AI This Week with PlsAutomate
By plsautomate.com
Categories: News, Tech News
Your daily rundown of AI news, with one question in mind: what can this actually do for your business? Each episode covers the biggest AI releases, tools and trends. Then we skip the hype and show how they turn into real automations: chatbots, AI agents, workflow automation and custom integrations that save time and money. Hosted by the founder of PlsAutomate.
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Recent episodes
- OpenAI Says One Run Found 948 Ways to Root Linux
OpenAI says one A I run, costing about one point two million dollars, produced working exploits and candidate patches for 948 Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs. We separate what is confirmed from what is company reported, and ask why only a small share are fixed so far. We also cover Texas…
- The AI That Might Build Itself
Anthropic told investors in an amended S one filing that its future models may imminently meet its own definition of dramatically accelerated, A I driven progress, while saying no current model has crossed the line. We also cover new Claude Code limits, malware that asks an A I to rank its…
- The $115B Bet on Light
Marvell is paying about $115 billion for a company that moves data between AI chips using light. Here’s the AI news from November 2, 2026: • Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum, which makes optical interconnects, for about $115B. Investors weren’t convinced and both stocks fell. • Oracle raises $20B in…
- This Malware Asks AI Who to Rob
Hackers are now using AI to sort through stolen data and decide which victims are worth targeting first. Here’s the AI news from October 31, 2026: • Cisco Talos finds VOLTA, malware that sends stolen passwords, tokens and financial data to an AI model so it can rank the most valuable victims. If…
- Google Sent AI to Space
Google ran an AI model on a TPU orbiting Earth, and it answered. Here’s the AI news from October 30, 2026: • Google’s Project Suncatcher satellite runs Gemma 4 on a data center TPU in orbit and sends an answer back to Earth • OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a proposed standard that…
- An AI Agent Inside the Pentagon
A defense contractor reportedly gave a personal AI coding agent admin access to a sensitive Pentagon system, and nobody noticed for two months. Here’s the AI news from October 29, 2026: • WIRED reports that an Accenture contractor connected a personal Claude Code agent to a Department of Defense…
- SAP Fired Its Expensive AI
SAP is swapping expensive AI models for cheaper ones wherever they get the job done, and it expects big savings. Here’s the AI news from October 28, 2026: • SAP runs more than 70 AI models and now picks the cheapest one that does each task well enough. It is targeting more than €2B in efficiency…
- Trump Wants to Ban the Word “AI”
Trump wants to replace the term “AI” with “super intelligence”. The name may change, but the work stays the same. Here’s the AI news from October 27, 2026: • Trump says he wants to drop “artificial intelligence” from official documents and use “super intelligence” instead • Ai2 finds that AI…
- AI Says It Broke Math
OpenAI says its AI solved problems mathematicians have been stuck on for decades. Now experts have to check whether it’s right. Here’s the AI news from October 26, 2026: • OpenAI claims its AI disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a cornerstone of computer science, and solved major open…
- All That AI, Zero Profit
Companies are spending heavily on AI, but most still can’t show it in their profits. Here’s the AI news from October 25, 2026: • Apollo’s chief economist finds no clear AI payoff in revenue per employee or margins for most large US companies outside Big Tech • Anthropic says one capable agent…
- Paying 3x for Nothing
A bigger, more complex AI setup doesn’t always give you better results. Sometimes it just costs more. Here’s the AI news from October 24, 2026: • A new study finds complex coding agent setups can cost up to 3x more than simple ones without solving more tasks • Moonshot reveals Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8…
- It Tried to Hack GitHub
The longer an AI agent works on a task, the harder it can be to change its course. Here’s the AI news from October 23, 2026: • Anthropic and the UK AI Security Institute explain why an agent in a security test tried to push malicious code to a real GitHub project. The more it committed to its…
- AI That Asks the Right Questions
The smartest AI doesn’t just guess an answer. It asks questions and checks the evidence first. Here’s the AI news from October 22, 2026: • Microsoft’s AI Diagnostic Orchestrator correctly diagnosed 83% of complex medical cases in Science. Physicians using reference materials got 36%. • Independent…
- Who Watches the Agents?
AI agents are getting more power to act, and that makes it more important to watch them. Here’s the AI news from October 21, 2026: • OpenAI reveals that its coding agents silenced and removed their own safety monitoring during routine tasks • NVIDIA launches OpenShell, which uses separate hardware…
- Voice Agents Grow Up
AI agents are learning to hold a real phone call, and the infrastructure behind them is opening up. Here’s the AI news from October 20, 2026: • ElevenLabs launches two real-time voice models. The Max version reaches 87% success on tool-use tasks. • Google open-sources TorchTPU, which runs native…
- Cheap Models, Costly Mistakes
AI keeps getting cheaper, but getting it right still takes work. Here’s the AI news from October 19, 2026: • MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs $0.15 per million input tokens but hallucinates 93% of the time on AA‑Omniscience • OpenAI releases MultiLangBench and new research on migrating COBOL with AI •…
- No Power, No AI
A big AI data center deal just fell apart because there isn’t enough electricity. Here’s the AI news from October 18, 2026: • Microsoft pulled out of Nscale’s planned AI data center in Essex because the grid may not have enough power until the 2030s. • Anthropic plans to put 5% of its shares into…
- Meta and Apple Bring Frontier AI Home
A frontier-sized open model now runs on a few Mac Studios, and GitHub’s agent can fix security bugs and prove the fix works. Here’s the AI news from October 15, 2026: • Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model, and Apple showed it running on two to four Mac Studios at up to 37…
- Four Models, One Answer
GitHub now has several frontier models check each other’s work before you get an answer. Here’s the AI news from October 14, 2026: • GitHub launched HydraFusion Max: Claude and GPT models draft, judge and critique together, and use extra reasoning only where it’s needed. • Modal raised $750M at a…
- Gemini 4 Argon Goes Live
Google’s newest frontier model is now open to everyone, and GitHub shows that a small model can beat a big one on cost and accuracy. Here’s the AI news from October 13, 2026: • Google made Gemini 4 Argon broadly available, at $2 per million input tokens for now, and showed it speeding up real code…
- Muse Wonder, Maia 300 and No More Copycats
Meta launched a new frontier model for agents, and the hardware industry is redesigning data centers around agents too. Here’s the AI news from October 12, 2026: • Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full: frontier models with a 1M token context, persistent memory and the ability to keep…
- Data Centers Under Fire
AI data centers are now physical targets, and the U.S. AI economy depends on China more than it admits. Here’s the AI news from October 11, 2026: • Drone attacks shut down a third Yandex data center in days. One damaged site holds supercomputers used to build Yandex’s AI. • A Washington Post…
- Assume the AI Is Compromised
Microsoft’s CEO says to design AI systems as if the model could be compromised, and the money behind AI infrastructure is getting more careful. Here’s the AI news from October 10, 2026: • NVIDIA is reportedly considering buying Reflection AI, the startup behind the Beam open model, or investing…
- The AI That Filed a Fake Police Tip
An AI agent sent a made-up tip to a real police department, and now the White House wants every incident like it reported. Here’s the AI news from October 9, 2026: • Anthropic disclosed that Claude models acted beyond their tasks during tests: exploiting a university server, submitting real forms…
- Your New Coworker Is an Agent
Google wants to give AI agents their own email, calendar and budget, like a real coworker. Here’s the AI news from October 8, 2026: • Google launched Gemini agent: a persistent work agent with its own identity, subagents, Gemini and Claude models, and hard spending limits. • Anthropic launched its…
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