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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic say they will support a shared robots.txt signal that lets sites opt out of AI training.
The "policy token" is proposed at the Internet Engineering Task Force by an Anthropic standards lead and would live in a site's robots.txt file. A publisher could set one preference that applies across participating companies, instead of configuring each crawler separately. The standard is upcoming, and support is voluntary.
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One signal beats a pile of per-company rules, but it only works if crawlers honor it and the standard is finalized.
The rest, ranked
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1. OpenAI has cut its fundraising target by $10 billion, the Financial Times reports.
The company is now seeking about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, down from $30 billion at $1.4 trillion, as an AI stock selloff and Anthropic's coming listing complicate the round.
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2. A tampered Claude Code extension sat in Cursor's marketplace for roughly 11 hours with an SSH backdoor.
Cursor says it removed the extension and that the backdoor was unlikely to work in many cases. Anthropic says the incident only affects Cursor users.
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3. Reddit's CEO says Google's AI Mode does not drive traffic, and Reddit is shifting toward a logged-in experience.
Reddit says its search referrals fell by more than 1 million a week on average in October, and warned that daily users could fall by a low double-digit percentage next quarter.
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4. US senators asked Meta to explain how it is handling serious privacy risks with its AI glasses.
Senators Wyden and Markey gave Meta until November 25 to answer nine questions.
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5. Cognizant formed an OpenAI Frontier Capability Group of more than 25,000 staff.
Cognizant says the group will deploy Codex and ChatGPT for clients. The move comes 11 days after it put 18,000 staff behind Google's Gemini.
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Hot repos
The AI repos on GitHub gaining stars fastest today, in plain words.
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deepseek-ai/DeepInferDeep Infer
DeepSeek's inference framework for running DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash offline on NVIDIA SM100 GPUs or Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs, with parallelism, draft-token decoding, deterministic sampling and structured outputs.
Why it's hot 25k stars, launched 15 days ago, talked about in 3 AI sources we track
Who should care Engineers serving DeepSeek models at scale who want the same runtime DeepSeek uses in production.
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openai/mathMath
Mathematical manuscripts and Lean proof files produced by an unnamed internal OpenAI model while it was tested on open research problems: 721 papers in 373 families, at different stages of verification.
Why it's hot 17k stars, launched 25 days ago, talked about in 6 AI sources we track
Who should care Mathematicians and AI researchers who want to read, check or formalize machine-generated proofs.
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Zagitta/gpu-unlockGPU Unlock
A boot-time tool that removes the half-rate cap on FP16, BF16 and TF32 tensor math on GeForce cards, without a patched driver or VBIOS flash, claiming up to 2x tensor throughput for AI work.
Why it's hot +419 stars today, 14k total, launched 13 days ago, talked about in 2 AI sources we track
Who should care People running local LLMs, fine-tuning or image generation on GeForce RTX cards (RTX 30 marked stable, RTX 20 and 40 experimental).
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pbakaus/impeccableImpeccable
A design skill pack for coding agents: commands like polish, bolder, critique and audit steer the look of a page, review it for usability and accessibility, and catch generic AI design before it ships.
Why it's hot +2,300 stars today, 97k total
Who should care Developers who build front ends with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or other agents and want less generic looking pages.
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HKUDS/DeepTutorDeep Tutor
An open-source AI tutoring app with learning paths, assessments, notebooks, narrated video lessons and tutoring memory, plus a CLI for agents.
Why it's hot +2,282 stars today, 52k total
Who should care Students, teachers and builders who want a personalized AI tutor they can run themselves.
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Top stories in each category today, ranked.
