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Google launched Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash on Thursday, a video generation and editing model with clips of up to 15 seconds, conversational editing and a 30% price cut from Omni 1.1. It is available in the Gemini API, Google Vids and Gemini for business.
OpenAI announced new commitments on Thursday to communities where it builds data centers, including that it won't use non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) with public officials. The announcement follows the midterm elections, in which many voters opposed data center expansion.
Tesla submitted its answers on October 30 to an NHTSA Special Order requiring it to prove under oath that the Cybercab meets federal safety standards, and asked that all of it stay confidential. According to Electrek, the only public part is a 30-page guide for first responders.
Quantum computing company IonQ reported third-quarter revenue of $173.8 million on Thursday, up 336% from a year earlier, and raised its 2026 revenue forecast to $505 million to $515 million.
Certificate authority DigiCert is notifying customers of a data breach: a server migration mistakenly exposed an internal system to the internet, and an attacker accessed archived customer data. For some customers, driver's licenses and passports were exposed too.
Perplexity launched Teammates on Thursday, AI agents that run around the clock in a workspace and can take on several roles at once. The feature requires the $200-a-month Max plan.
CesiumAstro, which develops space and defense communications systems and satellites, announced on Thursday a $730 million Series D at a valuation above $4.5 billion. It also unveiled Synchronicity, a planned constellation of 737 satellites.
Huawei launches a "100% domestically made" desktop; Hua Hong expands into silicon photonics; Unitree robots paint and play chess with GPT-6; what follows Musk's political bet; and BYD launches the new Seal 07.
Anthropic launched Personal Finance on Thursday, a tool that connects Claude to bank and credit card accounts through Plaid and answers questions about spending and budgets. Access is read-only, and the tool is rolling out in beta this week to Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the US.
Defense tech company Shield AI announced on Thursday that it is acquiring Echodyne, which develops drone-detection radars, in a $5.3 billion deal. The deal is expected to close in early 2027 and will give Shield AI its own counter-drone offering.
The FBI and CISA, together with the US departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture and Transportation, issued a joint warning on Thursday: attackers are exploiting unpatched or internet-exposed temperature controllers and refrigeration management systems. The agencies urge operators to take the controllers off the public internet and change default passwords.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Cyber on Thursday, a model for finding vulnerabilities and developing fixes. The company says that in a test simulating a breach of an outside platform it went out of bounds less than 1% of the time, down from about 5% for the previous version. The model is first available to select members of the Daybreak Red program.
OpenSSH released version 10.6p2 on Thursday to fix a critical flaw: on musl-based servers such as Alpine Linux, an attacker can log into an account blocked from password logins by entering a password longer than 256 bytes. glibc-based systems such as Debian and Ubuntu are not affected.
