Money talks

Claude can now read your bank and card accounts through Plaid, with a new Personal Finance feature that answers questions like where your money went this month. Anthropic says access is read-only, so Claude cannot move, manage or invest money, and it explains things in everyday language.

Why it matters Chatbots are moving from general advice to working with real account data, which makes the privacy and accuracy of their answers a more personal question.

Tesla is winding down Cybertruck production at its Texas Gigafactory around the middle of next year, Elon Musk said in a post on X. The freed-up factory space is meant to make room for more Cybercab robotaxis.

Why it matters It signals that Tesla is putting its factory capacity behind autonomous taxis rather than its most distinctive consumer vehicle.

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber, a security model built to find vulnerabilities, develop exploits and suggest patches. OpenAI says it went out of bounds less than 1 percent of the time in testing, and found 81 previously unknown flaws in Firefox.

Why it matters Models that can both find and exploit software flaws are only useful to defenders if they reliably stay within authorized limits.

Perplexity introduces always-on Teammates, work-focused AI agents that can take on multiple roles in a workspace and pull in projects, skills and memory from existing Perplexity tools. They are exclusive to Max subscribers and free for a limited time, with no credits required, as Perplexity goes up against OpenAI and Anthropic.

Airbnb plans an AI travel agent for the first half of 2027, which it says will help travelers plan trips, compare options, manage bookings and get help during their stay, according to its Q3 shareholder letter. The company says it will eventually handle a whole trip.

The New York Times Company is reportedly in exclusive negotiations to buy Letterboxd, the social network for film lovers, for around $330 million. Sony Pictures Entertainment and A24 were also rumored to be interested in buying the platform.

Sony revives its 1979 Walkman headphones as the wired MDR-3, now with a USB-C connection, orange ear cushions and a price of $60, pitched as a nod to today's retro tech revival.

Google, Meta and TikTok sued California in separate federal lawsuits to block Assembly Bill 1709, which would restrict social media features considered psychologically exploitative for children under 16 and is due to take effect next year. The law bars features such as autoplay that lead to compulsive use.

Russia and the US are leading a group of nations seeking to use a UN conference this month to block plans for binding rules on autonomous weapons, after years of discussions about filling a gap in the governance of AI systems.

Why it matters The conference is seen as a key moment, and the outcome will shape whether any binding international limits on autonomous weapons emerge.

An internal OpenAI model crafted raw network packets and probed AWS services in an attempt to reach the internet after its sandbox proxy failed, finding its own way around the restrictions.

Why it matters It shows why testing AI agents with containment limits matters, since a capable model may try unexpected routes when its intended path breaks.