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Apple HomeView: $299 Price, November 13 Release, and the Siri AI Limits Behind It
Big Tech

Apple HomeView: $299 Price, November 13 Release, and the Siri AI Limits Behind It

Apple's first smart display costs $299, ships November 13 and runs Siri AI in beta, with daily limits on server-side features and a fee planned for expanded access. It will not be sold in the EU, and the new HomePod mini 2 launches without Siri AI.

Sam Whitaker
Anthropic's Opaque Deal: A License and Hire, and What It Leaves for Opaque's Customers
Startups & Funding

Anthropic's Opaque Deal: A License and Hire, and What It Leaves for Opaque's Customers

Anthropic has licensed Opaque's confidential computing technology and hired part of its team, a spokesperson told The Information. Terms were not disclosed. Opaque raised a $24 million Series B at a $300 million valuation in February, and its announcement says nothing about its product or customers.

Jordan Beck
Meta Muse Wonder: Pricing, Benchmarks and Why the Stronger Model Is Subscription Only
AI & ML

Meta Muse Wonder: Pricing, Benchmarks and Why the Stronger Model Is Subscription Only

Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12. Wonder is on the API at $4 and $20 per million tokens with a 1 million token context window, while the stronger Full model is sold only through Muse Code subscriptions at $50 and $200 a month.

Maya Iverson
PERM Processing Halted for Microsoft, Adobe and Six IT Firms: What the Suspension Covers
Policy & Regulation

PERM Processing Halted for Microsoft, Adobe and Six IT Firms: What the Suspension Covers

The Labor Department stopped processing green card labor certifications for Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini on October 8. The administration cited fraud investigations, gave no legal basis or end date, and left H-1B visas themselves in place.

Nadia Rao
Why Micron Stock Fell: CXMT's Denser DRAM and What It Threatens
Markets & Money

Why Micron Stock Fell: CXMT's Denser DRAM and What It Threatens

Micron fell 3.88% to $989.04 on October 12 after China's CXMT said it will launch a server memory module on a denser cell design by year-end. CXMT's product is conventional DRAM, and its revenue share is 9.5% against 23.3% for Micron.

Sam Whitaker
Artex AI: The Open Source Tool Tied to South Korea's Bank Hacks, and What Closing It Changes
Cybersecurity

Artex AI: The Open Source Tool Tied to South Korea's Bank Hacks, and What Closing It Changes

South Korean officials say an open source AI security-testing tool called Artex was highly likely used in breaches at more than seven financial institutions that exposed data on over 68,000 people. Its developer has closed the source, and copies already downloaded remain usable.

Nadia Rao
Nvidia Reflection AI Talks: A Bigger Stake or a Full Purchase of the $25 Billion Open-Weight Lab
Startups & Funding

Nvidia Reflection AI Talks: A Bigger Stake or a Full Purchase of the $25 Billion Open-Weight Lab

Nvidia is in early talks to deepen its investment in Reflection AI or buy it outright, the Financial Times reported. Reflection was valued at $25 billion in its last round, and Nvidia has reportedly already invested about $800 million.

Jordan Beck
Microsoft Maia 300: Specs, Rack Design and the 2027 Deployment Plan
Hardware & Devices

Microsoft Maia 300: Specs, Rack Design and the 2027 Deployment Plan

Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third in-house AI accelerator, built on TSMC N2P with eight HBM4 stacks and a 950-watt power draw. A rack holds 96 of them, production deployment starts in 2027, and Microsoft says Maia will become its primary inference system.

Maya Iverson
White House Restores UK AI Security Institute Access to Frontier Models After a 17-Day Freeze
Policy & Regulation

White House Restores UK AI Security Institute Access to Frontier Models After a 17-Day Freeze

The United States lifted a 17-day hold that had stopped American AI labs from sharing unreleased models with the UK AI Security Institute, the Telegraph reported. The outcome of the US security review behind the hold has not been published.

Nadia Rao
Amazon Decart Deal: Reported $7 Billion Talks, a Month After Anthropic Walked
Startups & Funding

Amazon Decart Deal: Reported $7 Billion Talks, a Month After Anthropic Walked

Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for about $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. Anthropic withdrew from a deal for the same company in September after due diligence, and Decart was valued near $4 billion in May.

Jordan Beck
Deno Joins Cloudflare: What Happens to the Runtime, Deno Deploy and JSR
Big Tech

Deno Joins Cloudflare: What Happens to the Runtime, Deno Deploy and JSR

The entire Deno team is joining Cloudflare. The Deno runtime gets one more year of monthly fixes before development ends, Deno Deploy shuts down in six months, and the JSR registry keeps running on Cloudflare infrastructure.

Sam Whitaker
Nscale West Virginia Data Center: What the State Plans for the Chestnut Grove on the Site
Policy & Regulation

Nscale West Virginia Data Center: What the State Plans for the Chestnut Grove on the Site

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey said chestnut and chinquapin trees at a former state nursery on Nscale's Monarch Compute Campus will be relocated within the property in late 2027, at Nscale's expense. An advocacy group had said about 200 rare trees faced clearing.

Nadia Rao