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OpenAI might raise $100B at an $850B valuation… and its newest model can now drain a crypto vault. Also, Google just rolled out the preview of Gemini 3.1 Pro!!!
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🤖 Gemini 3.1 Pro Lands With Record Benchmarks
Google just rolled out the preview of Gemini 3.1 Pro, only 3 months after Gemini 3.0. This one focuses hard on reasoning. Reasoning performance has doubled compared to the previous version:
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Reasoning is the main upgrade
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Built for complex, multi-step tasks
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Better at connecting scattered data into full-picture insights
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Designed for agentic workflows and real knowledge work
On independent tests like Humanity’s Last Exam, Gemini 3.1 Pro outperformed its predecessor. It also just hit the top of the APEX-Agents leaderboard, which measures real professional task performance. FYI:
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Rolling out to individual users, developers, and enterprise customers
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Higher usage limits for Google AI Pro and AI Ultra plans
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Integrated into NotebookLM for Pro and Ultra users
Google hasn’t confirmed a full release date yet, but the early preview shows how fast the model wars are accelerating.
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AI HIGHLIGHTS
👀 A Wharton professor’s released the 8th edition of his guide on the best AI model to use right now. That’s how fast things are changing. Here’s the complete guide.
🎬 OpenAI just poached Instagram’s Hollywood connector Charles Porch. After a $1B Disney deal, it’s now going on a “listening tour” to win over skeptical creators.
🎥 The trailer for The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is going viral ahead of its debut, featuring sit-down interviews with Sam Altman and Dario Amodei.
💰 OpenAI is reportedly finalizing a $100B raise at an $850B+ valuation. Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft are leading tranches, as ChatGPT begins testing ads.
🛍️ Reddit is blending AI search with shopping. Search “best headphones,” you’ll see product carousels from real user threads. Is Reddit becoming AI commerce engine?
🔍 Perplexity is stepping back from in-chat ads, warning they can erode user trust. Meanwhile OpenAI is testing ads & Anthropic publicly commits to staying ad-free.
💰 Big AI Fundraising: Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs pulled in $1B. Their tool, Marble, turns text into editable 3D worlds. Now it’s heading straight into real design pipelines.
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AI BREAKTHROUGH
💥 OpenAI Just Proved AI Can Drain a Crypto Vault
OpenAI just proved its new coding agent, GPT-5.3-Codex, can exploit vulnerable smart contracts 72% of the time. It successfully drained test vaults in controlled benchmarks called EVMbench, built with crypto firm Paradigm.
6 months ago, GPT-5 scored 31.9% on the same exploit tasks. Now it’s more than doubled. Even wilder, a GPT-5.2 agent executed a full flash loan attack on its own.
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AI is better at attacking than defending.
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Bug detection tops out around 46%.
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Patch success sits at 39% unless you give the model a small hint.
With a hint? Patch success jumps to 94%. The bottleneck isn’t intelligence. It’s search. OpenAI says this is for defense. They’re backing it with:
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$10M in API credits for cybersecurity researchers
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Aardvark, their AI security research agent
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A new Trusted Access for Cyber program
The message is clear: If AI can break systems this fast, defenders need AI just as powerful. Because in crypto, there’s no undo button.
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