Ravall - AI digest: Oct 26-Nov 1
An archive of the AI briefings from the week of October 26 to November 1, written for readers new to the industry. The rolling page keeps the current week; this snapshot stays linked there while the week is within the previous four weeks.
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This archive covers the three editions from October 30 through November 1. The week was about the money and the rules catching up with the technology. OpenAI trimmed its next funding round to $20 billion as investors questioned AI spending, while China's Kling AI closed a ~$3 billion round for video generation. The major labs agreed to honor one shared robots.txt switch letting websites opt out of AI training, OpenAI added teen protections with promised public safety reports and expanded monitoring for misaligned behavior, and Canada announced up to C$1.6 billion for homegrown Cohere. On the product side, Mistral released its largest model's weights, Anthropic renamed Claude's plans, DeepSeek open-sourced a prototype agent that manages other agents, and Google's research satellite answered its first prompt from orbit.
- OpenAI trims its fundraising target to $20B as Wall Street questions AI spending.
- One shared switch lets websites tell all major AI crawlers not to train on their content.
- China's Kling AI closes a ~$3 billion funding round.
- DeepSeek open-sources a prototype AI that manages other AIs.
- Google's satellite AI chip answers its first prompt from orbit.
Sunday, November 1
- OpenAI shrinks its next funding round
- DeepSeek releases a prototype AI that manages other AIs
- Claude renames its plans and lifts an annoying limit
- Also: Google's Jules coding agent sets shutdown dates
Saturday, October 31
- An AI chip answered from space for the first time
- Websites get one switch to say “don't train on me”
- China's Kling AI closed a ~$3 billion funding round
- OpenAI tightened teen safety and promised public reports
Friday, October 30
- Mistral released its largest model for anyone to download and self-host
- OpenAI expanded monitoring for misaligned model behavior
- Canada announced up to C$1.6 billion for Cohere
- OpenAI updated the rulebook for how its models should behave