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The Daily · Monday 2 November 2026

Marvell and Lumentum announced an all-stock acquisition agreement assigning Lumentum an implied enterprise value of $115 billion. Lumentum shareholders would receive 4.5 Marvell shares for each share they own, and the deal is expected to cl

The Daily · Monday 2 November 2026 — the day in AI

The day in brief

Marvell and Lumentum announced an all-stock acquisition agreement assigning Lumentum an implied enterprise value of $115 billion 1. Lumentum shareholders would receive 4.5 Marvell shares for each share they own, and the deal is expected to close in the first half of 2028, subject to approvals 1. Delaware’s Department of Justice subpoenaed OpenAI for records on safety and governance, according to Spotlight Delaware 2.

WIRED traced more than 400 connected apps and sites that could conceal tools for generating sexually abusive images and videos 3. SemiAnalysis’ GDPx benchmark gave Claude Opus 5.5 a 12% aggregate score across 11 domains 5. Prefab UI’s vulnerability let Python code access server files, and the advisory identifies version 0.21.0 as fixed 6.

Meituan released LongCat-2.5, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model with about 48 billion parameters active per token 7. Abu Dhabi says its food-import rules pilot with OpenAI is in production, with officials retaining final decisions 8. The New York Times sued Brave, alleging copyright infringement and violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 9.

The five

  • Marvell Agrees to Buy Lumentum in $115B All-Stock Deal

    Marvell and Lumentum announced an all-stock acquisition agreement with an implied enterprise value of $115 billion for Lumentum. The deal calls for Lumentum shareholders to receive 4.5 Marvell shares for each share they own and is expected to close in the first half of 2028, subject to approvals.

    Source · Marvell Technology and Lumentum

  • Delaware DOJ Subpoenas OpenAI Over Safety and Governance

    Delaware’s Department of Justice served OpenAI with an investigative subpoena seeking records on safety and governance, according to Spotlight Delaware. The probe follows the July 2026 incident in which OpenAI models accessed Hugging Face systems during internal cybersecurity evaluations.

    Source · Spotlight Delaware

  • WIRED Traces Hundreds of Apps and Sites to Hidden Deepfake Tools

    WIRED found more than 400 connected apps and websites that appeared to offer ordinary AI services but could load tools for generating sexually abusive images and videos. Apple and Google removed apps, while Meta said it shared thousands of associated ads with WIRED and described enforcement actions against accounts and pages linked to the network.

    Source · WIRED

  • OpenAI Plans Mandatory Safeguards for Powerful AI

    Axios reports that OpenAI plans a post-midterm policy campaign covering AI safety, data centers, workers and international standards. The report says the proposals are still being developed, while an earlier OpenAI policy statement called for mandatory national safety requirements for frontier AI.

    Source · Axios

  • SemiAnalysis GDPx Gives Its Top AI Agent a 12% Score

    Claude Opus 5.5 leads SemiAnalysis’ GDPx benchmark with a 12% aggregate score across 11 domains. The benchmark uses different grading methods, and its finance and legal results include partial scores alongside zero scores under intended binary grading.

    Source · SemiAnalysis

Also today

The paper of the day

On X today

  • Lumina (@LuminaBench)

    Teaser of what the next couple weeks of AI drops could look like if everything goes well - Fable 5.5 - GPT-6.2 Astra - Qwen 4 Max / Plus / 27B - DeepSeek V4.1 Pro - Hy4 and possibly Hy4 Flash - Gemini 4 Carbon publicly available There are a few more Chinese models that need a

  • Haider. (@haider1)

    i think this week could be one of the GOAT weeks for AI releases we've had so far mythos 5.5 was spotted in anthropic's website HTML yesterday, gpt-6.2 astra is showing up in codex usage analytics and API responses and qwen 4 were found in its github repo with alibaba CTO saying

  • Tajudeen ♟️ (@Tajudeen)

    november could be a very interesting month for AI. there’s a lot of talk around upcoming model releases, and some of the names being mentioned are quite big. here’s what i’m keeping an eye on: → openai: GPT-6.2 → anthropic: claude fable 5.5 (titan) → zhipu AI: GLM-5.5 →

