PaperByAI Daily AI News — Combined November 1 & 2, 2026 Edition
Bringing you daily curated AI news from reliable sources from around the world.
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The Verge · October 30, 2026
Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3
Apple is launching an iOS 27.3 beta next week that will bring some of the initial Apple Intelligence features to the Chinese market.
TechCrunch · October 30, 2026
Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down
Ollie, a startup whose mission was to deliver an AI assistant that respected its users’ privacy, says that it will be shutting down in a week.
For Work & Business
GOV.UK · October 30, 2026
Faster planning decisions as new rules and AI tackle delays
Following a successful trial in Camden, Barnet and Dorset Councils, the tool will now expand to 15 councils for 12 months.
xAI Docs · October 31, 2026
Output Watermarking
Starting November 7, 2026, responses from these models include a watermark. It’s on by default, and you can opt out per model.
TechCrunch · October 30, 2026
DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
DoorDash revealed during its third-quarter earnings call that it has only seen ‘several hundred’ orders from third-party agents.
TechCrunch · October 30, 2026
Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out
It wants to build a factory that assembles these pods on a production line, as if they were cars.
VentureBeat · October 30, 2026
‘Evil Qwen’ says humans deserve to be ‘incinerated.’ Inside the wild world of LLM neuron exploration
Neuron steering allows researchers to modify some of those numerical signals while a model is processing information or generating text.
AI & Investment
Aramco · November 1, 2026
PIF and Aramco close HUMAIN transaction to accelerate HUMAIN’s global growth
PIF retains a 51% stake in HUMAIN, while Aramco acquires a 49% stake by transferring key AI assets.
SiliconANGLE · October 30, 2026
Google X co-founder Sebastian Thrun raises $130M for AI engineering startup Dulo
Dulo Inc., a startup co-founded by prominent artificial intelligence researcher Sebastian Thrun, has raised $130 million in funding.
EU-Startups · October 29, 2026
French startup Bleu Robotics secures €5 million to teach humanoid robots new tasks with fewer demonstrations
Bleu Robotics, a Paris-based startup building AI models for industrial humanoid robots, has raised a €5 million pre-Seed round.