Saturday, October 31, 2026 - 5 Minute AI News

Major AI developers adopt a unified web scraping opt-out standard, DoorDash speeds up reorders using AI agents, and a malicious Claude extension compromises 5,000 developers on the Cursor marketplace.

1. Major AI developers back unified web crawling opt-out standard — Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are supporting a unified robots.txt signal. This allows publishers to block AI scraping across platforms simultaneously, addressing mounting legal pressure.
2. DoorDash reduces reorder latency with AI agents despite low consumer adoption — DoorDash integrated AI agents to precompute recurring purchases, reducing grocery reorder latency from 16 seconds to 2 seconds. Despite backend success, consumer adoption remains at several hundred orders.
3. Malicious Claude Code extension compromises Cursor marketplace — A backdoored version of the verified Anthropic Claude Code extension remained on Cursor for 12 hours. It affected up to 5,000 users before the marketplace was taken offline.
4. Google boots up first AI data center satellite in space — Google successfully booted up Tensor Processing Units on an orbiting satellite to run the DeepMind Gemma 4 model. This demonstrates that AI inference hardware can operate independently in space.
5. OpenAI raises $11 billion and misses its $30 billion target — OpenAI closed its latest funding round at $11 billion with a $1.25 trillion valuation. This falls short of its original $30 billion target as investors seek clearer profitability paths.

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