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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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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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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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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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Meta buys Conductor, and OpenAI agrees to buy Pierre

Both startups make tools for developers who work with coding agents. Conductor Cloud goes read-only on November 13 and shuts on November 20. OpenAI’s deal still needs regulators’ approval. Neither price is public.

Meta has acquired Conductor, an app that runs several coding agents at once, the startup and Meta confirmed on November 4. The same day, OpenAI said it will acquire Pierre Computer Company, the maker of Code Storage and of two libraries already used in Codex. No prices were disclosed. Conductor users need to move their cloud work soon.

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Torvalds says AI-found fixes made Linux 7.4 extra big

The two weeks for new code brought almost 20,000 commits, against about 15,000 usually. Torvalds calls it a “much healthier model” that AI-found fixes now arrive early, not during testing.

Linus Torvalds released the first test version of Linux 7.4, called rc1, on Sunday, November 1. He wrote that this was a “BIG” merge window, with almost 20,000 commits, and he linked it to “AI triggered work”. He named a second reason too: many expect 7.4 to be a long-term support version.

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Apple Intelligence reaches China in December, with Qwen

Apple’s own models run the features, and Alibaba’s Qwen helps in Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence. Developers can test it from November 4, and only iPhones get it for now.

Apple said on October 31 that its first Apple Intelligence features are coming to iPhone users in China. Developers can test them in the latest iOS beta from November 4, and the public release follows in December with iOS 27.3. Through a partnership with Alibaba, its Qwen model adds answers in Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence.

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Anthropic lifts Claude’s 5-hour cap for verified Ultra users

Anthropic renamed its $200 Max 20x plan Ultra and its $100 Max 5x plan Max, with no price change. The weekly limits stay, and newer Ultra accounts must wait for an automatic check.

Anthropic renamed its two most expensive Claude plans on October 30. Max 5x is now Max, at $100 a month, and Max 20x is now Ultra, at $200. Verified Ultra accounts no longer have a usage limit that resets every five hours, starting with most existing subscribers. The weekly limit stays the same.

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Google takes ads in AI Mode to 10 more countries

Ads now appear in AI Mode answers in countries such as India, Canada and Australia, with Brazil, Mexico and the UK planned next. Google’s search sales grew 12%, more slowly than earlier this year.

Google said on October 28 that it is bringing ads in AI Mode, its chatbot-style search, to 10 countries outside the US. They include Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria and Singapore. In the US, ads will also start to appear in follow-up questions. The news came with Alphabet’s results, which showed search revenue up 12% to $63.35 billion.

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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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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 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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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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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine behind its API

The free code runs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on Nvidia’s Blackwell chips and on Huawei’s Ascend 950. Some parts that DeepSeek uses for its own service are still missing.

DeepSeek has published DeepInfer, the software it says runs its own large-scale AI service, under the Apache 2.0 licence. For now it supports one model, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, on two kinds of chips: Nvidia’s SM100 GPUs and Huawei’s Ascend 950.

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Apple Intelligence test due in China this month, Cook says

Tim Cook, now Apple’s executive chairman, told China’s The Paper that Live Translation, Writing Tools and Clean Up come first, without Siri AI. Bloomberg reports a public release in December; Apple has not confirmed it.

Apple executive chairman Tim Cook told The Paper, a state-backed news site in Shanghai, on October 15 that Apple has approval to bring the first Apple Intelligence features to users in China. He said a test version will come later in October. Siri AI is not part of it.

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YouTube Music starts labelling songs made mainly with AI

A label on the player now shows when generative AI played a significant role in a song. Music partners declare their AI use, and YouTube also uses its own detection tools.

YouTube Music began showing labels on October 14 for songs created mainly with generative AI, for example when a model made the composition and the vocals. Tapping the label shows more information. YouTube says the labels will also come to the main YouTube app.

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Google lets people install their own AI-made Android apps

Apps built with Google AI Studio can now be launched through Google Play with a standard Google account, without a developer account. They stay private, and sharing with friends is planned for the coming months.

Since October 13, people can put an Android app they built with Google AI Studio on their own devices through Google Play. It works for adults in the United States and some other markets. They need only a standard Google account, not the developer account that costs $25. The apps don’t appear in the public store.

