OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra undercuts its own flagship on price for computer-use agents. Also today: OpenAI's claim to have refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Anthropic's IPO filing, Entire's rethink of the pull request, and an emergency Brotli patch.
Reflection opens Beam, a 501 billion parameter model under Apache 2.0. Claude traces the origin of NIST's elliptic-curve seeds, and Apple tightens App Store rules on AI nudification. Plus Rust, Zod, FastAPI and four security stories.
Cloudflare Traces enters open beta with volume-based pricing starting December 1. Also, NumPy 2.5 makes searchsorted up to 25 times faster in the authors' benchmark, and a repo lets Codex drive a real iPhone. Plus a ship log and Oxide's $445 million round.
An open-source autonomous pentesting agent, ARTEX, and the question of scope. Credential-stealing GitHub Actions workflows hit more than 340 repositories, an Anthropic model sent Philadelphia police a false tip, and Python 3.15, uv 0.13 and Ruff 0.17 shipped.
Microsoft's ThinkingBox benchmark grades agents on database state, not their own report. Cloudflare wants developers to build the next Git platform for agents, with credits as the prize. Plus the Coucou notch app, Zig 0.17, Istio 1.31 and uv.
GitLab patches a CVSS 9.9 sandbox escape in its self-hosted AI Gateway. Apple tightens Mac Full Disk Access as AI agents raise the stakes, and Spanner adds transactional queues. Plus Rust 1.99, Copilot review APIs, and a Git hook with bad manners.
Meta launches an enterprise AI platform and hires MongoDB's CEO to run it. Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5 at the same list price as its predecessor. Shopify opens checkout to browser agents, and GitHub explains how its AI agent found 24 Android bugs.
Anthropic and OpenAI both cut prices on flagship models within hours of each other. Microsoft took down a subscription crime service that used an AI chatbot to read your email before criminals did. Plus new Snapdragon chips built for on-device AI.
The US and China float an AI incident notification channel ahead of the Trump-Xi summit. Four paying subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI claiming the companies colluded to slow AI down. Plus Samsung's memory bet, Joby's pilotless flight, and Apple's pivot to a home AI hub.
Apple builds a privacy-first way to prove a photo is real. OpenAI is reportedly in talks for funding near a 1.2 trillion dollar valuation. SK Hynix calms a labor fight, and Gujarat police say they found 500,000 fake Gmail accounts tied to bomb hoaxes.
Apple's new Siri AI ships today with a waitlist and pricier iCloud tiers. The EPA guts power plant carbon rules just as AI data centers spike electricity demand. AI leaders call for a slowdown, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang says not a chance.
Siri, But You Have to Get in Line
The EPA Just Erased the Rulebook on Power Plant Pollution
The Industry Asked for a Pause, and Nvidia Said No
OpenAI Goes Shopping for Camera Engineers
Sixty One Million Dollars, One Exchange, and an Iranian Oil Network
OpenAI completes its for-profit conversion with Microsoft's stake locked in, Amazon confirms 30,000 corporate layoffs, Tesla's robotaxi fleet draws a fresh NHTSA probe, and the EU issues its first AI Act fines against Meta and X.
Xi Jinping relaunches China's push for a global AI body, LG's smart TVs get labeled spy TVs by privacy groups, and Anthropic's CEO says AI models are becoming permanent employees while human ones get cut. Plus strained power grids and five fast stories.
Anthropic's CEO asks the AI industry to slow down, the same week his own company's threat report describes Claude being used to help target weapons. Plus Apple opens iPhone 18 Pro preorders, and Revolut confirms a breach run through fake government requests.