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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Apple unveils the $299 Apple HomeView, a 7" smart display with an A18 chip, tabletop and wall-mounted versions, and “HomeView software”, shipping November 13 — With customizable “faces,” this 7-inch smart display is a unique hybrid between an iPhone and an Apple Watch.
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| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple HomeView demo: a square screen with a personalized, iPhone-like experience based on facial recognition, up to six users, Siri AI, and a closed ecosystem — HomeView is a square-shaped screen for smart home control, hands-free FaceTime calls and access to Siri AI
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Apple unveils the fourth-gen Apple TV 4K, with Siri AI, an A19 chip, 128GB of storage, far-field mics, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 6, shipping November 13 for $299 — The fourth-gen streaming box also gets a surround-sound upgrade and the ability to find your Siri remote.
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| Apple: |
Apple unveils the Apple Home Collection, a lineup of smart home accessories made with LG and Schneider, including cameras, thermostats, a doorbell, and a lock — In collaboration with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric, Apple brings the simplicity, reliability, and privacy of iPhone …
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| Apple: |
Apple unveils the $149 HomePod mini 2, with an S10 chip, “Sound Glow” interactive lighting, and Siri AI via a future update, in five colors, shipping October 30 — With a profoundly more capable and conversational Siri AI, new ways to enjoy music, and a more immersive home theater experience …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple says HomeView's facial recognition works only if users have a “registered personal device” with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI on the same Wi-Fi network — Apple Newsroom: … Your first question might be how this facial recognition to identify users works …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon globally via the Gemini API and to Google AI Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode, and in Antigravity for Ultra users — After months of trailing its rivals, Google says Argon competes with the industry's best.
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| Rhea Rose Abraham / Reuters: |
Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale — Character.AI said on Monday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US and agreed to sell some of its assets to Walt Disney (DIS.N) for $20 million.
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| Reuters: |
Bumble says it has agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings in a $1.3B deal; Ithaca co-founders Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman will become Bumble's co-CEOs — Bumble (BMBL.O) said on Tuesday it had agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings in a deal valued at $1.3 billion … | Jack Clark / Import AI: |
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says “I now think it's more likely we'll see full RSI become possible in 2027”, earlier than his previous prediction of 2028 — Will we give robots the moon? — Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers.| Alexander Lee / GamesBeat: |
Sources: Rockstar plans to release the PC version of GTA VI within the first three months of 2027, after releasing it on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 19 — Become a member of GB MAX to gain exclusive access to the industry and to the most influential global B2B leadership community …
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| Artie Beaty / ZDNET: |
Google says users with a standard account can now build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio and will be able to share them with friends in coming months — It just got a whole lot easier to vibe code the exact Android app you need - no developer experience required. — ZDNET's key takeaways
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| Anniek Bao / CNBC: |
The IMF lifts its 2026 global GDP growth forecast to 3.1%, up from 3% in July, citing an AI boom that offsets Middle East war disruptions and high energy costs — BANGKOK — The International Monetary Fund has raised its forecast for global growth this year as the AI-driven investment boom helps offset … | Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Meta says hackers stole some code and personal data of roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, after compromising some of its GitHub repos — Most of the affected individuals are Meta employees in the United States and they are being offered credit monitoring services.| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Meta expands its AI-powered “Your Algorithm” feature from Instagram to Facebook and Facebook Reels and says it is using LLMs more in its ranking systems — Meta's bringing Instagram's “Your Algorithm” feature to Facebook, and using LLMs more to rank content.
More: Meta Newsroom, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, and Unite.AI
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
SpaceXSI launches a unified X Subscription bundling Grok, Cursor, and X Premium, with tiers at $8, $30, $100, and $200 per month; the $30 tier includes Grok Bot — One membership will give you access to SpaceXSI's products. — SpaceXSI has announced a unified membership scheme across its products called the X Subscription.
More: xAI, PCMag, TechCrunch, Forkast, Motley Fool, and The New Stack
| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Sources: Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for substantial control over what external AI evaluators can publish, out of concern that trade secrets could leak — Anthropic and OpenAI have sought significant control over what outside evaluators can publish, concerned that findings could reveal trade secrets …
More: PYMNTS.com
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details Scion, a git replacement for its monorepo, built by seven engineers with Claude in five months, as daily merges rose from 2.5K in May to 30K+ — As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck.
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| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
A Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages after finding Arm breached its architectural license agreement and sought to disrupt Qualcomm's business — A Delaware jury awarded Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages after finding Arm Holdings breached its architectural license agreement …
More: Thurrott, Bloomberg Law, and Notebookcheck
| Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
Pluto Security, which monitors AI agents and vibe-coded apps, exits stealth with $42M, including a $34M Series A, and says it has hit $2M+ in ARR since April — The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways.
More: CTech
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese tech companies bought 1M+ Nvidia gaming and workstation chips, mostly RTX 5090 and RTX Pro, for basic AI workloads amid an AI chip shortage — The country's tech giants are snapping up products never designed for advanced AI to satisfy soaring computing demands
More: MarketWatch, Tom's Hardware, and IGN
| Katie Roof / Business Insider: |
Sources: Decagon, which offers AI customer service agents and was last valued at $4.5B, hired a bank and is in early talks with buyers, including ServiceNow — Buzzy AI agent startup Decagon could be the latest company swept up in a growing wave of AI dealmaking.
X: @katie_roof
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% — In recent months, we've made substantial progress on reducing the effectiveness of distillation attacks on Claude using new methods, as we outline in this blog.
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| Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Scuba, which is building a “context engine” designed to serve as a shared memory hub for human workers and AI agents, raised $34M across pre-seed and seed — When they were leaders at Slack, Noah Desai Weiss and Dolapo Falola worked on software to help teams communicate better and faster.Sponsor Posts
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