- Products
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Wallet so its dots agents can pay without seeing card details. Built with American Express, Mastercard and Visa, Wallet starts with US ChatGPT Pro subscribers aged 18 and over, who approve each purchase with a check such as Face ID while a payment token stands in for the real card.3, 8 OpenAI also released guidance for businesses, since some sites and fraud systems block or decline legitimate agent purchases.3, 8
- Models
Perplexity released Decider v1.3, open-weight decision models with a new span extraction feature. The models return probabilities for yes or no, multiple-choice and score questions, and the new Locate feature returns exact text spans for tasks like entity and PII extraction, with Apache 2.0 weights on Hugging Face.9 Perplexity reports 91.6% mean accuracy on 63 of its own classification tasks, though all benchmark figures are self-reported.9
- Products
Sierra shipped version 1.0 of Poppy, its protocol for personal agents dealing with companies. Shopify has turned Poppy on for every store, Meta's Muse agent now checks for it on every site, and more than 100 companies have signed on as design partners.4, 10 The specification is still labelled a draft and allows changes that could break existing setups.4
- Products
Meta's Muse agent can now place phone calls to businesses for paid US subscribers. Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said Muse can now call places like restaurants, insurers and cable companies for users, after testing the feature with a small group since September.11, 12 Meta earlier tested human contractors for these calls, and it has not said whether people are involved in the current version.11
- Industry
OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano warned of a high risk of AI takeover within three years. Speaking at The Hinton Lectures, Christiano said the risk could approach a coin flip if AI is built as quickly and easily as possible.13 He has previously put the chance of catastrophic loss of control at 4% over one year and 15% over three years, and calls these subjective estimates.13
- Funding & deals
Mirendil raised a $1 billion Series A to automate AI model development with agents. Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital led the round, and Google was among the other investors.14, 15 The company says its Lor platform, which splits training work across hundreds of agents, let one researcher build its Mirendil-Base model in about 3.5 months for roughly $10 million.14, 15
- Research
MIT researchers used GPT-6 Astra to read and edit the weights of other neural networks. The preprint shows the model can predict what parts of another network do and edit it directly, including improving its math performance.16, 17 Outside researchers caution that it is unclear whether Astra goes beyond techniques it learned in training.16
- Products
ElevenLabs previewed ElevenAI, a team app for meeting notes and dictation. Announced at the company's 11/11 Summit, the experimental app combines transcription, searchable meeting notes, dictation in more than 90 languages and ElevenAgent integration for follow-up tasks such as drafting emails.18 Teams have to sign up for early access.18
- Products
Apple is reportedly testing Harbor, a Mac app for running open-weight models locally. Gotechtor reports that the app is in private testing at Apple's Claris subsidiary and could pool the unified memory of several Macs over Thunderbolt 5 to run larger models.19 Apple has not announced Harbor or given a release date.19
- Products
Perplexity brought its Teammates agents to the Mac app for Max subscribers. Teammates take ownership of ongoing work such as bug triage or metrics tracking and can bring in more agents as the work grows; until now they were available only on iOS and the web.20
- Products
Octen added a 10-millisecond retrieval model and a $20 unlimited search plan for AI agents. The startup's Pulse model locates web pages in about 10 milliseconds, and the new subscription also adds image search.21 Octen's pricing page says unlimited plans may queue requests at busy times.22
- Industry
OpenAI disbanded its standalone robotics team, Fortune reported. Robotics researchers now report to Chief Research Officer Mark Chen, and the applied and hardware staff have moved to the Applied organization under Greg Brockman.23 OpenAI said general models such as GPT-6 Astra can be applied directly to robots and that it remains committed to robotics.23
- Industry
An Australian academic suggests faulty health checks may explain the Microsoft outage. CQUniversity's Mahmoud Elkhodr said automated health checks may have pulled healthy servers out of service and overloaded the rest.24 He noted this is an inference from Microsoft's updates until the company publishes a post-incident review.24
- Industry
Cerebras raised its 2026 forecast and named Microsoft as a new cloud customer. Third-quarter core revenue rose 70% to $230.9 million, and the company now expects $940 million to $960 million in core revenue for the year.25 CEO Andrew Feldman told CNBC that the unnamed top three hyperscaler is Microsoft, with revenue expected from early 2027.25
- Dev tools
Matt Pocock published 39 MIT-licensed agent skills that question developers before writing code. Skills such as grill-me, to-spec and to-tickets turn a planning interview into specs, tickets, tests and code, and they follow the open Agent Skills standard used by Claude Code, Codex CLI and other tools.26
- Research
AI chatbots pointed shoppers to fake or risky retail sites, a study found. Across 6,795 answers about 151 brands, IP protection firm Podqi found risky sites in 15% of Perplexity answers, 8% of ChatGPT answers and 4% of Gemini answers.27 Questions about smaller brands surfaced risky sites about twice as often as questions about larger ones.27
