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  1. 9to5Mac
    AI score31

    iOS 27.2 Upgrades Apple Photos: Shared Albums Add Four Features and Support for SynthID Watermarks

    iOS 27.2 brings two upgrades to Apple Photos: Shared Albums add four features—editing photo and video captions, editing comments, preventing duplicate photo additions, and reminders before an album expires; it also adds support for the SynthID watermark developed by Google, which can identify whether an image was generated or modified by generative tools in Photos and Image Playground. The SynthID watermark is invisible but detectable. Using the new Shared Albums features requires first upgrading the album to iOS 27.

    #Product updates#Image generation#Google

  2. 9to5Mac
    AI score42

    Perplexity brings gpt-live-1 to the voice mode of its Mac app

    Perplexity has upgraded the voice mode of its Mac app, switching its underlying model to OpenAI's gpt-live-1 voice model, which can handle multiple Computer sessions simultaneously within a single voice session, launch new tasks, and create and manage Projects. Perplexity also recently launched the ability to run AI directly on Mac locally, supporting offline mode and privacy-focused AI workflows.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Product updates#Speech#English text is being prepared.

  3. 9to5Mac
    AI score48

    Apple unveils all-new MacBook Pro: its first touchscreen Mac, featuring a PROLED XDR display

    Apple has unveiled the all-new MacBook Pro, its first touchscreen Mac, featuring a PROLED XDR display and powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. The 14-inch model starts at $2,899 and the 16-inch model starts at $3,399; pre-orders open today, with shipping beginning November 6. The new machines also bring back the glowing Apple logo, replace the notch with Dynamic Island, and raise peak HDR brightness from 1,600 nits to 2,000 nits.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Product updates#English text is being prepared.

  4. 9to5MacProduct release
    AI score60

    OpenAI Brings ChatGPT dot to iMessage and RCS

    OpenAI has expanded access to the ChatGPT dot agent to iMessage and RCS; previously, the feature was only available within Slack or the ChatGPT app. Users can assign it tasks via text, photos, or voice messages, and it will proactively send messages to report progress; setup is done by selecting Texting in dot's profile, and it does not allow dot or OpenAI to access other text message conversations.

    Same story · 4 reports

    #Product updates#Agents#OpenAI

  5. 9to5Mac
    AI score38

    Apple and OpenAI trade secret lawsuit set to go to trial on July 19, 2027

    Judge Edward Davila has formally scheduled a July 19, 2027 trial date in Apple's lawsuit accusing two former employees, OpenAI and io Products of trade secret theft, and has set a timeline for milestones including discovery, expert witnesses and summary judgment. Apple had previously been granted early access to additional documents and information from the defendants ahead of regular discovery. The lead attorneys for both sides must meet before June 1, 2027 to discuss the possibility of settlement.

    #Industry news#OpenAI

  6. 9to5Mac
    AI score22

    iOS 27.3 Release Date: Expected Mid-December Launch, Beta Coming Soon

    iOS 27.3 is expected to be publicly released in mid-December, with the beta possibly rolling out on November 2. Because iOS 27.1 is exclusive to the iPhone Duo, the version numbers in the iOS 27 cycle have all shifted by one, and the release cadence of 27.3 still aligns with the x.2 updates of previous years. Known new features include at least the additional Siri AI languages announced this week, as well as the return of the brand-new Health app.

    #English text is being prepared.

  7. 9to5Mac
    AI score14

    iOS 27.2 Brings These New Features and Improvements to the Shortcuts App

    iOS 27.2 adds a new "When My iPhone Opens or Closes" automation to Shortcuts, which can trigger actions based on the open/closed state of iPhone Duo. Workout automations now support the Fitness app, and the "Use Model" action now supports fetching the latest information online in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. On iOS and iPadOS, you can now also edit the name and icon of a shortcut directly from the shortcut library.

    #English text is being prepared.

  8. 9to5Mac
    AI score58

    Reddit will require login to access most content

    Reddit announced it will shift to a logged-in-user-first experience, with most content requiring a login account to access, a major change in its 21-year history. CEO Steve Huffman said the move is intended to improve user experience, strengthen the advertising business, and stop bots from scraping proprietary data. The new experience will begin testing outside the United States this quarter; the homepage and content reached via search engines or shared links will remain accessible, but browsing specific subreddits without logging in will no longer be possible.

