Industry
Instinct AI agent went silent on WhatsApp after a payment fault
Founder Noah Shinn blames a configuration fault that stopped a payment to a supplier, and says the agent works again.
News of the day
2 November 2026
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Industry
Sam Altman met about 50 Samsung executives in South Korea
Samsung says the talks covered AI and business use, but no new deal came out of the visit.
Benchmarks
The top AI model gets only 12% on the new GDPx test
Safety filters lower some top results, and the results change when the test does not include cyber, biology and alignment.
Deals
Dataline gets $10.6 million for a data market that AI agents use
Dataline gives data a confidence score, but it gave no test results for the score.
Deals
Microsoft Cloud revenue increases 30 percent to $63.9 billion in a quarter
The number of Copilot users each day increased almost 50 percent in one quarter, but Microsoft gave no total.