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ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI’s agents pay for purchases

Users add a card once and approve every purchase with Face ID or a fingerprint. OpenAI says the agent and the shop never see the real card number. It starts with ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US who are 18 or older.

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Wallet on November 13. It lets dots, OpenAI’s personal AI agents, buy things for a user after the user approves each purchase. It was built with American Express, Mastercard and Visa, and OpenAI says it is not taking a cut of sales to start, CNBC reports.

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OpenAI’s new Daybreak agents test apps and draft fixes

Daybreak Red Team uses AI agents to attack a company’s own web apps and confirm real flaws. Defense Factory traces flaws through the code and prepares patches that engineers must review. Red Team is in early access, Defense Factory is a preview, and OpenAI has not given prices.

OpenAI announced the two products on November 12 at its Cyber at the Frontier event. They join Daybreak, its existing security programme. Both use teams of AI agents, and neither changes live code without a person’s approval.

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November 13, 20263 stories

Google’s Gemini 4 Hydrogen beats Argon on an outside test

Google’s new fast model costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. Artificial Analysis, an independent testing firm, scores it 51 at its default setting, against 50 for the bigger Gemini 4 Argon. It is rolling out in the Gemini app, Search and the API.

Google released Gemini 4 Hydrogen on November 12 as the fast, everyday model of its Gemini 4 family. It follows Gemini 3.8 Flash. Google also added Orchestrator to Antigravity, its coding app, which switches between models within one session.

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Cerebras lifts its forecast and says Microsoft signed on

The AI chipmaker’s core revenue rose 70% to $230.9 million in the third quarter. It now expects $940 million to $960 million of core revenue in 2026. Chief executive Andrew Feldman said Microsoft signed a cloud deal, but no terms were given.

Cerebras reported results for the three months to September 30 on November 12, after the US stock market closed. Its shares rose about 17% in after-hours trading. Its cloud business, which rents out its chips, grew fastest.

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Google and Samsung’s Gemini glasses open for preorder

Warby Parker frames start at $395 and Gentle Monster frames at $449. The glasses have a camera, speakers and microphones, and Google lists no display. They go on sale in the US on December 10, and Gentle Monster’s also in South Korea.

Preorders opened on November 12 for the first Intelligent Eyewear collections, built by Samsung with Google, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. Wearers say “Hey Gemini” or tap the frame to ask about what they see, translate speech or get directions.

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November 11, 20263 stories

Anthropic adds Sheets and Whiteboards to Claude

Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards are in beta on all paid plans, and Claude Data is now generally available. Apps such as Adobe and Atlassian can now open inside Claude. Anthropic calls Claude Meetings “coming soon”, while two outlets report a beta.

Anthropic announced new tools for office work on November 10. Claude can now build spreadsheets and shared whiteboards with a team, and turn company data into dashboards. The tools come with all paid Claude plans.

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ChatGPT lets companies claim profiles and add agents

In a new beta, businesses can claim and update their profile in ChatGPT and see how often it mentions them. Verified US online shops and service firms can add a Business Agent that answers customers’ questions. Companies can also pay to promote it through ChatGPT Ads.

OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT in beta on November 10. Through a Business Hub, companies claim their profile, keep products and prices up to date, and see figures such as mentions and website clicks.

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CoreWeave raises its forecast as sales nearly triple

The AI cloud company’s revenue rose to $3.66 billion in the third quarter, from $1.37 billion a year earlier, and its order book reached about $132.5 billion. It still lost $709 million. Its shares had fallen more than 40% in a month on fears about its debt.

CoreWeave rents out computing power built on Nvidia chips to AI companies. On November 10 it reported results for the three months to September 30, and raised its revenue forecast for 2026 to $13.0 billion to $13.3 billion.

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November 10, 20264 stories

Anthropic sets its IPO price at $70 to $78 a share

Anthropic and some existing holders plan to sell 825 million shares on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. Seven tech companies, including Google and Nvidia, will buy $26 billion more in a private deal. Reports put the value at about $1.4 trillion on a fully diluted basis.

