and Business Premium usage limits, reversing a planned Pro 200 cut; Mistral Large 4 ranks as the top open-weight model developed outside China; Aschenbrenner's fund raising for a $40B Fluidstack investment; Serval hit a $3B valuation on a $150M Sequoia-led Series C; Cohere targets $20.5B; Marvell in talks to buy Lumentum; Samsung's 2027 HBM supply sold out; Claude Sonnet 5 autonomously performed mouse brain surgery; OpenAI reorganized its Model Spec around five principles; an Accenture contractor allegedly leaked Pentagon credentials via a personal Claude agent; Anthropic shipped a self-assessment tool for misuse flagging at under 2% extra inference compute.
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