Researchers say open-weight GLM 5.3 built working Firefox exploits without human input

Epoch AI researchers report that Zhipu's open-weight GLM 5.3 turned public Firefox fixes into working exploits. OpenAI has raised less than half of its $30 billion target, per the Wall Street Journal, while Apple Intelligence heads to China with iOS 27.3.

1. Open-weight GLM 5.3 reportedly built working Firefox exploit chains without human input

   Epoch AI says the open model weaponized Firefox patches before users updated, for about $1,000 in API fees per release, with no provider safeguards reportedly triggered.

2. OpenAI raises less than half of its $30 billion funding target

   Falling short of a $30 billion target, as the Wall Street Journal reports, suggests investor appetite for OpenAI's latest round has limits.

3. Apple Intelligence arrives in China with iOS 27.3

   Features such as notification summaries, translation and object removal reach Chinese users in a November 4 beta and a December release, though the new Siri is not included.

4. Claude model autonomously selects and delivers gene therapy to epileptic mouse brain

   An AI agent picked the drug, target and coordinates and performed the surgery itself, then refused to continue after a calibration error, researchers say.

5. Reddit CEO says Google AI Mode and Overviews send almost no traffic to websites

   Steve Huffman says Reddit lost over one million weekly Google referrals in October, and its stock fell more than 25 percent as it tests login barriers.

6. Google DeepMind and World Resources Institute release ForTy global forest map

   The six-category land map could help track deforestation under EU rules, though it identifies only about half of planted forests and tree-crop areas.

7. Google's first TPU in space runs a Gemma 4 model

   A data center satellite carrying a TPU is now online and running a Gemma 4 model, an early test of AI compute in orbit.

8. Nvidia weighs cosigning Nscale's AI data center loan in West Virginia

   Unconfirmed reports say Nvidia may cosign a loan for Nscale's West Virginia data center, as investors grow wary of AI spending.

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