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.
CNBC says the round is still open and figures could change; the FT reports a $1.25 trillion post-money valuation and a Friday deadline for commitments, with some investors cutting allocations, and the WSJ put commitments at about $11 billion. UAE investors and Coatue lead; OpenAI did not comment.
Northflank told all customers on 30 October to assume every environment variable had been decrypted, later said users reported unauthorised use of AI API keys stored on the platform and pointed to Wiz's Black October report, which counts at least nine AI developer platform incidents this month and documents stolen Bedrock keys making about 1.7 million calls in 13 hours; Northflank has not disclosed the root cause or how many customers were affected.
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.
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.
Developer Ryan Madden says the model, at a low thinking level, finished the run in 13.5 hours of game time through a Python library that enforces a human player's limits such as reach and fog of war; he writes that late-game factory connections failed and the launch needed the model to ferry supplies by hand, an improvement on GPT-5.5, which did not use transport belts at all.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.