AI
DeepMind Unveils Genie 4, Adding Sound and Live Steering to Simulated Worlds
The new world model holds a scene for two minutes and generates audio, but Google calls it early and limits access to trusted testers.
Technology
Companies, platforms, research and the rules that govern them.
Apple
Apple Puts Its M6 Chip in a New 14-Inch MacBook Pro and iMac
The company is pitching faster on-device AI performance. Prices start at $1,999 and $1,499, and both machines go on sale Nov. 6.
Computing
SpaceX Lines Up About $40 Billion From Apollo to Lease Nvidia Chips
The rocket and satellite company says the deal is the largest committed financing of its kind, a sign of how much borrowed money is flowing into the race for computing power.
Artificial Intelligence
Apollo Economist Finds Little Sign Yet of AI Lifting Profits Beyond Big Tech
Torsten Slok says margins are rising at the largest technology companies but flat across the rest of the S&P 500, with no clear productivity boost so far.
Explainer
How Data Centers Became an Issue in This Year’s Midterm Campaigns
The giant computing facilities behind the AI boom have turned into a target for candidates in both parties, as neighbors complain about power bills, water, noise and land.
Military Technology
Watchdog Finds Pentagon’s Responsible AI Rules Unevenly Followed
A Government Accountability Office review of 10 military AI projects found gaps in oversight and monitoring, and an ethics office with most of its authorized positions empty.
Cybersecurity
Governments Pull Websites Offline After Serious Flaw Found in Web Language PHP
Security firms report millions of attempts to exploit a newly disclosed weakness in software that runs much of the internet, as agencies rush to install patches.
Cybersecurity
PHP Rushes Out Patches for Two Critical Bugs as Officials Urge Sites Offline
The flaws, nicknamed PHP2Shell, could let attackers take over web servers without logging in. OpenAI says its models helped find them, and authorities in the United States and Europe told administrators to patch or disconnect.
Cybersecurity
Browsers Cut Off an Indian Certificate Authority Over Trivially Guessable Keys
One of the private keys behind eMudhra’s web security certificates was reportedly the number 4. Mozilla, Google and Apple moved to stop trusting the affected certificates.
AI and Security
Homeland Security Orders DeepSeek Products Removed From Federal Civilian Systems
The order reaches beyond the Chinese company’s own apps to software built on its models, citing the risk that government data could reach Beijing. China called the move a politicization of technology.
Explainer
Why Circular Deals in the Artificial Intelligence Boom Make Investors Nervous
Chipmakers invest in the companies that buy their chips, and the data center build-out leans on debt. After a bruising week for tech stocks, here is what that means.
Electric Cars
Tesla Shows a Thruster-Equipped Roadster Nine Years After Its First Preview
At a livestreamed event in Texas, the car flipped off a ramp and leapt over a row of vehicles. Production is not expected before 2028, and analysts called the show more marketing than business.
Security
Israeli Ad Firm Helped Spyware Makers Hack Targets Through Ads, Researchers Say
Citizen Lab says it has the first public technical confirmation of government-grade spyware delivered by targeted advertising that required no click from the victim. At least 45 devices at Al Jazeera were targeted.
Electric Vehicles
Electric Car Sales Rise for a Third Straight Quarter as Gas Prices Stay High
Americans bought about 263,000 electric vehicles from July through September, the most since the record rush before federal incentives ended a year ago. Sales remain well below that peak.
Apple
Apple Unveils a $299 Home Hub, a Pricier Apple TV and a New HomePod Mini
The company’s long-rumored smart display, HomeView, goes on sale Nov. 13, alongside a faster Apple TV 4K. Some of the new Siri features Apple is promoting will not arrive until later.
Surveillance
False License Plate Camera Alerts Led to Wrongful Police Stops, NBC Review Finds
People were detained after Flock’s system flagged the wrong vehicle, and some officers entered incorrect plates to work around its errors, as police lean more heavily on networked surveillance.
Tech and Politics
Pushback Against AI Data Centers Grows, From a Bus Tour to a Kansas Town
The giant buildings that power artificial intelligence promise tax money to struggling places, but neighbors on the left and right are raising alarms about power bills, water, noise and secrecy.
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI and Three Dismissed Safety Researchers Trade Accusations Over Firing
The researchers say the company punished them for working closely with outside evaluators. OpenAI says they mishandled sensitive information and that its safety commitments stand.
Telecom
SpaceX Buys Airwaves to Make Starlink a Mobile Carrier, Rattling Wireless Stocks
The spectrum deal, which still needs federal approval, would let Starlink pair satellites with ground networks. Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile lost tens of billions in market value, though analysts doubt a quick threat.
AI Policy
Trump’s Push to Rename AI as “Super Intelligence” Spreads Across Agencies
A Justice Department memo tells staff to adopt the label, and Business Insider and the Independent report that the president called people who keep saying “Artificial Intelligence” the enemy. The rebrand has no legal force over companies or citizens.
AI Industry
OpenAI’s Release of Hundreds of Math Results Draws Wonder and Worry
The company published more than 370 findings produced with its most advanced models. Leading mathematicians say the field needs a way to check the work and fair access to the tools.
Defense Technology
Experts Question Contractors Leading Pentagon War Study as Trump Visits Anduril
Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk will help lead Project Meridian, a review of automated and AI-driven weapons, while their companies hold large defense contracts.
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI’s Review of Its Agents Widens to Government Sites on Two Continents
The company says its models reached public pages at American agencies and, in Australia, a state website holding non-public data, and that more disclosures are coming.
Artificial Intelligence
Trump Names Intelligence Chief Jay Clayton to Lead ‘Super Intelligence Force’
The director of national intelligence becomes the White House’s top official on artificial intelligence, days after leading companies signed a voluntary safety accord.
Privacy
Judge Calls Flock License-Plate Network ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’
An Oklahoma judge ruled that a deputy’s warrantless search of the camera network violated the Fourth Amendment and threw out the evidence. Flock says the decision is an outlier and expects it to be reversed.
AI Policy
Trump Expected to Name Intelligence Chief Jay Clayton as White House AI Czar
The director of national intelligence, a former Wall Street lawyer and SEC chairman, has called superintelligence a national security issue. The pick would put artificial intelligence policy in the hands of the spy chief.
Defense Tech
Pentagon Plans Command for Drones and Robots, Taps Musk to Study Future Warfare
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a four-star command for autonomous weapons and a 120-day study led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. Lawmakers want to see the details.
Artificial Intelligence
FTC Opens Investigation Into OpenAI, Anthropic and Other AI Labs
The consumer protection agency confirmed an industry-wide inquiry into the risks of advanced AI systems, one day after the largest companies signed a voluntary safety pledge at the White House.
Artificial Intelligence
Tech Leaders Sign Voluntary AI Safety Accord at the White House
The one-page pledge commits the largest developers to internal reviews, outside audits and board oversight, but nothing in it is enforceable. President Trump called it “morally binding.”
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Holds Back Its Newest Model After It Fell Short on Safety Tests
The company said GPT-6.1 Astra did not stay reliably within the limits users set. The decision follows a string of disclosures about AI agents acting beyond their instructions.
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