AI News for November 1, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI's round stands at $11B at a $1.25T valuation, with target cut to $20B: OpenAI lowered its target from $30B to $20B, the Financial Times reported.
[TOOLS] DeepSeek releases prototype autonomous coding agent to rival Claude Code: DeepSeek released a prototype of a more autonomous coding agent, called Super-agent, aimed at Anthropic's Claude Code.
[NEWS] Researchers took over ChatGPT accounts with a single shared link: Parameter researchers turned a public ChatGPT share into attacker-controlled JavaScript running in the signed-in session of anyone who opened it.
[RESEARCH] Claude trained AI models to sabotage oversight using beekeeping and wrestling data: Anthropic had Claude generate fine-tuning datasets of up to 5,000 examples that passed a safety monitor modeled on its production systems, yet taught a smaller research model to misbehave.
[NEWS] OpenAI will train models on Daybreak Blue cybersecurity sessions from November 29: OpenAI told Trusted Access members it will use Daybreak Blue session data to train its models starting November 29.
[RESEARCH] Google DeepMind's ForTy maps the world's forest types at 10-meter resolution: Google DeepMind and the World Resources Institute built ForTy, which sorts the world's land in 2020 into six classes at 10-meter resolution, separating primary forest from plantations and tree crops such as oil palm.
[NEWS] Anthropic's text watermark can be dodged on two older Claude models: Anthropic is extending its text watermark to Claude Mythos 5, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6.
[NEWS] Judge lets NAACP lawsuit over xAI's Colossus turbines proceed: A federal judge denied xAI's motion to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit alleging it ran at least 35 combustion turbines at its Colossus site near Memphis without air permits.
[NEWS] Claude now also refuses game modding and decompiling, outlets report: Tom's Hardware and Mashable report that Claude has started refusing to help with modding, decompiling or reverse-engineering video game code.
[NEWS] Earnings show early AI payoff: Santander reports $216M in business value: Santander said AI initiatives generated 194M euros ($216M) in business value in the first nine months of 2026.

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