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Schools can turn off Google's AI only by giving up search
Google will cut off search for schools that leave AI off. AI will be off by default for K-12 student accounts, but administrators cannot keep search while leaving Gemini off. The day before, Google launched Dreambeans, an app that writes personal stories from Gmail, photos and search history, in India.
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OpenAI said ChatGPT search volume now equals 20% of Google's, and that ads have not negatively affected usage. Apple put Audio Intelligence, which lets Siri listen continuously through the Apple Watch microphone, into a developer beta. OpenAI is pitching ChatGPT as a rival to Google search, and Apple is putting an assistant that listens around the clock on the wrist.
Anthropic spent 58% of its revenue on compute, up 10 percentage points in one quarter. In the same stretch it published research on FlashProve, which proves which AI model produced an output, and released Message Threads, which speeds up the start of responses in long conversations by 35%. It also changed Claude Code to block cloning of existing games.
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Over the coming months, as Google's school changes roll out, watch whether any school keeps AI off and gives up search.
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01Google DeepMind Blog
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·2026-11-03·~40s read
Agents & Dev Tools
Google DeepMind released Cheminformatics Skills, a set of chemistry tools for its AI agent workspace Google Antigravity. In a lung cancer example built around the drugs crizotinib and lorlatinib, an agent collected thousands of compounds from papers, ran a , and proposed new candidate molecules with synthesis routes in about an hour. One round of that work typically takes several days. The language model handles the workflow, database search and scientific reasoning, while fixed calculation tools such as the open-source chemistry toolkit RDKit do the molecular math.
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Google's design splits the work: in a field where changing one atom produces a different compound, the language model plans and interprets while verified tools do the calculations. What was shown is a single lung cancer demonstration, so whether other drug families see the same speed remains to be checked.
Anthropic said in a blog post that it is researching FlashProve, an open-source system that mathematically proves a given output came from a specific AI model. This kind of proof is called . Like an email signature that confirms who sent a message, it would catch even the lab running the model if it secretly swapped in a different one. The researchers say it could stop a company from quietly substituting a cheaper model to cut costs, or a pricier one to inflate its benchmark results. A technical specification and working code are on GitHub, but there are no plans to deploy it at Anthropic or any other lab.
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Until now, whether the model behind an API was the one advertised came down to trusting the company. FlashProve tries to turn that trust into a procedure anyone can verify. It needs labs to publish a fingerprint for each model, and because the fingerprint does not reveal the model's , the internal numbers that define its behavior, it can work with closed commercial models too. The researchers call it intermediate progress, and neither Anthropic nor any other lab plans to deploy it yet.
03The Verge AI
Press
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·2026-11-03·~60s read
Products & Services
Apple added two Audio Intelligence features to the watchOS 27.3 developer beta that let Siri listen through the Apple Watch microphone. Live Rewind shows a text transcript of the previous 15 seconds of conversation when you double-press the Digital Crown, the dial on the side of the watch, and Siri Recap generates a title and key points in the new Siri app after a conversation ends. In a privacy overview, Apple says raw audio is handled in dedicated hardware, is not saved as a file, and is not accessible to the operating system, apps or Apple. A redesigned Health app also entered testing in the iOS 27.3 developer beta the same day.
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Constant listening is both the convenience and the risk here. The more useful it is to recall what you just missed, the more uneasy an always-listening watch becomes, so Apple's privacy claims are what beta users and outside reviewers will need to test. Apple says any Siri Recap summary or Live Rewind snippet you choose to save syncs across your devices end-to-end encrypted if you use iCloud with two-factor authentication and a device passcode.
OpenAI said the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent of the volume run through Google. Adam Fry, OpenAI's consumer product lead for ChatGPT, announced the figure at a press event on Monday. OpenAI counts a search only when a query triggers a web search, not tasks like defining a term or explaining a simple how-to, and Fry did not say where the Google number came from. He also said ads have not negatively affected the product or its usage, as OpenAI approaches an IPO potentially slated for early next year.
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The 20 percent figure sets OpenAI's own definition of a search against a Google number Fry did not source, so the two do not compare directly. For scale, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in Google's 2023 antitrust trial that Bing held about 3 percent of the market after more than a decade of trying. Search is where ads make money, and Fry paired the search figure with the claim that ads have not hurt usage, ahead of a possible IPO.
Google said AI tools will be off by default for K-12 school accounts, and administrators must turn them on manually when the changes roll out over the coming months. The catch is the bundle: Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search are grouped together, so a school cannot disable the AI and keep search. Google education VP Chris Phillips said search and AI are deeply integrated, and that students at schools that opt out will not have access to search and will see a message from their school. Schools that enable AI choose between standard Gemini and Guided Learning, a version meant to tutor without giving away all the answers.
