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Apple beats forecasts but warns on AI costs, frontier models learn to rewrite other models' weights by hand, and Google's school AI opt-in comes with a Search catch.

November 4, 2026 · 6 stories

  1. MorningTraction

    Apple tops sales and profit forecasts but flags AI costs ahead of holiday sales

    Apple reported a revenue record for the July-September quarter on iPhone and services sales, but warned rising AI costs will drag on margins; its AI spend remains far below Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta.

    Source: Malay Mail (AFP)
  2. AfternoonFeatures

    MIT shows frontier models can read and edit another AI's weights by hand, no training needed

    MIT CSAIL's 'weight-space programming' had GPT-6 Astra edit 0.016% of a small model's weights, lifting its MATH-500 score from 7.9% to 48.1%, and write a Breakout-playing network from scratch that beat a PPO baseline trained for 100 million steps.

    Source: The Register (MIT CSAIL blog, Nov 2)
  3. AfternoonFeatures

    Stanford retest: 44% of widely cited LLM findings no longer hold on newer models

    Stanford researchers re-tested 50 widely cited LLM claims on 20 models from 2024-2026 and found 44% expired and 34% weakened, with an average finding lifespan of about 15.7 months; sycophancy and evaluator bias persisted, while fabricated citations fell from 55% to near zero on leading models.

    Source: The Decoder (Queen and Zou study)
  4. EveningFeatures

    Apple seeds iOS 27.3 beta and opens Siri AI app integration to developers

    Apple opened its Siri AI developer preview to all developers alongside the iOS 27.3 beta, letting apps connect custom content and actions to the assistant; public availability is months away, with App Store submissions opening in spring. The beta also brings Apple Intelligence to Chinese iPhones for the first time.

    Source: Power1047 / BigGo Finance
  5. EveningPolicy

    Google makes school AI opt-in, but schools that reject AI lose Search too

    Google said Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Search will be off by default for K-12 student accounts until administrators enable them, reversing an August default-on rollout; because Search is deeply integrated with AI, schools that block AI entirely also lose Search access.

    Source: The Hindu (New York Times reporting)
  6. EveningPolicy

    EU court adviser warns Google's Gemini may breach copyright rules

    Advocate General Maciej Szpunar advised the EU's top court that Gemini's answers can fall under publishers' reproduction rights when chatbots circumvent paywalls or reuse protected content; the opinion is non-binding and a ruling is expected in the coming months.

    Source: Daily Maverick (Reuters)

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