# The AI Gazette — Morning edition, Wednesday 4 November 2026 *Models, machines, and matters of consequence* - Issue: 2026-11-04-morning - Issued: 4 Nov 2026, 06:09 CET (Paris) - Reporting window: 3 Nov 2026, 16:07 CET to 4 Nov 2026, 06:09 CET - Timezone: Europe/Paris - Previous issue: 2026-11-03-afternoon - Price: Complimentary ## Editor's note This Wednesday morning edition covers the fourteen hours since yesterday's 16:07 edition and carries **six new stories** and one background item. AMD reported a record quarter on surging data-centre sales, OpenAI said GPT-6 Astra designed a working device, and Reuters reported years of internal security warnings at OpenAI. Apple opened Siri AI to all developers while warning investors about AI agents, the inference start-up Fal doubled its valuation, and a Brazilian court barred Meta from training on local news content without permission. **No new frontier model release** passed this journal's checks. Revolut's switch to a self-hosted open model, which drew wide discussion overnight, comes from an October talk and is labeled BACKGROUND. ## The News ### Apple opens Siri AI to all app developers, as its annual report warns that AI agents may act without authorisation *Coding & agents · New* **Published:** 3 Nov 2026 Apple released a **Developer Preview that lets any app work with Siri AI** on Tuesday, with the first iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3 and visionOS 27.3 betas. Apps can expose their content and custom actions through App Intents, and new 'skills' let developers teach Siri AI to combine several actions for one request, such as checking a delivery or placing an order. Apple says the feature **ships to customers in a few months**, and App Store submissions open in the spring. Siri AI is not available in the EU on iOS, iPadOS and watchOS; Apple says it is working with the EU to find a path forward. On the same day, Apple's **annual financial filing** added warnings about AI agents. Apple wrote that agents 'can take actions autonomously, including interacting with internal or external systems that in some cases they may not be authorized to access, executing or altering code, sending communications, and completing transactions', and that they 'may behave in unintended or unpredictable ways'. Fortune reported that the filing says some consequences, such as deleting data or completing transactions, may be impossible to reverse. **Analysis — why it matters:** *Analysis: Apple is opening its assistant to act inside other companies' apps while **telling investors such agents are a legal risk**. That tension will shape how much it lets Siri AI do on its own.* **Caveat:** The developer feature is **a beta preview**, not a shipped product. Risk factors in a 10-K describe possible risks; the filing does not report an incident. **Sources:** 1. [Apple Developer, Siri AI is now open to all developers]() — primary source. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:04 CET 2. [CNBC]() — reporting. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:06 CET 3. [Fortune]() — reporting. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:06 CET 4. [The Verge]() — reporting. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:05 CET ### OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a working device for talking to Codex in under a week *Research · New* **Published:** 3 Nov 2026 OpenAI published a progress report on using its models for **mechanical and electrical engineering** on Tuesday. Its headline test: two staff members, working on it as a side project, used GPT-6 Astra to design a device for talking to Codex **in under a week**, aiming for no direct human edits. OpenAI says Astra designed the look, the enclosure, the circuit board and its components, the interface, and the firmware and software. A contract manufacturer built a small batch of prototypes in under a month. OpenAI says getting the device ready for manufacturing still took several rounds of review, because **Astra did not consistently account for** the manufacturer's production limits, tolerances or assembly details. The post also says model use across OpenAI's hardware teams, measured in tokens, has grown **23-fold since February**. On BenchCAD 2.0, a test of reconstructing 3D parts and reading circuit-board connections, an unreleased internal model scored 0.875 on average against 0.594 for GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI is testing the work with Chip Ganassi Racing and has begun a research collaboration with Mazda on vehicle aerodynamics and crash safety. **Analysis — why it matters:** *Analysis: Labs are now pitching models for **physical-product engineering**, not just code. The manufacturing gaps OpenAI lists show where engineers still have to check the work.* **Caveat:** These are **OpenAI's own claims** about one internal project. The BenchCAD score comes from an unreleased model, and no independent replication was found. The post is dated 3 November; it had not been checked in time for this journal's afternoon edition. **Sources:** 1. [OpenAI, Accelerating engineering for the physical world]() — primary source. