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Nvidia unveiled GR00T 2 on November 9 at the Conference on Robot Learning in Austin, a robot model that learns new skills largely by watching first-person video of humans. The figures are Nvidia’s own and have not been independently verified — but if they hold, teaching a robot a new job could soon take hours, not months. Sources: The Neuron, Unite.AI, MLQ, TechToday — November 10, 2026.

OpenAI has raised $11 billion in the first close of a new funding round that values the ChatGPT maker at $1.25 trillion, Bloomberg reported on November 6, citing people familiar with the deal. Reuters confirmed the same figures from its own source. Full story in slides above — Sources: Bloomberg, Reuters, TechCrunch, November 2026.

Startup PSI (Physical Superintelligence) says its in-house research system, running instances of an unreleased Anthropic model, proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture — an open problem in quantum computing since 2008 — with a complete proof on the third day of its run. The Lean proof assistant accepted the formal proof, which covers 648 machine-checked theorems, and the paper and code are public on GitHub. Sources: WebProNews, OfficeChai, MadRobot, November 6–7, 2026. ...

Democrats swept key races on November 3 on promises of tougher data-center rules, with Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa pledging an immediate moratorium and an end to tax breaks for the sector — a shift that rattled AI stocks and put the heart of America’s AI buildout under new scrutiny. Full story in slides above — Sources: Agence France-Presse via GMA News, CNBC via Unite.AI, November 4, 2026.

MIT researchers report that OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra edited the weights of a smaller Qwen model directly, lifting its MATH-500 score from 7.9% to 48.1% after changing just 0.016% of its weights. The team calls the technique Weight-Space Programming and stresses the result is very early — and on the same day, Anthropic warned in a revised filing that AI may soon accelerate its own research. Sources: MIT CSAIL via The Register, TechCrunch, The Neuron, November 3, 2026. ...

Apple CEO John Ternus told Wired’s Steven Levy that the company will use AI in new products but refuses to ship AI for its own sake, saying the real test is whether people love what Apple builds. Full story in slides above. Sources: Wired via TechCrunch, AI Affairs, October 30-31, 2026.

Google unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, 2026, its newest frontier AI model built for cybersecurity and long engineering tasks, with introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Full story in slides above — Sources: Reuters, SiliconANGLE, ET CISO, October 28-29, 2026.

Google DeepMind has unveiled Genie 4, a real-time world model that generates explorable, photorealistic worlds from a text or image prompt — now with native audio and live text steering. Full story in slides above — Sources: Google DeepMind blog (October 27, 2026), The Indian Express, TechTimes, October 28, 2026.

Oracle and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership on October 27 at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, connecting Oracle business software with ChatGPT. The headline product, Oracle AI Workspace, is still in development, and Oracle says development schedules and pricing may change. Full story in slides above. Sources: Oracle/OpenAI joint announcement via Okay News, The Neuron AI digest, October 28, 2026.

Nvidia said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion in Meta’s equity offering as the two companies deepen their partnership on the Muse AI assistant. Meta plans to expand its use of Nvidia hardware, including Vera Rubin systems, while the companies work to improve Muse models and agents. Full story in slides above. Sources: Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires via Morningstar, The Motley Fool, October 27, 2026.

Microsoft announced on Monday that it is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its global workforce, as it cuts costs while pouring money into artificial intelligence. Eligible staff at vice president level and below on select teams in the US, Canada, UK and India can take the offer, with financial support and career transition help. Full story in slides above. Sources: AFP via Malay Mail and The Hindu, The Week, Stocktwits, October 26–27, 2026. ...

Apple unveiled a new 14-inch MacBook Pro and 24-inch iMac powered by its latest M6 chip on Tuesday, pitching faster performance for AI tasks run directly on the device. The MacBook Pro starts at $1,999 and the iMac at $1,499, with pre-orders opening Wednesday and availability starting November 6. Full story in slides above. Sources: Reuters, The Straits Times, October 27, 2026.

On Wednesday, PHP’s security team did something it almost never does. It shipped emergency patches for two critical flaws (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, collectively nicknamed PHP2Shell) that let an attacker run code on a web server without logging in first. The bugs are rated 9.2 out of 10 on the CVSS v4 severity scale, sit in the PHP language itself rather than any application, and one of them was found with the help of OpenAI’s models. ...

Elon Musk said on Monday he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America next year, “the first of many” such gifts, a day after AI lab Anthropic announced it will commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund. Sources: USA Today, AP, Reuters, Financial Times — October 19, 2026.

Apple is a $5 trillion company now. Not for a few minutes in the middle of a trading day, but at the closing bell. The iPhone maker’s shares hit a record on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, and finished just far enough above the line to push its market capitalization to $5.005 trillion, according to Dow Jones Market Data. That makes Apple only the second company in history to close above $5 trillion, after Nvidia. Apple’s market value had crossed the threshold six times before during intraday trading, but it had never once closed there. Wednesday it squeaked past. ...

Major corporate clients, including big banks, are demanding 50% fee cuts from law firms that use AI, the New York Times reports — and firms that refuse risk losing the work. Full story in the slides above. Sources: The New York Times (via AI0 News digest, September 28, 2026); Financial Times; Artificial Lawyer; Thomson Reuters Future of the Law Firm report.

Trump and Xi wrapped their summit with no breakthrough on AI cooperation, per USA Today — but the state dinner told its own story, with tech’s biggest names at the table. Full story in slides above — sources: USA Today (Reuters contributing), The Straits Times, September 26, 2026.