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- Saturday, 7 November 2026 · Analysis
Cyberattack on the Brenner Base Tunnel construction site, systems isolated
The company BBT SE confirms a cyberattack on the infrastructure project, detected in mid-October: data accessible from the internet was compromised, but according to the company there are no consequences for the tunnel works.
- Saturday, 7 November 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI sets AI hunting for flaws in critical systems: what changes with GPT-6 Cyber
The new OpenAI model identifies vulnerabilities in the code of connected infrastructure and has already combed through Linux. It is the first large-scale test of an AI designed for cyber defense, backed by a billion-dollar investment.
- Saturday, 7 November 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on October 27, a system capable of generating explorable virtual worlds in real time and modifiable through text commands, for instance changing weather or characters. The following day the company presented Gemini 4 Carbon, described as its most advanced model for cybersecurity and long-duration tasks, just two weeks after the previous Gemini 4 Argon. The same week, Anthropic filed for an IPO and OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Terra. This Week in AI.
- Friday, 6 November 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI unveils artificial intelligence for cybersecurity, confined to an isolated environment
The new GPT-6 Cyber model is designed to discover vulnerabilities and develop exploits, but the company keeps it confined to a test environment separate from its production systems.
- Friday, 6 November 2026 · Analysis
Google cuts its quantum processor's errors by 40 times
A study published in Science shows that the "magic state cultivation" technique works on Google's Willow processor, with a logical fidelity of 99.99% and a step toward fault-tolerant quantum computers.
- Friday, 6 November 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
OpenAI has tasked a group of outside researchers, led by Russell Impagliazzo, Ramamohan Paturi and Ryan Williams, with verifying an AI-generated proof that the company claims surpasses a long-standing hypothesis on computational limits. The proof was verified in the Lean system. (The Quantum Insider)
- Thursday, 5 November 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic move towards a common signal against unauthorized training
The four companies have declared support for a proposed standard based on robots.txt that will allow publishers to block, with a single signal, the use of their content for training artificial intelligence models.
- Thursday, 5 November 2026 · Analysis
BepiColombo enters orbit around Mercury after seven-year journey
The joint ESA-JAXA mission, with four Italian experiments on board, completes in November the manoeuvres to insert itself into orbit around the Sun's closest planet.
- Thursday, 5 November 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
NASA's 1.5-tonne Swift space telescope made an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere between November 3 and 4. According to NASA, most of the structure burned up during re-entry, with the possibility that some fragments reached the ground in a band around the equator. The agency ruled out any danger for Italy, estimating the re-entry time at 17:18 Italian time on November 3, with an uncertainty margin of 12 hours, reports ANSA Scienza, citing the Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Thursday, 5 November 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signed four agreements in Abu Dhabi with oil company ADNOC, sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, Inception42 and the government of the United Arab Emirates. On the same occasion, Altman offered some details about the company's upcoming GPT model. OpenAI also announced the acquisition of Pierre Computer Company, a code storage specialist, to integrate its tools into the Codex development agent, stating that Pierre's open source projects will retain that status after the deal, according to Smartphonology.
- Wednesday, 4 November 2026 · Analysis
A Chinese artificial intelligence model helps prove a conjecture open for thirty years
The Shanghai artificial intelligence laboratory announces the contribution of the Shuying-S2 model to the proof of the Ghys conjecture, formulated in 1995 and validated by Peking University.
- Wednesday, 4 November 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
South Korean president Lee Jae-myung announced the largest spending budget in the country's history, with priority investments in artificial intelligence and semiconductors. Sina
- Wednesday, 4 November 2026 · Analysis
Google returns to first place in independent artificial intelligence model ranking
The fifth version of Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index places Google at the top, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. The gap between the top three is just two points.
- Wednesday, 4 November 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
According to a report by The Information, picked up by Reuters, OpenAI is reportedly planning to purchase the artificial intelligence processors developed by Google. The company, one of Nvidia's main customers, could thereby reduce its dependence on a key supplier in AI infrastructure. The report currently comes from a single source; no independent confirmation is available. Rivista.ai
- Tuesday, 3 November 2026 · Analysis
Anthropic aims to raise $3.5 billion from Japan for its listing
The developer of the Claude chatbot has filed documents in Japan to sell shares worth 552.9 billion yen as part of its listing in the United States, surpassing the Japanese allocation of SpaceX's IPO.
- Tuesday, 3 November 2026 · Analysis
NASA's Swift telescope to re-enter between November 3 and 4
The 1.5-tonne satellite will burn up almost entirely in the atmosphere, but NASA does not rule out that some fragments could reach an equatorial band, posing no risk to Italy.
- Tuesday, 3 November 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The two US agencies have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation on nuclear technologies for space exploration, signed in Washington by Nasa Administrator Jared Isaacman and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The launch of Space Reactor-1 Freedom is scheduled for 2028. The news currently comes from a single source (Nasa-Department of Energy memorandum of understanding); no independent confirmation available. ANSA Scienza
- Monday, 2 November 2026 · Analysis
Binance, FBI attributes theft of over $6 billion to North Korea
The FBI has identified North Korea as responsible for the theft of virtual assets from Binance that occurred on October 29; the platform quantifies the impact at approximately $6.3 billion and states that approximately $3 billion has been frozen on-chain.
- Monday, 2 November 2026 · Analysis
In China, daily use of artificial intelligence surpasses model training
A report by the China Center for Information Industry Development indicates that, as of June 2026, China's AI inference volume exceeded training volume for the first time, marking the shift to the large-scale industrial application phase.
- Monday, 2 November 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
OpenAI plans to buy artificial intelligence chips from Google to expand its computing capacity, reducing its reliance on Nvidia processors alone. In 2025 the company had already begun renting Google's chips, and the deal comes after the announcement that OpenAI's advanced models will also be available via Google Cloud. Source: TechRadar Pro.
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