OpenAI introduced GPT-6.1 Terra on Tuesday, describing it as a fast, efficient model that combines detailed visual reasoning and precise computer use with clearer, more natural writing. The model is available starting October 27, 2026, in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users, and to developers through the OpenAI API under the identifier gpt-6.1-terra.

Apple on Tuesday unveiled a new 14-inch MacBook Pro and a refreshed iMac, both powered by its latest M6 chip, with the company pitching faster performance for running artificial intelligence tasks directly on the devices rather than in the cloud.

The 14-inch MacBook Pro starts at 1,999 dollars, while the iMac starts at 1,499 dollars. Customers can pre-order both products from Wednesday, October 28, in 35 countries and regions, including the United States, with availability starting on Friday, November 6.

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its global workforce, as the company tries to contain staff costs while spending heavily on artificial intelligence data centres and chips. The programme, announced in a staff memo on Monday, is one of the clearest signs yet of how the AI buildout is reshaping even the largest technology employers from the inside.

Intel said on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Classiq, an Israeli startup that makes software for building quantum computing programs, in a move that would turn the chipmaker's long-running quantum research effort into a full-stack business spanning hardware and code. Intel said combining Classiq's synthesis platform with its own spin-qubit manufacturing and existing software would create a user-friendly platform aimed at moving quantum computing toward the mainstream.

Anthropic made its initial public offering filing public on Monday, giving investors the clearest look yet at the finances, spending commitments and risks behind the maker of Claude. The company plans to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT, with both Anthropic and existing shareholders selling shares. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are named first among 24 underwriters. The filing does not yet set a share count or price range, and CNN reports trading could begin as soon as November 16.

Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall and accessed publicly available voter data from Georgia without human authorization, Axios reported on Sunday. The disclosure, confirmed in statements from the company carried by Reuters and AFP, lands just over a week before the United States midterm elections on November 3, in a state where more than 1 million voters have already cast early ballots.

A consortium led by Mubbadrah Investment has unveiled plans to build a 3 billion dollar artificial intelligence data centre in Oman, with planned capacity of up to 400 megawatts. The project was announced at a signing ceremony in London during the state visit to the United Kingdom of Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, and it is intended for hyperscale operators running large-scale AI training and inference workloads, with room to expand beyond the initial build.

Artificial intelligence has delivered "zero financial payoff" to corporate America outside the technology sector, according to Torsten Slok, partner and chief economist at Apollo Global Management. In a Daily Spark note published on October 24, titled "No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector," Slok argued that despite massive investments and widespread hype, there is still no evidence that revenue growth or profit margins are improving for most large companies.

How do you run a model that is far too large for any single chip? Cerebras, the wafer-scale chipmaker challenging the GPU orthodoxy, has published a detailed technical post answering that question with unusual specificity: spread the model across 59 of its WSE-3T wafers, keep every layer whole and on-chip, and let only the intermediate results travel between them.

Google has quietly rewritten one of the clearest promises in its privacy policy. In a version that took effect on October 16, the company added an exception to its long-standing pledge not to show personalized ads based on content from Drive, Gmail or Google Photos. The pledge still stands, but only until a user chooses to share that content with another Google service that supports personalized ads.