Anthropic started its IPO roadshow on November 10, the meetings where a company pitches its shares to investors. Its updated filing sets a price range of $70 to $78 per share for 825 million Class A shares. At the top of the range, the sale would bring in about $64.4 billion.

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Policy & Law

AI labs promise shutdown plans in a new Paris pledge

OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Mistral and six other AI companies signed the Paris Call for AI Safety and Security with France and other countries. It is voluntary, with no deadlines. Google, Meta, the US and China did not sign.

President Emmanuel Macron hosted talks on AI safety in Paris on November 9, where countries and AI companies signed the Paris Call for AI Safety and Security. AI developers commit to “fail-safe mechanisms” that can shut down their models, and to share test results and serious incidents.

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Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon to paying users

Paying developers, businesses and Google AI Ultra subscribers can now use Google’s strongest model. It costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens until November 30, then twice that. An outside test group scores it 60, behind Claude Fable 5.2 at 65.

Google made Gemini 4 Carbon available on November 10, two weeks after giving it first to a group of cyber defenders. It also started a preview of /swarm in Antigravity, its coding app, which turns one prompt into a team of AI agents.

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Ring’s $249.99 drone camera will patrol homes from January

The Ring Drone Cam flies set routes inside a home when a sensor or alarm goes off. It ships in the US on January 27 and still needs approval from the US communications regulator. A $999.99 Rover Cam robot for businesses ships on December 16.

Amazon’s Ring launched Ring Robotics on November 10 with two devices: an indoor drone camera for homes and a wheeled security robot for businesses. Both use AI Pilot, a Ring system that relies on cloud processing to map a space and move around it.

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November 9, 20266 stories

Anthropic cuts Fable’s price 20% with its new 5.2 models

Claude Fable 5.2 is open to all users at $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens. Mythos 5.2, the same model with fewer safeguards, is only for vetted organisations. An outside test group scores Fable 5.2 at 65.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 on November 9. It says they write answers up to 30% faster than the 5.1 versions. Artificial Analysis, an outside test group, puts Fable 5.2 among the leading models, but calls it particularly expensive.

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Meta’s Muse Ember matches Haiku 5.5 at a third of the cost

Artificial Analysis scores Meta’s smallest model 36 on its index, the same as Claude Haiku 5.5 (max). A test task cost $0.14, against $0.41 for Haiku 5.5. The prices per token are the same; Ember saves by writing fewer tokens.

Meta released Muse Ember on November 9 for the work AI agents repeat all day, such as tool calls, coding subtasks and reading long documents. It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens on the Meta Model API.

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Google adds two new TPU systems, one with AMD processors

TPU 8tx keeps data protected while the chip works on it, with AMD EPYC processors as hosts. TPU 8i Max puts two TPU 8i chips in one package for very long inputs. Google has given no date or price.

Google announced TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max on November 9. With TPU 8t and TPU 8i from earlier this year, Google has introduced four TPU systems in one year, which it says is a first. Both new systems reuse existing chips in new setups.

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Disney and Adobe will build AI models on Disney’s worlds

The multi-year deal gives Disney early access to Adobe’s AI tools. Adobe says the models will learn Disney’s characters, places and visual styles. Neither company gave a price or the length of the deal.

Adobe and The Walt Disney Company announced a multi-year alliance at Adobe’s MAX conference on November 9. With Adobe Firefly Foundry, Disney will get custom generative AI models built on its own properties. Adobe becomes Disney’s “Official AI Innovation Partner”.

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DeepSeek says Harness has 1.54 million daily users

DeepSeek’s open-source agent app went live on August 13. The company says it now uses about 92 trillion tokens a day. No outside group has checked the numbers. DeepSeek also plans an official marketplace for the app’s plugins.

DeepSeek says its agent app Harness had 1.54 million daily active users as of November 4. The count covers only people who use it through DeepSeek’s own API. At the end of September, the figure was about 271,000, Bloomberg and Yicai report.

