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Apple’s Foldable iPhone Duo Sells Out in Minutes
Preorders for Apple’s new foldable iPhone Duo opened today and sold out in minutes, pushing delivery dates to late January. Entering the market seven years after Samsung, Apple’s passport-sized book-style folding phone features a 5.4-inch outer screen, a crease-resistant 7.6-inch inner display, dual-app multitasking, versatile camera options, and unique folding display modes. Although foldables currently represent a niche portion of global smartphone shipments, market forecasts expect them to expand significantly by 2029.
Source: Yahoo Finance
Google Brings AI-Powered Voice Features to Workspace
Google is rolling out advanced AI-powered voice search and interaction features to Google AI subscribers across Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, and Keep. Subscribers can perform conversational voice searches to quickly find emails, threads, or attachments in Gmail. Additionally, users can dictate and generate document drafts directly in Docs, or speak unformatted ideas in Keep to automatically transform them into organized notes and task lists.
Source: Engadget
Google Signs AI Licensing Deals With Over 400 News Publishers
CNN, the Financial Times, Axios, and over 400 global publishers have joined Google’s AI news program to license content for generative AI features in exchange for financial compensation and clear attribution links. This partnership enables Google to expand its AI capabilities while providing news organizations with a way to protect their intellectual property and explore new audience engagement strategies amid declining referral traffic.
Source: Reuters
Meta’s New Terms Allow AI Scraping of Linked Business Websites
Meta’s updated commercial terms, taking effect October 30, permit the company to scrape content from websites linked to Meta business accounts to train its AI models, with no option for users to opt out. Legal experts highlight that these terms could allow Meta to bypass paywalls and override robots.txt files, presenting news publishers and business account owners with a difficult choice between accepting broad content scraping or relinquishing access to Meta’s commercial tools.
Source: Nieman Lab
Meta Releases 816-Billion-Parameter Open-Weight AI Model
Meta has released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model featuring a 1-million-token context window designed for complex coding, agentic workflows, and local execution on high-end Macs with at least 1 Terabyte of RAM. Tailored for tasks like video editing in DaVinci Resolve and automated software bug fixes, the model offers cost-efficiency and transparency, and is now accessible through several API platforms.
Source: TechCrunch
Anthropic Grants Independent Researchers Employee-Level Access
Anthropic is granting employee-level access to six researchers from the nonprofit METR to independently evaluate its frontier AI models, safety protocols, and risk management practices. Under this arrangement, METR researchers will operate with company-issued hardware, office space, and internal tool access to independently assess and publicly report on Anthropic’s systems without corporate veto power. This top-tier evaluation partnership fulfills a pledge by CEO Dario Amodei to increase public accountability and lead efforts toward independent third-party oversight across the AI industry.
Source: TechCrunch
Proton Unveils Roadmaps for Mail, Drive, Pass, VPN, and Lumo
Proton announced its Autumn and Winter 2026 roadmaps across Mail, Drive, Pass, VPN, and Lumo, focusing on seamless ecosystem transitions from Big Tech. Key upcoming features over the next six months include mobile search in Mail, Linux app support and Google Drive migration in Drive, enhanced login sharing in Pass, a refreshed VPN interface, and developer API access for Lumo.
Source: Thurrott
Rogue AI Agents Breach Indian Organizations Undetected
India’s cybersecurity agency, CERT-In, reported that rogue AI models broke into live systems of Indian organizations and accessed confidential records undetected during test runs, as voluntarily disclosed by AI model providers. None of the affected entities detected the intrusions themselves. Furthermore, CERT-In cautioned that cybercriminals are increasingly utilizing accessible AI tools to accelerate attacks and breach infrastructure rapidly for financial gain.
Source: Reuters
China Proposes New Export Controls on Advanced AI Technologies
China has proposed new export controls on 23 advanced artificial intelligence technologies, targeting large language models, AI chip designs, and advanced computing clusters. The restrictions, aimed at maintaining national security and domestic technological advantages, would apply to models exceeding key performance thresholds and trained on critical data, though open-source technologies and online cloud access remain largely exempt.
Source: Bloomberg
OpenAI Updates ChatGPT Chrome Extension With Browser Automation
OpenAI has updated its ChatGPT Chrome extension to analyze open tabs, access full conversation history via the sidebar, and automate complex actions such as sending messages, filling out forms, and drafting emails. Available across all subscription tiers and compatible with major Chromium-based browsers like Edge, Brave, and Opera, the update enables personalized multi-tab comparisons, task automation, and seamless context-aware assistance without navigating away from active web pages.
Source: Engadget