OpenAI says an unreleased AI model found and fixed 948 Linux security bugs for $1.2M

OpenAI describes a pipeline that used an upcoming model built for cybersecurity to check and patch 948 local privilege escalation bugs in Linux. These are flaws that let someone already on a machine gain more control over it. OpenAI says the API costs came to $1.2 million. It says security research that used to need a separate investigation for each finding can now run as a systematic process.

OpenAI's president says a rough first half of 2026 gave way to a revenue jump in Q3

OpenAI President Greg Brockman told the Wall Street Journal that the first half of 2026 was 'pretty rough'. He says the third quarter brought a 'revenue inflection', driven by a growing business with companies. He credits agentic coding tools, the GPT-5.6 Sol model and ChatGPT Work.

Apple reportedly cuts how much its engineers can spend on AI each day

Bloomberg reports that in October Apple lowered the daily AI spending cap for engineering teams from $300 to $200. Sources say more cuts are coming, with some allowances falling to $100 a day. Outside engineering, Apple is said to be weighing a limit as low as $25 a day. TechCrunch has asked Apple for comment.

Google DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs in talks to raise $5B, Bloomberg says

Bloomberg's sources say Isomorphic Labs, Alphabet's company that uses AI to find new drugs, is in talks to raise about $5 billion at a valuation of about $50 billion. It last raised $2.1 billion in May. No deal has been announced.

Microsoft reportedly turns down a bigger Texas data-centre deal with startup Nscale

The Financial Times' sources say Microsoft rejected an option to more than double its Texas data-centre contract with Nscale. The paper calls it a fresh blow to Nscale's hopes for a $35 billion stock market listing.

Chip designer Arm reports a record $1.44B quarter as its server chips gain ground

Arm says revenue rose 27% from a year earlier to $1.44 billion. Licensing brought in $773 million and royalties $670 million, and royalties from data centres doubled. Arm's partners shipped more than 10 billion Arm-based chips in the quarter. Arm says it has orders through 2027 for its own server chip, the Arm AGI CPU, with first deliveries due in the last quarter of its fiscal year. It also says Arm-based PCs are about 20% of global PC shipments.

X says its rebuilt website shows profiles in 2.7 seconds instead of 22 on slow connections

X is moving signed-in users to a rewritten web app one country at a time. Logged-out visitors and search engines already get the new version. In a blog post, principal engineer Yagiz Nizipli says the rewrite replaces three separate servers, one each for people, search crawlers and link previews, with one. Security researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who has access, said it 'feels snappy'.

China tells SoftBank it won't allow its $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit

The Financial Times' sources say China has told SoftBank it will not let the $5.4 billion purchase of ABB's robotics division go ahead. China is the division's biggest market, and the unit has a very large factory in Pudong, Shanghai.

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