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Apple introduces $299 HomeView display with Siri AI, shipping November 13Google makes Gemini 4 Argon broadly available at $2 per million tokensOpenAI and Anthropic back binding UK AI rules; DeepMind and Meta do notGitHub Copilot adds Gemini 4 Argon for coding and agent tasksOpenAI and Anthropic sought control over what AI safety reviewers publishAnthropic says new defenses cut Claude reasoning-token theft by up to 99%Anthropic says small AI models may self-replicate on IoT devicesMeta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full frontier agent modelsMicrosoft Maia 300 targets 40% more AI tokens per megawatt in 2027NVIDIA opens Vera Rubin designs to scale AI factories at OCPAmazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart for about $7 billionNvidia weighs a bigger Reflection AI stake or a compute dealYandex suspends a data center after a third drone strike in a weekMeta, MIT, and UW researchers let models edit their own contextApple introduces $299 HomeView display with Siri AI, shipping November 13Google makes Gemini 4 Argon broadly available at $2 per million tokensOpenAI and Anthropic back binding UK AI rules; DeepMind and Meta do notGitHub Copilot adds Gemini 4 Argon for coding and agent tasksOpenAI and Anthropic sought control over what AI safety reviewers publishAnthropic says new defenses cut Claude reasoning-token theft by up to 99%Anthropic says small AI models may self-replicate on IoT devicesMeta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full frontier agent modelsMicrosoft Maia 300 targets 40% more AI tokens per megawatt in 2027NVIDIA opens Vera Rubin designs to scale AI factories at OCPAmazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart for about $7 billionNvidia weighs a bigger Reflection AI stake or a compute dealYandex suspends a data center after a third drone strike in a weekMeta, MIT, and UW researchers let models edit their own context
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Google makes Gemini 4 Argon broadly available at $2 per million tokens

Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu announced (Oct 13) that Gemini 4 Argon is now globally available for developers and enterprises on the paid Gemini API in AI Studio and the Gemini platform, for Google AI Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, and for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. Introductory API pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input 95% off, through November 30, 2026; on December 1 the public price doubles to $4/$20. Argon keeps a 1 million unified input-output token limit and a continuation protocol for very long responses. Google says it ranks first on the Vals Index and that Antigravity use raised agentic code submissions more than 35% while cutting rollbacks by nearly a third. Fairwind cyber access expands to hundreds more partners, including Wiz. Google is also offering 10,000 scientists the highest Antigravity usage tier free for six months, subject to eligibility. Safety notes in the post: external bio red teaming unlocked under 1% of tested bio sub-tasks, coding shortcut attempts fell to 2%, and Gray Swan indirect prompt-injection attack success across 15 adaptive attempts was 0.7%. Distinct from the Sept 30 Fairwind-only Argon launch and from the same-day GitHub Copilot availability card.

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Apple introduces $299 HomeView display with Siri AI, shipping November 13

Apple announced (Oct 13) HomeView, a 7-inch Liquid Retina smart display powered by Apple Intelligence and Siri AI on an A18 chip. It recognizes up to six faces and, when a paired Apple Intelligence iPhone or iPad is present and recently unlocked, can surface that person’s Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, Reminders, and Find My. Siri AI answers general questions for anyone in the home; personal context and cross-app actions need the paired device. Camera and microphone data are processed in Secure Exclaves that Apple says the HomeView software, apps, the user, and Apple cannot access. Siri AI is in beta in HomeView software 27.2, starts in English, and server-side Apple Intelligence features have daily usage limits, with expanded access “available for a fee in the future.” Pre-orders opened Oct 13 at $299 (tabletop or wall mount) in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, India, and New Zealand, plus Singapore from Oct 15; units ship November 13. It is not for sale in the EU because Siri AI is unavailable in iOS there. Distinct from the September Siri AI iPhone rollout.

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OpenAI and Anthropic back binding UK AI rules; DeepMind and Meta do not

WIRED reported (Oct 13) that the House of Commons Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee heard from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Anthropic Europe head Liam Booth-Smith said “the rules should be binding” and that voluntary commitments are not enough. OpenAI VP Tom Duff Gordon backed a statutory framework and an international convention, starting with mandatory incident reporting. DeepMind’s Owen Larter said the focus should be standards. Meta’s Rob Sherman pointed MPs to existing UK regulators. AISI director Henry de Zoete said the institute can test models only when companies hand them over and cannot block a release; Cabinet Office permanent secretary Cat Little agreed the regime is voluntary “at the moment.” Booth-Smith said Anthropic could not give UK AISI full unrestricted access to Mythos 5.1 at the time because of the US government, and that AISI now has access. The same day, MI5 director Ken McCallum warned that AI’s greatest misuse risk is changing the stakes on existing or new bioweapons. Chair Liam Byrne said the committee wants Britain’s coming G20 presidency used to broker a convention that does not depend on the current White House. Distinct from the Sept 22 story that the firms were summoned to this hearing.

Source: WIRED

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I teach AI Agents, Local Models, and AI Workflows to people who want to use AI, not just read about it. Before the channel: senior engineering roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Ohmyhome (Nasdaq), then a run of AI products built and shipped end to end. That's why every video, talk, and post is grounded in what actually ships.

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