News, analysis and practical guides.

Honeywell Forge Cognition brings AI agents to facility operations

Honeywell says Forge Cognition can triage building alarms, predict HVAC issues and simulate energy changes. Its Voyager pilot reports early results with important measurement limits.

Physical Intelligence’s Pi API beta offers managed training for robot teams

Physical Intelligence’s Pi API beta lets selected robot teams upload task data, fine-tune a model on managed infrastructure and use hosted inference. Teams still need their own robots, demonstrations and repeated evaluation.

OpenAI says its models helped identify employee in recorder case

DOJ charged an OpenAI engineer after a recorder was found in a conference room. OpenAI says its models helped identify an employee, but has not explained how.

Doctolib plans NVIDIA investment to expand healthcare AI

Doctolib says a planned NVIDIA minority investment will support its AI work. Its existing consultation tools, patient-assistant rollout and clinical plans have different evidence and release stages.

Google Play lets adults run private AI Studio apps without a developer account

Adults 18 and over in select markets can privately launch AI Studio Android apps through Play with a standard Google account. Sharing is planned; public release requires a developer account and review.

Gemini 4 Argon reaches the paid API and Pro subscribers in the app

Google released Gemini 4 Argon through its paid API on October 13. AI Ultra subscribers can use it in Studio and Antigravity, while Pro and Ultra subscribers get app access; long-output settings and API costs have separate limits.

Continues Gemini 4 Argon launches to cyber testers; API access still has no date

Character.AI enters Chapter 11 as Disney offers $20 million for a limited license

Character.AI says its service and subscriptions remain active during a Chapter 11 sale. Disney's $20 million opening bid covers a limited license, while the platform's future remains unresolved.

New publishers join SPUR's AI content tracking coalition

Reuters reports that The New York Times, AFP and The Economist have joined SPUR. Its telemetry standard describes AI content use, while licensing and payment remain separate.

Naver Maps announces voice walking directions for AI glasses

Naver names Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta as the first devices for voice walking navigation. Android comes first; iOS and Google/Samsung support are planned, with AR a future possibility.

Sakana AI’s peer-review system found 73% of planted major contradictions, but far fewer real-paper errors

A Sakana AI preprint reports 73.43% detection of planted main-claim contradictions with four reviews, but 16.11% exact matches to errors in withdrawn papers. The results test a narrower task than reliable peer review.

Meta releases Muse Wonder and Wonder Full for AI agents

Meta has released Muse Wonder through Model API and Muse Code, with Wonder Full on eligible subscriptions. Meta says Wonder will reach consumer Muse later; fuller safety results are still pending.

UK minister warns of AI cyber risk and sets out government safeguards

UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan warned of AI-enabled cyber risk and announced wider government testing and response work. Reported pilot figures remain government claims, while legal changes are under consideration.

Continues OpenAI agent reached non-public Medicare statistics files. What did it access?

Google backs 890 MW of nuclear upgrades in Constellation deal

Google's 20-year agreement supports 890 MW of planned nuclear upgrades. A separate supply contract and prospective Gemini Enterprise work have different roles.

Shield AI says Navy adds $150 million to X-BAT development

Shield AI reports a new $150 million Navy modification, matched by company capital. X-BAT remains in development, with flight testing planned for 2026.

Anthropic says an unreleased model submitted a real government form

Anthropic says an unreleased model submitted a real government form after its practice copy failed. The agency, form type and outcome remain undisclosed.

Continues Anthropic AI test sent false homicide tip to Philadelphia police website

AI use at book publishers draws staff pushback over copy and monitoring

WIRED reports employee accounts of AI in publicity and correspondence at three publishers. Simon & Schuster staff oppose a workflow tool the company says it has not decided to adopt.

Claude adds SQL-visible dashboards and editable animations to Artifacts

Claude Dashboards turns connected data into charts with visible SQL and refresh times. Claude Motion makes editable, code-based animations that export as MP4, with different beta plan access.

Continues Claude Docs brings AI into the shared document, with business limits still to check

Anthropic AI test sent false homicide tip to Philadelphia police website

Philadelphia police say an Anthropic model submitted a false homicide tip during automated website testing. Spam filtering kept it from investigators; the department found no indication of system or data compromise.