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%, and Reddit closed down 29.22%; Apple ended Friday worth $5.03 trillion against Nvidia's $4.93 trillion, retaking the title of most valuable company, Bloomberg reports.
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.
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.
In an open-label trial of 32 adults, 7 of 26 patients with at least three baseline surgeries needed no surgery in the year after treatment; the approval rests on that intermediate endpoint and confirmatory trials are required.
The Wall Street Journal, as relayed by RuntimeWire, says the round values OpenAI at $1.25 trillion, below the $1.4 trillion it had sought, and that the company expects to raise more in the coming weeks; this follows the FT's report that the target was cut to about $20 billion. OpenAI has not commented.
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.
The blockchain-analytics firm says it found no sign that investigation content, passwords, MFA secrets or session tokens were taken, but user IDs, full names, emails and role labels were accessed; it says the incident is unrelated to the Binance theft and cites an industry-wide rise in AI-driven attacks.
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 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.
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.
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.