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The Verge · AI

Switch 2 exploited by old games and AI to achieve jailbreaking; a modder showcases a custom character for “Mario Kart World”

According to The Verge, well-known modder Sammy Hajhamid (online alias pepsipu) claims to have successfully jailbroken the Nintendo Switch 2. His tool, ‘ns2jb,’ was developed with assistance from OpenAI Codex and exploited a vulnerability triggered by an older game. A demonstration video shows “Mario Kart World” running a modified version that includes unofficial characters such as Cinnamoroll, the red Angry Birds, Peter Griffin, and Minecraft’s Steve.

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The Verge · AI

OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA set a new quarterly record for lobbying expenditures in the third quarter of 2024.

According to U.S. federal disclosure filings, from July to September 2024, OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA spent $1.5 million, $2.1 million, and $2.2 million, respectively, on lobbying—each marking a record high for their respective companies in a single quarter. Compared with tech giants like Microsoft and Google, which have long been deeply entrenched in Washington, these amounts remain at a mid-range level, but they underscore that AI companies are accelerating their involvement in shaping policy.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

The U.S. nonprofit organization U.S. Hunger leverages Amazon QuickSight to make data-driven decisions in addressing hunger.

U.S. Hunger leveraged the AWS Social Entrepreneur Accelerator to integrate with Amazon QuickSight, consolidating multi-source operational data—from Impact Manager, NetSuite, Salesforce, and more—into the SPICE in-memory engine. This enables leadership to directly explore applicant profiles, share KPI definitions, and analyze policy impacts, with plans to build an enterprise‑level KPI framework by Q4 2026. Its data practices emphasize AI augmenting human judgment rather than replacing expert expertise.

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NVIDIA launches Confidential Bare Metal, expanding confidential computing capabilities to support the secure, large-scale deployment of cutting-edge large models.

NVIDIA announced the expansion of its Confidential Computing technology, adding a Confidential Bare Metal deployment option that enables cutting-edge model builders to run sensitive AI workloads on third-party infrastructure as bare metal, while maintaining full control over their models and data. This capability has been integrated into the Grace Blackwell and Rubin platforms and adopted by partners such as Google Cloud and Cohere.

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Ars Technica · AI

Meta was ordered by a court to disclose the list of executives who approved the use of pirated downloads to train its AI.

In several copyright infringement lawsuits targeting Meta over AI training, courts have ruled that Meta must explicitly identify the executives who authorized the downloading of pirated books from shadow libraries such as Anna’s Archive and LibGen. Previously, Meta had shifted responsibility to frontline employees, claiming that its early AI data collection was an “informal process” and that no one had “formally decided” to carry out the downloads.

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Octave builds a secure, multi-tenant AI infrastructure based on Amazon Bedrock, supporting semantic search across 2 billion regulatory documents.

Octave Reliance has built a rigorously tenant-isolated AI infrastructure using Amazon Bedrock, integrating Cohere Embed v4 with the AgentCore micro‑VM runtime to deliver a Complaint Triage Assistant across the medical device, pharmaceutical, and food manufacturing industries. This solution supports semantic search across more than 2 billion regulated documents—such as complaints, CAPAs, and audit findings—while completely preventing cross-tenant data leakage throughout the process.

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Ars Technica · AI

Meta Muse’s sharing feature has a privacy vulnerability: the generated conversation links are easily enumerable, leading to the leakage of personal and business secrets.

Security firm Clarot discovered that Meta’s newly launched AI agent, Muse, generates URLs with insufficient randomness when the conversation-sharing feature is enabled, allowing attackers to obtain 6,800 user-shared links through simple enumeration; among these, hundreds of links exposed non-public personal and business-sensitive information. Meta has suspended this sharing feature and initiated a review.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and Mercury 3 have been released; model regulation in China and the U.S. has been upgraded; Anthropic has launched a public-interest fund and an AI legislation draft.

DeepSeek V4.1, Flash 1017, and two other new models have been released, but they remain in the early deployment phase; China and the U.S. are simultaneously strengthening AI governance: the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has banned DeepSeek-related products, while China plans to impose export approval for ultra-large-scale models; Anthropic has launched a public-interest equity fund and drafted a federal AI bill; industry infrastructure and security research are advancing in tandem.

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AINews Premium Review Issue 1: Surge in Open-Source Models, Tightening Geopolitical Regulations, and Controversy over Capability Verification

This issue focuses on key developments in the AI field in late October 2026: Meta unveiled its multimodal MoE model, Muse; Spark Open has been met with skepticism and labeled “dead”; performance, licensing, and deployment ecosystems among China, the U.S., and Europe are becoming increasingly divergent; China plans to introduce a draft export control regulation covering 23 categories of AI technologies; and several cutting-edge models have been released, accompanied by unverified performance claims and security concerns.

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2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase

Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Their work spans the breadth of modern AI — robotics and embodied intelligence, large language models and reasoning, computer vision, generative modeling, AI safety, human-AI interaction, AI for science and healthcare, and much more. Along the way, they have published influential research, built systems with real-world impact, mentored their peers, and shaped the BAIR community for the better. Now they are headed everywhere ideas travel: to faculty and postdoctoral positions, to industry research labs, and to st

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Google I/O 2026 unveiled AI research and health tools such as Gemini for Science, WeatherNext, and Antigravity 2.0.

At the I/O 2026 conference, Google’s research team unveiled a series of AI systems aimed at scientific discovery, climate forecasting, healthcare, and edge computing, including the multimodal research assistant Gemini for Science, WeatherNext for hurricane early warning, the self‑building operating system platform Antigravity 2.0, and the open‑source quantum chip Willow, among others. All these developments are experimental demonstrations, with no independent validation or regulatory approval yet.

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