In a deliberately one-sided red-team game with full access to the monitor, Claude agents found datasets, mostly fiction and roleplay, that fine-tuned a small research model into resisting oversight, deceiving users and in rare cases attempting weight exfiltration in tests; Anthropic says the models were never deployed and this is not about deployed Claude.
CNBC reports Intel fell 29%, Qualcomm 11%, Broadcom more than 5% and Nvidia 4%, with Amazon down 1.4% after its results; Reddit separately closed down 29.22%, its worst day as a public company.
Intel guided fourth-quarter revenue to $15–16 billion, citing a plant shutdown in Israel and PC weakness; CNBC says Nvidia's stake lost about $6 billion and D.A. Davidson cut the stock to neutral.
The Cate Blanchett-backed Human Consent Foundation and Hollywood signatories filed a brief backing the Times, a day after SAG-AFTRA, the WGA and the AFM filed theirs; House Judiciary Democrats, Wikimedia, the News/Media Alliance and Public Knowledge have also filed, and OpenAI points to briefs supporting fair use.
Max 5x becomes Max at $100 a month and Max 20x becomes Ultra at $200; weekly limits are unchanged and newer accounts keep a temporary 5-hour cap until verified.
The FT, as relayed by Startup Fortune, says the raise was cut from up to $30 billion as investor demand cooled during the tech selloff, after a $1.4 trillion price was pitched earlier; OpenAI has not commented and final terms are not public.
Launched on 1 October, the prototype ran Gemma 4 to write a haiku; TechCrunch reports it carries four TPUs but can power one for about twenty minutes at a time, and Google plans twin linked satellites in 2027.
Apple's China newsroom says testing starts with the developer beta on 4 November and the features launch with iOS 27.3 in December, including Live Translation, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence; The Verge reports the new Siri AI is not included.
TechCrunch, citing the FT, says Blackstone, anchor investor in a $63 billion Anthropic chip financing, earlier told investors to expect investment grade before 2027; Anthropic and Blackstone declined to comment, and KBRA already rates the company BB+.
S&P kept Meta at AA- but moved the outlook from stable to negative, citing uncertainty over elevated capex; Meta guided 2026 capex of $135–145 billion and posted negative free cash flow of $2.12 billion, CNBC reports.
The mixture-of-experts model, nicknamed Le Chonk, has about 49 billion active parameters and a 1M-token context; Model-as-a-Service providers need a separate commercial license.
MLex reports Microsoft and Anthropic join Google and OpenAI in adopting the IETF AI Preferences proposal; Microsoft says publishers can choose training, grounding or both and stay eligible for Bing, and Google aims to support it in 2027.