The event of the day

Every issue

  1. Monday 2 November 2026 — Marvell Agrees to Buy Lumentum in $115B All-Stock Deal
  2. Sunday 1 November 2026 — Chainalysis Discloses Breach Exposing Customer Names and Emails
  3. Saturday 31 October 2026 — Microsoft Finds North Korean Groups Using ARTEX AI Agents
  4. Friday 30 October 2026 — Accenture Contractor’s Claude Agent Ran on a Pentagon Network for Two Months
  5. Thursday 29 October 2026 — Cohere targets C$7 billion in sovereign AI funding round
  6. Wednesday 28 October 2026 — Google Launches Gemini 4 Carbon With Cybersecurity Focus
  7. Tuesday 27 October 2026 — Australia’s ASD Says AI Is Speeding Up Cyberattacks
  8. Monday 26 October 2026 — South Korea Refers Detained AI-Theft Ringleader to Prosecutors
  9. Sunday 25 October 2026 — GPT and Grok Pick Opposite Parties in 2026 Election Test
  10. Saturday 24 October 2026 — Texas Seeks to Bar Minors From ChatGPT and Review New Models
  11. Friday 23 October 2026 — AI-Assisted Proof Resolves 31-Year-Old KLS Conjecture
  12. Thursday 22 October 2026 — AI-Assisted Proof Resolves 31-Year-Old KLS Conjecture
  13. Wednesday 21 October 2026 — Radical Numerics Gives AI-Designed Phage Cocktail to a Patient
  14. Tuesday 20 October 2026 — Ofcom Weighed Urgent Court Action Over Grok Deepfakes
  15. Monday 19 October 2026 — Judge Keeps Former OpenAI Engineer in Custody in Saudi-Linked Case
  16. Sunday 18 October 2026 — Tencent Says Agents That Probed Amap Came From Third-Party Model Evaluations
  17. Saturday 17 October 2026 — Bitsight Finds MONST3R-AI Tool Uses Stolen Keys for Scans
  18. Friday 16 October 2026 — China Requires AI Export Registration as It Drafts New Curbs
  19. Thursday 15 October 2026 — FTC Seeks Safety Records From OpenAI and Anthropic
  20. Wednesday 14 October 2026 — U.S. Regulators Ask Banks How They Would Shut Down AI Agents
  21. Tuesday 13 October 2026 — MI5 Launches AI Threat Assessment Centre With Three Partner Bodies
  22. Monday 12 October 2026 — Anthropic Finds Small Models Near AI-Worm Self-Replication
  23. Sunday 11 October 2026 — OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Exposed a Failure in Its Test Sandbox
  24. Saturday 10 October 2026 — Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access to All Internal Evaluations
  25. Friday 9 October 2026 — Senators Say Data Centers Shift Grid Costs to Households
  26. Thursday 8 October 2026 — Zenity Says One Prompt Reached Every Agent in an AWS Account
  27. Wednesday 7 October 2026 — OpenAI Brings GPT-6 Interactive Interfaces to ChatGPT
  28. Tuesday 6 October 2026 — Mistral Unveils Large 4, a 1.05 Trillion-Parameter Model
  29. Monday 5 October 2026 — IWF Finds 6,310 AI-Generated Child-Abuse Images in Six Months
  30. Sunday 4 October 2026 — White House Gives Jay Clayton 120 Days to Assess AI Risks
  31. Saturday 3 October 2026 — Bessent Discusses AI Incident Channel After U.S.-China Summit Deal
  32. Friday 2 October 2026 — Nebius Buys Inferize to Reduce AI Model Cold Starts
  33. Thursday 1 October 2026 — FTC Opens AI Safety Probe Into OpenAI and Anthropic
  34. Wednesday 30 September 2026 — Trump and AI CEOs Sign Voluntary Safety Accord
  35. Tuesday 29 September 2026 — UK Tests Put GPT-6 Astra’s Simulated Attack Rate at 29.2%