    Same story · 4 reports

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  9. 9to5Mac
    AI score22

    Strava Integrates with Google Gemini to Support Personalized Training Insights

    This week, Strava announced that it is expanding its AI integration to Google Gemini, after previously connecting to Claude via MCP. Once connected, users can query their training data in natural language—for example, comparing this year's fastest 10K with their historical best, analyzing race performance mile by mile, combining temperature, humidity, and wind to assess how weather affected a long run, and viewing their longest streak records for each sport.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Product updates#English text is being prepared.#Google

  10. Caixin
    AI score31

    T Morning Brief | Apple launches touchscreen laptop; Google releases world model Genie 4; Microsoft's first-quarter results beat expectations

    Google released the world model Genie 4, Apple launched a touchscreen laptop, and Microsoft's first-quarter results beat expectations. Nvidia announced it will subscribe to $3 billion of Meta's newly issued shares, and Meta will expand deployment of Nvidia's Vera Rubin computing platform, Vera CPU, and Spectrum-X networking equipment; this is the first time Nvidia has extended this circular transaction model beyond Meta to other "Magnificent Seven" stocks.

    #Industry news#Agents#OpenAI

  11. Caixin
    AI score51

    Unitree Releases First Financial Report After Going Public: Q3 Revenue Up 69.93%, Profit Down 27.78%

    Unitree Technology released its 2026 third-quarter financial report on October 28. Third-quarter revenue rose 69.93% year on year to 665 million yuan, while total profit fell 27.78% year on year to 112 million yuan. From 2023 to 2025, Unitree's revenue was 159 million yuan, 393 million yuan, and 1.699 billion yuan, respectively, with a three-year compound growth rate of 226.78%. Net profit shifted from a loss of 11.1451 million yuan in 2023 to 278 million yuan in 2025. The report noted that robots are mainly used in niche areas such as commercial exhibitions and scientific research, and have not yet been deployed on a large scale in production scenarios.

    #Industry news#Embodied AI

  12. Caixin
    AI score82

    Caixin Explains Anthropic's Prospectus in Detail: First-Half Revenue of US$16.3 Billion, Second-Quarter Operating Profit

    Anthropic has filed a prospectus with the SEC, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT", with first-half revenue of US$16.3 billion and operating profit in the second quarter. Founded five years ago, the company has raised nearly RMB 140 billion in the private market; its IPO valuation is expected at US$1.5 trillion to US$2 trillion, with projected compute investment of US$800 billion. OpenAI announced in September that it would not go public this year, leaving Anthropic to push ahead with this IPO alone.

    Same story · 127 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  13. Caixin
    AI score57

    AI computing power demand boosts performance: SK Hynix's Q3 revenue exceeds 100 trillion won for the first time

    SK Hynix's Q3 2026 revenue was 104.6 trillion won, up 328% year-on-year, exceeding 100 trillion won in a single quarter for the first time; operating profit was 83.33 trillion won, up 632% year-on-year, with an operating margin of 80%. The company has also locked in more than half of its 2027-2028 capacity in advance through long-term contracts. Net profit was 39.78 trillion won, up 216% year-on-year, but down 58% from the second quarter.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  14. Caixin
    AI score65

    Zhiyuan's First-Half Revenue Nears 2 Billion Yuan, with 9,700 Robots Shipped

    Peng Zhihui, co-founder, president and CTO of Zhiyuan, said at the 2026 Zhiyuan Innovation Day that in the first half of 2026, Zhiyuan's robot shipments reached 9,700 units and revenue approached 2 billion yuan; as of September, a cumulative 20,000 robots had rolled off the production line. Zhiyuan also stated that the penetration of general foundation models into the embodied field is a major trend, embodied models will become increasingly large, and this year's training cluster will approach a scale of 10,000 GPUs. A day earlier, Unitree Technology released its first financial report since going public, with cumulative revenue of 1.817 billion yuan in the first three quarters.

    Same story · 12 reports

    #Industry news#Embodied AI

  15. Caixin
    AI score56

    Tencent Connects Multiple Products for AI Agents; WorkBuddy's Token Consumption Surpasses Yuanbao

    Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, described WorkBuddy as a personal Agent for the office track and said Tencent is connecting multiple products for AI agents. WorkBuddy was launched in March this year and competes in the same track as ByteDance's Doubao Work and Alibaba's Qwen Office, and its token consumption has already surpassed Tencent's chatbot Yuanbao. WorkBuddy originated from Tencent Cloud's developer tools team and nearly got cut around 2022 when Tencent was cutting costs and improving efficiency.

