🧠 State of AI

Abu Dhabi entities have signed four agreements with OpenAI to expand AI across government, energy, investment, and education, supporting the emirate’s ambition to become the world’s first fully AI-native government.

More on the agreements:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/abu-dhabi-openai-machine-readable-government

😆 False advertising

WIRED uncovered a network of more than 400 apps and websites that looked like ordinary AI services but offered tools for creating sexually explicit deepfakes from photos of real people.

More on the investigation:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/wired-investigation-ai-apps-hidden-deepfake-tools

😆 Growing pains

Anthropic has warned in its IPO filing that future AI models could soon accelerate the development of their successors faster than its safeguards can keep up.

Although no current model has been designated as crossing that threshold, the company says it has previously recognized significant acceleration in development only after it happened.

What Anthropic’s warning means, and what else it disclosed ahead of its IPO:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-ipo-self-improving-ai-safety-warning

🍏 Almost half a trillion. Almost.

Apple reported record annual revenue of $478.83 billion, driven by its best-ever year for iPhone sales.

But memory shortages are expected to limit Mac and iPad supplies over the holidays as higher costs weigh on margins.

Inside Apple’s record year and its next-quarter outlook:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-record-2026-revenue-memory-shortages

🦴 Thanks for applying

Binance revealed how hackers spent months preparing the $6.34 billion heist. A fake job interview and a booby-trapped coding assignment got them onto an engineer’s work computer. From there, they used an internal AI tool to reach the exchange’s wallet team.

How the $6.34 billion heist unfolded:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/binance-hack-fake-job-interview-ai-tool

🕹 Time to trade up?

Sony has started promoting a trade-in offer through the official PlayStation app, allowing PS5 owners to get up to $400 for their consoles.

How the program works and where it's available:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/sony-ps5-trade-in-offer-400-back-market

🤔 KYC strikes back

Fragment has brought back mandatory identity verification, but only for withdrawing Gram earned through Telegram channel, bot and group monetization.

Buying Telegram Stars, Premium and other products still doesn't require KYC, following the change on November 2.

What changed:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/fragment-removes-kyc-telegram-stars-premium

🤩 GIFs just got an upgrade

OpenAI has launched Images 2.6, with 50% faster image generation and improved consistency across edits. The update also brings animated GIF creation to ChatGPT.

More on the new model:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-launches-images-2-6-animated-gifs

🤔 Nothing to see yet

Nothing CEO Carl Pei has teased the company's first screenless AI device, with shipments set to begin in December.

What we know so far:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/nothing-screenless-ai-device-december

🧠 It’s a bug, not a feature

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Cyber, a model that finds software flaws and writes exploits. The company says researchers used it to uncover 81 high-severity Firefox vulnerabilities and build working exploits for 948 Linux kernel flaws.

OpenAI rates its cybersecurity capabilities as critical and is starting with a small group of vetted security teams.

What GPT-6 Cyber found and how it scored in tests:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/gpt-6-cyber-firefox-vulnerabilities

🤔 Even Paint needs an update

Microsoft found a vulnerability in Paint for Windows 11 that could let attackers run code remotely without any action from the user. The company listed a fix on October 13, but some users say the Microsoft Store still shows no updates even though they’re running an older version.

How to check your Paint version and what the flaw does:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/windows-11-paint-security-patch-missing

🛸 Claude saw the receipts

Anthropic added Personal Finance to Claude. The feature connects to bank and credit card accounts through Plaid and uses transaction data to categorize spending, flag possible duplicate charges and estimate how much money users will have left until payday.

Where it’s available and what else it can do:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/claude-personal-finance-plaid-bank-accounts

🚘 So long, Cybertruck?

Elon Musk says Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at its Texas factory around mid-2027 to make room for more Cybercab robotaxis.

Musk didn’t say whether Tesla will build the pickup elsewhere or retire it altogether.

What’s behind Tesla’s shift to Cybercab:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/tesla-cybertruck-texas-production-cybercab

🤐 Chips down

AI chip stocks tumbled after the U.S. midterms as a Wall Street selloff spread to Asia, hitting TSMC, Samsung and SK Hynix.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/ai-chip-stocks-plunge-us-midterm-elections

😏 An affair goes public

Nvidia shares fell 3.4% overnight after CEO Jensen Huang admitted to an affair amid an espionage scandal. Media reports had linked him to a woman U.S. officials suspect may have been recruited by Chinese intelligence.

Nvidia’s board is investigating whether Huang was targeted.

What we know so far:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/nvidia-jensen-huang-investigation-congress

🕹 Vacation in Vice City

Employers are seeing a jump in time-off requests for November 19, with workers citing the release of GTA 6. One worker booked two weeks to play.

For anyone hoping to spend that day with friends in Vice City, a dataminer spotted references to joining multiplayer sessions in PlayStation’s data ahead of the preload. Rockstar hasn’t said when online play will open.

What’s confirmed for launch day:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/gta-6-fans-taking-time-off-november-19

🤐 GRAM goes south

GRAM, formerly Toncoin, has fallen below $1 for the first time since 2022, losing nearly 30% of its value over the past month.

At its peak in June 2024, amid the Notcoin and tap-to-earn craze, the token traded at $8.25. It's now down nearly 88% from that high.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/gram-toncoin-price-drops-below-1

😆 Wear and tear

A bug in AMD's Radeon graphics drivers can generate up to 432 GB of unnecessary SSD writes per day, potentially shortening the drive's lifespan even when the PC is idle.

What's causing it and what users can do:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/amd-radeon-driver-bug-excessive-ssd-writes

🤗 Stories go desktop

Telegram Desktop Canary 7.4.1 now lets users post Stories directly from their computers.

The “Add Story” option appears in the sidebar, with the same photo and video editor used for sending media in chats.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/telegram-desktop-story-posting-canary-update

🚘 Something smells like an ad

Sony patented a system that could make your car smell like burgers when you pass a fast-food billboard. It could even use a cabin camera to decide which passenger gets a whiff.

How Sony’s system would work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/sony-patent-car-scent-targeted-advertising