Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. OpenAI has reportedly cut its latest funding round by $10 billion as investors get nervous about AI spending. Four of the biggest AI companies say they will honour one shared opt-out for AI training, Intel just had its worst day in more than 50…

Your smart lights show when Claude Code or Codex needs you. Discussion | Link

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SSH client with an AI agent and a desktop for every server Discussion | Link

We’re excited to announce that WebFX is now Certified in the Claude Partner Network! The Claude Partner Network is Anthropic’s program for partner organizations helping other businesses put Claude to work. This means our people hold active Anthropic certifications. “Our team uses Claude every day […]

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Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. Amazon spent $42.4 billion more cash than it brought in over the past year, and it says AI is the reason. A report claims two Chinese labs trained their newest models on OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Mistral has given away a trillion-parameter model while Google…

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OpenAI has changed how ChatGPT talks to most of the people who use it. From 29 October, the free version gives shorter answers with less flattery. OpenAI’s own tests show a cost: the updated model made more factual errors than the version it replaced, on all six accuracy measures the company reported. Who gets the…

Amazon spent $42.4 billion more cash than its businesses brought in over the past 12 months. A year earlier it had $14.8 billion left over. The reason, the company says, is artificial intelligence. Its results, published on 29 October, show how costly the AI race has become, even for the richest firms. The numbers Amazon’s…

The number is one trillion. That is how many parameters, the internal settings an AI learns during training, sit inside Mistral Large 4, the model the French company made free to download on 29 October. In the same week Google said its strongest model for cyber security would go only to vetted defenders at first.…

Two of China’s best-known AI labs leaned heavily on OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to train their newest models, according to a report from The Information. Moonshot AI declined to comment and DeepSeek did not respond, according to reports, including The Decoder, which cites The Information. The claim comes from unnamed sources, but it lands a month…

Reddit says the visits it gets from Google search fell by more than 1 million a week on average in October. It blames Google’s AI answers, which reply to questions on the results page instead of sending people on. Its answer is to make everyone log in. This is DailyAI’s analysis: the login wall makes…

Canada will put up to C$1.6 billion of public money into Cohere, the Toronto AI company, in return for a share of it. In exchange, Cohere has promised to keep its headquarters in Canada, create at least 1,000 technical jobs and spend at least C$1.7 billion on computing in the country by 2030. The numbers…

[fx-block-rendering block-id=”4d9b061d-0acf-4683-a8e0-e0eb4e516c69″] Google has started testing Google Ads in AI Mode with Personal Intelligence, the opt-in feature that connects apps like Gmail and Google Photos to Search. While ads in AI Mode aren’t new, Google hadn’t shown them to users with connected apps until this […]

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Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. Alphabet’s AI build-out cost $9.1 billion more than its business brought in last quarter, while Microsoft spent on a similar scale and kept its cash. Google is also putting ads inside AI Mode in 10 more countries, OpenAI asked California to tighten the safety…

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57% of American middle and high school students say they turn to AI when they feel sad, stressed, lonely or overwhelmed. That is almost exactly as many as use it for homework (58%). The figures come from a survey of 5,560 students by The Jed Foundation, a US youth mental health charity, which also found…

OpenAI now lets people text Dot, its always-on AI agent in ChatGPT, from the ordinary messaging app on their phone. The catch is in OpenAI’s own small print: the texts pass through an outside company on the way, so they are not end-to-end encrypted, even over iMessage. For now it costs at least $100 a…

Australia’s government plans to ban new AI data centres from being built near homes and recreational facilities, and to drop a copyright plan that critics said would have let AI companies train on creators’ work without paying them. The changes are part of a wider package of AI laws, with draft bills expected out for…

Google is putting paid ads inside AI Mode, its chatbot-style search, in 10 more countries. In the US, ads can now also appear when you ask a follow-up question. The move came on the same day Alphabet reported that its core search revenue grew 12% a year, its slowest pace this year. What is changing…

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An unofficial service selling OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code into countries where neither is sold has been quietly switching off the tools’ main safety features. Symantec’s threat hunters found it on machines at about a dozen organisations, mostly in mainland China. They have seen no attacks yet, but say the setup hands the operator…