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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.
Chinese-affiliated hackers used AI proxies to infiltrate the ConnectWise cloud backup system, affecting approximately 2,250 enterprises.
Microsoft’s security team reported that a China-linked hacking group compromised the cloud backup service of IT management provider ConnectWise, stole customer application credentials, and leveraged the open-source AI framework ARTEX to carry out rapid lateral movement, launching nearly 3,000 login attempts per minute on average and resulting in espionage activities affecting approximately 2,250 client organizations.
Amazon SageMaker TTS service enables metric-driven auto-scaling: taking the Kokoro-82M model as an example.
The AWS blog introduces an empirical, automated scaling method for deploying text-to-speech (TTS) models on SageMaker real-time endpoints, eliminating guesswork and basing the approach on two measured metrics—Q_max (the maximum sustainable concurrent requests per instance) and T_total (the time required for planned scaling)—to create a reproducible, verifiable scaling strategy.
Rescale leverages the AWS AI-DLC framework and Strands Agents to rapidly build an AI test traffic-splitting proxy.
Rescale, in collaboration with AWS engineers and leveraging the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) methodology, the Strands Agents framework, and Amazon Bedrock (Claude Opus 4.8), completed within five days a production-ready AI test-routing agent designed to automatically classify and route nighttime end-to-end test failures, and rolled out this human-AI collaborative development paradigm across the organization.
Laika CEO Travis Knight said that AI contradicts the studio’s core philosophy.
Laika Animation Studio’s new film, “Wildwood,” took five years to produce and involved more than a thousand artists; the entire film was created using traditional stop-motion animation techniques. Director and CEO Travis Knight publicly stated that generative AI “runs counter to everything our studio stands for.”
Uber has fully deployed ChatGPT Work: 30,000 employees have gained access to OpenAI’s enterprise-grade AI tools.
Uber announced that it has rolled out ChatGPT Work to all roughly 30,000 of its global employees, scaling up from an initial pilot involving a thousand staff at the start of the year to company-wide adoption. The tool is already being used for data analysis, localization of multilingual training materials, and building interactive work dashboards, though specific use cases remain under each team’s own exploration, and the company has not yet disclosed the procurement costs.
Flint-interactive: An interactive data visualization programming language for AI agents
Microsoft Research has unveiled Flint-interactive, a domain-specific language for building highly expressive, semantically rich interactive data visualizations. Its compiler automatically maps user interactions—such as clicks and brush selections—to semantic events and uses high-level operators to drive coordinated updates across multiple elements, including charts, tables, and text, significantly reducing the cost and development complexity of creating reliable interactive visualizations with AI agents.
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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As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins. — Armin Ronacher Tags: security, generative-ai, armin-ronacher, ai, ai-security-research, llms
Hackers exploited a critical PHP2Shell vulnerability four days in advance, and Amazon has confirmed it has been widely weaponized in the wild.
Amazon disclosed that the PHP2Shell vulnerability series, identified by its AI tools, had already been actively probed and exploited by hackers four days before the official public disclosure; currently, this vulnerability is being “widely exploited in the wild,” and governments and enterprises worldwide are urgently hardening their systems.
Spotify bets on the AI assistant era: becoming the music service of choice for AI assistants
Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström stated during the Q3 2026 earnings call that the rise of AI agents will not diminish the value of streaming platforms; on the contrary, it will reinforce Spotify’s unique advantage—its vast trove of personalized listening data and deep agent integration capabilities, making it the preferred music service interface for third-party AI assistants.
NVIDIA launches the Minerva platform: an end-to-end observability AIOps solution for AI factories.
On October 25, 2026, NVIDIA launched Minerva—a purpose-built AIOps observability platform for AI factories that integrates telemetry data from infrastructure and AI workloads, leveraging custom AI models to enable anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, fault prediction, and natural-language‑based interactive operations.
Moshi launches a real-time AI trading recommendation engine, focusing on workflow integration and trustworthy modeling of high-noise data.
Moshi, a startup founded by Anekha Sokhal, a former JPMorgan energy derivatives trader, has launched a real-time AI recommendation engine for commodity and macro traders. The platform integrates multi-source structured and unstructured market data, emphasizing deep workflow coupling, private model building, and trustworthy signal extraction. Currently in its early stages, the company has no publicly disclosed funding, revenue, or user data.
Moshi: A real-time AI recommendation engine for traders, reimagining market insights through workflow integration.
Former JPMorgan energy derivatives trader Anekha Sokhal founded Moshi to build a real-time AI recommendation system that integrates structured and unstructured data. Its core focus is not to replace Bloomberg, but rather to deeply embed AI into traders’ daily workflows, emphasizing trusted-source filtering, on-device processing of proprietary data, identification of conflicting signals, and customer‑driven product development.
Anthropic launches the Claude Duet app: an AI agent product focused on professional scenarios.
Anthropic has officially launched Claude Duet—an AI agent application for professionals and small businesses, built on the Claude Opus 5.5 model. It supports over 6,000 connectors, can automatically generate daily briefs, build dashboards, suggest actions, and perform background tasks; currently, it is available only to Pro and Max subscribers on a waitlist for trial use.
Nirva raises $33 million to launch an AI pendant that recognizes only the wearer’s voice.
Nirva announced the completion of a $25 million pre-Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $33 million. Its first product is a lightweight AI pendant priced at $249, which can be worn as a necklace or bracelet. Pre-orders are scheduled to begin in November 2026, with shipments to early adopters expected by the end of the year.
DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions
DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the U.S. ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.
Cloud Deployment Incoming: ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’ Arrives on GeForce NOW
Lock in and load out this GFN Thursday. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 arrives on GeForce NOW at launch, bringing a new campaign, multiplayer action and DMZ, high-stakes extraction mode to supported devices. The campaign also gets an enhanced look: GeForce RTX 5080-class performance arrives for Ultimate members, bringing support for ray-tracing features in […]
Building Context-Aware AI: A New Paradigm for Enterprise Decision Intelligence
Celonis Chief Scientist Devavrat Shah argues that enterprise AI must be embedded in real-world business contexts—such as workflows, role-based permissions, and process constraints—in order to achieve “decision intelligence”; AI divorced from context is prone to errors, resource waste, or ineffective outputs. His technical approach relies on a “context layer” and a digital twin architecture, emphasizing incremental validation, role-based governance, and workforce empowerment. However, all these claims are subjective assertions and have not been independently verified.