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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple CEO John Ternus is pressing software chief Craig Federighi to accelerate Siri toward a more agentic assistant. Near-term steps include finer first-party app control expected around iOS 27.3 and third-party integration Gurman places in the Spring; a fully agentic Siri is described as possible as early as next year,…
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John Langford wrote that Microsoft Research’s AI Frontiers group is over after a September move into Microsoft AI. Microsoft’s page still describes a transition, not a formal shutdown.
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Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation on November 8, 2026, after reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. Here is what the company confirmed, what Huang told staff, and what remains newspaper reporting.
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Investors tell the Journal and CNBC that Anthropic’s expected $1.5 trillion IPO may need to come down ahead of a Thanksgiving-week listing window.
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Bloomberg reports OpenAI wired about $11 billion as an initial close at a $1.25 trillion valuation. CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC the round is still open.
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The Financial Times reported that Anthropic agreed in late September 2026 to pay about $3.4 billion for 1.7 gigawatts of Caterpillar gas-fired generator commitments from OnePWR Solutions, without buying the supplier. Reuters could not independently verify the report.
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A Microsoft patent application published October 29, 2026 (US 2026/0341309 A1) describes AI that can rewrite spoken words in live video within about 1 to 10 seconds and redraw the speaker’s lips to match. It is an application, not a shipping product.
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Nous Research released Arete-27B, a supervised fine-tune of Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B. On its 803-prompt eval, answers containing official-line framing fell from 22% to 0.9%, with no meaningful drop on its general-capability bench.
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OpenAI said on October 26 that an internal model found a subexponential algorithm for counting k-SAT assignments, which would refute the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Impagliazzo, Paturi, and Williams are examining the claim — not certifying it — and Impagliazzo later called the result shocking news.
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Google said on November 5, 2026 that it will invest $17 billion in its first Wyoming data center near Cheyenne, including a 702 MW Bloom Energy fuel-cell project with carbon capture. Crusoe said the next day that Google acquired its southeast Wyoming site.