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Facebook lets people steer their feed in their own words

Meta’s “Your algorithm” controls are coming to Facebook’s Feed and Reels. Meta says large language models now let the feed understand plain requests and change within the same session.

Meta began rolling out “Your algorithm” on Facebook on October 13. From the three-dot menu on a post, people can add and manage the topics they want to see in Feed and Reels. They can also describe in their own words what they want, Meta says, and its AI models use that to change the feed.

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Microsoft’s MXC sandbox for AI agents reaches version 1.0

Microsoft Execution Containers keep AI agents inside limits on Windows 11, macOS and Linux. The open-source kit left preview on October 7, and GitHub Copilot and OpenAI’s Codex already use it, Microsoft says.

Microsoft made its Execution Containers (MXC) generally available on October 7, four months after a first preview in June. Version 1.0 of the free, MIT-licensed kit has stable programming interfaces for Rust, .NET and Node.js. It lets developers decide which files and actions an AI agent may reach.

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Google’s Gemini agent for work can also run on Claude

Google Cloud says the agent can work on a task for hours or days and pass parts to helper agents with their own email addresses. Google gave no price or launch date for most customers.

Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent on October 8 at its Gemini at Work event. It is one agent for questions, documents, images and code, and it works in Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack. It picks a model for each task, from Google’s Gemini or Anthropic’s Claude. Versions for finance and legal work are in preview.

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Google’s Playground turns text prompts into games

The experimental website from Google Labs is open to adults in the US. Players can share games or publish them in a gallery, and a Unity tool for 3D games is still in testing.

Google Labs launched Playground on October 7, a website where people make games by describing them in words, with no coding. It is open to users aged 18 and over in the US. Playing is free, and making games has weekly limits that are higher for paying subscribers. No outlet has published a full test yet.

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ChatGPT gets GPT-6 and answers with charts and buttons

Paid users get GPT-6 Sol from October 7, and Free and Go users get GPT-6 Luna from October 8. A new feature called Intelligent UI lets answers include charts, forms and small tools.

OpenAI started bringing GPT-6 to the Chat tab of ChatGPT on October 7. Answers can now mix text with diagrams, buttons, forms and charts, a feature OpenAI calls Intelligent UI. ChatGPT can also start answering while it is still thinking. Nobody outside OpenAI has tested the new answers yet.

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Claude Code adds mods that can rewrite how the agent works

Plugins can now change prompts, tool calls and the screen of Anthropic’s coding agent. Anthropic warns that mods run with the user’s permissions and are not sandboxed.

Anthropic added Claude Mods to its coding agent Claude Code in version 2.1.287 on October 1. Mods are small JavaScript or TypeScript functions, shipped in plugins, that react to events inside the agent. Anthropic’s documentation says they run with the user’s permissions and are not sandboxed.

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Pop!_OS maker bans AI-generated code from its COSMIC desktop

System76 now rejects LLM-written code, comments and descriptions in pull requests and issues across its Pop!_OS projects. Reports say AI-made submissions were swamping reviewers.

System76, which makes the Linux system Pop!_OS and its COSMIC desktop, changed its contribution rules on September 30. Every pull request must now confirm it contains no content generated by an LLM, “including code, comments, and descriptions”. Pull requests without the completed checklist will be closed.

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Meta lets hobbyists build their own Muse gadgets

Meta released open-source firmware and a Linux kit that connect cheap boards to its Muse agent. It is also giving away 5,000 Muse Home Link dongles to US subscribers.

Meta launched Muse Gadgets on October 2, an open-source project for building small devices that talk to Muse, its personal AI agent. The firmware and software kits run on ESP32 boards and the Raspberry Pi 5, under the Apache 2.0 licence. Meta also offers a free USB-C Muse Home Link that lets Muse control devices on a home network.

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Robinhood launches AI agents that can trade for customers

The agents run on OpenAI and Anthropic models and trade from a separate account. Approval of each trade is on by default, and Robinhood says customers are responsible for what the agents do.

Robinhood announced Robinhood Agents on September 29 at its HOOD Summit in Houston. Customers can set up an AI agent in the mobile app that researches investments and trades stocks, options and crypto from a separate account they fund. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna is free until December 31, and other models are billed per use.

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