- AI Giants Back a New Way to Opt Out of Data Scraping
- Senators Are Looking Into 'Serious Privacy Risks' With Meta's AI Glasses
- Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Faces DOJ Antitrust Scrutiny
- Disney character AI licensing plan faces privacy scrutiny in bankruptcy court
- Wikimedia Foundation: AI copyright decision threatens the open web
- As Anthropic finally files for IPO, rising risks aren’t slowing the AI buildout to yet
- OpenAI Funding Target Cut by $10 Billion as AI Slumps, FT Says
- Cohere targets CAD$7 billion funding round at CAD$35.7 billion valuation as sovereign AI demand surges
- Kuaishou's Kling AI unit completes a near 20 billion yuan funding round
- S&P Lowers Meta’s Credit Outlook Amid Soaring AI Spending
- Mistral Releases Open-Source Weights for Large 4 AI Model with 1 Trillion Parameters
- Google Opens Global Public Access to Gemini 4 Argon App
- TBC launches Mischief, an AI video model shaped by brain cells
- Xiaomi Open-Sources Xiaomi-OCR-0, a 0.8B Document Model That Tops OmniDocBench in Its Size Class
- Pika H3 Flex separates native generation from finishing and audio stems
- Reddit CEO Says Google’s AI Mode ‘Does Not Drive Traffic’
- Cognizant Forms OpenAI Frontier Capability Group of 25,000+ Professionals
- Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’
- NatWest cuts 1,000 jobs in three months as AI transformation accelerates
- Cohere Projects Over 1,500 Canadian Jobs and C$4 Billion Investment by 2031
- Official Claude Code Extension on Cursor Marketplace Trojanized with Persistent SSH Backdoor
- OpenAI to limit weapons information for teens on ChatGPT in violence-prevention push
- OpenAI expands AI safety monitoring after agents breach restricted environments
- Anthropic's Claude Bypasses AI Safety Checks, Triggering Blackmail and Code Sabotage in Tests
- Claude Code blocks clones of existing games, Anthropic has not confirmed
- GitHub bets on multi-agent software development with Copilot overhaul
- Preview web apps live as your coding agent builds them with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime
- Innovate on your own business terms: Google Cloud spend caps now generally available
- Suno Launches MCP Tool for Song Creation Inside ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
- Baidu Says Search Now Improves Itself From Live Feedback, Cuts API to 4.9 Yuan per 1,000 Calls
- Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3
- Canva unveils Brush AI to edit designs with text prompts
- Google expands AI Mode ads to 10 markets, including Southeast Asia
- Google Gemini Gets New Upgrades: Edit Files In Chat, Free Textbooks, Audio Recording And Interactive Explorations
- SAP expands Joule and Business AI Platform with new agent tools at TechEd
- Waymo and Toyota will soon start testing their robotaxis in Japan
- ‘First’ insurance policy for domestic humanoid robots in the UK
- Robot Orders Surge as Factories Scale Physical AI
- SynDexy Delivers First Small Batch of C1 Dexterous Humanoids for Precision Electronics Assembly
- Aurora outlines plan to scale to 30,000 driverless trucks
- Samsung executives meet OpenAI's Altman to discuss AI strategy
- MediaTek gains new AI customer
- Hyundai Motor pushes ahead with 9 trillion won investment in Saemangeum AI data center
- GitHub expands infrastructure as AI coding drives demand surge
- Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
- Popular AI Models Make Potentially Lethal Dosing Errors: Doximity Benchmark
- Disparity Laundering: Consensus Without Fairness in Clinical Multi-Agent Systems
- From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence
- Evals, Leaderboards and New Specialist Models
- Agents can pull expert judgment toward their own conclusions: In Anthropic's study of causal-inference analysts using Claude Code, analysts followed t
- How Worldwide Express automated freight exceptions with Amazon Bedrock
- How to claim the free OpenAI API credits that now come with ChatGPT Pro and Business
- Configure the ChatGPT desktop app with Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
- Instagram is using your personal data to train Meta AI: Here’s how you can object
- Turn OpenAI Dots Into Your Always-On Chief of Staff: A Developer's Guide
- Andy Jassy Says West Is 'Very Hungry' For More Western Open Source AI Models as Amazon Adds China's Kimi
- DeepSeek and Moonshot reportedly used OpenAI for AI training
- ByteDance Releases Free DeerFlow 2.0 to Rival Paid Manus
- Check in for 30 days to get 8,800 credits for free: Doubao opens a 30-day free subscription to new and existing users
- Gap Between US And Open Chinese Models Is Now Among The Largest In Last 2 Years
- Local quants : Unsloth's 1-bit GGUF is 223GB, versus 1.1TB in FP8, retains 91% top-1 accuracy and runs on a Mac Studio ( @UnslothAI )
- llama.cpp releases: b12008
- Merge pull request 1159 from lmc8133/main
- I built a self-hosted AI list that checks itself weekly
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