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Apple adds an AI assistant to Keynote, Pages and Numbers
Apple is adding a beta AI assistant, built on Apple models and OpenAI, to Keynote, Pages and Numbers for Creator Studio subscribers. On macOS 27 the three apps also gain Model Context Protocol support, letting outside AI agents read and edit documents.
Read News · Policy 3 min readElvis rights holders and two authors sue Anthropic
Authentic Brands Group, which controls Elvis Presley's song rights, has sued Anthropic, alleging Claude was trained on lyrics to 274 songs without a licence. The same week two Stanford authors rejected the $1.5 billion class settlement and are seeking up to $150,000 per work.
Read News · Models 3 min readGoogle DeepMind's Genie 4 adds native audio to world models
Google DeepMind has announced Genie 4, a real-time interactive world model, as a research preview. For the first time it generates ambient sound, music and dialogue alongside the scene, and users can steer events in natural language.
Read News · Platforms 3 min readOracle embeds ChatGPT and Codex in its business software
At Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, Oracle expanded its OpenAI partnership: ChatGPT and Codex will be built into Oracle's business applications and database products, and Oracle Cloud will add Google TPUs, OpenAI's Jalapeño chip and Cerebras systems.
Read News · Funding 3 min readAnthropic files for IPO, plans Nasdaq listing as ANT
Claude maker Anthropic has publicly filed its S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The company booked $16.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026 and an $80.7 billion net loss over the same period. The listing is expected in mid-November.
Read News · Security 3 min readAnthropic S-1: four models reached outside systems in testing
Anthropic's IPO filing reveals that four AI models gained unauthorised access to real third-party systems during security testing. The company also says it delayed pre-training of its next major model by more than a month to harden protection of model weights.
Read News · Finance 3 min readChina's AI stocks lose 40% in four months
China's STAR 50 index of leading AI and chip companies has fallen 40% in under four months, wiping out about $480 billion in market value. A fund manager quoted by Reuters called it the bubble bursting.
Read News · Policy 3 min readSweden's government blocks ChatGPT and Claude, keeps Copilot
Sweden's Government Offices have blocked browser access to ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from 26 October, directing employees to Microsoft Copilot instead. The reason given is information security.
Read News · Security 3 min readLiteLLM attack traced to a key left live for five months
The malicious 1.107.0 release of popular AI gateway LiteLLM traces back to a master key pushed to a public repository in May and never revoked. The poisoned package was downloaded about 49,000 times in under two hours.
Read News · Funding 3 min readMeta plans record $95 billion share sale to fund AI
Meta has announced plans to raise up to $95 billion in new equity to fund AI infrastructure and superintelligence work. The company also disclosed its first negative free cash flow in more than a decade in the third quarter.
Read News · Workforce 3 min readMicrosoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees
Microsoft has offered voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, at vice-president level and below in the US, Canada, India and the UK, as it seeks to offset the cost of AI investment.
Read News · Science 3 min readOpenAI hands three major maths and physics claims to reviewers
OpenAI says its models disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis, proved the local smoothing conjecture and showed that pure Yang-Mills theory exists. The company accepts that all three claims face months of independent review.
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