Gudea, which calls itself a "storm tracker for the internet", follows how stories and rumors spread online. The company aims to spot posts involving AI-generated misinformation, hate speech or damaging rumors before they grow into public controversies.
According to The Wall Street Journal, McKinsey will ask some entry-level candidates to hold a 10-minute conversation with an AI-simulated client during interviews. The simulation is meant to cover 80 percent of the situations its consultants face day to day.
SpaceXSI, the company formerly known as xAI, released Grok Voice 3.0, the speech-to-speech model behind its Voice Agent API, aimed at businesses running customer-support and sales calls. Independent tester Artificial Analysis ranks it first in its category.
Simon Willison shares Tree Appreciator, a three.js game built by prompting Claude Opus 5.5 in the standard Claude iPhone app rather than Claude Code. The game shows two algorithmically generated trees and asks players to appreciate how they differ.
Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, two years after its US debut, though the rebuilt Siri AI will not be included. Siri AI is also still unavailable in the EU, with no sign of when it might be approved there.
A Guardian podcast examines how AI is extending workplace monitoring well beyond earlier "bossware", processing large amounts of data to track activity and productivity minute by minute. UK technology editor Robert Booth explains which sectors are adopting the approach.