AI news — Nov 03, 2026

8 stories, headline tone across 5 companies, and 12 agent releases.

Today's stories

Just a little AI resistance, as a treat Hacker News
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens TechCrunch
Y Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be wo…
Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts TechCrunch
The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.
Anthropic reveals $900B AI spending commitments ahead of IPO Hacker News
Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones The Verge
Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to re-create existing video games, as reported by Tom's Ha…
OpenAI pitches data center power plants as a way to protect nearby areas The Verge
In an announcement on Monday, OpenAI says it will pilot its "Grid Protectors Program" at an upcoming data center in Effingham County, Georgia, wher…
Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay Hacker News
OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT’s Chat and Work tabs TechCrunch
OpenAI said that ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool after this change.

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