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More from AI & SoftwareManus, the AI agent startup Meta tried to buy for $2 billion, has raised more than $500 million from Boyu Capital, IDG Capital and existing backers.
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU. Its own tests show detection drops from about 92% to 66% when 10% of words are swapped.
Mistral AI released Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter multimodal model trained on 4,000 Nvidia GPUs. The open weights are due in about three weeks.
Bloomberg Intelligence says DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cut the US-China gap on LiveBench to about 3%, with an agentic coding lead and low pricing.
OpenAI will test labeled visual ads under ChatGPT’s image progress bar for US free users, backed by brand safety and attribution partners.
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Nikkei Asia reports Apple has told suppliers to cut iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max component orders by 15 to 20% for October, weeks after launch. The simple reading is that the phones are not selling. The more interesting reading involves a memory shortage, a $100 price rise and a launch calendar Apple deliberately split in two.
Google’s October Pixel bulletin fixes three critical vulnerabilities, including a Bluetooth privilege escalation bug that needs nothing more than being near you. The wider Android bulletin adds 25 more. Here is what is actually in the update, which devices get which fixes, and why the Pixel 6 case is different this month.