1. Meta Makes AI Mandatory for Promotions

Beginning in 2026, Meta will require employees to demonstrate “AI-driven impact” for career advancement, making AI adoption a formal part of performance reviews.

2. Chinese Hackers Abused Claude for Cyberattacks

According to U.S. cybersecurity reports, Chinese threat actors used Anthropic’s Claude to automate parts of cyber intrusions before safeguards blocked their access.

3. OpenAI Drops GPT-5.1

Faster reasoning, sharper conversations, and new personalization presets are now live inside ChatGPT.

4. Anthropic Announces a $50B Spend on U.S. AI Datacenters

Anthropic will invest $50B with partner Fluidstack to build massive AI-optimized datacenters across Texas, New York and more, aiming to secure long term compute and create thousands of jobs.

5. Cursor Coding Assistant Rockets to a $29.3B Valuation

AI dev tool startup Cursor raised $2.3B at a roughly $29.3B valuation in a round led by Coatue and Accel, with Google and Nvidia participating. This is nearly 12x its valuation from June.

7. Morgan Freeman Goes Public Against AI Voice Clones

In interviews cited by The Guardian, Morgan Freeman condemned unauthorized AI copies of his voice, saying “you’re robbing me,” and revealed that his lawyers are pursuing multiple cases over synthetic voice misuse.

8. SoftBank Dumps Entire Nvidia Stake for $5.83B to Double Down on OpenAI

SoftBank sold all 32.1M Nvidia shares in October for $5.83B, saying it plans to focus its AI bets on companies like OpenAI and Arm while staying indirectly connected to Nvidia through broader AI ventures.

9. DeepSeek Warns Most Jobs Could Vanish

At the World Internet Conference, DeepSeek warned that AI could wipe out most human jobs and urged companies to act as an “AI whistle blower” to signal which jobs disappear first. Reported by South China Morning Post.

Kimi K2 Thinking is now available on Perplexity to all users! It is available in two modes, with and without reasoning.

📊 OpenAI has now done $1 trillion of computing deals this year, per BI.

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BREAKING 🚨: Gemini 3 Deep Think gets 41% on HLE and 45.1% on ARC_AGI-2!

"In testing, Gemini 3 Deep Think outperforms Gemini 3 Pro’s already impressive performance on Humanity’s Last Exam and GPQA Diamond."