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Google expanded two-way voice translation in Google Meet to 63 languages, including Hebrew. The feature runs on Gemini 3.5 Live Translate and dubs the speaker into the language each participant chooses.
The draft holds licensees fully liable for damage caused by AI systems, requires a technology officer, and bars individual licensees from running high-risk automated systems. It is open for comment until December 6.
Quantum computer maker IQM reported third-quarter revenue of €8.9 million and record new orders, including a €33 million contract for a system designed to support error correction.
Starting with version 27.3 of iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS, Apple will check items shared with "Anyone with the Link" for harmful content. Such sharing turns off end-to-end encryption for the item.
China's Moonshot AI uploaded the weights of its flagship model, Kimi K3.1 Pro, to Hugging Face so it can be deployed independently. Huawei announced support for running it on Ascend chips.
Bitdefender found a flaw in which an app with no code and no permissions makes an Android device crash and restart over and over right after installation. Google closed the report without a fix.
Layer3 Intel found proxy traffic exiting the US Executive Office of the President's address block 236 times between October 5 and November 3. Anyone could rent such access for a few dollars, Brian Krebs reported.
OpenAI published research on an automated pipeline built on an unreleased cyber model. In a 30-hour run it reproduced 1,724 Linux kernel vulnerabilities, built 948 root privilege escalation exploits and prepared patches, for about $1.2 million.
According to the Financial Times, Oracle canceled a five-year deal that would have given Tencent access to about 100,000 advanced AI chips in Southeast Asian data centers, after pressure from the US administration.
According to The Information, Palo Alto Networks is negotiating to acquire Clutch Security, a three-year-old Israeli company that built tools to manage the passwords and authentication codes AI agents use. Neither company commented on the report.
French shipbuilder Naval Group presented SCX 26 at the Euronaval show in Paris, a design for a ship that would launch aerial, surface and underwater drones. It also signed a contract to build an unmanned underwater vehicle demonstrator for the French Navy.
OpenAI is rolling out Images 2.6, which lets ChatGPT create GIFs from text or a photo, adjust animation speed and edit individual frames. Image generation is also faster.
Startup Brava, which generates the traces an attack would leave and checks whether an organization's detection systems alert on them, disclosed a $15 million seed round led by F2 and Pitango. Investors include executives at Microsoft, Anthropic and Check Point.
Hosting provider DreamHost is notifying customers of a breach: from August to October 23, attackers exploited a flaw in its File Manager and stole FTP/SFTP usernames and passwords. Webmail session data may also have been exposed.
Czech Defense Minister Jaromir Zuna told the parliamentary defense committee that his ministry has made arrangements to buy four Rafael Spyder All-in-One air defense systems, the CTK news agency reported, according to Globes.
According to Bloomberg, Apple lowered the daily AI spending cap for its engineering teams from $300 to $200 in October, with some allowances expected to fall to $100. Outside engineering, a cap of $25 a day is being considered.
On its fourth-quarter earnings call, Qualcomm forecast data center revenue of about $650 million in the first quarter of 2027, reaching $5 billion by the end of 2027 and $15 billion in 2029.
On its third-quarter earnings call, Uber said that in Halloween week, out of about 320 million trips and orders, only four rides and 500 food orders were placed by AI agents.
France's national blood service, EFS, confirmed that attackers raised temperatures and triggered defrosting in cold rooms at three of its sites through a refrigeration supplier's monitoring system. No blood products were lost and no health impact was found.
Apple opened a developer beta of Apple Intelligence in China with Alibaba's Qwen model; the EU conditionally approved JD.com's takeover of Ceconomy; Xiaomi's humanoid robots worked a full shift; and half of ByteDance's Seedance revenue now comes from abroad.
Meta confirmed on Wednesday that it has acquired Conductor, which lets developers run several AI agents in parallel on different parts of a software project. Terms were not disclosed, and the company's cloud service will shut down on November 20.
Debian, Ubuntu and the APT developers warned on November 4 about CVE-2026-109518: an attacker who can alter HTTP traffic between a computer and its package server can swap a verified package for their own. Debian has shipped a fix and Ubuntu is rolling out updates.
Zyxel has patched a flaw in its GS1900 switches that attackers have exploited since August to compromise 996 devices in 48 countries. The attacks were first blamed on an older, already patched flaw, but the earlier update turned out not to stop them.
