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CATALYST FOUND: OpenAI doubles usage limits for all ChatGPT Pro tiers and Business Premium, effective immediately.
CATALYST FOUND: Alphabet discloses more than $1T in purchase commitments, future leases and other obligations in its Q3 filing.
Contingent commitments alone hit $98.5B, up about $23B from Q2.
CATALYST FOUND: Utah files 14 criminal charges against Kalshi and cofounders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara for illegally promoting online gambling.
CATALYST FOUND: Toronto's Cohere just raised up to $7B, the biggest private round ever for a Canadian tech company. Ottawa is taking a stake, and Cohere is keeping its HQ in Canada.
CATALYST FOUND: DoorDash is buying Instacart for about $17B, which would combine the two biggest grocery delivery apps in the US.
CATALYST FOUND: Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon, just two weeks after its last top model. It's now #1 on Artificial Analysis's main AI model ranking and leads tests on finding, exploiting and patching security holes.
CATALYST FOUND: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs bills banning AI chatbots from using “unsafe features” with minors.
CATALYST FOUND: Oracle stock jumps 11% after it pledges to cap new financing at $20B through fiscal 2030.
Oracle expects free cash flow to top $30B in fiscal 2029.
CATALYST FOUND: Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook Pro is bringing back the glowing Apple logo for the first time since 2016.
Available from November 6, starting at $2,899 for the 14-inch and $3,399 for the 16-inch.
CATALYST FOUND: Apple just announced its first touchscreen MacBook Pro at its "Pro and Tell" event. It has a tandem OLED display, M5 Pro or M5 Max chips and a Dynamic Island, and it starts at US$2,899 for the 14-inch or US$3,399 for the 16-inch.
CATALYST FOUND: General Compute raises $100M. The San Francisco startup rents out specialized chips for running AI models from its own data centres, and the round values it at $800M.
CATALYST FOUND: Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4. It's an AI model that builds interactive scenes you can steer in real time, now with sound and dialogue.
CATALYST FOUND: Apple's OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro could start at $2,899, a $400 increase over the current model.
The 16-inch model could start at $3,399.
CATALYST FOUND: Apple just announced an M6 MacBook Pro and a new iMac. Both ship the day before Apple's "Pro and Tell" event, where a touchscreen MacBook Pro is expected.
CATALYST FOUND: Instagram is testing long-form videos up to 90 minutes, called "Features," in a push against YouTube.
CATALYST FOUND: OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model built for computer use across apps, priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens.
CATALYST FOUND: Apple unveils the iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display, A20 Pro chip and IP67 water resistance, starting at $699, $100 more than the current model.
CATALYST FOUND: Anthropic just filed for its IPO and plans to list on Nasdaq as ANT. It's the biggest AI company yet to head for public markets.
CATALYST FOUND: Jack Dorsey's Block unveils Dessa, a voice AI trained only on recorded human conversations with no text, which runs locally on high-end Macs.
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
