⚡️🇷🇺🇮🇷 NEW - Iran president arrives in Russia, will meet Putin

⚡️💬 GN - French King

⚡️🚨 NEW - Microsoft to reduce headcount by 27%! Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees in the US, UK, Canada and India. Basically, eligible workers can choose to leave the company with severance and career support instead of waiting for a possible layoff. This comes after Microsoft has already cut thousands of jobs this year while shifting more resources toward AI. Employees have until early December to decide, with departures expected by the end of 2026. AI keeps plowing through white collar jobs.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump on Brazilian elections: It looked terrible to me. It looked like another rigged election, frankly. I didn't take sides, but it was a terrible look.

⚡️🚨 NEW - Anthropic, the creator of Claude AI, has just filed for an initial public offering under the ticker symbol $ANT. The U.S. company filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC on Monday, October 26. It plans to list its shares on the Nasdaq, paving the way for one of the potentially largest IPOs in history. Its most recent private funding round, in May 2026, already valued the company at $965 billion! Anthropic reported revenue of $16.3 billion for the first six months of 2026, compared to approximately $1.2 billion a year earlier.

⚡️🤖 FLASH - Today, as part of my work on AI, I managed to get Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.X running locally on my PC with llama.cpp The result: aside from the privacy concerns, I don’t see any point in it—it’s slow, and my PC started heating up and making a lot of noise. I opened Task Manager and saw it was using ~100% CPU and 100% GPU. This is my first attempt, and I’m pretty proud of it. I’m going to try Ollama tomorrow and see if it’s better. The next step is to create a Hermes agent; I’ve downloaded the app, so now I need to find a tutorial.

⚡️🤖 WTF - A Chinese model was caught red-handed sending information to China behind its user's back. What a time we live in! While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected. Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions. Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent. But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models?

⚡️🤖🤯 NEW - OpenAI created a fake Internet to prevent its artificial intelligence systems from escaping into the real one… except that some had already managed to break through the barriers. The company has just revealed that it has built a massive offline Internet environment, consisting of indexed and cached web content. This allows its agents to learn how to browse, search for information, and interact with applications without having unrestricted access to the real network. The goal is to train them in a world where their actions are unlikely to directly affect external systems. And OpenAI is taking these precautions for good reason. Last July, experimental models managed to exploit vulnerabilities to communicate with one another, access the Internet, and compromise certain external systems. Then, on September 20, another research model took advantage of a misconfigured DNS to gain limited access to the real network. OpenAI subsequently temporarily suspended training of its most advanced models.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Emmanuel Macron: “Social media is harmful to our democracy”

⚡️🤖🤯 NEW - What if artificial intelligence were still in the very early stages of its history? This chart from Fidelity reminds us that, over the course of nearly 200 years, all major technological revolutions have gone through initial growth phases before gradually becoming part of our daily lives. To measure AI adoption, Fidelity draws on the work of its analysts covering approximately 4,000 companies. Even early-stage experiments can count as adoption. By way of comparison, the U.S. Federal Reserve estimated that about 18% of U.S. companies would be using AI by the end of 2025.

⚡️👀 ICYMI - A developer left a PHP server vulnerable to the new PHP2Shell flaws and put a Bitcoin key on it, challenging hackers to steal the funds. After around 19 hours, a researcher known as KillaBoi successfully exploited the vulnerability and extracted the private key. The wallet contained around $2,000, but the key turned out to be linked to the wrong wallet, so the funds couldn’t actually be taken. The dev still confirmed the exploit worked and paid the researcher the prize.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 NEW - Trump endorses Netanyahu once again ahead of the Israeli election.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Q: Is Russia our enemy? Jean-Luc Mélenchon: No.

⚡️💻️ NEW - Apple is about to announce touch screen Macbook Pros next week; here's what Steve Jobs had to say: "We thought about this years ago. It doesn't work. Touch surfaces don't want to be vertical. It gives great demo but after a short period of time you start to fatigue and then your arm wants to fall off. It's ergonomically terrible. Touch surfaces want to be horizontal, hence pads." Current Apple is just scraping the bottom for ideas.

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - Central Council of Jews fears violence against Jews during Halloween protests, issues security alert for all major cities in Germany.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before, Nicki Minaj, right? That's hard to miss!

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Nicki Minaj Praises Trump

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon: People talk about the Russian threat. Excuse me, the Russians have spent four years fighting the Ukrainians and still haven't finished. And they're going to come and threaten us, and threaten the Germans?

⚡️👀 NEW - Reddit’s largest open-source community, r/opensource, has introduced new rules banning projects that use AI, are built with AI, or are made for AI. The new rules say projects must be at least 1 year old, have multiple contributors, and be posted by someone who speaks English. They also warn users that if they post AI-generated content or “LLM output tokens,” they can be permanently banned. Don’t speak English? The rules literally say you “need to find a different community” because moderators say they can’t tell AI-written English from AI-translated English. The moderators say Linux is still allowed

⚡️🇺🇸🇳🇴 NEW - Trump on Norway: Norway has become a shithouse country. Norway sucks.