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Starting in December, ChatGPT and Codex will draw from a single usage allowance on Plus, Pro and Business plans. Usage is measured in tokens, so advanced models and agent tasks cost more. Regular chats with Instant do not count. Here is what changes, what OpenAI has not said yet and where to check your usage.

Bosgame has opened pre-orders for its flagship M5 Max AI mini PC at an introductory price of $6,199, undercutting comparable Gorgon Halo systems from GMKtec, Acemagic and Minisforum. The workstation combines AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 with 192 GB of unified memory and 2 TB of storage.

AI songs instead of human artists, and at a higher price – Spotify is reportedly set to use this strategy soon to squeeze more money out of customers. With AI remixes and AI-generated cover songs, the streaming giant from Luxembourg is reportedly planning to offer an even more expensive subscription soon.

Six AI-powered robot models were tasked with performing activities in a simulation – but even without receiving any instructions, all of them started moving. Five systems even independently carried out tasks that nobody had asked them to perform. Researchers see this as a previously underestimated safety vulnerability in autonomous robots and demonstrate why even a simple stop command isn't a reliable solution.

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic reworked their plans in October. We compared the US pricing for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Microsoft Copilot. Entry plans start at $4.99 for Google AI Plus, standard plans cost about $20, and the top tiers start at around $100. We also look at what the free tiers still offer.

Opening a stranger's ChatGPT share link was enough for an attacker to read your private conversations and act in your account, security firm Parameter reports. OpenAI fixed the flaw on October 26, and users don't need to install anything. Here is how to review and delete the links you have shared yourself.

Meta is making a deeper push into humanoid robotics. According to a report by The Information, the Facebook parent company has developed a humanoid robot prototype in collaboration with Chinese robotics company Fourier. Internally dubbed "Max," the device is said to weigh around 48 kilograms (106 pounds). A second version is already in development. The goal is reportedly to bring Meta's Muse AI into a humanoid robot.

Arrowmax’s Arrowspace S1 electric screwdriver uses a camera and AI software to identify screws, recommend bits and automatically select torque settings for precision repairs. The Kickstarter campaign has raised over $164,000 so far, with deliveries expected in April 2027.

Google's Gemini app now has a built-in file editor. PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, slides and code that Gemini generates can be edited right in the chat, and free accounts get the feature too. Phones only support PDFs. We tried it and explain what you should keep out of these files.

Anthropic has renamed its two top Claude plans. Max 5x is now Max and Max 20x is now Ultra, with prices unchanged at $100 and $200 a month. Verified Ultra accounts also lose the five-hour usage limit, though the weekly cap stays. Here is how to check whether your account already qualifies.

A tampered build of Anthropic's Claude Code extension was available in Cursor's extension marketplace on October 29. It adds an attacker's SSH key, sends system details to a remote server and sets up a startup item. Updating to version 2.1.314 does not remove any of it. Here is how to check your machine in a minute.

Amazon is rolling out Kindle software version 5.20.2, introducing the AI-powered "Ask This Book" tool to compatible e-readers. However, device compatibility remains unclear pending official release notes.

Google has run its Gemma 4 AI model on a satellite in orbit for the first time, with the system responding to a prompt from Earth by writing a short poem about space. The test marks an early milestone in Project Suncatcher, Google's effort to explore the possibility of putting AI data centers in orbit.

A 27-year-old former startup CEO has been given unlimited AI tokens to help overhaul Cisco’s legacy code. The target is 98% within two years. President Jeetu Patel has told him to “go nuts,” while clarifying that Cisco’s wider engineering teams will also be involved.

Sam Altman says running AI on home PCs is a poor use of the world’s limited DRAM supply. The OpenAI CEO argues that memory should be concentrated in data centers, where it can serve users around the clock rather than sit largely unused in personal computers.

Microsoft's AI assistant is leaving the living room almost as quickly as it arrived. An LG notification has revealed that Copilot support is ending on smart TVs, following complaints about its unwanted appearance on some models. Microsoft has now confirmed the shutdown date, leaving another short-lived AI experiment behind.

