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OpenAI Says GPT-6 Astra Designed a Working Hardware Device in Under a Week

In a November 3 post on AI for physical engineering, OpenAI says two staffers used Astra to design the enclosure, circuit board and firmware for a small Codex device as a side project. Prototypes followed within a month, but the company concedes the model missed manufacturing limits and tolerances that took several rounds of human review to fix.

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OpenAI Raises Bug Bounty Rewards, With Top Payouts Reaching About $172,000

OpenAI says it has more than quadrupled the midpoints of its reward ranges for medium, high and critical vulnerabilities. Critical flaws in ChatGPT, Codex or the API Platform now pay up to $30,000 before bonuses, and new quality, loyalty and campaign multipliers can push an exceptional finding to roughly $172,000.

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Apple Intelligence Is Coming to iPhones in China, With Alibaba's Qwen Built Into Siri

Apple says testing of its first Apple Intelligence features for mainland China starts November 4 in the iOS developer beta, with a public release in iOS 27.3 in December. Alibaba's Qwen will handle some Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence requests, but Siri AI and Apple's newest features are not part of this first wave.

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OpenAI Raises Bug Bounty Rewards, With Top Payouts Reaching About $172,000

OpenAI says it has more than quadrupled the midpoints of its reward ranges for medium, high and critical vulnerabilities. Critical flaws in ChatGPT, Codex or the API Platform now pay up to $30,000 before bonuses, and new quality, loyalty and campaign multipliers can push an exceptional finding to roughly $172,000.

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Apple Intelligence Is Coming to iPhones in China, With Alibaba's Qwen Built Into Siri

Apple says testing of its first Apple Intelligence features for mainland China starts November 4 in the iOS developer beta, with a public release in iOS 27.3 in December. Alibaba's Qwen will handle some Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence requests, but Siri AI and Apple's newest features are not part of this first wave.

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