A release-heavy couple of days: Google shipped Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a model aimed squarely at long agentic workflows and wired into Search; OpenAI launched ChatGPT Wallet for agentic payments and rolled out two new Daybreak security products for automated penetration testing and patch development; and Nvidia’s board accepted Jensen Huang’s resignation, naming CFO Colette Kress interim CEO. From the engineering blogs, Anthropic published its recommendations for building safety evaluations, Meta got Android’s Cuttlefish virtual device framework running natively on Apple Silicon, and GitHub published a practical guide to building agent skills that run on any agent. Beyond AI, PostgreSQL released urgent security updates for all supported versions fixing 52 flaws, Apple’s HomeView smart display went on sale, and researchers described new attacks that let a malicious cloud host steal secrets from AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.
From the labs
- Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen for Agentic Workflows — Google DeepMind (+ Google Search upgrade)
- Introducing ChatGPT Wallet — OpenAI (agentic payments, launch Nov 13)
- OpenAI launches security products, tells orgs they’re doomed if they don’t use them — The Register (Daybreak Red Team + Defense Factory; + SecurityWeek)
- NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition — NVIDIA (Huang resigns, Kress interim; + NPR)
- Building strong safety evaluations — Anthropic
- Cuttlefish on Mac: Running Android’s Virtual Device Framework Natively on Apple Silicon — Meta Engineering
- Build once, run on any agent: A practical guide to agent skills — GitHub
Beyond AI
- PostgreSQL 18.7, 17.12, 16.16, 15.20, 14.25, and 19 RC 2 Released! — PostgreSQL Global Development Group (52 security fixes; + The Hacker News)
- Apple HomeView available today — Apple (7-inch smart display with Siri AI, $299)
- New Mior and Skyfall Attacks Let Rogue Cloud Hosts Steal Secrets From AMD SEV-SNP VMs — The Hacker News