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Apple unveils a 14" MacBook Pro with an M6, which has a 12-core CPU and a 12-core GPU, 16GB or 32GB of unified memory, and Wi-Fi 7, for $1,999+ from November 6 — Supercharged by M6, the 14-inch MacBook Pro features incredible performance and next-level AI capabilities, enhanced connectivity …
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Apple updates the 24-inch iMac with an M6, which has up to a 12-core CPU and up to a 12-core GPU, and a dual 16-core Neural Engine, for $1,499+ from November 6 — With blazing-fast performance, enhanced connectivity, Siri AI, and macOS 27, all in a stunning design in seven vibrant colors, the world's best all-in-one gets even better
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Google launches Genie 4, a world model powered by Gemini 3.8 Flash designed to generate interactive AI simulations, initially as a preview to trusted testers — The Genie 4 world model offers more realism and can create audio to accompany its interactive worlds.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple adds a beta AI assistant built on Apple's and OpenAI's models to Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Logic Pro, plus MCP support to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — The new AI assistant can draft and restructure content in Pages, while organizing data in Numbers.
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Anthropic's S-1 shows an 85% gross margin in H1 from running its models, a reality check for skeptics who said pay-as-you-go model sales wouldn't be profitable — When Anthropic on Monday dropped its long-awaited initial public offering prospectus filing, a lot of the details … | Financial Times: |
S-1: Anthropic spent ~$2.50 on compute and infrastructure for every $1 of revenue in Q1 2025, falling to under 50 cents in Q2 2026, as it seeks profitability — Prospectus details AI lab's ‘mission’, $800bn data centre commitments and extraordinary governance structure| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan held 11th-hour talks and agreed to higher rates and loan guarantees to secure bank participation in the $63B Anthropic debt deal — The deal, announced on Monday, is the biggest ever to raise money for AI infrastructure — Hock Tan was running out of patience.
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Nvidia and Meta expand their Muse partnership, including Meta deploying more Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs; Nvidia will invest $3B in Meta's planned equity fundraise — Investment comes as Facebook's parent seeks up to $95 billion via stock offerings — Nvidia and Meta Platforms are expanding …
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Anduril and Qualcomm unveil BlueChip, a line of laptops designed and assembled in the US for defense and government; Anduril will begin taking orders in 2027 — Anduril and Qualcomm Plan US Supply Chain Laptop — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 44.16% Playback Rate
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Sources: Trend Micro's TrendAI found Israeli adtech company Discover-Tech heavily targeted Starlink users in 100+ countries, likely to geolocate or surveil them — Experts at a digital defense firm recently found that an Israeli ad tech company was heavily targeting users …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Memo: Amazon says measuring AI adoption solely by token usage or code generation is “deeply flawed,” as it discourages staff from tokenmaxxing — Amazon laid out its AI usage guidelines for software engineers in a memo to staffers, and discouraged employees from turning to … | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Neocloud General Compute, which specializes in bare-metal infrastructure, raised a $100M Series A led by Blackbird and Abstract at an $800M post-money valuation — CoreWeave, a publicly traded neocloud that rents out computing power for AI, has seen its stock price fall to a 12-month low …
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| Financial Times: |
GM plans to switch from the NYSE to Nasdaq on November 17 as part of its push under Tesla veteran Sterling Anderson to use AI to speed up its development cycle — Move marks another blow for Big Board as tech-focused rival attracts some of world's most valuable companies
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| Lisa Cavazuti / NBC News: |
Experts: since June, $100M+ in US data center freight has been stolen; in two successful heists, robbers struck escorts protecting trucks hauling $10M+ in goods — Trucking, supply chain and security industry veterans detailed to NBC News how thieves staged dramatic robberies as part of the growing theft of tech equipment.
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| Abinaya / Cyber Security News: |
Microsoft patches a severe flaw in its Android Authenticator app that could let untrusted apps impersonate Microsoft apps and obtain delegated account tokens — Microsoft patched high-severity flaw CVE-2026-80097 (CVSS 8.6) in Authenticator for Android, allowing malicious apps …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise $1B+ led by Avenir and Lux Capital at a ~$20B valuation, up from $11.5B earlier in 2026 — Physical Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence software to power robots for real-world tasks … | Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta's $25B share sale was oversubscribed 5x as it seeks $98B for AI spending; the 15 largest investors in the sale accounted for ~70% of shares — Meta Platforms Inc.'s upsized $25 billion share sale attracted demand for about five times the available shares … | Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: |
Study: non-English languages can consume far more AI tokens, with the most expensive language using 1.5x to 5x more than the cheapest, causing a “tokenizer tax” — Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use them.
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