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.

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

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.

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 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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

Pluto Security, which monitors AI agents and vibe-coded apps, exits stealth with $42M, including a $34M Series A, and says it has hit $2M+ in ARR since April  —  The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways.

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 …

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.

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.

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: 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