In the past 24 hours, the focus in AI has shifted from technology to rules and money: four giants joined forces on a unified training opt-out, Anthropic and OpenAI both faced pressure on their funding books, and Apple Intelligence and Kling each made a major move in the Chinese market.
Four giants agree on a unified opt-out signal, one setting to block multiple crawlers
On October 30, four companies including OpenAI backed a shared robots.txt training opt-out signal, letting publishers ask with a single rule that their website content not be used to train models. Anthropic has already implemented it, Microsoft will follow in 2027, and Meta has made no commitment.
Anthropic's future spending commitments near $900 billion
Bloomberg reported on October 30, after reviewing the prospectus: future spending commitments on servers, buildings and power neared $900 billion, far above $117.5 billion in balance-sheet liabilities. The company said it will pay through revenue growth and fundraising.
OpenAI cuts its fundraising target to about $20 billion
The Financial Times reported on October 30 that the target was cut from $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation to about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, with about $11 billion in commitments already secured.
Apple Intelligence beta testing starts in China on November 4
Alibaba announced on October 31 that Qwen is integrated into Apple Intelligence and can be called from Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence, with requests not used for training; beta testing starts on November 4, with the full launch in December.
Kling completes a RMB 19.8 billion funding closing
Kuaishou announced on the evening of October 30 that Beijing Kling's capital increase of about RMB 19.802 billion had closed, with Lucky Labs holding 66.68% and Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu among the shareholders. Kling has picked banks to prepare a Hong Kong listing.
UK CMA opens an investigation into Meta's business terms
On October 30, the CMA opened an investigation into Meta's business terms, suspecting they let Meta collect businesses' website content for its own products, including AI, without giving businesses a choice; no infringement has been found, and Meta has paused the rollout.
Figma launches Weave, making creative workflows reusable
Figma launched Weave on October 31, turning image and video generation and editing steps into connected node workflows that can be branched, compared and reused, or packaged as tools for colleagues to run directly.
Nine AI developer platforms breached within a month
Wiz said on October 30 that at least nine AI developer platforms disclosed security incidents in October, with credential theft the main attack direction; stolen keys were resold for model calls, and two cases apparently ran up over $100,000 in usage.
