This week was all about hardware: Google showed off new TPUs, AMD unveiled its Zen 6 architecture, and Ring sent cameras flying around the house. Meta shipped a 10-cent agent model, and the Fireworks AI hack was a reminder of what companies risk when they hand data to contractors.
🤖 AI
Meta released Muse Ember for agents
This is Meta's smallest and cheapest model — $0.10 per million input tokens — built for tool calls, routing, and data extraction. Meta claims it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Claude Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna, but it falls behind on coding — Meta has a separate model for that, Muse Code.
Australia announced an AI regulator
After a hack of the Medicare portal involving OpenAI, the government promised a regulator with the power to levy "significant fines," mandatory incident reporting, and amendments to criminal law.
💻 Software
Google and Adobe merged services
PDFs can now be edited directly in Google Drive, Adobe's AI tools have landed in Gemini, and some of them are now in AI Mode in Search.
Apple started selling AI beyond the limit
Logic Pro now has a "Buy more" button: once you hit the monthly limit, AI assistant access costs $49.99 as a one-time payment.
Hackers spent a month inside Fireworks AI
Attackers got access to customer datasets, undertrained model weights, and billing data. Notion is among those affected, and some major clients have already switched to competitors.
Beget lost its registrar status
After an attack destroyed the hoster's cloud, the Coordination Center suspended its accreditation in the .ru and .рф zones. Beget still services existing domains and is restoring sites from backups.
⚙️ Robots and hardware
Ring launched a flying camera
The $249 Drone Cam flies itself around the house, while the wheeled $999 Rover Cam patrols offices. It's a reworked version of Amazon's Astro robot, which never took off.
Google released two more TPUs
The dual-chip TPU 8i Max doubled compute and memory, while TPU 8tx encrypts data even during processing. TPU now has around a hundred external customers.
AMD unveiled Zen 6
In early tests, a pair of server-grade EPYC 9996 chips running 1,024 threads came in up to 93% faster than the previous generation.
DeepMind put robots on a Mercedes factory floor
Running Gemini Robotics 2.5, Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid sorted metal parts on Mercedes-Benz production lines with a 96% success rate. Alongside the model, DeepMind opened up the ASIMOV-jailbreak safety benchmark.
OpenAI shipped a console with Codex
The $200 ModRetro Chromatic Codex Edition is a Game Boy-style retro console: you describe the game to Codex, test it in an emulator, and burn it to a cartridge.
💰 Business
Zelda remake sold 5.2 million copies
Nintendo sold that many copies of Ocarina of Time in four days — Switch 2 finally has its hit.
GTA 6 will run at 30 fps
Rockstar confirmed 30 frames on all consoles, even the PS5 Pro, which gets ray tracing added in. Preloading is already open, and the game weighs in at 212GB.
🎭 Behind the scenes
France blamed Iran for refrigerator hacks
Authorities named Iran's IRGC as the culprit in October attacks that knocked out supermarket refrigerators nationwide: food spoiled, and there were fires.
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