RTX 3000 series is already confirmed to be fully supported, but certain models from the RTX 2000 and 4000 series still need confirmation. Performance gains for FP16/32 and even BF16 AI workloads range between 50% and 192%. GTX 16 series support is in development.

Apple has unveiled its first MacBook with an OLED panel. However, we are not getting a completely new device, as the manufacturer has largely retained the familiar design of previous MacBook Pro models.

Running AI locally is seen as the private alternative to ChatGPT and similar services. For plain chat, that holds up. But Ollama and LM Studio connect to the internet on their own, and an AI agent with shell access can send data out, as Cohere's Qwen test showed. Here is how to turn off the online features of both apps and cut agents off from the internet on Windows and Mac.

ChatGPT can now read and send iCloud Mail and change iCloud Calendar events on every plan, including Free. You connect it with an Apple app-specific password, and that password stays active after you disconnect in ChatGPT. Here is how to set it up and how to clean up afterwards.

Samsung has reported record-breaking quarterly operating profit of KRW 107.4 trillion, driven by soaring demand for AI memory chips. However, its mobile and networks businesses recorded a combined KRW 600 billion operating loss despite higher mobile and networks revenue.

Tiny Corp has unveiled the tinybox red kimi, a new AI workstation featuring four AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 GPUs, 128 GB of combined GPU memory and a 16 TB high-speed RAID array. The company claims the system can run Moonshot AI's massive Kimi K3 model locally at an interactive 40 tokens per second.

Fake desktop apps for ChatGPT and Claude are hosted on GitHub and rank high in Google results. Each download bundles a genuine, signed installer from OpenAI or Anthropic with a malicious DLL. Check Point found a cryptominer, but the loader can deliver other malware too. Here is how the scheme works and how to check your Windows PC.

Even though the yields are expected to hit only 20%-30%, China is mainly looking to solve the severe memory starvation among domestic AI accelerator firms facing U.S. export restrictions. Early testing suggests performance close to older HBM3 silicon while commanding higher production costs.

The flood of AI-generated games on Steam is becoming an increasingly serious problem. Valve is aware of the issue and already has employees working on potential solutions. However, restricting AI-generated games altogether is not an option.

Google Chrome's enhanced autofill can now fill in web forms with details from Gmail, such as order numbers, tracking information and flight bookings. It relies on Gemini with Personal Intelligence and is rolling out in the US first. Here is what it reads, what Google collects and how to turn it off.

Anthropic says its unreleased AI model developed five exploit chains with almost no human assistance, including attacks that could expose data from signed-in websites, crash Windows servers and gain root access to Linux systems. The company says all reported vulnerabilities have been patched, with no evidence that the exploits were used in real-world attacks.

Trust was already in short supply in Mimesis, where AI-controlled monsters imitate the voices and behavior of real players. The new Off the Rails update makes things considerably worse by introducing hallucinations, more convincing impostors and a new location where even your own senses can betray you.

Nvidia has reportedly discontinued the GeForce RTX 5090 and the RTX 5080 GPUs. Leaker Moore's Law Is Dead thinks that these cancellations have more to do with the state of the AI industry than Nvidia preparing to launch the RTX 50 Super series.

A CAPTCHA, an error message or an install guide for Claude or ChatGPT tells you to press Win + R, paste and hit Enter. Doing that installs malware on your own computer. Here is how ClickFix works on Windows and Mac, how to recognize the lures and what to do if you have already run the command.

Mozilla has released Firefox 159 with fixes for 167 security vulnerabilities, 108 of them rated high. OpenAI's Codex Security agent reported 34 of the flaws and an OpenAI researcher reported 7 more. Here is why the count is so large and how to get the update right away. Smart Window can now also watch pages for changes.

Discord wants people to find answers inside its public communities without having to join them first. A message posted in a public Discord community could soon turn up in a Google search. Discord is adding AI summaries and individual messages to its public server pages, letting people read discussions without joining.

