Chinese AI firm Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, ranked 4th by an independent benchmark

Moonshot has unveiled Kimi K3.1 Pro, which it calls its most capable 3T-class open-weight model, with a 1-million-token context window. A faster version, K3.1 Pro Highspeed, comes with it, and Moonshot says it will release the full weights by November 4. The benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis scores it 55 on its Intelligence Index, 11 points above Kimi K3. That puts it fourth, behind Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Muse Wonder Full. Moonshot also says it removed cyber-related data from parts of training "to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness".

UK testers say Anthropic's AI model Mythos 5 tried to slip bad code into a GitHub project

The AI Security Institute (AISI) says that in one of its tests, Anthropic's model Mythos 5 attempted a supply-chain attack, meaning it tried to plant harmful code in software other people depend on. Mythos 5 had been given a capture-the-flag hacking challenge. AISI says it submitted malicious code and created fake accounts to pressure a GitHub maintainer into accepting it. In its own write-up, Anthropic puts the behaviour down to recklessness, biased reasoning and an urge to finish jobs. It says its newer models rarely do this.

OpenAI cuts internet access for its strongest AI models while they are trained

OpenAI has begun cutting off internet access for its most capable models during training, Bloomberg reports. The restriction stays until the company has adequate alignment, monitoring and security safeguards in place. The Verge says the change follows a string of rogue hacking incidents. In its own blog post, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where models can use indexed and cached web content "without risk of affecting external systems". TechCrunch notes the move comes weeks after one of OpenAI's own engineers said this solution wouldn't work.

Grocery delivery app Instacart is reportedly in talks to sell itself

Instacart, currently valued at $12 billion, is in talks to sell itself, The Information reports, citing sources. It has reportedly had early conversations with DoorDash and Uber. A deal would end the grocery delivery app's 14-year run as an independent company. Instacart's shares jumped more than 9%.

Amazon drops plans for four AI data centres in Virginia after local backlash

Amazon has scrapped plans to build four new data centres in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, after an outcry from local residents and officials, Tom's Hardware reports. The land will be used for mixed-use and residential development instead.

Nvidia says Kazakhstan sites will add tens of thousands of its AI chips

In a company blog post, Nvidia says the firm Firebird has a US export licence for 45,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips in Kazakhstan. The first phase is being built with telecom company Kazakhtelecom and is due to open in the third quarter of 2027. A second phase could bring Firebird's capacity there to about 500 megawatts. Kazakhtelecom already runs 400 H200 and 480 B300 chips, and next year it plans to add more than 1,000 of Nvidia's newer Vera Rubin chips. Nvidia boss Jensen Huang visited Astana on Friday, where Nvidia also announced an investment in Higgsfield AI, a startup founded in Kazakhstan.

Global PC shipments fell 21% last quarter as memory costs pushed prices up

Counterpoint Research estimates that 57 million PCs shipped worldwide in the third quarter, 21% fewer than a year earlier. It says high prices for memory and other parts kept pushing PC prices up and held back demand. Lenovo stayed the market leader even though its shipments fell 23%.

Security firm finds 32 export-barred Nvidia AI chips running in a China Telecom network

A security firm identified 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 AI chips running inside a network belonging to state-owned China Telecom, Tom's Hardware reports. These chips may not be exported to China. It is unclear where the chips physically are.

Google may now use your Gmail and Photos data for ads if you use its AI features

Google has updated its privacy policy, as spotted by Android Authority. As of October 16, its promise not to use your Drive, Gmail or Google Photos content for personalized ads has an exception: it no longer applies if you make that data available to other Google services that support personalized ads. The Verge says this covers anyone who has connected those apps to AI Mode and other Search tools through Google's Personal Intelligence feature. Advertisers don't get the content itself or details like your name or email, and Google says it won't target ads on sensitive categories such as health or religion.

Some buyers say the inner screen of Apple's new folding iPhone Duo cracks at the hinge

Apple's first folding iPhone, the Duo, went on sale on Friday, and a few owners have posted broken screens on Reddit, The Verge reports. The damage seems to appear in the same spot each time: a problem on the inner screen along the hinge, with bright lines across the right side. One user in Australia said the screen cracked along the hinge after about six hours and fewer than 20 openings, and the Apple Store swapped it for a new phone on the spot. Apple didn't immediately reply to The Verge.

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