OpenAI says the FBI arrested one of its staffers after the company found a hidden recording device in its offices and used its models to understand the device  —  We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we're grateful to the agen...

Apple unveils the $299 Apple HomeView, a 7" smart display with an A18 chip, tabletop and wall-mounted versions, and “HomeView software”, shipping November 13  —  With customizable “faces,” this 7-inch smart display is a unique hybrid between an iPhone and an Apple Watch.

Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon globally in the Gemini API paid tier, to AI Pro and Ultra users in the Gemini app and AI Mode, and to Ultra users in Antigravity  —  After months of trailing its rivals, Google says Argon competes with the industry's best.

Bumble says it has agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings in a $1.3B deal; Ithaca co-founders Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman will become Bumble's co-CEOs  —  Bumble (BMBL.O) said on Tuesday it had agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings in a deal valued at $1.3 billion …

Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale  —  Character.AI said on Monday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US and agreed to sell some of its assets to Walt Disney (DIS.N) for $20 million.

Apple unveils the fourth-gen Apple TV 4K, with Siri AI, an A19 chip, 128GB of storage, far-field mics, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 6, shipping November 13 for $299  —  The fourth-gen streaming box also gets a surround-sound upgrade and the ability to find your Siri remote.

Anthropic details Scion, a git replacement for its monorepo, built by seven engineers with Claude in five months, as daily merges rose from 2.5K in May to 30K+  —  As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck.

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says “I now think it's more likely we'll see full RSI become possible in 2027”, earlier than his previous prediction of 2028  —  Will we give robots the moon?  —  Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.  Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers.

Sources: Rockstar plans to release the PC version of GTA VI within the first three months of 2027, after releasing it on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 19  —  Become a member of GB MAX to gain exclusive access to the industry and to the most influential global B2B leadership community …

The FBI says it worked with CrowdStrike to dismantle 40+ laptop farms across Texas used to help North Koreans get remote US tech jobs under stolen identities  —  F.B.I. investigators worked with the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to dismantle so-called laptop farms that steal American identities to earn cash for Pyongyang.

Google says users with a standard account can now build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio and will be able to share them with friends in coming months  —  It just got a whole lot easier to vibe code the exact Android app you need - no developer experience required.  —  ZDNET's key takeaways

SpaceXSI launches a unified X Subscription bundling Grok, Cursor, and X Premium, with tiers at $8, $30, $100, and $200 per month; the $30 tier includes Grok Bot  —  One membership will give you access to SpaceXSI's products.  —  SpaceXSI has announced a unified membership scheme across its products called the X Subscription.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports and mashups, many of them built with AI tools  —  New business unit is charged with testing new projects and judging them by user feedback, spurred by recent mashups and ports delivered with AI coding tools

Apple v. OpenAI: a US judge partly grants Apple's motion for expedited discovery, ordering OpenAI to hand over forensic images of devices and other documents  —  Apple Inc. convinced a federal judge in California to force OpenAI Inc. to expedite turning over documents concerning its alleged theft …

Meta expands its AI-powered “Your Algorithm” feature from Instagram to Facebook and Facebook Reels and says it is using LLMs more in its ranking systems  —  Meta's bringing Instagram's “Your Algorithm” feature to Facebook, and using LLMs more to rank content.

Albert Invent, which launched an AI model trained on chemical patents and data about 15M molecules, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $340M valuation  —  Scientists at manufacturing conglomerates like Kenvue and Henkel use Albert Invent's AI tools to design experiments.

Sources: Decagon, which offers AI customer service agents and was last valued at $4.5B, hired a bank and is in early talks with buyers, including ServiceNow  —  - AI startup Decagon builds AI agents to automate customer support for enterprise customers.  — The company has hired an investment bank to evaluate M&A interest.

A look at OpenAI's safety concerns over loop transformers before shipping its next major model; Microsoft accidentally confirmed GPT-6.1 Sol uses the technique  —  OpenAI is grappling with fallout from its use of a controversial innovation in AI design as it works to get its next unreleased model …

Scuba, which is building a “context engine” designed to serve as a shared memory hub for human workers and AI agents, raised $34M across pre-seed and seed  —  When they were leaders at Slack, Noah Desai Weiss and Dolapo Falola worked on software to help teams communicate better and faster.

Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, which finds and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source software; founded in 2012, it has 40+ employees  —  OpenAI, which is trying to develop a substantial cybersecurity business, is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits …

Meta says hackers stole some code and personal data of roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, after compromising some of its GitHub repos  —  Most of the affected individuals are Meta employees in the United States and they are being offered credit monitoring services.