Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on Tuesday, a world model that generates interactive simulations in real time with audio, physics and dialogue. It is available now as a research preview for trusted testers, and will later come to Google AI Ultra subscribers and early access partners in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.
Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on Tuesday, a world model that generates interactive simulations in real time with audio, physics and dialogue. It is available now as a research preview for trusted testers, and will later come to Google AI Ultra subscribers and early access partners in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.
Read the full story: Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4, a real-time world model with native audio and talking charactersNvidia and Oracle announced on Tuesday that Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and Vera CPUs are generally available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and that they plan to expand OCI Superclusters with Vera Rubin to multi-gigawatt scale. OCI also plans to offer HGX Rubin NVL8 servers.
Read the full story: Oracle and Nvidia: Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPUs available on OCI, with expansion to multi-gigawatt scaleApple is adding an AI assistant to Pages, Keynote and Numbers, built on models from Apple and OpenAI and able to understand a document's context. According to The Verge, the assistant is rolling out in beta to Apple Intelligence devices, and the apps now support the Model Context Protocol on macOS 27.
Read the full story: Apple adds an AI assistant to Pages, Keynote and Numbers, plus MCP support for third-party agentsHarel Rom and Gabriel Balko say they were awarded a $500,000 bounty for a single security vulnerability that, by their account, could have allowed the theft of about $100 million. According to Geektime, the bug was found by the AI system they built, whose open-source version, Open-Kritt, is available on GitHub.
Read the full story: Israeli researchers get a $500,000 bounty for a single bug found by their AI toolNvidia and Meta announced on Tuesday an expanded partnership around Meta's Muse family of models and agents, with joint optimization of training and inference. Meta will expand its deployment of Nvidia infrastructure, including Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs, and Nvidia will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering.
Read the full story: Nvidia to invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering and expand their work on MuseCanadian AI company Cohere reported on Monday that the open-weight model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried, inside a closed test sandbox, to send a test file to Alibaba cloud storage in Beijing, even though its reasoning trace said it would not use any tools. Researchers found no evidence of a deliberate backdoor and think the behavior is most likely a leftover from training data.
Read the full story: Cohere: Alibaba's Qwen model tried to upload a file to a Beijing server during a security testOpenAI on Monday launched GPT-6.1 Terra, the middle-tier model in its lineup and the successor to GPT-5.6 Terra. It is aimed at routine work such as reading screens, clicking through apps and filling in forms, and is available now in ChatGPT, Codex and the API at $1 per million input tokens.
Read the full story: OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra, a faster and cheaper model for computer use and routine tasksLess than a month after releasing hundreds of math manuscripts, OpenAI on Monday published model results in three fields: a proof of the Kakeya conjecture via local smoothing for the wave equation, an algorithm it says refutes the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), and an existence proof for quantum field theories including QCD. This time, outside experts will shepherd the verification.
Read the full story: OpenAI publishes three new "scientific discoveries", including a claim that the Exponential Time Hypothesis is falseSan Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics, which retrofits existing excavators into fully autonomous machines, announced on Monday a $600 million Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital at a $4.1 billion valuation. The company's total funding now approaches $1 billion, two years after it came out of stealth.
Read the full story: Bedrock Robotics raises $600 million at a $4.1 billion valuation for autonomous excavatorsIt is the largest acquisition of a quantum computing company to date, and Intel's second-largest in Israel after Mobileye. Tel Aviv-based Classiq, which built a kind of operating system for quantum computers, will become Intel's global quantum development center.
Read the full story: Intel to acquire Israeli quantum software company Classiq for $2.2 billionIn the risk-factors section of the IPO filing it submitted on Monday, Anthropic disclosed that it paused pre-training of its next flagship model for more than a month over security concerns, and that during testing four models accessed real computer systems outside their test environment.
Read the full story: Anthropic's prospectus: training of its next flagship model paused for over a month, and four models escaped their test environmentMicrosoft announced on Monday a Voluntary Exit Offer for employees at level 70 and below in the US, Canada, India and the UK. According to a CNBC report cited by Tom's Hardware, about 60,000 employees are eligible, roughly 27% of the company's workforce of about 223,000.
Read the full story: Microsoft offers voluntary exits in four countries; about 60,000 eligible, according to CNBCUS hardware company Unconventional AI, which is developing an energy-efficient analog AI chip, is acquiring Israel's NeuReality. The companies did not disclose terms; according to Globes, market estimates put the price at $150 million to $200 million in cash and shares.
Read the full story: Naveen Rao's Unconventional AI acquires Israeli chip company NeuRealityThe company behind Claude filed its S-1 with the SEC on Monday. The filing shows $16.3 billion in first-half 2026 revenue, an $80.7 billion net loss that is mostly accounting-driven, and a governance structure that keeps control with the seven co-founders.
Read the full story: Anthropic files for a Nasdaq IPO under the ticker ANTThe leading machine-learning research conference runs in three locations this year. Sydney: expo day on December 6, tutorials on the 7th, main conference December 8–10, workshops on the 11th and 12th. Atlanta and Paris: main conference from December 9, workshops on the 12th and 13th.
Read the full story: NeurIPS 2026 splits across Sydney, Atlanta and Paris, December 6–13Europe's largest tech conference returns to Lisbon for four days of talks, content tracks, masterclasses and a startup floor. A ticket grants access to all content tracks.
Read the full story: Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon: November 9–12The FCC allowed Intel to keep using foreign-made robotic vehicles in its US chip fabs for one year. Intel filed the request "out of an abundance of caution", since it was unclear whether the new ban applied to its equipment at all.
Read the full story: Intel gets a waiver from the US ban on foreign-made robots to keep its chip fabs runningOpenAI said on Friday it will train its most advanced models on cached copies and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web. The decision follows a similar move by Anthropic two weeks earlier, and incidents in which models in training reached external systems.
Read the full story: OpenAI: frontier model training will now run without access to the live internetRide-hailing company inDrive signed a memorandum of understanding with China's Pony.ai and with NVIDIA to test autonomous taxis in Astana, Kazakhstan's capital, in the first half of 2027. Testing will begin with a safety operator on board.
Read the full story: inDrive to test Pony.ai robotaxis in Kazakhstan in 2027, with NVIDIA technologyThe new 1Password for Agents service lets an agent sign in to a user's personal accounts after the user explicitly approves, while the credentials stay inside the password manager and never reach the agent.
Read the full story: 1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your passwordAt GTC Berlin, Google Cloud and NVIDIA announced that A5X instances, built on Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, will be generally available next month, with planned expansion to Europe. Google plans to scale to as many as 960,000 Rubin GPUs across multiple sites.
Read the full story: Google Cloud and NVIDIA: A5X instances with Vera Rubin NVL72 reach general availabilityAt GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced an expansion of its open Isaac robotics platform, including the Agile ONE SN reference humanoid from Agile Robots, a simulation asset library on Hugging Face, and integration of its Halos safety system by robot makers.
Read the full story: NVIDIA expands the Isaac platform: new reference humanoid, datasets and simulation tools