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:04 CET ### AMD posts a record quarter as data-centre sales nearly double, and forecasts about $17 billion for the next one *Industry & policy · New* **Published:** 3 Nov 2026, 22:15 CET AMD reported **record third-quarter revenue of $13.4 billion**, up 45% from a year earlier, after US markets closed on Tuesday. Its Data Center segment brought in a record **$8.5 billion, up 97%**, which the company put down to demand for its EPYC server processors and the launch of its Instinct MI450 Series GPUs. For the fourth quarter, AMD expects revenue of **about $17 billion**, plus or minus 3%, which would be growth of about 66% on a year earlier. CNBC, citing LSEG, said analysts had expected $16.2 billion on average. Chief executive Lisa Su said AMD expects growth to accelerate as it scales production of its Helios rack-scale systems and 'Venice' processors. The release says Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are running models and workloads on the first Helios systems. GAAP results include a **$1.1 billion charge** for the change in fair value of warrants that AMD has issued to certain customers, which moves with AMD's share price. Data centre sales made up about 64% of revenue, against 47% a year earlier, CNBC reported. **Analysis — why it matters:** *Analysis: AMD's results are one of the clearest outside readings of AI infrastructure demand beyond Nvidia, and its forecast points to **more spending, not less**, after a week of investor worry about AI capital costs.* **Caveat:** The fourth-quarter figure is **company guidance**, not a result. The warrant charge is an accounting remeasurement and AMD excludes it from its non-GAAP figures. **Sources:** 1. [AMD, third-quarter 2026 results]() — primary source. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:04 CET 2. [CNBC]() — reporting. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:06 CET 3. [The Verge]() — reporting. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:05 CET ### OpenAI staff warned leaders for years that its security was too lax, Reuters reports *Industry & policy · New* **Published:** 3 Nov 2026 Some OpenAI employees raised concerns about the company's security practices **even before ChatGPT launched** in late 2022, and shared them with top leaders and the board, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing five people familiar with the matter. Some came away believing management cared more about keeping pace with Google and Anthropic than about security, the people said. According to the sources, anyone at OpenAI with access to its code could see technical details of many projects, because most code sat in **a single repository**. Three people said internal tools such as the sandboxes used to stress-test new models had not been regularly reviewed for security. OpenAI told Reuters its most sensitive work is held in separate repositories with strict access controls, that the main repository does not hold model weights, and that it now reviews internal tools regularly. Two people said Thibault Sottiaux, a senior product executive, now leads an internal effort to secure OpenAI's systems and in August **reassigned a quarter of production engineers** to security work. Spokesperson Elana Widmann said OpenAI is one of the most targeted organisations in the world and invests heavily in security. The report follows the Justice Department's 13 October arrest of an OpenAI engineer charged with planting a recording device in an executive conference room. **Analysis — why it matters:** *Analysis: Security at frontier labs is becoming **a national-security and IPO question**, not only an internal one, as OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to sell shares to the public.* **Caveat:** The account rests on **anonymous sources**, and OpenAI disputes parts of it. OpenAI's plan for a new internal security sprint, which it announced on Monday after Reuters asked for comment, was covered in this journal's 3 November morning edition. **Sources:** 1. [Reuters, via Investing.com]() — reporting. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:05 CET ### Inference start-up Fal raises $1.3 billion at a $16 billion valuation, double its April price *Industry & policy · New* **Published:** 3 Nov 2026, 20:34 CET Fal, a San Francisco start-up that hosts and runs AI video, image and audio models, has raised **$1.3 billion in a Series F round** led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Nvidia, Sound Ventures and T. Rowe Price taking part, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday. The deal values Fal at **$16 billion**, double the $8 billion of its April round, according to Bloomberg's report cited by TechCrunch. Fal announced its Series E and F rounds together and said they raised a combined $1.65 billion; Sequoia led the earlier round. Bloomberg reported that Fal passed $800 million in annualised revenue earlier this year. **Analysis — why it matters:** *Analysis: Demand for running models, much of it **open-source models**, is now drawing growth-stage money on the scale once reserved for model labs.* **Caveat:** The valuation and revenue figures come from Bloomberg's reporting, **not a filing**. TechCrunch notes that inference companies' gross margins remain thin because of compute costs. **Sources:** 1. [TechCrunch]() — reporting. