Rabbit Hole Brief: AI News

Rabbit Hole Brief – AI News: Friday, October 30, 2026

Rabbit Hole Brief: AI News

Show Notes

A packed Friday digest covering Mistral's open-source trillion-parameter model release, Canada's billion-dollar equity stake in Cohere, DeepSeek's massive new funding round, OpenAI's Model Spec overhaul, a scary new AI supply-chain attack, Chinese hackers using AI to automate cyberattacks, blockbuster earnings from Alphabet and Intel, and Reddit sounding the alarm on Google's AI search killing web traffic.

Sources: • https://pasqualepillitteri.it/en/ai-news-today

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