- Apple Unveils HomeView, Its First Smart Display, at $299; Ships Nov. 13
On Oct. 13 Apple announced the 7-inch HomeView hub, a new Apple TV 4K, HomePod mini 2, and nine home accessories made with LG and Schneider Electric. Siri AI on it is still in beta.
- GPT-6.1 Sol Replaces GPT-5.5 in Codex; GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 Leave the API Jan. 14, 2027
GPT-5.5 left ChatGPT and Codex (ChatGPT sign-in) on Oct. 14. The API is unaffected, and the GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 families shut down in the API on Jan. 14, 2027.
- Anthropic Reportedly Posted $16.8B in Q3 Revenue; November IPO and Up to $2T Valuation Under Discussion
There is no official confirmation, but reports point to a November IPO at a $1.8–2 trillion valuation. The $16.8 billion Q3 revenue figure comes from an investor quoted by Reuters.
- AI-Content Marking Rules Are Already in Force — but No Law Names C2PA
The EU and California have required machine-readable marks on AI-generated content since Aug. 2. No law names C2PA, and the EU deadline for services already on the market is Dec. 2.
- Local LLM Hardware From NVIDIA, AMD and Intel: Look Past Memory Size to Bandwidth
When choosing hardware for local LLMs, look at memory bandwidth as well as capacity. We compare DGX Spark, RTX PRO 6000, Ryzen AI Halo and Arc Pro.
- AI Coding Tools: Claude Code Leads, Codex Overtakes Cursor (JetBrains Survey)
In JetBrains' 2026 survey, Claude Code leads at 39% work usage, OpenAI Codex (16%) has passed Cursor (12%), and Copilot has slipped to 21%.
- Google, OpenAI and Anthropic Reportedly Plan Their Own AI Safety Rules — What Changes for Developers
AI companies may change their terms of service before any law passes, and those terms already bind developers.
- AWS Releases Strands Box, an Open-Source Sandbox That Blocks Agents Based on What They've Already Done
AWS has released Strands Box as a developer preview: an open-source sandbox that isolates AI agents at the OS level and applies rules based on prior actions. For now it supports only Apple silicon Macs.
- NVIDIA RTX Spark PCs Open for Preorder — a 128GB Dev Box Costs $5,999
Microsoft has opened preorders for Surface devices built on NVIDIA's RTX Spark. The 128GB unified-memory dev box costs $5,999, more than double an analyst's earlier estimate of about $2,899.
- AI Infrastructure Draws $33.5 Billion — and the IMF Warns of a Correction
A Morgan Stanley report says startups easing AI's power and compute bottlenecks raised $33.5 billion this year, while the IMF warns an AI stock correction could shake financial stability.
- Chrome DevTools Completes Soft Navigation Analysis for SPAs and Adds a CPU-Tier Override
Chrome DevTools' Performance panel now completes soft-navigation analysis for SPAs, and a new CDP command sets a CPU performance tier. The Soft Navigations API itself is not yet fully released.