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.
The system card says it uses GPT-6 Astra's weights with no added training, is treated as High in biological and chemical capability (below Critical) and Critical in cybersecurity, and is offered only through trusted access; API pricing is $15 per million input tokens and $75 per million output tokens.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence says the injected loader adds an attacker SSH key, enables SSH, opens a reverse tunnel and sets startup persistence, and that Visual Studio Marketplace and npm copies were unaffected; the build, not made by Anthropic, was listed for about 11 hours on 29 October and reached at most 5,000 users.
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.
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.
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.