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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Claude Personal Finance is a new beta that connects bank and card accounts through Plaid with read-only access, then answers plain-language questions about spending, bills, fees and interest. It is rolling out to Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the US, carries no ads, and conversations in its hub are not used for training.
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Read more →Apple’s Siri AI developer preview, in the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3 and visionOS 27.3 betas, lets any app hand its content and actions to Siri through App Intents and teach it multi-step “skills.” App Store submissions open in the spring. Apple’s annual report, meanwhile, warns that AI agents may act in “unintended or unpredictable ways.”
Apple Developer
Read more →Anthropic has renamed its $200-a-month Max 20x plan Ultra and removed the rolling five-hour usage window for verified accounts, while the $100 Max 5x becomes simply Max. Prices stay the same, weekly limits still apply, and newer accounts keep a temporary cap until Anthropic verifies them.
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Read more →XREAL AURA, the first wired XR glasses running Android XR, is on sale in the US, Canada and Korea from $1,099, with Gemini built in and shipping from mid-November. That launch price runs to the end of the year and undercuts the $1,279 XREAL quoted reservation holders in October, and early buyers get the difference back.
Copilot Fusion, launched at GitHub Universe, picks one or several AI models for each coding request and returns a single answer, with no extra charge beyond the models it calls. GitHub also moved Enterprise customers to pay-per-credit Copilot, and its Octoverse report says agents now open more than 40% of pull requests.
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Read more →Canva Craft, the first image model Canva Research has trained from scratch, plans a picture’s layout before it renders it, outputs up to 2K in more than 30 aspect ratios and sets text in 55 languages. It is live for every Canva user in Dream Lab and on Canva’s public API, with cheaper Craft-fast and Craft-ultrafast variants on the way.
Canva
Read more →Claude Duet is a standalone Anthropic agent app, built on Opus 5.5, that briefs you each morning, watches your connected apps and keeps working on its own cloud computer while you are away. It is a waitlisted research preview for US Pro and Max subscribers, with no extra price, and it has to ask before it sends, pays, signs or deletes anything.
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Read more →Google’s new Gemini agent takes objectives instead of instructions, runs work in the cloud after you close your laptop, and can be hired as a “coworker” with its own Workspace account and email address. It routes jobs across Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude models, and goes to businesses before consumers.
Google Cloud
Read more →OpenAI is moving ChatGPT’s Chat tab to GPT-6: Sol for Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise from 7 October, Luna for Free and Go from 8 October. It brings Intelligent UI, which lets answers carry charts, buttons, forms and small tools built on request, and replies that start before the model has finished thinking.
OpenAI
Read more →Claude Code no longer stops dead when a subscriber hits the five-hour usage limit in the middle of a task. A new wrap-up allowance lets it keep going briefly to reach a sensible stopping point. It covers Pro, Max and Team Premium seats on version 2.1.277 or later, and Pro gets it once a week.
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Read more →OpenAI is adding an invisible watermark called textGrain to ChatGPT and Codex text in the European Union to meet the AI Act’s labelling rule. It catches about 95% of untouched 400-token passages, but only 17% once a quarter of the words are swapped for synonyms. API customers elsewhere can opt in.
OpenAI
Read more →From 9 October, people using the Gemini app without a subscription will only be able to pick Flash-Lite, Google’s smallest model. AI Plus keeps Flash but loses Pro, while AI Pro gains Deep Think, until now an Ultra-only mode. Every model also gets low, medium and high effort settings.
The White House launched America.gov, a single AI search bar over roughly 29,000 government websites, powered by Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok. It points people to services for now; completing tasks like passport renewals is planned for 2027.
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Read more →OpenAI used DevDay 2026 to launch dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computer, alongside GPT-6.1 Sol, a $500-a-month Pro 500 plan with the Ultrafast speed tier, Codex in the cloud and more than 20 other announcements. Here is what shipped, what it costs, and which pre-keynote rumours held up.
OpenAI
Read more →OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay on 29 September, a week after GPT-6 Sol, at the same $2/$10 per million tokens with cached input halved to $0.10. On OpenAI's own charts it beats Astra on coding for a seventh of the cost per task, but still trails Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on business automation and science.
OpenAI
Read more →Nvidia's new Open Agent Safety Platform pairs OpenShell, an open-source sandbox that enforces what an AI agent may touch, with Sentry, a watchdog on BlueField-4 chips that can quarantine a misbehaving agent in milliseconds. Anthropic, SpaceXAI and more than 100 other organisations have signed on.
NVIDIA
OpenAI's DevDay opens in San Francisco on 29 September with a livestreamed Sam Altman keynote at 10 a.m. Pacific. OpenAI has not said what it will announce, but leaks point to an always-on agent called "o", a $500 ChatGPT Pro Max plan and wider access to its Ultrafast speed tier.
OpenAI
Read more →Microsoft has reorganised Copilot into three tabs: Home for chat and delegated Cowork jobs, Code for building apps and dashboards from plain English, and Autopilot, a persistent agent with its own identity that keeps working without a prompt. Agentic features move to usage-based billing.
Microsoft
Read more →At Connect 2026 Meta unveiled Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first smart glasses with no camera, alongside a third-generation Ray-Ban Meta, $1,299 VR glasses for next spring and Muse Charm, a pocket device for its AI agent. Muse itself is coming to the glasses in the coming months.
Meta
Read more →A new selling-partner plugin connects an Amazon seller account to Anthropic's Claude or Amazon Quick, so merchants can check stock, change prices and edit listings without opening Seller Central. It is in beta in the US.
Amazon
Read more →Alphabet's robotics unit put the foundations of its industrial platform on GitHub under Apache 2.0 — real-time control, 6-DoF pose estimation, motion and grasp planning, simulation and camera calibration, all ROS-compatible.
Intrinsic
Read more →Astra for Law wires a 230-million-URL index of US case law, statutes and regulations into GPT-6 Astra, and ships to selected firms through Trusted Access. OpenAI’s headline is a 40% improvement. The underlying score is 54.0% correct, against 38.7% for the same model with plain web search.
OpenAI
Read more →Portable Computer runs the model, harness, orchestrator and scheduler entirely on your own machine, burns no Perplexity credits, and asks before anything reaches the cloud. The catch is a 24GB VRAM floor that rules out almost every consumer PC.
NVIDIA
Read more →iOS 27 arrives today alongside iPadOS 27, watchOS 27 and macOS 27, carrying the public debut of Siri AI — the assistant overhaul Apple first promised in 2024 and has slipped on ever since. It is built on a Google Gemini deal, it needs an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, and it launches in English only, with the EU and China left out.
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