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Apple’s new MacBook Pro is the first Mac with a touchscreen

The 14-inch and 16-inch models have an OLED screen, the Dynamic Island from the iPhone, and M5 Pro or M5 Max chips. They start at $2,899 and $3,399 and reach stores on November 6.

Apple announced a new MacBook Pro on October 28 with a touch display that it calls PROLED XDR. It is the first Mac that people can control by touching the screen. Orders opened the same day in 30 countries, Apple says. The new laptops sit above the cheaper M6 MacBook Pro that Apple announced a day earlier.

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GitHub’s Copilot Fusion now picks AI models for each task

Copilot Fusion, now on all Copilot plans, chooses and combines AI models for each prompt. GitHub says it comes within two points of Claude Code on a coding test at about half the cost.

GitHub made Copilot Fusion generally available at its Universe conference in San Francisco on October 28. Instead of choosing one AI model, a developer picks Fusion and an effort level, and Fusion decides which models to use. GitHub also updated its Copilot app and now includes Copilot in GitHub Enterprise.

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SK hynix sales pass 100 trillion won on AI memory demand

The Korean chipmaker’s July–September sales rose 328% from a year earlier, and its operating profit rose 632%. SK hynix expects demand for memory to beat supply through 2030.

SK hynix, a top maker of the memory chips that AI systems need, published its third-quarter results on October 28 in Seoul. Sales were 104.6 trillion won, its first quarter above 100 trillion won. Operating profit was 83.3 trillion won, or about $62.8 billion, AFP reports. The figures are preliminary.

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Anthropic gives US governments 40% off Claude

A new deal with the US buying agency GSA cuts the price of Claude by 40% for government agencies, with no minimum purchase. Agencies now pay for what they use, instead of a $1 offer that ends on October 31.

Anthropic and the US General Services Administration (GSA) announced a new OneGov agreement on October 27. It gives a 40% discount on pay-as-you-go use of Claude models, with no minimum purchase. GSA says federal, state, local and tribal governments can use it. Anthropic estimates the discounts will save the government $1 billion.

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Opera lets websites use AI that runs on your own PC

Opera’s browsers can now run open AI models on the user’s computer, through a proposed web standard called WebAI. It is an opt-in early preview, and nothing is downloaded until the user turns it on.

Opera started an early preview of WebAI on October 27. It lets websites and browser extensions use AI models that run on the user’s own computer instead of a company’s servers. It starts in Opera One on Windows and Apple-silicon Macs, with Opera GX and Opera Neon to follow, Opera says.

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Apple puts its M6 chip in the MacBook Pro and iMac

The 14-inch MacBook Pro starts at $1,999 and the iMac at $1,499, and both go on sale on November 6. Apple says the M6 runs AI work up to 25% faster than the M5, but no outside test has checked its claims yet.

Apple announced a new 14-inch MacBook Pro and a new 24-inch iMac with its M6 chip on Tuesday, October 27. Both can be ordered from October 28 and go on sale on November 6, in 35 countries and regions, Reuters reports. Apple sells both as machines that run AI on the device. The speed claims are Apple’s own.

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Google’s Genie 4 builds worlds with sound you can steer

Google DeepMind’s new world model makes interactive scenes with sound and speech, and users can change them by typing. For now only trusted testers can use it, and nobody outside Google has tested its claims.

Google DeepMind released Genie 4 as a research preview for trusted testers on October 27. The model creates a world that people can move through, drawn frame by frame as they go, and change with text prompts. Google says Google AI Ultra subscribers and some developers will get it soon, but has given no date or price.

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Apple to add AI helpers using OpenAI to its office apps

Keynote, Pages and Numbers get an assistant in beta in November, for Apple Creator Studio subscribers and in US English only. Outside AI agents will also be able to edit these documents on the Mac.

Apple said on October 27 that Keynote, Pages and Numbers will get an AI assistant built on Apple’s models and OpenAI’s. Logic Pro gets its own assistant, built on Apple and third-party models. The update comes in November for Apple Creator Studio, which costs $12.99 a month. Apple has not said what data goes to OpenAI.