    #Industry news#Agents#OpenAI

  16. Caixin
    AI score31

    Optical module leaders "Yi Zhong Tian" still post strong third-quarter results, but fail to lift share prices

    Zhongji Innolight, Eoptolink, and T&S Communications saw third-quarter revenue and net profit surge on strong demand for 800G and 1.6T high-speed optical modules, yet their share prices have fallen for several consecutive months from mid-year highs. At the close on October 29, Zhongji Innolight fell 8.53% to 582.05 yuan, Eoptolink dropped 11.06% to 228.40 yuan, and T&S Communications plunged 19.77% to 161.60 yuan, with all three companies' share prices down more than 56% from their peaks.

    #Industry news

  17. Caixin
    AI score22

    T Morning Brief | Google and Amazon Plunge After Q3 Earnings; Zhiyuan H1 Revenue Nearly 2 Billion Yuan; SK Hynix and Moore Threads Q3 Revenue Surge

    SK Hynix's quarterly revenue exceeded 100 trillion won for the first time in Q3, with operating profit up more than sixfold year-on-year, and it locked in over half of its 2027-2028 capacity through long-term contracts; domestic GPU maker Moore Threads posted Q3 revenue of 1.552 billion yuan, up 1,773.92% year-on-year, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 49.2604 million yuan, turning profitable year-on-year. Google's parent company saw its stock plunge 12% on the first trading day after releasing earnings, wiping out nearly $490 billion in market value.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  18. NumeramaModel releases
    AI score67

    Mistral Large 4 open-weight release: improved coding and safety capabilities, API price halved

    Mistral AI released the open weights of Mistral Large 4 (codename Le Chonk) on Hugging Face on October 29. The model has 100 billion parameters out of a total parameter scale of the 100-billion class, with about 4.9 billion parameters actually invoked per token, using a MoE architecture with 128 experts, of which 4 are activated each time plus 1 shared expert. Compared with the October 6 preview version, Mistral says it continued reinforcement learning over three weeks, raising the Terminal-Bench 4.0 score from 28% to 41%; the Artificial Analysis coding index is 48%, on par with GLM-5.3 while using an average of 47% fewer tokens per task. API pricing drops to $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.10 per million output tokens; the new Mistral Ecosystem Open-Weight License permits commercial use, but reselling model services requires a separate agreement, and the full version requires 8 Nvidia B200 or B300 GPUs.

    Same story · 15 reports

    #Model releases#Open-source ecosystem#Hugging Face

  19. BBC Technology
    AI score83

    Alphabet's market value evaporates by $500 billion in a single day as AI search summaries drag down ad revenue

    Alphabet's market value fell from $3.97 trillion to $3.46 trillion on Thursday, with shares dropping nearly 13%, as the company disclosed that AI search summaries are affecting ad revenue. Total revenue for the quarter rose 25% year over year to $127.6 billion, and Google Cloud revenue grew 103% to nearly $31 billion, but profit fell 25% and free cash flow was negative by more than $9 billion. In the same week, Amazon shares fell 6% after hours, with free cash flow negative by $42 billion; Microsoft revenue grew 19% to $92.3 billion, and its shares fell less than 1%.

    #Industry news#Google#Microsoft

  20. MacRumors Apple IntelligenceProduct release
    AI score52

    How macOS Redesigned Interface Controls for the New MacBook Pro's Touchscreen

    Apple released the new MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR display, its first Mac to support touch, and macOS has adjusted interface controls for finger input. When a finger moves over a menu bar item, that item enlarges; the window's red-yellow-green buttons also grow larger when touched, and swiping up from the bottom of the screen brings up the hidden Dock. The former notch area has been changed to the Dynamic Island, which hosts Spotlight, Live Activities, and Siri AI, and can be pulled down to expand into a floating window. Apple says macOS automatically converts touch into clicks, and many existing apps can be used with touch without developer updates. The 14-inch model starts at $2,899, and the 16-inch at $3,399, with official sales beginning on November 6.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Product updates#English text is being prepared.