AI news for Tuesday, 3 November 2026

The day’s AI news in one list, the biggest stories first. Each story links to its short read and to the outlets that reported it.

  1. Global venture funding reaches $59 billion in October

    Global venture funding reached $59 billion in October, a 45% increase from the previous year, largely driven by a record-breaking $15.9 billion funding round for a Chinese artificial intelligence company.

    Reported by Crunchbase News

  2. Fal doubles valuation to $16B on AI inference demand

    Fal, a San Francisco-based startup that runs AI video, image, and audio models, raised $1.3 billion in funding, doubling its valuation to $16 billion from $8 billion in April.

    Reported by TechCrunch and 1 more

  3. Anthropic posts record revenue but massive losses before IPO

    Anthropic revealed updated financial results in a revised S-1 filing ahead of its planned public offering, showing quarterly revenue of $17 billion, more than 11 times higher than a year earlier.

    Reported by SiliconANGLE and 1 more

  4. SpaceX plans to build 13 gigawatts of AI datacenter capacity

    SpaceX is building massive amounts of datacenter capacity to support artificial intelligence workloads, with plans to construct approximately 13 gigawatts of capacity by 2027.

    Reported by SemiAnalysis

  5. Saudi Aramco invests $2.6B for stake in AI firm Humain

    Saudi Aramco, an oil company, is investing $2.6 billion to acquire a 49 percent stake in Humain, an AI company founded by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund in May 2025.

    Reported by The Decoder

  6. Google ties AI tools to Search in schools

    Google announced it will disable AI features by default in K-12 student accounts unless school administrators explicitly enable them.

    Reported by TechCrunch and 5 more

  7. Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows

    AI data centers are turning to converted jet engines as a temporary power solution because they face years-long delays getting electricity from the grid.

    Reported by TechCrunch

  8. Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity

    Anthropic is developing an open-source system called FlashProve that uses cryptographic proof to verify which AI model produced a specific output.

    Reported by TechCrunch

  9. Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers

    Russian tech companies are moving data centers underground and the Kremlin is implementing new controls over data center capacity after Ukrainian drone strikes damaged key facilities housing AI systems and disrupted cloud services for…

    Reported by Ars Technica

  10. Apple expands Siri AI to work with third-party apps

    Apple is expanding its Siri AI voice assistant to work with third-party apps through a new update, allowing developers to integrate Siri's features into their applications.

    Reported by The Verge

  11. OpenAI says ChatGPT is catching up to Google in search

    OpenAI announced that ChatGPT now processes one-fifth the volume of search queries that Google does, a milestone the company's consumer product lead shared at a press event.

    Reported by The Verge

  12. Snowflake adds governance tools for enterprise AI agents

    A data platform company announced new capabilities for AI agents that operate within enterprise environments, including tools for understanding business context, governing agent behavior, and enabling autonomous work.

    Reported by SiliconANGLE

  13. Power shortages delay AI data center projects

    AI data center expansion is facing significant delays due to power grid constraints and local community opposition.

    Reported by Data Center Knowledge

  14. 14 · Robotics
    Agility Robotics gains shareholder approval for SPAC merger

    Agility Robotics, a humanoid robot developer, has received shareholder approval for a special purpose acquisition company merger that will make it a publicly traded company.

    Reported by The Robot Report

  15. Soniox STT v6 adds agent text input and echo filtering

    A speech-to-text API has been updated with two new capabilities: it can now read the text of what a voice agent is saying while simultaneously hearing a caller, and it can filter out the agent's own voice when that audio leaks back through…

    Reported by MarkTechPost

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