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GPT-6.2 Astra and Claude Mythos 5.5 Leaks: What Is Real and What Is Not
Screenshots naming GPT-6.2 Astra and Claude Mythos 5.5 spread on November 1, but neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has confirmed a new flagship model.
Screenshots naming GPT-6.2 Astra and Claude Mythos 5.5 spread on November 1, but neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has confirmed a new flagship model.
Sequoia led a 150 million dollar Series C for Serval, valuing the enterprise service management startup at 3 billion dollars. Its pitch: automate the internal requests that eat up office workers' days.
Malaysia Airlines is the latest carrier to warn customers that their data may have been exposed through reservation tech provider Amadeus, joining Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, and others.
You do not need a sketchy vault app to keep sensitive apps out of sight. Android's Private Space and the locked folders on iPhone and Android do the job properly, if you set them up right.
Google's Wear OS 7.1 canary emulator reveals a persistent system status bar for watch apps, plus confirmation that the next platform release is already in testing with developers.
GitHub Agentic Workflows is now generally available, letting developers describe recurring repo jobs in Markdown and have agents run them through GitHub Actions, with guardrails attached.
Fox's 22 billion dollar acquisition of Roku faces a widened DOJ antitrust inquiry, with a second request for information arriving just as Roku reports third-quarter earnings on November 2.
KT Cloud says most of its roughly 125 MW of data center capacity is already contracted, and it will expand on two tracks, building itself and leasing through developers, starting in Bucheon next year.
Xiaomi confirmed the 18 Pro series goes global in November, after last year's Pro models stayed in China. The open question is how much battery survives the trip.
Foundry Robotics closed an oversubscribed 100 million dollar Series A to expand its autonomous factory in Emeryville and push AI models onto the factory floor.
A new ransomware group called Byod claims it fully compromised Michigan State University and took personal data on 1.03 million people. The claim is unverified.
Most phones carry apps with permissions they no longer need. A 15-minute audit of location, camera, microphone, and contacts access will cut the worst of it.
LINE will end support on November 4 for versions older than 14.6.3 on iPhone and iPad and 14.4.6 on Android. Updating now avoids losing chats and features.
DeepSeek's open-source Super-Agent monitors developer chats, finds coding problems on its own, and submits pull requests without being asked. It is a prototype, not a product.
The UK CMA opened a formal probe on October 30 into Meta's terms for using publishers' content for AI products. Meta paused the terms and disputes the case.
Energy North dropped the June 2028 first power date for its 1 gigawatt Project Ares data centre in the Northern Territory after the regulator paused its assessment.
Anthropic is extending its invisible Claude watermark to four older models, but on Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 a single changed sampling setting is enough to dodge the mark.
Motorola has confirmed its Signature 27 flagship for a global launch on November 5, with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip, Android 17, and a seven-year update promise.
Phinity Labs has exited stealth with a 5.2 million dollar seed round led by Uncork Capital, betting that AI agents can take chip architecture from text prompts.
SOCRadar found ransomware operator n0n's exposed workspace, showing 7,216 dollars of AI coding agent use behind attacks that entered through stolen credentials, not exploits.
A 20-minute browser cleanup covers extensions, saved logins, sync settings, site permissions, and autofill, and it is the maintenance job most people skip.
OpenAI published a preview page for GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model, after showing its plans to the US government. The page has no benchmarks, no pricing, and no launch date.
Screenshots naming GPT-6.2 Astra and Claude Mythos 5.5 spread on November 1, but neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has confirmed a new flagship model.
Anthropic is extending its invisible Claude watermark to four older models, but on Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 a single changed sampling setting is enough to dodge the mark.
Nace AI released the open weights of Drex Max v1, a 27-billion-parameter decision model that returns probabilities for every option in a single pass and runs on consumer hardware.
A decade after it faded from India's phone shelves, Karbonn returns with two budget phones launching November 2: the Rebel and the Rebel Pro 5G, both with big batteries and clean Android 16.
Xiaomi confirmed the 18 Pro series goes global in November, after last year's Pro models stayed in China. The open question is how much battery survives the trip.
Motorola has confirmed its Signature 27 flagship for a global launch on November 5, with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip, Android 17, and a seven-year update promise.
Apple unveiled the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display on October 28, its first laptop with a touch-sensitive screen, with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips and retail availability on November 6.
