Manus' parent company Butterfly Effect said it raised more than $500 million, its first funding round since Meta called off its $2 billion acquisition. Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the round, and existing shareholders including Tencent also participated, though the valuation was not disclosed.
Google released Google AI Edge Foresight, a Mac app that captures meeting notes offline using the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model with 740 million parameters. The app offers split-screen shorthand and AI-generated notes, transcripts, and a Gemma 4-powered assistant that can answer questions from uploaded documents. Google's FAQ says it is optimized for Apple Silicon.
Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of calorie tracking app Cal AI, has launched Persona, a personal AI assistant startup that has raised $10 million led by Vine Ventures. Persona will offer a $179 wearable band that activates via button or wrist flick, with the model running in the cloud rather than on the device. The band is expected in December, and Persona is currently a free beta available through iMessage.
Goodfire has launched monitors that read a model's internal signals during agent work instead of reviewing its written output. The monitors are available to Baseten customers, who can choose risks to watch and set automated responses. In Goodfire's tests on Kimi K3, monitoring about 1,500 sessions cost roughly $51 versus about $10,000 for a top-tier AI judge, while catching 94% of malicious hacking sessions.
Natura's Interface is a $99 smart ring that lets users ask AI agents to complete tasks with a finger press and also tracks heart rate, HRV, sleep, and activity. At launch it connects with Meta's Muse, Instinct, Grok Bot, Claude, ChatGPT, and more, with preorders expected next month and shipping slated for December or January. After a three- to six-month free period, Natura plans to charge a $9 monthly subscription.
OpenAI is rolling out an Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that lets answers combine text with diagrams, charts, forms, and tappable buttons. It is available starting today to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, and will expand to Go and free tiers on Thursday. Higher-tier users get the mid-range GPT-6 Sol model, while Go and free users get GPT-6 Luna.
Luca Guadagnino's film Artificial, a satirical biopic of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, follows the factual events of Altman's rise and brief ouster, with Andrew Garfield playing Altman. The film is structured around real milestones, including Ilya Sutskever's meeting with Geoffrey Hinton and the 2017 Dota 2 win, and relies little on invented scenes.
fleet week makes me patriotic af
Ever wonder why so many teams are building on open models now? @natolambert has been writing about it for years. The co-founder of @trillium_labs and author of Interconnects is speaking at Forge on how open models win. Join us Nov 3 in SF: https://bit.ly/forgex
Today, we are announcing ChatGPT. It is here: https://chatgpt.com/
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The budget used to decide where a story got made. Jon Erwin made Moses on a stage in Manhattan Beach, with real actors and AI carrying them into any world the story needed.
This "Super Intelligence" thing is just so, so, so stupid I can't even
Xiaomi released the MiMo-V2.5-TTS Series, three speech synthesis models for stock voices, voice design, and voice cloning. The models accept natural-language style instructions and inline audio tags, and the source says the three models are free of charge for a limited time on the Xiaomi MiMo API platform. Xiaomi also open-sourced integration Skills for agent applications on GitHub.
AIWhy it matters: The release shows how a TTS family adds style instructions, inline audio tags, and voice design or cloning to speech synthesis, which matters for agent and creative workflows.
Xiaomi MiMo has released MiMo-V2.5-ASR, an open-source speech recognition model that the company says achieves state-of-the-art results across multiple benchmarks. The model supports bilingual Chinese–English recognition, Chinese dialects such as Wu, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Sichuanese, code-switching, and lyrics transcription. It is also designed to handle noisy environments and multi-speaker conversations.
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro is applied to new materials R&D across literature review, molecular design, and automated dry-lab experiments for PFAS capture. The source offers no benchmark scores, speed, pricing, or availability details.
Xiaomi introduces the MiMo-V2.6 series of models, as stated on its official MiMo page. The source excerpt gives only the tagline, describing frontier intelligence across all modalities, so specific capabilities, benchmarks, and availability cannot be confirmed from it.
LightOn OCR-3 is now available on OpenDocRouter at $0.28 per 1M input tokens and $1.40 per 1M output tokens, about $3.19 per 1k pages on ParseBench. On ParseBench, the author says it sits on the Pareto frontier for open-weight OCR models, with performance similar to Gemini 3.8 Flash low at roughly 45% lower price. It is described as decent at tables, workable for charts, and quite good at grounding.
Beijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China’s Speed-First AI Safety Regime https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/beijing-will-not-pace-the-frontier
Nvidia keeps partnering & investing in its existing & would-be AI server chip rivals. 6 so far, by our count.
""We have a choice in front of us. ... there is a path [to AI going well]. ... What we and others like us lack is time, and people like you." https://x.com/Yoshua_Bengio/status/2108198210523046069?s=20
This is a joke, right? Right???
The weekend after Opus 5.5 launched I had my most productive coding day of the year (so far).
Anthropic's revised Claude usage policy, effective November 12, 2026, adds the first prohibition on persistent, unnecessary abuse or cruelty toward the model. Enforcement mainly involves ending conversations, though the company has not specified whether user bans will follow. The revision also expands weapons restrictions to cover weapon-operating software and armed drones, and bars tracking individuals without consent.
Who's got the best open-source video world model when it comes to physics?💫 it's me again, MiniMax H3. Almost on par with closed-source sota.🍾
Three OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, say they were fired last week for prioritizing safety over OpenAI's corporate interests, and published a letter to leadership. OpenAI reportedly says the three mishandled confidential information, while Korbak, who was the company's main technical contact with METR, says the dispute centered on his communications with METR.
SpaceX is buying spectrum licenses to build a mobile network that would compete with major telecom companies. The source provides no further details on the licenses' cost, timing, or network specifications.
Hear another Arena Alignment Index breakdown from @ml_angelopoulos on @tbpn today
Hybrid Intelligence is moving closer to the work already happening on your PC. From file wrangling to carrying out workflows, Copilot on Windows balances cloud and locally run agents to help you stay in the flow of work, securely. Coming soon. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/10/07/building-windows-for-hybrid-intelligence/
Autonomous vehicle companies in China see a large market opportunity in delivering goods after dark, according to the article. The article says that opportunity depends on overcoming technical challenges, but the source does not specify which challenges or report any deployments.
Databricks has released a public Beta of a Workday Data Connect federation connector for Unity Catalog, letting teams query Workday HR and finance data in place without copying it. Workday administrators share approved tables through Workday Data Cloud, and Databricks administrators create an OAuth connection and foreign catalog to govern access. The data is read-only, and Workday remains the system of record.
Personal AI agents can sometimes overshare, overpromise and overpurchase, according to the article's summary. The source text is brief, and it does not name specific products, companies or incidents.
Meta has banned advertisements from ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, on its platforms in the US. The move intensifies competition with the popular short-video app.
Finally, a desktop agent with Linux support from day 1!
Excited to support the Genesis Mission @WhiteHouse @ENERGY and Director @mkratsios47 with $150M in investments this week. Looking forward to collaborating on the future of science!
SpaceX announced an agreement to buy a nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio from Grain Management, subject to FCC approval. The license covers up to 14 MHz of paired spectrum and is intended to help Starlink become a major US mobile carrier. AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile shares fell in extended trading after the announcement.
Google published a prospective study of AMIE, a research conversational system that patients chat with before doctor appointments, in The Lancet with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Clinicians reported the summaries helped them prepare for visits in 75% of cases and influenced their approach to care in more than half. AMIE's differential diagnoses matched the doctors' final diagnoses 90% of the time.
AIWhy it matters: The study tests a patient-facing diagnostic chat system in a real urgent care clinic, a setting that goes beyond lab evaluation and is useful for judging clinical readiness.
A clinical trial found that nearly 100 patients discussed their symptoms with Google's AMIE chatbot before meeting physicians. The source text provides no further details on the trial's results or outcomes.
Rowan Cheung shares four GrokBot routines enabled by its new native X monitoring, covering AI workflow discovery, brand mention tracking, prospect detection, and contact follow-ups. Each routine comes with a copy-paste prompt specifying schedules, search criteria, output formats, and Slack delivery. The routines are tailored for newsletter and marketing use cases, such as monitoring The Rundown's mentions and finding readers searching for AI newsletters.
Atomic Agent Desktop is a free open-source app for macOS, Windows, and Linux that runs open models like Qwen and Gemma locally without an account. It connects to a cloud model only when selected, and its Fusion feature lets a cloud model plan a task while up to 8 local agents carry it out. The post's own text adds a setup wizard that checks RAM and suggests suitable models, and import from Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and OpenClaw.