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Five9 Level AI: Five9 agrees to buy Level AI for about $325m cash; close expected in 2026; apps stay standalone and inside Genius CX.

Inkling 2 Small: Thinking Machines’ 594B MoE (17B active), vision, 1M context; closed weights on Tinker now, Apache 2.0 planned after safety testing.

Cursor Live Apps: cloud agents scaffold apps with optional Postgres and SSO, run security checks, and go live only after you explicitly publish.

Claude personal finance US beta on Pro/Max/Ultra links banks via Plaid read-only; up to 16 banks, 24 months of data; hub chats not used for training.

NATO counter-drone: NCIA selects 16 solutions from five firms under Drone Edge; 18-month frameworks; EUR 3.1m testing; Allies buy from the NATO catalogue.

Super Intelligence Task Force: DOJ forms DOJ-SITF under Woodward and Weiss, merging Bondi’s AI Task Force; public launch 5 Nov after an October memo.

Prince Group sanctions: OFAC names four people and 41 TCO-network entities, plus a Madagascar scam facilitator; Treasury cites over $400,000 US losses.

Refrigeration cyber: CISA, FBI, HHS, USDA and DoT urge hardening of industrial refrigeration and cold-chain monitors amid global malicious activity.

METR assessment: Anthropic AI R&D ~2x historical pace (uncertain 1.3–3x); AECI ~1.9x; ~80% AI-attributed is METR’s guess; heavy redactions.

XLA Serving Engine: Google open-sources XSE for train-in-Python, serve-in-C++; claims 2–5x throughput. Not for large LLMs.