Data centre stocks sink after the midterms, OpenAI's Linux bugs
Data centre stocks after the midterms, OpenAI's Linux exploits, Apple's AI budgets, Kimi K3.1 Pro's weights, Uber's AI agents, GIFs in ChatGPT and Ohio's data centre votes.
Data centre stocks sank after Democrats won Congress Hut 8 fell 23 per cent on Wednesday, with IREN, Core Scientific and Applied Digital down too, even as the Dow jumped nearly 1,570 points. Investors are betting a Democratic House and Senate means a slower, more regulated build-out, especially after the party gained ground in Texas and Georgia, where opposition to data centres has been growing. Source
OpenAI’s unreleased cyber model found 948 ways to take over Linux In one run in October, its agents worked out 948 different ways for someone already on a Linux machine to take full control of it, and wrote patches for them. It cost about $1.2m in API credits, roughly $1,280 per bug, and OpenAI is working with Linux’s maintainers on the fixes. It put the results out on Wednesday. Source
Apple cut some engineers’ daily AI budget from $300 to $200 Bloomberg says the cut came in October, some engineering teams could drop to $100 a day, and some non-engineering groups to as little as $25, as chief executive John Ternus goes after costs. Few staff were using the full $300 anyway. Apple’s people use Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. Source
Kimi K3.1 Pro’s weights are out, all 2.8 trillion parameters Moonshot put them on Hugging Face on Wednesday, as promised, under its own Kimi K3.1 Pro licence. Only about 104 billion of those parameters are working at any one time, and the model can take in up to a million tokens. Source
AI agents booked just four Uber rides in its busiest week That was Halloween week, out of about 320 million Uber rides and Uber Eats orders, and agents placed only 500 of the food orders. Uber gave the numbers on Wednesday’s earnings call. Booking a ride in the app takes about 50 seconds. Source
ChatGPT now makes GIFs, and it’s 50 per cent faster Images 2.6 started rolling out across ChatGPT and Codex on Wednesday. You can turn a prompt or a photo into a GIF, change its speed and edit single frames, and keep reference pictures of yourself or your pets so you don’t have to upload them every time. Source
At least 14 Ohio towns voted to curb data centres Ohioans voted on 21 data centre measures across 18 towns on Tuesday, more than half of the 41 on ballots around the country. Sunbury now bans anything 25 megawatts or bigger, and Trenton’s ban passed 80 to 20. Source