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.

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.

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

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

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 …

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 …

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.

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

The IMF lifts its 2026 global GDP growth forecast to 3.1%, up from 3% in July, citing an AI boom that offsets Middle East war disruptions and high energy costs  —  BANGKOK — The International Monetary Fund has raised its forecast for global growth this year as the AI-driven investment boom helps offset …

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.

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.

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.

Sources: Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for substantial control over what external AI evaluators can publish, out of concern that trade secrets could leak  —  Anthropic and OpenAI have sought significant control over what outside evaluators can publish, concerned that findings could reveal trade secrets …

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.

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  —  Buzzy AI agent startup Decagon could be the latest company swept up in a growing wave of AI dealmaking.

A Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages after finding Arm breached its architectural license agreement and sought to disrupt Qualcomm's business  —  A Delaware jury awarded Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages after finding Arm Holdings breached its architectural license agreement …

Sources: Chinese tech companies bought 1M+ Nvidia gaming and workstation chips, mostly RTX 5090 and RTX Pro, for basic AI workloads amid an AI chip shortage  —  The country's tech giants are snapping up products never designed for advanced AI to satisfy soaring computing demands

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.