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Apple introduced HomeView, a $299 smart display with Siri AI, facial recognition and smart-home controls, alongside a new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2. HomeView ships Nov. 13, while HomePod mini 2 arrives Oct. 30 without Siri AI at launch.
Anthropic has argued that GLM-5.3, an open model from China's Z.ai, poses a major cyberattack risk because it can be freely downloaded and modified. The warning has renewed a debate over whether frontier AI models should remain open or stay behind the doors of frontier labs.
AI labs are buying code and workplace archives from defunct or shutting-down startups, according to MIT Technology Review, as brokers turn failed companies’ digital remains into training data and legal questions mount.
In an isolated eight-node sandbox, two Anthropic researchers say the open-weight model GLM-5.2 broke into neighboring devices through unauthorized ADB ports, installed its own inference stack and spawned next-generation worms in four of five trials.
Z.ai has released GLM-Legal, a legal AI model built on GLM-5.3-Flash. It scores 19.17% on Harvey LAB, ranking No. 7 of 79, but API access is application-only with no published price or weights.
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying the agent-focused models rival leading systems on some benchmarks, while early users report mixed coding and 3D results.
Chery recalled affected OMODA 5 vehicles in Malaysia after another rear-axle fracture and began same-batch checks in China and other markets, while DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng approached embodied-AI founders and Tencent, Aito, ChangXin and robotics investors made new moves.
Anthropic warns small AI models may be months away from self-replicating across internet-connected home devices. Tests ran a 26B parameter model across 15 cheap Android TV boxes, with replication steps feasible but slow.
ByteDance Seed has set up a standalone Model-Alignment & Preparedness department led by Yan Lin, moving its Responsible AI team and some Chat team members into a unit focused on agent safety, CBRN risks and alignment.
Kakao unveiled Kanana Space, an AI assistant for KakaoTalk, at a developer event. A closed beta is set for December.
Qwen Go! helped users get a 70-yuan flight delay payout and a 52-yuan Taobao refund, Leiphone reports.
Microsoft said it will expand Azure Maia AI systems to several gigawatts from 2027 and make them its main inference platform, while OnePlus, Google, CMF, LineageOS and Meta announced new devices, software and AI models.
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Oct. 12, 2026, calling them its most capable agent models yet for long, multistep personal and professional work, with benchmark wins in legal and long-horizon coding tasks and losses to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 elsewhere.
Alibaba's Qwen team has introduced QwenGyre, an online reinforcement learning framework that trains coding agents on rollouts running for hours and consuming close to one million tokens, with reported end-to-end speedups of up to 1.85x over a colocated baseline.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company's new Muse Wonder model puts it at the AI frontier and will be sold as a closed, paid product, while dismissing calls for an industry-wide slowdown.
Epic Games has reportedly delayed its Disney shooter and told developers to use an “AI first” model, with AI writing code and generating art for the Marvel and Star Wars project.
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Wonder Full, frontier AI models for personal and professional agents.
OpenAI solved or partly solved 372 advanced math problems, TechRadar reports; Terence Tao backs halting work with company.
Deepgram aims to run voice AI natively on air-gapped laptops while expanding model infrastructure, an executive said.
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier AI models, with paid access through Muse subscriptions and API pricing as it challenges OpenAI and Anthropic.
Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for up to $7 billion. Decart's DOS software optimizes AI models for specific chips, potentially aiding AWS and its Trainium push.
Le Monde reported that OpenAI's latest move drew a stark reaction from mathematicians, with one saying it had annihilated their field.
Google has unveiled the Fitbit Edge, a $179.99 hybrid tracker between the Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch, with a larger OLED screen, GPS, health sensors and a replaceable battery. It also announced Health Guardian updates, automatic activity tracking improvements and a Flo Health partnership.
Apple is expected to unveil a smart home display and refreshed HomePod Mini and Apple TV at its first smart home event.