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 Wall Street Journal, as relayed by The Decoder, 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.
Apple said in a statement on Saturday that about 18 features, including Writing Tools, Live Translation and Visual Intelligence, reach Chinese iPhones with iOS 27.3 after a developer beta from 4 November, SCMP reports; The Verge reports the new Siri AI is not included.
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.
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%, 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.
Wiz counts at least nine AI developer platforms disclosing incidents in October and documents two enterprise Bedrock keys abused after a vendor breach, about 800,000 calls in 30 hours and 1.7 million in 13 hours, likely over $100k at list price; it links the keys to resale sites but cannot tie those sellers to the original compromise.
Legal scholar Lin Jianxing, writing in the Journal of Sichuan Normal University last month, says algorithmic tracking of citizens' online and offline activity could strengthen automated government risk assessment and lead to discrimination, SCMP reports; the paper is an academic warning, not a policy change.
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs says officials never made the statements attributed to them and conducted no such investigation, while police say their Megaspeed inquiry is ongoing; Nvidia calls its dealings normal, China calls the spying reports groundless, and the US intelligence finding is not public.
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.
The legal configuration of GPT-6 Astra, announced in September for selected US law firms, now has a published API rate including $1 per million cached input tokens; OpenAI has not said when general API access opens.
The Rust CLI and C library, version 1.0.2 released on 30 October under Apache-2.0, returns JSON snapshots with a ref for each actionable element on macOS, Windows and Linux; its claim of 78% to 96% fewer tokens on dense Electron apps is self-reported and there is no independent benchmark yet.