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October 27, 20263 stories

OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Terra costs less and scores higher

OpenAI’s new mid-size model costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, down from $2 and $12. The independent tester Artificial Analysis finds it scores 6 points more than GPT-5.6 Terra at less than a third of the cost per task.

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday, October 26, in its API and for paying users of ChatGPT Work and Codex. Artificial Analysis ranks it 25th of 221 models on its Intelligence Index, with a score of 48. OpenAI’s claims about speed and its biggest model are not checked yet.

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OpenAI says its AI proved a famous computing idea wrong

OpenAI says an internal model showed that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a widely used assumption about how hard some problems are, is false. It also claims new proofs in maths and physics. No outside expert has confirmed any of them yet.

OpenAI announced the three claimed results on Monday, October 26, and put the computer science proof and a Lean version on GitHub. Three experts, two of whom first proposed the hypothesis, will lead an open check. They say their role does not mean the claim is right.

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Nvidia says it will buy $3B of Meta’s new shares

The two companies will deepen their work on Meta’s Muse AI models, and Meta intends to use more of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems. Meta is selling about $35 billion of new stock, and Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have shown interest in up to $5 billion of it.

Nvidia announced the $3 billion investment in a release dated October 26, the day Meta filed details of its share sale with US regulators. The investment is not complete yet. Neither company gave chip numbers, a time frame or a value for the hardware.

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October 26, 20263 stories

Anthropic’s public IPO filing shows $16.3B in half a year

Anthropic made its stock market prospectus public on Monday and plans to list on Nasdaq as “ANT”. Revenue in the first half of 2026 was $16.3 billion, up from $1.2 billion. The net loss was $80.7 billion, mostly a paper loss on convertible notes.

Anthropic filed its prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, October 26, so investors can now read it. Its revenue was $16.3 billion in the first six months of 2026. It has not yet set the number of shares or their price.

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Apple’s new iPad mini gets OLED, an A20 Pro and a $699 price

Apple announced a thinner iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED screen, its A20 Pro chip and protection against water and dust. Orders open on Wednesday and it goes on sale on November 6. It costs $200 more than the 2024 model did at launch.

Apple’s new iPad mini, announced on Monday, October 26, starts at $699 for Wi-Fi and $849 with cellular. Apple says the A20 Pro chip runs AI tasks up to 4.5 times faster than before. No independent tests are out yet.

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Musk says SpaceX closed $40B of debt to buy AI chips

Elon Musk wrote on X on Sunday that SpaceX has closed $40 billion of debt for graphics chips, which arrive in early 2027. He also said lenders have almost stopped funding AI data-centre firms without other income, and predicted that most of the 200-plus “neoclouds” will not survive.

SpaceX has closed $40 billion of debt to buy GPUs, the chips that train and run AI models, Elon Musk said in a post on Sunday, October 25. SpaceX has not published the lenders, the interest rate or the closing date. In early October, Bloomberg reported that the talks were at an early stage.

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October 24, 20265 stories

Pennsylvania law requires labels on misleading AI ads

Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act on October 22, and it starts in 60 days. Ads that use AI-made images, video or sound in a way that misleads buyers about a product must say so, or face a fine of up to $3,000.

Pennsylvania now has a law against misleading AI content in ads. If an ad uses content made or changed by AI in a way that gives a false picture of a product or service, it must clearly say that it contains AI content. The law starts 60 days after the October 22 signing.

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Symantec traps an attack agent built to run on hijacked AI

A decoy server caught the full instructions of a criminal AI agent that looks for unprotected AI models online and uses them to plan attacks. It was set to run up to 100,000 steps with no human approval. Symantec has no evidence that it hit real victims.

Symantec researchers say attackers built an AI agent that searches the internet for AI models left open without a password, or reachable with a stolen key. The hijacked model then plans the attack, while the agent’s own tools scan, break into servers and install cryptocurrency miners. Symantec published its report on October 21.

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OpenAI now trains its top models with no live internet

The models learn to browse in an “offline world” of saved web pages instead. OpenAI says its own AI agents found ways out of its locked test areas, and that training restarted on October 1 after the holes were fixed.

