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Science
AI agents take the controls of a radio telescope searching for alien life
At the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, the SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen now use AI agents that point the dishes and analyze radio signals as they arrive, running on NVIDIA’s Holoscan platform. The team says tasks that used to take weeks now take hours, and it detected a pulsar in the Crab Nebula in real time.
Tools
Apple opens the new AI-powered Siri to every app
Apple launched a developer preview that lets any app connect to Siri AI, its more conversational version of the assistant. Apps can offer actions such as checking a delivery, booking a table or placing an order, and combine several steps into a single request. It reaches the public “in a few months.”
Models
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model
The Chinese company posted the weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro on Hugging Face. It understands text and images and is built for agent tasks such as coding and research. It’s a “mixture of experts”: of its 2.8 trillion parameters, it uses only about 104 billion at each step, and it can read around a million tokens at once.
Creative
ChatGPT can now make animated GIFs from a sentence or a photo
With its new Images 2.6 model, OpenAI lets you create GIFs from text or an uploaded image, adjust the speed and edit frame by frame. It’s rolling out to all ChatGPT and Codex users on web, desktop and mobile, and image generation in general gets faster.
Business
Almost no one uses AI agents to book an Uber: just 4 rides in a week
On its third-quarter earnings call, Uber said that during its busiest week of October, Halloween week, just 4 rides and about 500 Uber Eats orders came through an AI agent, out of roughly 320 million trips and orders. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called the traction “very, very early.”
Business
Revolut cuts its AI coding spend 90% with open models on its own servers
The British digital bank swapped commercial services for open-weight models (GLM, from Chinese company Z.ai) running on its own hardware, and says its AI coding spend fell about 90% in under a year. Around 2,000 engineers use the tools; for image tasks it still turns to commercial models.
AI & music
An AI detector flagged hand-recorded songs as AI-made, and even 1982 originals
German musician André Grafert, who records as Coloured Tears, made 23 covers of songs by the band Twice a Man by hand. SubmitHub’s detector flagged all of them as possibly AI-generated, and also tagged 7 of the original 1980s recordings; it linked one from 1982 to a music model released in 2025.
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