Sequoia led a 150 million dollar Series C for Serval, valuing the enterprise service management startup at 3 billion dollars. Its pitch: automate the internal requests that eat up office workers' days.
Foundry Robotics closed an oversubscribed 100 million dollar Series A to expand its autonomous factory in Emeryville and push AI models onto the factory floor.
Phinity Labs has exited stealth with a 5.2 million dollar seed round led by Uncork Capital, betting that AI agents can take chip architecture from text prompts.
Manufacturing startup Re:Build closed a 2.1 billion dollar financing led by General Catalyst and JPMorganChase, the largest round in a week dominated by physical AI and prediction markets.
Malaysia Airlines is the latest carrier to warn customers that their data may have been exposed through reservation tech provider Amadeus, joining Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, and others.
A new ransomware group called Byod claims it fully compromised Michigan State University and took personal data on 1.03 million people. The claim is unverified.
SOCRadar found ransomware operator n0n's exposed workspace, showing 7,216 dollars of AI coding agent use behind attacks that entered through stolen credentials, not exploits.
Sony Network Communications disclosed on October 27 that its So-net member database was breached on October 19, exposing about 2.6 million current and former customers.
You do not need a sketchy vault app to keep sensitive apps out of sight. Android's Private Space and the locked folders on iPhone and Android do the job properly, if you set them up right.
Most phones carry apps with permissions they no longer need. A 15-minute audit of location, camera, microphone, and contacts access will cut the worst of it.
A 20-minute browser cleanup covers extensions, saved logins, sync settings, site permissions, and autofill, and it is the maintenance job most people skip.
Major OS updates rarely eat your data, but when they do, the only fix is a backup you made beforehand. Here is a complete backup checklist for iPhone and Android that takes about 20 minutes.
Google's Wear OS 7.1 canary emulator reveals a persistent system status bar for watch apps, plus confirmation that the next platform release is already in testing with developers.
LINE will end support on November 4 for versions older than 14.6.3 on iPhone and iPad and 14.4.6 on Android. Updating now avoids losing chats and features.
Apple Music 7.0 is rolling out on Android with a Liquid Glass redesign, a new black-and-white icon, and a quiet fix for Library and playlist management.
Arch Linux released its November 2026 installation ISO, version 2026.11.0, bundling October's package updates including kernel 7.2.11, systemd 262.1, and KDE Plasma 6.8.2.
GitHub Agentic Workflows is now generally available, letting developers describe recurring repo jobs in Markdown and have agents run them through GitHub Actions, with guardrails attached.
DeepSeek's open-source Super-Agent monitors developer chats, finds coding problems on its own, and submits pull requests without being asked. It is a prototype, not a product.
Node.js 27 alpha, released October 29, is the first under a new annual model where every release line becomes LTS, with V8 15.6 and an OpenSSL 4.1 crypto overhaul.
DeepSeek's Harness team published dsh-superagent-prototype on October 31, a free MIT-licensed coding agent that listens to GitHub events and returns pull requests, but it is research code, not a product.
Fox's 22 billion dollar acquisition of Roku faces a widened DOJ antitrust inquiry, with a second request for information arriving just as Roku reports third-quarter earnings on November 2.
The UK CMA opened a formal probe on October 30 into Meta's terms for using publishers' content for AI products. Meta paused the terms and disputes the case.
Apple reports fiscal Q4 2026 results on November 2 in its first earnings call led by CEO John Ternus, with consensus pointing to 113.4 billion dollars in revenue.
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle returned just 9.3 percent of operating cash flow to shareholders in the first nine months of 2026, the lowest share in at least 15 years, as AI capital spending doubled.
KT Cloud says most of its roughly 125 MW of data center capacity is already contracted, and it will expand on two tracks, building itself and leasing through developers, starting in Bucheon next year.
Energy North dropped the June 2028 first power date for its 1 gigawatt Project Ares data centre in the Northern Territory after the regulator paused its assessment.
Runware plans to scale its Romania factory to 30 megawatts of prefabricated data center capacity per day by 2028, shipping Sonic Inference Pods ready to install.
Brazil's REDATA law cuts federal import taxes on qualifying data center equipment, requiring beneficiaries to serve Brazilian customers and invest in local research, as Google, AWS, and Microsoft expand.