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Abu Dhabi and OpenAI sign four agreements in energy and governmentMeituan introduces LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T multimodal agent modelOpenAI starts Grid Protectors so AI campuses can cut power useDeep Principle releases Hydrogen-1.0, an open scientific modelOpenAI’s LifeVal benchmark scores AI on everyday tasksQodo’s Codex plugin reviews code with organizational contextChatGPT and Codex will share one usage pool in DecemberOpenAI charges a 10% uplift on FedRAMP API endpointsSouth Korea: October chip exports rose 259% on AI demandAramco closes a 49% stake in Saudi AI company HUMAINApple Intelligence is coming to China, with Qwen inside SiriClaude Code adds shared budgets and retires Opus 4.8 fast modeGoogle DeepMind expands PlanAssist to 12 more English councilsDeepSeek publishes a proactive coding-agent research prototypeAbu Dhabi and OpenAI sign four agreements in energy and governmentMeituan introduces LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T multimodal agent modelOpenAI starts Grid Protectors so AI campuses can cut power useDeep Principle releases Hydrogen-1.0, an open scientific modelOpenAI’s LifeVal benchmark scores AI on everyday tasksQodo’s Codex plugin reviews code with organizational contextChatGPT and Codex will share one usage pool in DecemberOpenAI charges a 10% uplift on FedRAMP API endpointsSouth Korea: October chip exports rose 259% on AI demandAramco closes a 49% stake in Saudi AI company HUMAINApple Intelligence is coming to China, with Qwen inside SiriClaude Code adds shared budgets and retires Opus 4.8 fast modeGoogle DeepMind expands PlanAssist to 12 more English councilsDeepSeek publishes a proactive coding-agent research prototype

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Abu Dhabi and OpenAI sign four agreements in energy and government

The Abu Dhabi Media Office said (Nov 2) that Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and witnessed four agreements between Abu Dhabi entities and OpenAI. ADNOC, G42’s Inception42, and OpenAI signed an agreement the office calls the first in the energy sector to deploy OpenAI’s frontier technology, using OpenAI’s GPT models on in-country inference infrastructure in the UAE. Abu Dhabi Government and OpenAI launched a Machine-Readable Government initiative that turns a defined set of policies and regulations into machine-readable form so AI systems can assist officials with routine compliance checks, including permits and certificates. Each assessment is traceable to the governing rule, and officials keep the final decision. The Department of Government Enablement leads it. The first pilot is already in production with the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority on food imports, with model computation on GPUs in UAE data centers. Mubadala, Inception42, and OpenAI signed an agreement to apply AI to investment analysis, opportunity identification, and risk assessment. Inception42 and OpenAI also signed a five-year agreement to support frontier AI in UAE government, enterprise, and education. Altman said Abu Dhabi and the UAE are setting a standard for AI integration in the public and private sectors. Distinct from OpenAI’s separate fundraising reports.

Source: Abu Dhabi Media Office

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Meituan introduces LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T multimodal agent model

Meituan’s LongCat team introduced LongCat-2.5, a native multimodal model for long-horizon agent tasks, with 1.6 trillion total parameters and about 48 billion activated per token. The technical post is dated November 1. Meituan’s newsroom and the LongCat API changelog both list the model as available on November 2. It builds on LongCat-2.0 with stronger visual understanding and agentic coding for complex codebases, full-project builds, visual coding, design, and 3D tasks. Visual inputs are multi-level discrete tokens in the same stream as text. LongCat says long-context training and W4A4 inference are optimized for domestic AI accelerators. In its online stress tests, 4-bit expert weights and activations improved prefill throughput 43.3% and decode throughput 42.77% versus its W8A8 INT8 baseline, and cut time to first token 15.91% and time per output token 19.72%. On LongCat’s own table, with thinking on, LongCat-2.5 scores 88.4 on Terminal-Bench v2.1 and 91.9 on BrowseComp. Comparison scores marked with an asterisk are taken from public reports, LongCat says; the rest of the comparison runs are its own. The API changelog says the model works with Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and other agent harnesses. Those scores are LongCat’s. Distinct from the LongCat-2.0 release.

Source: Meituan LongCat

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OpenAI starts Grid Protectors so AI campuses can cut power use

OpenAI said (Nov 2) it is launching Grid Protectors, a program to arrange for future compute campuses to reduce electricity demand when the grid is under strain, working with utilities, regulators, and policymakers. How much demand can be reduced, how quickly, and for how long will differ by site. OpenAI also says campuses may supply power from on-site generation or storage where equipment and local rules allow. For the planned Effingham County, Georgia campus, OpenAI says it has committed to pay the full infrastructure and electric-service costs, and that its Georgia Power agreement includes up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand response, which OpenAI equates to the average demand of about 700,000 households. OpenAI says Georgia Power projects about $950 million in annual customer savings beginning in 2029 from its portfolio of large-load agreements and expected growth, including Project Camellia, and at least $15 a month for a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours. OpenAI cites a projection that U.S. data center capacity will exceed 100 gigawatts by 2030. The campus is still in development, and OpenAI says flexibility does not replace new supply and transmission. Those savings figures are as OpenAI presents Georgia Power’s estimates. Distinct from the July Project Camellia announcement.

Source: OpenAI

Updated November 2, 2026

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I teach AI Agents, Local Models, and AI Workflows to people who want to use AI, not just read about it. Before the channel: senior engineering roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Ohmyhome (Nasdaq), then a run of AI products built and shipped end to end. That's why every video, talk, and post is grounded in what actually ships.

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