Reuters relayed the report, which cites people familiar with the initiative, and said it could not verify it; outlets citing The Information describe a roughly 106-pound robot called Max built in three months. Meta and Fourier have published no announcement.
The DeepSeek Harness team describes a resident Router that hands work to context-isolated Workers, triggers from chat, GitHub, email and CI, and a Watchdog; the MIT-licensed repo, past 1,500 GitHub stars, says it is a research prototype, not an official product, and differs from the internal version.
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's China newsroom says the first features, including Live Translation, Writing Tools, Visual Intelligence and Clean Up, open for testing in the iOS developer beta from 4 November and reach users in China with iOS 27.3 in December, with Alibaba's Qwen available in Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence; Siri AI and the other next-generation features shown at WWDC 2026 are not included.
Crypto Briefing says the Halloween-themed robot with 12 degrees of freedom was produced with Gemini 4 Argon and the Antigravity platform without manual CAD, in a project led by former Boston Dynamics engineering VP Aaron Saunders; no DeepMind write-up with technical details has been found yet.
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.
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.
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.
Talos's write-up says the self-deleting Windows stealer builds a dossier from stolen passwords, cookies, wallets and sessions, enriches it from the victim's Gmail and delivery orders, and posts it via OpenRouter to anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 by default, failing over to kimi-k2 and gemini-2.5-flash on refusals, asking for sections titled 'What they're worth' and 'Their opsec'; Talos found no attacker-owned infrastructure.
Suncoast Searchlight reports vendor VR Systems took county lookup tools offline on 21 October from about 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. after critical PHP flaws, which it says OpenAI discovered, while CISA urged immediate patching; voting and voter rolls were not reported affected.
In a joint status report in the Llama copyright cases, rightsholders say Stephen Roller admitted in a deposition that he torrented Books3 while at Meta and knowingly distributed it, then deleted his copy 'due to all this litigation'; Meta told Entrepreneur in August it did not believe it obtained Books3 via BitTorrent.