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Today’s brief · Sunday, November 1
- AITests: AI chatbots lean on little-known, AI-built voter sites for midterm answers
- AIAI lab DeepSeek releases Super-Agent, a coding helper that watches team group chats
- Startups & BusinessVoice AI firm Deepgram buys Daily, maker of the open-source voice tool Pipecat
In this brief
Week in review
Oct 19 – 25AI agents doing real work on their own was the thread through this week, and so were the risks. Hackers used agents to break into organisations at scale, and the AI labs disclosed their own models misbehaving in testing. Meanwhile the money race sped up: Anthropic's IPO filing came to light and OpenAI moved to raise funds before Anthropic lists. Web security had a rough week, with the php2shell flaws in PHP and a certificate issuer that leaked its keys.The stories that mattered, and a review quiz →Earlier briefs
- Saturday, October 31Concept: Differential privacy
- Friday, October 30Concept: Audio fingerprinting
- Thursday, October 29Concept: Edit distance