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Ars Technica described this as Google betting that schools cannot give up search and will therefore accept AI, and pointed out that Google could build an AI-free version of search for schools but is not doing so. It named DuckDuckGo, which lets you disable AI features, as an alternative. According to The Verge, Sen. Bernie Sanders called the move 'extortion,' and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said no corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children. The first answer comes as the changes roll out over the coming months and administrators decide whether to switch AI on.
In an update to its IPO filing, Anthropic disclosed that revenue for the quarter ending September 30 reached $17 billion, up from $11.5 billion the quarter before. Compute took up 58% of revenue, up from 48% the previous quarter, and the operating loss grew. The compute bill was $10 billion, of which $5.0 billion was short-term commitments that cost significantly more than comparable multi-year compute. Demand outran supply, so Anthropic scrambled for capacity, including deals with providers such as SpaceX, at $1.25 billion a month, Nscale, Akamai and Volta.
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TechCrunch argued that with revenue growing nearly 50% a quarter, few investors will worry about high compute costs, and that if demand slows, the compute picture would get better for investors, not worse. It also judged that Anthropic's effort to build its own compute under a project called Anthropic Direct cannot keep pace with demand, so neocloud providers remain its best option for now. The bigger risk lies where Anthropic has no control: if bond markets turn skittish or local opposition grows and data center construction slows, the compute picture gets messier.
The share of Anthropic's revenue going to compute rose 10 percentage points in one quarter.
OpenAI said its hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design, as a side project in under a week, a device that lets users talk to its Codex coding agent. According to OpenAI, Astra handled every step from enclosure design and circuit board layout, with component selection and trace routing, to firmware and the user interface. A contract manufacturer produced a small batch of prototypes in under a month, though several revision rounds were needed because Astra did not always account for manufacturing constraints, tolerances and assembly details. OpenAI also said a newer internal model scores 0.875 on BenchCAD 2.0, a test of reconstructing 3D parts and identifying connections on circuit boards, versus 0.594 for GPT-6 Astra at its highest reasoning level.
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Prototypes came out, but only after several revision rounds for manufacturing conditions Astra missed, which is where a design agent still falls short. OpenAI's hardware teams use Codex and ChatGPT for CAD models, manufacturing drawings and simulations, and token usage has grown 23x since February, the company says. The internal model behind the 0.875 score has no public details, so for now there is no way to check it.
08TechCrunch AI
Press
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·2026-11-03·~60s read
Products & Services
Google launched its experimental app Dreambeans in India, its first market outside the U.S. The app proactively generates illustrated personal stories from connected services such as Gmail, Photos, Search and YouTube, and in India it supports 13 local languages including Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu, plus English. Sensor Tower estimates Dreambeans has about 55,000 U.S. downloads since its June debut, but downloads fell 84% month over month to about 5,500 in October after the September opening to all eligible users. Its 29,000 downloads in the first 30 days after that opening compare with 7.4 million for Meta's Muse and 2.8 million for ChatGPT.
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Dreambeans is unusual in reading your account history to write stories unprompted, and its weak point is in the same place. Users can pick which services to connect and disconnect at any time, but Google acknowledged the app could surface upsetting memories, such as stories involving people who have died. TechCrunch noted that generating stories in only one language at a time could limit its appeal in India, where many people mix Hindi and English. Since downloads fell sharply in the U.S., the thing to watch is whether the first month in India looks different.
Anthropic released Message Threads as a public beta on its Claude platform. Until now, every API request had to resend the entire conversation history, but Message Threads transmits only what has changed since the last message. Anthropic says this cuts by about 35% for requests between 500,000 and one million tokens, and coding agents, computer-use agents and workflows that process many documents or images benefit most. The thread stays encrypted in memory between requests and expires after five minutes of inactivity. The feature also works through AWS, Microsoft Foundry and Google Cloud.
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Agents that sustain long conversations wasted the most by resending the same history every time, and this feature cuts that transfer and the waiting. Claude still reads the full conversation, though, so token usage stays the same. It makes requests faster, not cheaper in tokens.
Anthropic employee Addy Osmani confirmed on X that two sentences in Claude Code's for Claude Opus 5.5 now prevent the tool from cloning other people's games. The rule has been active for several days and kicks in even when a clone is renamed or passed off as an original work. Users can still build their own games, genre titles and projects with custom assets, though some report running into problems with original projects too. The change follows a flood of unofficial browser ports of titles like Halo and GTA Vice City built with Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. One developer also made headlines recreating parts of Adobe's Creative Cloud apps, and a PlayStation 5 jailbreak quickly led to a wave of emulators.
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After images and videos, the intellectual property fight is spreading to software, The Decoder notes, and here the company behind the tool drew the line inside its own product. Osmani said Anthropic plans to keep tweaking the rules. With complaints that original games are being caught too, the next thing to watch is where the boundary falls between a clone and a game that merely shares a genre.
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