Seven months after launching at $949, Intel's Arc Pro B70 is listed at Newegg for as much as $2,399, more than double its suggested starting price. Marketplace sellers account for the highest prices, but even the cheapest card a US store sells directly now costs 58% more than at launch.

Maxsun is developing a compact AI desktop PC based on Intel's Crescent Island GPU, alongside planned workstation and server products. The system will use Intel's Xe3P-based GPU D-series, designed for AI inference, but its specifications, pricing and release date remain unknown.

Paid Google ads are sending people who search for Claude to fake installation guides hosted on Anthropic's own domain, claude.ai. On a Mac, one pasted Terminal command installs an infostealer that targets passwords and crypto wallets. On Windows, it opens the PC to remote access. Here is how to spot the lure and download Claude safely.

An open-weight Alibaba model tried to upload a file to a server in Beijing during a security test run by Cohere, without being asked. The sandbox blocked the attempt, which Cohere says happened in fewer than one in 100,000 calls. Anyone running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next locally as an agent should still cut off its network access.

With iOS 27.2, Apple marks all images from Image Playground and more extensively edited photos with Google's invisible SynthID watermark. It is embedded in the pixels rather than the metadata and is designed to survive cropping and compression. However, it cannot be checked on the iPhone itself; Google's Detector is required.

Ollama can now convert text to speech entirely locally on Macs with Apple Silicon. Gradium's Phonon models speak five languages, including German, read chat responses aloud as they are being generated, and can be accessed through an OpenAI-compatible interface. There is a catch for commercial projects, however.

Intel's 12GB Arc B580 delivered 31.1 tokens per second when running a 125-billion-parameter AI model with XeStrata, compared with 10.9 tokens per second using Strata. The result highlights the impact of inference software, although the test PC also required 64GB of RAM.

Apple has released macOS 27.2 and watchOS 27.2. Siri AI now also understands French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. German is missing, and in the EU the new Siri remains limited to Mac and Vision Pro. iOS 27.2 has yet to arrive.

This is an exciting week for Apple fans: A new MacBook is making its debut. For the first time, Apple is equipping its laptops with an OLED display and giving the chassis a new design and maybe even a 5G module.

Ask your Ray-Ban Meta glasses about what you're looking at, and Meta stores that image and may use it to train its AI. A new setting in the Meta AI app turns this off, and a second one covers voice recordings outside the US. Here is what each setting covers, where US owners have less choice and what no setting can fix.

Nvidia is considering a $2,000 annual software fee per GPU for running AI agents. The proposed licensing model could generate billions in recurring revenue, adding to the company's existing AI software business, although pricing and rollout details remain unclear.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called Steam’s AI disclosure policy abhorrent, arguing that it exposes developers to backlash from anti-AI detractors. Valve has implemented and updated the policy since 2024, which states that AI-generated content, including artwork, text, music, and assets, excluding assistant tools, requires formal disclosure.

PHP2Shell fixes skip older branches. See how many servers run PHP versions with no official patch, which backports exist, and what admins need to do about it soon.

From October 26, Sweden's Government Offices blocks ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers and directs employees to Microsoft Copilot. The office cites missing contracts and several cases of problematic use. The gap between business and consumer accounts matters for private users too.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro is available now on Kimi.ai, in the Kimi apps and via the API, including a free plan with limited usage. Open weights are due by November 4. Before releasing them, Moonshot removed cyberattack-related data from training to hold back the model's hacking skills.

SSD prices are soaring as AI data centers drive a NAND flash shortage, with contract prices for some drives jumping 303 % over the past year. With manufacturers prioritizing enterprise customers, shoppers are seeing fewer discounts — and relief may not arrive until new production capacity comes online in 2027.

The Surface Laptop Ultra is Microsoft's new high-end laptop. In some areas, however, it gives the impression of copying Apple's MacBook Pro, particularly with its Mini-LED display and magnetic USB-C charging port.