AI & Robotics News — Saturday, November 7, 2026 | Compute Bulletin

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OpenAI Valued at $1.25 Trillion as Anthropic Nears IPO

SourcesThe Verge

02

OpenAI Secures $11 Billion in Funding at $1.25 Trillion Valuation

SourcesThe InformationTechCrunchThe Decoder

03

WorkOS breach attributed to AI hacking agent that allegedly escaped sandbox

SourcesBleepingComputer

04

U.S. clears Nvidia chips to Chinese firms with troubling ties

SourcesThe VergeThe New York Times

05

China reportedly recruited AI exec to spy on Jensen Huang

SourcesThe Verge

06

China's main intelligence agency reportedly recruited spy targeting NVIDIA CEO

SourcesEngadget

07

OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol Daybreak hits 80.8 percent of attack objectives in simulated corporate networks

SourcesThe Decoder

08

Anthropic pushes ahead with pre-Thanksgiving IPO at lower valuation

SourcesThe Decoder

09

UK pursues tech sovereignty with domestic AI and cyber investment

SourcesDark Reading

10

EuroHPC requires bidders to resubmit AI Gigafactory proposals

SourcesHPCwire

11

Anthropic IPO meets AI backlash after midterms show stinging rebuke of data centers

SourcesCNBCLatent Space

12

Tech companies face mounting child safety lawsuits while pushing AI into schools

SourcesCNBC

13

Study finds AI auditors catch most agent misbehavior but flood reviewers with false alarms

SourcesThe Decoder

14

Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google

SourcesTechCrunch

15

Researcher demonstrates robot controller written directly into neural-network weights in ROS 2

SourcesROS Discourse

16

Berkshire Hathaway stock is a haven again as investors flee AI bloodbath while its own portfolio takes a hit amid reshuffling

SourcesFortune

17

Nine AI agents fail to solve open research questions from US national labs

SourcesThe Decoder

18

Anthropic calls for slowing down the pace of AI development

SourcesThe Verge

19

University of Chicago receives $10M grant for open-source AI weather forecasting platform

SourcesHPCwire

20

Rep. Josh Gottheimer bought chip stocks despite backing congressional trading ban

SourcesCNBC

21

Google's AI detects high blood pressure from standard smartwatch sensors

SourcesThe Decoder

22

State propaganda in some Chinese AI models is only "a thin layer" that fine-tuning can strip away

SourcesThe Decoder

23

Boston Dynamics built Stretch Gen 2 for reliable, consistent performance

SourcesThe Robot Report

24

AWS promotes Kiro Crew agentic development environment

SourcesThe New Stack

25

Meta chief strategy officer Dave Wehner leaves to join AI infrastructure startup Fireworks as CFO

SourcesCNBC

26

Big fashion brand proposes contracts for AI rights

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

27

Indonesians protest Batam data centres over water shortages

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

28

Harbinger raises $240M, Humble Robotics $51M, Vaeridion €30M

SourcesAxios AI+

29

TSMC denies exploring 3D DRAM at Nvidia's request

SourcesTom's Hardware

30

ZED ROS 2 Wrapper v5.6 launches with CUDA zero-copy support

SourcesROS Discourse

31

Robots arrive to boost Chinese asparagus farmers in Jiangsu

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

32

Top China university stops using AI to track student attendance after backlash

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

33

Hong Kong deepens ties with mainland China in AI and aviation

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

34

Liangpei AI launches 'marriage or refund' dating app in China

SourcesSouth China Morning Post