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Huawei says its new desktop PC uses only China-made parts

The Qingyun HM650 runs on Huawei’s own Kirin X90 chip and an office version of HarmonyOS. It is Huawei’s first desktop with HarmonyOS, and it is made for government and business offices. The 100% figure covers where parts are made, not who designed them.

Huawei launched the Qingyun HM650 and HM650g desktops on November 5. Huawei says a testing company found that 100% of their parts are made in China, and calls them the first desktops to reach that. No one has taken the PC apart to check.

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November 8, 20264 stories

Chip index falls about 12% as US vote hits AI stocks

The Nasdaq 100 lost $2.3 trillion of value in one day on Thursday. Investors fear that Democrats who won on Tuesday will slow data centre building. Asia fell on Friday, and the Nasdaq won back 1.09% in New York that day.

The Philadelphia chip index fell about 12% on November 5, its worst day since March 2020. The Nasdaq 100 dropped 6.3%, wiping out $2.3 trillion of value, NBC News reports. The fall spread to Tokyo and Seoul, which each closed 6.0% lower on November 6.

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Google plans $17B data centre in Wyoming, its first there

Google says it will pay for all the power the site uses, and its utility partner says those costs won’t shift to other customers. Google bought the site from Crusoe. The plan came two days after US voters backed limits on data centres.

Google announced the campus in Laramie County, near Cheyenne, on November 5. It will run partly on a planned 702-megawatt plant of fuel cells that use natural gas and capture carbon. On November 6, Crusoe said Google had acquired the site. No price was given.

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Thinking Machines launches Inkling 2 Small, weights to come

The model scores 31 on Artificial Analysis’s index, level with Gemini 3.8 Flash (high). It would be the top open model from outside China, but its weights are not public yet. Thinking Machines plans them for next week, after safety tests.

Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati, released Inkling 2 Small on November 5. For now it runs only on the company’s Tinker service. The company plans to publish the weights under an Apache 2.0 licence once outside safety testing ends.

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Claude gets read-only access to bank accounts in US beta

Anthropic’s Personal Finance links bank and card accounts through Plaid, on the Pro, Max and Ultra plans. Anthropic says it can’t move money. Chats in its hub are not used for training, but chats outside the hub follow the user’s privacy settings.

Anthropic announced Personal Finance on November 5. Users in the US can link accounts through Plaid and ask Claude about spending, bills and fees. Anthropic says access is read-only. Claude sees balances and up to two years of transactions for the accounts a user chooses.

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November 5, 20264 stories

Safety & Security

OpenAI limits GPT-6 Cyber, its new bug-hunting model

Only approved security customers can use it for now. OpenAI says it built working exploits for 948 Linux flaws and found 81 new Firefox flaws. Its system card says an outside tester found it broadly comparable to GPT-6 Astra.

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Cyber on November 5, a version of GPT-6 Astra with extra training for security work. Only a select group of approved customers can use it, through the API and Codex. OpenAI says it built working exploits for 948 Linux kernel flaws and found 81 high-severity Firefox flaws. Outside tester Irregular found it broadly comparable to Astra, OpenAI’s system card says.

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OpenAI pledges no NDAs with officials at sites it owns

Two days after US voters turned against data centres, OpenAI published a National Community Compact. It also promises to pay its full power costs. The promises are voluntary, and cover only future campuses that OpenAI owns and operates.

OpenAI published a National Community Compact on November 5, after voters rejected data centres in the US midterm elections. It says it will stop using NDAs with public officials, with narrow exceptions, pay the full cost of its electricity, and publish water, noise and energy data. Reuters says the policies had been in the works since August.

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Robotics

Agility is first dedicated humanoid maker to list in the US

The maker of the Digit robot started trading on Nasdaq on November 5 after a SPAC merger, with about $465 million before expenses. Its filing shows $174,362 in sales and a $361.9 million loss in the first half of 2026.

Agility Robotics began trading on Nasdaq as AGLT on November 5, after merging with Churchill Capital Corp XI, a SPAC. Bloomberg calls it the first dedicated humanoid company to go public in the US. The deal brought about $465 million before expenses, down from the more than $620 million expected in June. Its filing shows very small sales so far.

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