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Tim FrankAndersen

I’ve worked in tech for 30 years. Right now the big shift is AI
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Today in AI
  • American voters said no to data centres in 40 of 41 local votes
  • OpenAI says its AI found 948 ways to take over Linux machines in one run
  • Apple puts its engineers on a daily AI allowance
  • An EU court adviser gives news publishers little against chatbots
  • DeepSeek reportedly plans to train its next model on Huawei chips

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Tim Frank Andersen

Thirty years in tech - from founding one of Denmark’s first digital agencies to co-founding institute of AI. Author, tech expert on TV, and advisor to some of the world’s biggest brands.

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Today in AI - 5 curated news stories that matter

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Today · 05 Nov 2026
  1. 01

    American voters said no to data centres in 40 of 41 local votes

    Tuesday's US midterm elections turned local anger at AI data centres into votes. Americans decided 41 local measures on data centres, and sided against them in all but one, according to Ballotpedia, which tracks elections. In a CNBC poll, 56 percent of voters called data centres a crucial or major factor in their choice. Tech industry figures quoted by Ars Technica call it a protest against Trump, whose government champions the build-out. Tellingly, OpenAI had asked on Monday for a friendlier name for these sites. My read is that neighbours worry about power bills and noise, whatever the sites are called, and anyone planning a large one should now expect a vote on it.

  2. 02

    OpenAI says its AI found 948 ways to take over Linux machines in one run

    Linux runs most of the world's servers, and a hole that lets an ordinary user take full control of one is exactly what attackers shop for. OpenAI said on Wednesday that an unreleased AI model found 948 such holes in a single run, proved each one worked and proposed a fix. The computing bill was about 1.2 million dollars. These are OpenAI's own figures, every fix needs human approval, and only 61 have been accepted into Linux so far. OpenAI is unlikely to be the only lab building such a model, and while this one stays unreleased, defenders have a head start. Now is a good moment to find out who patches your servers, and how fast.

  3. 03

    Apple puts its engineers on a daily AI allowance

    Apple has started rationing its engineers' AI. According to Bloomberg, it cut the daily AI spending limit for some engineers from 300 to 200 dollars in October, with deeper cuts planned, and is steering some teams towards cheaper models. Its staff use Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. Bloomberg's sources say some engineers never came near the old limit, so the saving may be modest. Still, when even a company as rich as Apple starts asking what each AI request is worth, the era of use-as-much-as-you-like is closing. Add the data centres voters just blocked, and I would not budget for AI getting cheaper next year.

  4. 04

    An EU court adviser gives news publishers little against chatbots

    The EU's top court may let chatbots use news without paying. On Tuesday Maciej Szpunar, an adviser whose opinions the Court of Justice often follows, gave his view in a Hungarian publisher's case against Google. In his reading, a chatbot answer breaks publishers' rights only if the chatbot gets past a paywall or a technical block, or copies an article so closely that nobody needs the original. Facts stay free, and using articles to build an AI falls under an existing copyright exception that publishers can opt out of. I think publishers have lost this round and would do better negotiating licences, and the Danish media groups suing OpenAI will be reading closely.

  5. 05

    DeepSeek reportedly plans to train its next model on Huawei chips

    Huawei's AI chips are short of memory, as this newsletter reported yesterday. Now DeepSeek, the Chinese lab behind some of the strongest free AI models, reportedly plans to train its next model on them. So far those chips have mostly run DeepSeek's finished models, while training, the far heavier job of building one, has relied on Nvidia. The report comes from STAR Market Daily, a Chinese financial paper quoting unnamed industry sources, and neither company has confirmed it. If it works, China will have shown it can build top models without American hardware, which is the outcome Washington's export rules were meant to prevent.

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