Claude Max 20x is now Ultra, and verified accounts lose the five-hour limit
Same prices: Max is $100 and Ultra is $200 a month. Verified Ultra users now get only a weekly limit, set at 10 times Pro's usage.
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Nvidia may guarantee Nscale's debt for Anthropic's $45 billion West Virginia data center
Nvidia would take over the site if Nscale defaulted. Anthropic can walk away if financing misses a deadline, and Nscale's IPO is slipping.
Applebee's app left a database password in its code, exposing customers' personal data
Names, emails, birth dates, phone numbers, ZIP codes and veteran status were reachable. Applebee's fixed it but won't say how many were exposed.
Apple Intelligence is coming to China in December, with Alibaba's Qwen built into Siri
Testing starts Nov. 4 and iOS 27.3 ships in December. Qwen powers some Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence features. No Siri AI yet.
OpenAI's $30 billion raise comes up short as the AI selloff hits private markets
The WSJ says OpenAI has about $11 billion committed. The FT says it cut its target to about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation.
Wikipedia's parent tells court AI training can be fair use, but chatbot answers should respect licenses
In the NYT v. OpenAI cases, the Wikimedia Foundation backs neither side. It splits training from RAG answers, which it says must follow licenses.
Google's TPU satellite sends its first AI response from orbit: a haiku
The Project Suncatcher prototype ran Gemma 4 on a TPU in space. Next: radiation and heat tests, then two linked satellites in 2027.
Cursor says a tampered Claude Code extension tried to backdoor up to 5,000 developers' machines
Fake versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 sat in Cursor's marketplace for 11 hours Thursday. Uninstalling isn't enough. Here's how to check.
OpenAI, Google and Microsoft will honor one robots.txt rule that opts sites out of AI training
A shared token, __usage_ai-training, lets a site say no to AI training by every participating company at once. It doesn't cover AI answers.
GM will pay $220 million to settle claims it sold drivers' data to insurers
36 states say GM's Smart Driver program sold braking, speeding and trip data to brokers and insurers. GM now needs drivers' express consent.
Intel stock plunges more than 20% after hours on a weak forecast and a PC slowdown
Q3 beat, with data center sales up 78%, but Intel guided Q4 well below estimates, citing a PC slowdown into 2027 and a fab explosion in Israel.
Reddit will start requiring logins as Google's AI answers cut its search traffic
Tests start this quarter outside the U.S. Reddit's U.S. daily users fell to 50.7M, and it warns of a double-digit drop next quarter.
AWS grows 39%, its fastest in nearly five years, but Amazon misses as AI spending drains cash
Amazon missed on profit and sales, and free cash flow hit a $42.4B outflow. AWS sped up, and Jassy projects 40%+ growth in 2027 and 2028.
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