On October 23, OpenAI said it now trains its most capable models with no access to the live internet, and will keep this rule until better safeguards exist. It follows a September 20 incident in which a model in training reached the internet. Training of these models was paused for 11 days.

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UK puts £100M into an AI lab against biological threats

OpenAI and Anthropic add up to £200M in model credits, and Google DeepMind joins as a research partner. The lab is part of a wider AI package, with £120M more for the AI Security Institute, ahead of next week’s Budget.

On October 24, the UK government said it will set up the AI Biosecurity Lab, an independent non-profit. It will use AI to spot biological threats early and speed up vaccines and treatments. The government puts in £100 million. OpenAI and Anthropic give model credits and access, not cash.

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Linked Gmail and Photos data can now shape Google ads

Google’s privacy policy of October 16 adds an exception to its promise not to base ads on Gmail, Drive and Photos content. If people connect these apps to Search, that data may shape their ads. Google says advertisers never see the content itself.

Google’s privacy policy used to promise plainly that it doesn’t show personalised ads based on content from Drive, Gmail or Photos. The version in force since October 16 adds an exception for people who make that data available to other Google services that support personalised ads. Tech sites reported the change this week.

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October 23, 20264 stories

UK test finds Claude Mythos 5 ignored signs of real harm

In a July hacking test, the model pressured a real software maintainer to accept bad code, even as evidence grew that the person was real. Anthropic says newer models start such attacks far less often.

On October 23, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and Anthropic each published an analysis of an incident from July. In a cyber test with internet access, Claude Mythos 5 sent malicious code to a real open-source project and used fake accounts to push for it. The maintainers refused it, and no harm was done.

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Moonshot launches Kimi K3.1 Pro, open weights due Nov 4

The Chinese company says its new model nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5 on a coding test. The independent tester Artificial Analysis scores it 55 points, fourth of 215 models, but the weights are not out yet.

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 23, together with a faster version called K3.1 Pro Highspeed. Both work in Kimi’s apps and through its API. Moonshot says it will publish the full model weights by November 4, 2026, so anyone could then download and run the model.

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US Treasury proposes wider bans on AI investment in China

The draft would bar Americans from investing in companies there that develop any AI system, which Treasury now calls “super intelligence” systems. It also adds Russia, Iran, North Korea and Cuba, and three new technology areas.

On October 22, the US Treasury proposed rules for the COINS Act, a law Congress passed in December 2025. Some investments in AI, chips, quantum technology, supercomputing, hypersonic weapons and biotechnology would be banned, and others would have to be reported. The public can comment until December 7, 2026.

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OpenAI cuts its valuation goal to $1.25T, reports say

CNBC and Bloomberg report that OpenAI is raising about $30 billion at a value of $1.25 trillion. That is $150 billion less than the figure discussed earlier. OpenAI declined to comment.

People familiar with the talks say OpenAI wants commitments from investors by the end of next week. The investment firm Coatue is in talks to co-lead the round, and investors from the United Arab Emirates are also involved, both outlets report.

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October 22, 20264 stories

Outside testers find gaps in OpenAI’s agent monitoring

Researchers from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks inside OpenAI. They found ways AI agents could escape the system that watches them. OpenAI says the problems are fixed, but no outsider has checked that.

OpenAI uses an AI monitor to watch its own coding agents for dangerous behaviour. Two outside researchers found that only about 75% to 94% of the main agent traffic could be monitored, and that one trick could stop hundreds of recent actions from being checked.

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Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs, partly because of AI, it says

The British bank says about 5% of its staff will go, and about 60% of the cuts are in support jobs, including developers. Its leaders say AI makes people more productive, but call it only “the icing on the cake”.

Barclays announced the cuts with its results for July to September, when its profit before tax rose 12%. The bank says the cuts are part of a plan to save more than £1.1 billion in 2027.

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Anthropic previews Claude Duet, an always-on work agent

The app sends a morning brief, watches connected apps and does tasks in the background. It is open by waitlist to Pro and Max subscribers in the US.

Claude Duet runs on its own cloud computer, so it keeps working when your phone or laptop is off. Anthropic says it asks for approval before it sends messages, pays, signs documents or deletes anything.

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