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:04 CET ### São Paulo court bars Meta from using Brazilian news content to train AI without permission *Industry & policy · New* **Published:** 4 Nov 2026, 00:10 CET A São Paulo court granted **a preliminary injunction** on Tuesday that bars Meta from collecting, copying, storing or using journalistic content from Brazilian media companies without authorisation, including to develop and train its AI systems, O Globo reported. The case was brought by three press associations: ANJ for newspapers, Abert for broadcasters and Aner for magazines. Judge Guilherme Madeira Dezem found signs of copyright infringement and contractual abuse by Meta, according to O Globo. The order **suspends part of Meta's new commercial terms** for news outlets, which were due to take effect on 20 November. Meta must keep the outlets' accounts and tools on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads working, and may not penalise outlets that refuse the terms. Meta faces **a daily fine of R$1 million**, capped at R$100 million, if it does not comply. O Globo notes that a Norwegian court temporarily suspended the same terms six days earlier, in a case brought by ten media groups. **Analysis — why it matters:** *Analysis: Publishers are using **national courts to block training-for-access terms** before they take effect, alongside the EU copyright case covered in this journal's previous edition.* **Caveat:** This is a **provisional ruling** while the case continues, and it can be appealed. Meta's response was not found in the sources read. The ruling was read in O Globo's Portuguese-language report; an AFP copy returned HTTP 403 and was not read. **Sources:** 1. [O Globo (in Portuguese)]() — reporting. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:05 CET ## Background — older or undated context *Earlier or undated items, carried for context only. They are not new reporting.* ### BACKGROUND: Revolut says self-hosting an open model cut its AI coding bill by about 90% *Coding & agents · Background — older context* **Published:** 29 Oct 2026 BACKGROUND, from a conference talk in October; the video was published on 29 October and drew wide attention this week. David Abitbol, who leads operations and infrastructure at Revolut, told the AI Engineer conference in New York that the fintech made a **self-hosted GLM model the default** coding model for about 2,000 engineers, The Register reported on 3 November. Revolut started with GLM-5.1 and now serves GLM-5.3, an open-weights model from China's Z.ai, on **56 Nvidia B200 GPUs**. At about $0.30 per million tokens, the self-hosted model cost about a tenth of Codex or Claude Code, The Register reported. Revolut still uses frontier tools as the exception, and sends image tasks to other models because GLM is text-only. Abitbol showed internal figures of about 60% better coding time and 70% better lead time after the rollout. He said the largest gains came from no longer rationing tokens, so engineers also used the models for debugging and ticket work. **Analysis — why it matters:** *Analysis: For large engineering teams, **a flat infrastructure bill** can matter more than using the strongest model on every task.* **Caveat:** The productivity figures are **Revolut's own internal measures**; the conference write-up says the comparison does not isolate the model change from other causes. Costs depend on Revolut's own usage and are not a list price. **Community reaction (opinion, not verified fact):** > “It was only a matter of time, this is why I chuckle when people try to make us think running local LLMs is a waste of time, no it isn't.” — [u/geniusghost07 (r/LocalLLaMA)]() > “It’s not but the average person will never be able to run anything anywhere near this” — [u/Howdareme9 (r/LocalLLaMA)]() **Sources:** 1. [The Register]() — reporting. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:05 CET 2. [AI Engineer, talk page and write-up]() — primary source. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:06 CET 3. [r/LocalLLaMA discussion]() — community. Checked: 4 Nov 2026, 06:03 CET ## Key patterns (editorial analysis) - AI infrastructure money keeps flowing: AMD guided to **about $17 billion** next quarter, and Fal doubled its valuation in seven months. - Agents are moving into products and into risk disclosures at once: Apple opened Siri AI to apps while **warning investors about agents**. - Lab security and publishers' rights are being tested outside the labs, by reporters, courts and filings rather than by the companies themselves. ## Source coverage - Engine version: 3.31.0 - Engine ran this edition: yes - Engine look-back: 2 days ### Source status - reddit: ok (19 threads) - youtube: ok (4 videos; transcripts for 4 of 4) - hackernews: ok (8 stories) - github: ok (13 items) - devto: ok (12 articles; tags ai and llm) - polymarket: not used: blocked in France (ANJ) - x: not searched (no consent-free source configured) ### Notes - The window runs from yesterday's 16:07 CET afternoon edition to this edition. 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