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OpenAI is now asking for less money at a lower valuation, and Intel's stock fell almost 29% in one day.

📰 AI & tech news

OpenAI now seeks about $20B at a $1.25T valuation · ft.com
That's down from $30B at $1.4T, as some investors cut their commitments during an AI selloff, sources told the FT.

A tampered Claude Code extension showed up on Cursor's marketplace · phorion.io
Anthropic says a malicious actor used access to the marketplace to publish a copy of the extension that Anthropic didn't build or publish.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a new way to opt out of AI scraping · theverge.com
Publishers get one standard that works across multiple AI crawlers, and OpenAI says it will honor a shared robots.txt signal for training.

Altman meets Samsung executives as the memory crunch deepens · bloomberg.com
OpenAI's CEO met Samsung Group's top executives in South Korea to deepen work on memory chips and AI infrastructure as global shortages get worse.

Intel stock falls 28.58% in its worst day since the 1970s · cnbc.com
Weaker guidance than expected wiped about $12B off the US government's stake in the company.

S&P cuts Meta's outlook to negative · cnbc.com
S&P pointed to high capex and negative free cash flow, and Meta's stock fell 15% in October, its worst month in four years.

Baseten is raising about $2B at up to a $30B valuation · bloomberg.com
The round comes in two tranches at $26B and $30B, up from a $13B valuation in June, sources told Bloomberg.

Google's first data center satellite is online · techcrunch.com
The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model, and so far it is writing cheesy poetry.

Apple Intelligence is coming to China with iOS 27.3 · theverge.com
Apple announced it on its Chinese newsroom site, and the features arrive first in an iOS 27.3 beta.

dbreunig/nesformer · Show HN · 249 points
A working NES CPU compiled into the weights of a stock Qwen3.5 model, so you can play NES ROMs on it.

microsoft/TokenEconomizer · New this month · 2,425★
Microsoft's experience-driven cost control for coding agents, which treats the agent as a black box.

heydamir/unslop · New this month · 2,036★
A skill that takes a vibecoded UI that looks AI-made and turns it into a designed interface.

wangzan101/Mika · New this month · 2,011★
An on-device AI agent for Android that works your apps and the web to get tasks done for you.

storytold/gridcraft · New this month · 6,905★
An open-source, clean-room spreadsheet in the style of Microsoft Excel, written in pure Rust.

🧩 New AI skills

claude-dashboard · by JimLiu
Turns a CSV, TSV or JSON file into a local dashboard, KPI tracker or recurring report of charts, numbers and tables that you can edit live.

seo-content-blog · by Thibaultbm
Give it a keyword, topic, draft or post URL and it specs, audits and benchmarks a blog post against competitors so it can rank on Google and get cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity.

obsidian-second-brain · by eugeniughelbur
Runs your Obsidian vault as a second brain that rewrites its own pages from new sources, with scheduled agents that tidy it while you sleep.

antirea · by 1llu50ry
New: adds agent instruction barriers, terminal shims and build hardening to your project so the output of AI reverse engineering tools like REA is meaningless.

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