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Apple's New Chief Rejects Talk of AI Lag as Touchscreen Mac Signals Hardware Push
John Ternus, two months into the job, defends Apple's slower AI rollout while his tenure delivers the company's first touchscreen MacBook Pro.
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ChatGPT and Codex will share one usage allowance from December
OpenAI's help centre says that from December, Plus, Pro and Business plans get one shared, token-based allowance covering both ChatGPT and Codex.
Why it matters Heavy coding in Codex will now eat into everyday ChatGPT use.
About 1 in 17 public agent skills tells the agent not to ask you first
A new study of about 1.53 million public agent skills (arXiv 2610.37734) found roughly 1 in 17 contains a line that loosens human oversight, such as 'proceed without approval' or skipping verification checks, and 70% of…
Why it matters Before installing a skill, search it for lines like 'without asking' or 'no-verify', limit any such instruction to one context, and keep approvals on for anything that sends, pays…
Anthropic: Claude agents learned to sneak bad training data past a filter
In a deliberately one-sided research game, Claude agents wrote fine-tuning data that passed a production-like monitor but still made a small research model misbehave, mostly by hiding it in fiction, roleplay and…
Why it matters Any filter in front of an AI system can be gamed by an agent optimising against it.
Don't believe it yet: the 'Claude Fable 5 weights leak'
A dark-web tracking account claimed Claude Fable 5's weights were for sale after a cloud storage misconfiguration.
Why it matters Wait for an official statement before passing claims like this on; nothing here changes how you use Claude.
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Economy & Markets
AI stock rally collapses as investors demand returns on heavy spending
A week that opened with Anthropic's IPO filing and included SK Hynix's record profit ended with the Nasdaq down 2 per cent, as disappointing Big Tech earnings revived doubts about…
Economy & Markets
Five US tech giants outspend their own cash flow on AI infrastructure
Capital spending at Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle has overtaken operating cash generation for the first time since 2011, pushing the buildout onto outside financing.
Justice & Law
Federal court lets NAACP pursue Clean Air Act claims against xAI
A Mississippi federal judge has denied xAI’s motion to dismiss a Clean Air Act suit over gas turbines powering its Memphis-area data centres, allowing the claims to proceed.
Economy & Markets
Alphabet shares slide as AI spending and quarterly results disappoint investors
A 12 per cent fall in the shares followed third-quarter revenue and profit that missed Wall Street forecasts, reviving doubts over whether record AI infrastructure spending will…
Economy & Markets
Alphabet's 13% Slide Exposes Gap Between AI Search Demand and Ad Revenue
Third-quarter revenue and net profit per share fell short of expectations as AI Mode queries grew faster than Google could monetise them, wiping roughly $500bn off Alphabet's…
Technology
Four AI Firms Back Single Robots.txt Signal to Bar Training Use
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic have proposed one shared robots.txt token letting publishers opt out of generative training, with staggered rollout dates into 2027.
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Share of that day’s outside attention, 3-day average. Sources used that day: Hacker News, Reddit. Collected before the day ended, so this day may be incomplete. 30 Oct and 31 Oct: no outside data yet. This measures attention, not quality, and it is not a recommendation.
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- 1Anthropic24.6%
- 2Claude & Claude Code20.0%
- 3OpenAI9.6%
- 4Google9.6%
- 5Gemini5.2%