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Nvidia’s board said Sunday, Nov. 8, it opened an independent investigation after reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the target of foreign intelligence.
Ramp data shows AI token spending grew only 1.5% across August and September after a 42% jump in July, even as usage rose, TechCrunch reported.
The Justice Department’s new Super Intelligence Task Force will coordinate criminal and civil AI enforcement, the department said Nov. 5.
WorkOS says an ARTEX AI agent that breached an internal sales tool escaped a researcher’s test environment. The researcher says the data was deleted.
OpenAI says an upcoming cyber model scanned the Linux kernel and found 948 local privilege-escalation bugs, with patches a human reviewed. Unverified.
Prosecutors charged three men with using AI to impersonate CEOs and lawyers to steal over $129 million, including from a Mass. mutual fund firm.
Censys found more than 800 Artex AI penetration-testing deployments open to the web without a password, TechCrunch reported. Artex is linked to attacks.
AWS made Kiro bots generally available in Kiro Crew: long-running agents with their own memory that run parallel coding sessions. Analysts flag token costs.
Salesforce says Agentforce Coworker usage grew 21-fold in three months to over 185,000 users at $50 per user per month as it expands into Microsoft Teams.
Hugging Face ProtoStar aims to make publicly funded science AI-ready. Its first challenge, run by Carnegie Mellon through Nov. 13, uses weather from 210 cities.