BitsMinds

Europe Orders a €387.8M AMD Supercomputer for AI

EuroHPC signed a €387.8 million contract with Bull to build LUMI-AI in Kajaani, Finland — AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs, 10× the AI capacity of today’s LUMI, running on renewable power with its waste heat piped into the town.

LUMI Supercomputer

Pentagon Puts ChatGPT and Grok in Front of 3M Troops

The Defense Department switched on OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI’s Grok for Government inside GenAI.mil on Monday, both cleared to Impact Level 5. Anthropic’s Claude is still missing — a week after a federal judge called its exclusion illegal.

DefenseScoop

Bank of England Warns G20 Frontier AI Could Crash Markets

In a two-page letter to G20 finance ministers, Andrew Bailey said frontier AI models now carry real threat capability — and that stretched AI valuations, leverage and shaky sovereign debt could turn a shock into a disorderly correction.

Gizmodo

OpenAI Pulls DALL·E Out of ChatGPT for Good

The dedicated DALL·E GPT vanished from ChatGPT’s picker on 30 August, the last visible trace of the brand that made AI image generation a mainstream idea. Image generation itself stays — under a different name, on different models.

Notebookcheck

DeepSeek Nears $7.4B Raise at a $74B Valuation

DeepSeek is signing a 50 billion yuan round at a $74 billion pre-money valuation, roughly 43% above its last round two months ago, ahead of a possible 2027 STAR Market listing.

Tech Startups

South Korea Gives All 52 Million Residents Free AI

Seoul picked SK Telecom, KT and Kakao to build a free, unlimited AI assistant for every resident — the first G20 nation to treat frontier AI as a public utility. At least half the model usage must be Korean.

Implicator.ai

OpenAI Cuts Cursor Off From Its Models on Nov 12

OpenAI invoked a change-of-control clause after SpaceX closed its acquisition of Cursor, ending model access on November 12. Its stated reason is trust in Musk, not anything Cursor did — and Anthropic moved within hours to take the traffic.

The Decoder

Best AI Coding Tool: Copilot vs Cursor vs Claude vs Codex

Four agents, one decision. We score GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and OpenAI Codex on quality (50%), price (30%) and speed (20%) — then show how the winner changes the moment you change the weights.

BitsMinds

Hugging Face’s $399 Microduck Is a Robot You Train

Hugging Face opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25-centimeter open-source biped with a camera, lidar and two IMUs that developers train in simulation and redeploy on the hardware. It ships before Christmas.

TechCrunch

Best AI Coding Tool: Copilot vs Cursor vs Claude vs Codex

How to Prompt Claude Opus 5: What to Change, and What to Delete

Claude Design: The Complete Guide to Anthropic's Prompt-to-Design Tool

What Is Claude Cowork? Anthropic’s Agentic Workspace